If you're wondering why the supposedly substantially longer-lasting battery life of you shiny new iPhone 4 just is not as great as you thought it would be, check your Bluetooth utilization prior to you condemn your phone.
The battery for the iPhone 4 is considerably larger than those on previous models, and is advertised to work for a lot longer, in both talk/ use time and standby than on older iPhones. When you may well have gotten your new iPhone (and especially some new accessories) and come across that your battery life is just not living up to your expectations, you'll discover a couple of issues that you should take a look at initial. These consist of your Bluetooth utilization, use of GPS systems, push notifications, WiFi settings, and display settings.
Let's just speak about Bluetooth utilization for now. In case you may possibly have introduced your system to any Bluetooth gadgets, and in case you may well have Bluetooth turned on in settings, your iPhone will likely be making use of energy checking to see if those gadgets are readily offered every and every single few seconds. Inside the event you're not making use of the defined devices, you are incredibly significantly a lot better off, battery-wise, to turn Bluetooth off. That also means that you'll be ahead to turn Bluetooth processing off as soon as you stop utilizing a Bluetooth device.
To turn off Bluetooth entirely, tap on the "Settings" icon, then on "General" on the Settings display. Part way down the General page, you will see the "Bluetooth" entry. To the proper, it says regardless of whether Bluetooth is On or Off. If it is On, tap about the word "Bluetooth" and then once around the On / Off slider 0n the resulting display. Which will flip Bluetooth completely off. When you as soon as again need to use a bluetooth gadget, just reverse that process to turn Bluetooth back on.
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
MacBook firmware update addresses battery problems
Should you have a Macbook from 2007-2008, run your Software program Update. Apple has released a firmware patch that clears up some bugs with your battery. The bug doesn’t affect everybody, so you may possibly not have noticed it, but if you’ve switched to an L-shaped MagSafe adapter recently, and you can’t get your laptop to charge, this need to fix your problem.
You may get the update via your Computer software Update, or by downloading the installer (Macbook or Macbook Pro).
I seem to be having a comparable dilemma with my early 2009 Macbook Pro. The MacSafe adapter’s LED indicator doesn’t light up anymore. I haven’t been able to figure it out. If anyone has any ideas, feel free to let me know within the comments.
You may get the update via your Computer software Update, or by downloading the installer (Macbook or Macbook Pro).
I seem to be having a comparable dilemma with my early 2009 Macbook Pro. The MacSafe adapter’s LED indicator doesn’t light up anymore. I haven’t been able to figure it out. If anyone has any ideas, feel free to let me know within the comments.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Competition for Lithium Battery Technology Heating Up
Toshiba Corp is targeting greater than ten percent in the rechargeable battery market share in five years, with an ambitious eye for a considerable distribution in the surging but extremely competitive sector.
Toshiba’s strategy to help boost the company’s development and weather the impact of volatile costs for chips is focused on the international appetite for batteries to power hybrid, plug-in hybrid and electrical vehicles. Toshiba has made the company one of its focus areas but increasing demand is also making competition fiercer, with Toshiba and its Japanese peers, including current leader Sanyo Electrical Co, NEC and Hitachi, facing South Korea’s LG Chem and other rising rivals around the world.
“We would like to expand our business with the hope of securing a greater than 10 percent share (with the global lithium-ion battery market),” Toshiba chief executive Norio Sasaki stated at a news conference held in Kashiwazaki, northern Japan, to celebrate the completion of its second lithium-ion battery factory.
Toshiba will start out mass-producing its rechargeable SCiB (Super Charge ion Battery) in February 2011 with an initial capability to make 500,000 cells per month and it plans to double that by March 2012. Toshiba manufacturers its SCiB at another facility in central Japan, which has a monthly capacity of 150,000 cells.
In April Honda Motor Co. introduced plans to adopt Toshiba’s SCiB for its electrical motorcycles and Mitsubishi Corp is jointly developing battery systems containing the SCiB with Toshiba for electric cars.
Related International Developments
Last week, billionaire Warren Buffett confirmed his support and investment in Chinese automaker BYD Co., announcing the company will be a leader in electrical cars. The carmaker is currently dealing with challenges ahead as it tries to address falling sales, as it slashed its 2010 sales outlook by 25 p.c to 600,000 motor vehicles from 800,000 on Aug. four. The fabled oracle of Omaha reported, “BYD is a young and promising business experiencing dynamic growth. BYD will play a leading role inside the future.” Berkshire Hathaway owns 10 p.c of your automaker by way of MidAmerican Power Holdings, based in Des Moines, Iowa.
The corporation in fact began as a battery maker, founded by China’s richest man, Wang Chuanfu, and entered the automobile market in 2003 mass producing the world’s first plug-in hybrid five years later. The carmaker ideas to start out selling the E6 electric car in the U.S. this 12 months and in Europe next yr. The E6 will take six hours for a full charge and will run for greater than 300 kilometers per charge in cruising mode.
BYD is adding electrical vehicles and plug-in hybrids as rivals for instance General Motors and Nissan plan to introduce battery-powered models in China. The nation, the world’s biggest polluter, is offering buyer incentives for fuel-efficient cars to help cut emissions.
In June, the government mentioned it would offer as a lot as $7,400 towards the buy of plug-in hybrid models and up to 60,000 yuan for autos that run only on batteries in 5 Chinese cities on a trial basis. The National Development and Reform Commission, China’s top economic planner has announced the nation may subsidize purchases of at least four million energy-efficient automobiles by 2012.
Mining News
Galaxy Resources has produced its first lithium concentrate from the Mount Cattlin operation, in Western Australia. On Tuesday the company stated that the production start-up was on schedule and followed the successful commissioning with the crushing circuit and heavy media plant. It's expected the Mount Cattlin mine and minerals plant will produce 137, 000 tonnes per 12 months of 6 % lithium oxide spodumene concentrate, which Galaxy would add value to by building the Jiangsu downstream lithium processing facility, in China. The plant will have the capability to generate 17, 000 tonnes per year of lithium carbonate that's suitable for use in manufacturing battery cathode materials. On Monday, Galaxy announced that it would raise $30 million from Chinese investments, and said that it may possibly list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Toshiba’s strategy to help boost the company’s development and weather the impact of volatile costs for chips is focused on the international appetite for batteries to power hybrid, plug-in hybrid and electrical vehicles. Toshiba has made the company one of its focus areas but increasing demand is also making competition fiercer, with Toshiba and its Japanese peers, including current leader Sanyo Electrical Co, NEC and Hitachi, facing South Korea’s LG Chem and other rising rivals around the world.
“We would like to expand our business with the hope of securing a greater than 10 percent share (with the global lithium-ion battery market),” Toshiba chief executive Norio Sasaki stated at a news conference held in Kashiwazaki, northern Japan, to celebrate the completion of its second lithium-ion battery factory.
Toshiba will start out mass-producing its rechargeable SCiB (Super Charge ion Battery) in February 2011 with an initial capability to make 500,000 cells per month and it plans to double that by March 2012. Toshiba manufacturers its SCiB at another facility in central Japan, which has a monthly capacity of 150,000 cells.
In April Honda Motor Co. introduced plans to adopt Toshiba’s SCiB for its electrical motorcycles and Mitsubishi Corp is jointly developing battery systems containing the SCiB with Toshiba for electric cars.
Related International Developments
Last week, billionaire Warren Buffett confirmed his support and investment in Chinese automaker BYD Co., announcing the company will be a leader in electrical cars. The carmaker is currently dealing with challenges ahead as it tries to address falling sales, as it slashed its 2010 sales outlook by 25 p.c to 600,000 motor vehicles from 800,000 on Aug. four. The fabled oracle of Omaha reported, “BYD is a young and promising business experiencing dynamic growth. BYD will play a leading role inside the future.” Berkshire Hathaway owns 10 p.c of your automaker by way of MidAmerican Power Holdings, based in Des Moines, Iowa.
The corporation in fact began as a battery maker, founded by China’s richest man, Wang Chuanfu, and entered the automobile market in 2003 mass producing the world’s first plug-in hybrid five years later. The carmaker ideas to start out selling the E6 electric car in the U.S. this 12 months and in Europe next yr. The E6 will take six hours for a full charge and will run for greater than 300 kilometers per charge in cruising mode.
BYD is adding electrical vehicles and plug-in hybrids as rivals for instance General Motors and Nissan plan to introduce battery-powered models in China. The nation, the world’s biggest polluter, is offering buyer incentives for fuel-efficient cars to help cut emissions.
In June, the government mentioned it would offer as a lot as $7,400 towards the buy of plug-in hybrid models and up to 60,000 yuan for autos that run only on batteries in 5 Chinese cities on a trial basis. The National Development and Reform Commission, China’s top economic planner has announced the nation may subsidize purchases of at least four million energy-efficient automobiles by 2012.
Mining News
Galaxy Resources has produced its first lithium concentrate from the Mount Cattlin operation, in Western Australia. On Tuesday the company stated that the production start-up was on schedule and followed the successful commissioning with the crushing circuit and heavy media plant. It's expected the Mount Cattlin mine and minerals plant will produce 137, 000 tonnes per 12 months of 6 % lithium oxide spodumene concentrate, which Galaxy would add value to by building the Jiangsu downstream lithium processing facility, in China. The plant will have the capability to generate 17, 000 tonnes per year of lithium carbonate that's suitable for use in manufacturing battery cathode materials. On Monday, Galaxy announced that it would raise $30 million from Chinese investments, and said that it may possibly list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Friday, September 3, 2010
Get a Better Battery Gauge for Your Laptop
Over the years, Windows has gotten progressively better at laptop ability management--but it still doesn't tell you very much about your battery.
Enter BatteryBar, a totally free, easy, ingenious ability gauge that is compatible with XP, Vista, and Windows 7--and really should have been built into all three of them.
Generally, you have to mouse over that tiny System Tray strength icon if you would like Windows' read on just how much battery life is left. BatteryBar adds a full-time, at-a-glance gauge to the proper side of the taskbar, which, by itself, is mighty handy.
That gauge shows you either a percentage of battery life remaining or the amount of runtime left; clicking it toggles between the two readings. Interestingly, when you're running on AC energy, the gauge switches from green to blue and shows how long until you reach a full cost.
But wait, there's far more: if you mouse more than the gauge, a pop-up window displays a boatload of extra facts, for example total battery capacity, charge/discharge rate, AC status, and even a lifetime estimate based on historical charge/discharge data. That's what I'm talking about!
Although BatteryBar is no cost, there's also a Pro version that adds a lot more features, like a graph of battery profiles, low/critical energy warnings, and automatic power-scheme switching that kicks in when you switch between AC and battery ability.
How much? The developer sort of lets you choose your own price: $3 for a one-year license, $5 for two years, or $7-9 for lifetime. Pony up $10 and you get two lifetime licenses.
While I suspect most users will probably be happy enough with the no cost version, I admire this creative approach to pricing.
I love this program. Do not run a laptop without it.
Enter BatteryBar, a totally free, easy, ingenious ability gauge that is compatible with XP, Vista, and Windows 7--and really should have been built into all three of them.
Generally, you have to mouse over that tiny System Tray strength icon if you would like Windows' read on just how much battery life is left. BatteryBar adds a full-time, at-a-glance gauge to the proper side of the taskbar, which, by itself, is mighty handy.
That gauge shows you either a percentage of battery life remaining or the amount of runtime left; clicking it toggles between the two readings. Interestingly, when you're running on AC energy, the gauge switches from green to blue and shows how long until you reach a full cost.
But wait, there's far more: if you mouse more than the gauge, a pop-up window displays a boatload of extra facts, for example total battery capacity, charge/discharge rate, AC status, and even a lifetime estimate based on historical charge/discharge data. That's what I'm talking about!
Although BatteryBar is no cost, there's also a Pro version that adds a lot more features, like a graph of battery profiles, low/critical energy warnings, and automatic power-scheme switching that kicks in when you switch between AC and battery ability.
How much? The developer sort of lets you choose your own price: $3 for a one-year license, $5 for two years, or $7-9 for lifetime. Pony up $10 and you get two lifetime licenses.
While I suspect most users will probably be happy enough with the no cost version, I admire this creative approach to pricing.
I love this program. Do not run a laptop without it.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Li-ion batteries in electric cars greener than believed
For the first time, researchers at Empa have made a detailed life cycle assessment (LCA) or ecobalance of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, in particular the chemically improved (i.e. additional environmentally friendly) version from the ones most frequently utilized in electric vehicles.
The investigation shows that if the energy used to charge the battery is not derived from purely hydroelectric sources, then it is primarily the operation with the electric automobile, which has an environmental impact, precisely as is the case with conventionally fuelled automobiles.
The size with the environmental footprint depends on which sources of energy are applied to "fuel" the e-mobile.
About the other hand, the Li-ion battery itself has a limited impact about the LCA on the electrical automobile.
This is contrary to initial expectations that the manufacture of the batteries could negate the advantages of the electrical drive.
Battery powered electric powered cars are usually promoted as the ideal solution towards challenges of future mobility, since they produce no exhaust gases in operation.
Li-ion batteries have established themselves over competing lead-acid and nickel metal-hydride (NiMH) kinds due to the fact they're lighter and can store a lot more energy.
Li-ion batteries are also basically maintenance-free, display no memory effect (loss of capacity when repeatedly charged after partial discharge), have a low self-discharge rate and are regarded as safe and long-lived.
Researchers at Empa's "Technology and Society Laboratory" decided to discover out if they are also environmentally friendly for sure.
They calculated the ecological footprints of electrical cars fitted with Li-ion batteries, taking into account all possible relevant factors, from those associated with the production of individual parts all the way through to the scrapping of the car as well as the disposal in the remains, including the operation in the car through its lifetime.
The analyze shows that the electric car's Li-ion battery drive is in fact only a moderate environmental burden.
At most only 15 per cent of the total burden might be ascribed on the battery (including its manufacture, maintenance and disposal). Half of this figure, that is about 7.5 per cent in the total environmental burden, occurs in the course of the refining and manufacture of the battery's raw materials, copper and aluminium.
The production from the lithium, in the other hand, is responsible for only 2.3 per cent with the total.
"Lithium-ion rechargeable batteries aren't as poor as previously assumed," said Dominic Notter, coauthor of the study.
The Empa team concluded that a petrol-engined automobile should consume between three and four litres per 100 kilometers (or about 70 mpg) in order to be as environmentally friendly as the e-car studied, powered with Li-ion batteries and charged with a typical European electricity mix.
The study has just been published in the scientific journal "Environmental Science and Technology".
The investigation shows that if the energy used to charge the battery is not derived from purely hydroelectric sources, then it is primarily the operation with the electric automobile, which has an environmental impact, precisely as is the case with conventionally fuelled automobiles.
The size with the environmental footprint depends on which sources of energy are applied to "fuel" the e-mobile.
About the other hand, the Li-ion battery itself has a limited impact about the LCA on the electrical automobile.
This is contrary to initial expectations that the manufacture of the batteries could negate the advantages of the electrical drive.
Battery powered electric powered cars are usually promoted as the ideal solution towards challenges of future mobility, since they produce no exhaust gases in operation.
Li-ion batteries have established themselves over competing lead-acid and nickel metal-hydride (NiMH) kinds due to the fact they're lighter and can store a lot more energy.
Li-ion batteries are also basically maintenance-free, display no memory effect (loss of capacity when repeatedly charged after partial discharge), have a low self-discharge rate and are regarded as safe and long-lived.
Researchers at Empa's "Technology and Society Laboratory" decided to discover out if they are also environmentally friendly for sure.
They calculated the ecological footprints of electrical cars fitted with Li-ion batteries, taking into account all possible relevant factors, from those associated with the production of individual parts all the way through to the scrapping of the car as well as the disposal in the remains, including the operation in the car through its lifetime.
The analyze shows that the electric car's Li-ion battery drive is in fact only a moderate environmental burden.
At most only 15 per cent of the total burden might be ascribed on the battery (including its manufacture, maintenance and disposal). Half of this figure, that is about 7.5 per cent in the total environmental burden, occurs in the course of the refining and manufacture of the battery's raw materials, copper and aluminium.
The production from the lithium, in the other hand, is responsible for only 2.3 per cent with the total.
"Lithium-ion rechargeable batteries aren't as poor as previously assumed," said Dominic Notter, coauthor of the study.
The Empa team concluded that a petrol-engined automobile should consume between three and four litres per 100 kilometers (or about 70 mpg) in order to be as environmentally friendly as the e-car studied, powered with Li-ion batteries and charged with a typical European electricity mix.
The study has just been published in the scientific journal "Environmental Science and Technology".
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