By: Ronnie Williams Generally iPhone battery life is not considered really good as compared to other PDA phones. For a frequent user, the battery can't live for one day per single charging. However this time can be increased by applying the following changes with your iPhone and a reasonable change of 20% increase in battery timing can be reflected in your iphone. The iPhone's 3G should be turned off while this feature is not being used, however the use of edge won't really affect the battery. Make sure to turn off the iPhone's Wi-Fi along with the end of internet usage for the day, if you can't afford to do this then try turning it off when you go to sleep. Wi-Fi consumes a lot of battery because iphones have to constantly run a backend process to ensure Wi-Fi connectivity. If there is no internet usage then there is no need to maintain connectivity with a wireless router. Bluetooth is one of the famous apple iphone accessories. The bluetooth feature is designed to live with the iphone battery. If there is not Bluetooth usage then, turning off the iphone Bluetooth is highly recommended to save battery. Auto brightness changes the iPhone's screen brightness on the basis of surrounding light which consumes battery through auto brightness process and changing from low brightness to high brightness level. Turning off this process will stop a back end process and constant brightness level will not consume more battery due to change in brightness level. More screen brightness requires more battery. A reasonable brightness level is between 25% and 30% which will brighten up the iPhone screen display well for both day and night. A strict rule given by Apple is to 100% charge the iPhone's battery after it has completely drained; this will refresh the charge carrying capacity to maintain battery life and backup time. This practice is recommend once a month. Some people put the iphone in a protective case, which is good to protect the iphone and one of the most common and famous apple ipod accessories and apple iphone accessories but charging the iphone within the protective case can cause harm to the iphone and can result in poor battery time. This is because the iPhone generates heat during the charging process and if the heat is not released it can damage battery cells or iphone circuit. There are many iPhone Apps that are fun games, entertainment programs etc. No doubt these apps make your iphone more interesting but on the other hand they drain a lot of battery. This is no special need to remove those apps, just use them less frequently. SSH runs in the background and drains battery; this can be turned off from the application BossPrefs OR from default SSH service icon. This runs in the background to detect any network activity and this is the main cause of poor battery time for all jailbreak iPhones.
