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what's up everyone jon rettinger here and i want to give you some battery saving tips for the iphone 3g and the iphone 3gs so when I first got my iphone 3g about a year ago it was well-known the battery was not fantastic on the first thing i used it i charged it all the way up i took it off the charger on 6am and come noontime thing was dead the next week with same amount usage not was get until three o'clock the next week even with the same amount of usage then i was something getting a four o'clock five o'clock and i started to get much longer battery life out of the device and I kept my usage contacts I really was monitoring it very closely so I want to share with you some of the tips that I loaded with the 3g that have carried over to the 3gs that have helped me maximize battery life the 3gs does claim much better battery left in the 3g and i'll show you how to maximize that to its fullest potential so the first thing that i recommend is calibrating the battery so calibrating the battery is you might be familiar with that term from your laptop so when you use your device essentially you have a memory meter in the upper right hand corner either you displaying the number or a visual representation that visual representation might not always be so accurate essentially what the phone need is a reference point and what calibrating does it gives it an accurate reference point it updates it so the reference point that was in there with a photo shift was accurate but a few days or weeks or even months later the reference point may have shifted so well in your phone says you have twenty percent battery left you in fact may have thirty forty percent or even ten percent left so to calibrate your battery and give you more accurate sense of what you have it's very easy to do first backup your phone just in case use it until it dies once you get the twenty percent morning at ten percent warning and the thing will just shut off take your phone plug it into the wall and let it sit for a good eight nine ten hours up to 12 hours if you can essentially what this does it brings a battery down to zero and from that zero standpoint is that which the new reference point back up to a hundred percent these little battery technologies don't really have memory or these you're not supposed to but I have found that battery conditioning can also really help lengthen the life of the battery and with all that means is just use your phone you'll see that the first day you use your 3gs or your new 3g that you're better luck isn't going to be fantastic don't get discouraged keep using the phone use it charge like you normally would and your battery life will increase I've had the 3gs now for well exactly a week and my battery life has already increased drastically it's like that to continue probably the next two to three weeks so when I was telling you about my 3g how it would last me till noon by the time I finally gave it to my father last week I can get a good day day and a half out of battery life that was just with conditioning and calibrating the battery probably every three or four months so hope that was helpful let me show you some other battery tips saving tips you can do right on the phone so let's go ahead and take a look down so here is the iphone 3gs these tips will work on the first gen iphone and the 3g so the first thing i could recommend and really the thing that you can do to see the biggest increase in your battery life is to change the brightness so go to settings go to brightness and pull it all the way down or at least a level we're comfortable at I will say though that while I'm saying to do this I generally keep the brightness up relatively high on my phone it's turned down right now because the bright doesn't always show up best on the camera but turning brightness down will definitely help with battery also auto brightness turn that on that will automatically adjust the phone's keep saying right it's a lot but it'll just the brightness level to optimize your battery and for the environment around you so for those of you using a 3gs or any device really with push notifications if you turn those off you will also get increased battery life especially if you're using devices or applications that take advantage of push that does take some battery life it's not drastic but it's a little bit of an increase that you can get the next thing is Wi-Fi asked to join network turn that off if it doesn't turn off your Wi-Fi it just turns off a little notification that pops up let you know there are Wi-Fi hotspots so most of time we're in Wi-Fi you generally know where those hot spots are in a place where you don't you can always just check like I did right now and go into Wi-Fi and seal a different network you can still connect it just turns off notifications really just some simple steps the next thing if you're like me use speakerphone quite a bit when using speakerphone hit the top button that'll turn off the screen you can still use the speaker just as you would be for definitely I think helps with battery saving because you don't have to light up the screen so guys hope you enjoy want to give you just some real simple easy tips to help maximize your iphone's battery life if I miss some tips and maybe you've come up with leave them in the comments you know I'm sure people would love to find ways to help maximize the battery life on their device anyway hope you enjoyed for exclusive content be sure to follow me on twitter twitter.com slash job for lakers put a link to that in sidebar and i will see you you in the next video bye bye