What cell features drain the battery fastest???

I've often heard that you can significantly reduce the battery drain on
your cell phone by turning off a lot of the bells and whistles. For
example:

- set the main LCD to fade or sleep after 15 seconds. Maybe 5 seconds
for the little outside LCD.

- turn off all the "entertaining" sounds, like key beeps, the on/off
music, and all those other beeps and sounds.

- turn off the key lights. or at least set them to go off after 5-8
seconds of inactivity.

- turn off the silly "animation" screen saver, and any other
animation.

The question is, how much does turning off these features really help?
Do they collectively create a significant battery drain?

Another thing you can do is turn off automatic roaming. If you're
living in a decent-sized city, you already have full coverage from
major carriers. If your phone's constantly switching to "analog roam"
every time you go into a basement or big store, it uses huge amounts of
juice. I'm not sure I could count this as a bell-and-whistle feature,
though. Some people need it, some don't, so I didn't include it in the
list above.

Thanks,
Ron M.
ronNOSPAM@peacefulhills.net

bstevens@rock.com wrote in news:1164556966.912772.301780
@n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com:

> The question is, how much does turning off these features really help?
> Do they collectively create a significant battery drain?
>
>

Buy the SIMPLEST of phones with the MONOCHROME screen that's ONLY a
phone, not an MP3 player, not a TV, not a coffee pot, not an internet
terminal, not an impossible-to-read laptop-in-your-pocket....all of which
consume power.

Every feature that's running has a running program monitoring it, using
up CPU cycles. The more processing going on...the bigger the power
drain...same as your laptop computer.

The monochrome display in your wristwatch runs 10 years on a little tiny
lithium battery as big as a button. So doesn't the monochrome display in
your pocket calculator that runs off a very tiny solar battery.

There's a reason they're not in color, have 32M pixels with a backlight
as bright as a new LCD HDTV.....or have powerful audio amplifiers that
play music....or have built-in cameras with vast memory storage chips.

Even on digital, a LOT of the power used in your phone is because the
crappy cellphone company has so many DEAD ZONES, or WEAK ZONES where the
cellphone's transmitter has to be on FULL POWER to be heard. The closer
to a cell you are, the lower its output power is set to by the cell, the
less battery current it consumes....the longer it talks and runs.

Larry
--
If we eliminate religion, will they stop murdering each other?

Larry wrote:
> bstevens@rock.com wrote in news:1164556966.912772.301780
> @n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com:
>
>> The question is, how much does turning off these features really help?
>> Do they collectively create a significant battery drain?
>>
>>
>
> Buy the SIMPLEST of phones with the MONOCHROME screen that's ONLY a
> phone, not an MP3 player, not a TV, not a coffee pot, not an internet
> terminal, not an impossible-to-read laptop-in-your-pocket....all of which
> consume power.

They have a cell phone that's a coffee pot too? I NEED one of those!

On Nov 26, 4:28 pm, Larry <n...@home.com> wrote:
> bstev...@rock.com wrote in news:1164556966.912772.301780
> @n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com:
>
> > The question is, how much does turning off these features really help?
> > Do they collectively create a significant battery drain?

>Buy the SIMPLEST of phones with the MONOCHROME screen that's ONLY a
> phone, not an MP3 player

<snip>

Uh, how about just answering the friggin' question, instead of yapping
like a scalded chihuahua?

Ron M.