{"id":400,"date":"2008-08-26T15:13:34","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T22:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/?p=400"},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:28","slug":"lazyweb-request-iphone-power-miser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2008\/08\/lazyweb-request-iphone-power-miser","title":{"rendered":"LazyWeb Request: iPhone Power Miser"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Given how pathetic the new iPhone 3G’s battery life is<\/a>, and given that Apple recommends you essentially castrate your device<\/a> in order to get more hours out of it, I have an idea for an app that would make the castration process both quicker and easily reversible:<\/p>\n

An app that sits on your home screen and does nothing but turn a set of things on and off.<\/em><\/p>\n

The app doesn’t even need to launch. Press it once and Bluetooth, Wifi, 3G, Location Services, and Push email all turn on. Press it again and they all turn off. Simple. Perhaps there are even three states to the button where the middle state is configurable.<\/p>\n

With the above app, the process of going from power-sucking battery-hog to power-conserving battery-miser would take one-click.<\/p>\n

Without the above app, here’s what it takes:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Click on Settings<\/li>\n
  2. Click on wifi<\/li>\n
  3. Slide wifi slider to off<\/li>\n
  4. Click on Settings Back button<\/li>\n
  5. Click on Fetch New Data<\/li>\n
  6. Slide Push slider to off<\/li>\n
  7. Click on Settings Back button<\/li>\n
  8. Click on General<\/li>\n
  9. Slide Location Services slider to off<\/li>\n
  10. Click on Bluetooth<\/li>\n
  11. Slide Bluetooth slider to off<\/li>\n
  12. Click on General Back button<\/li>\n
  13. Click on Network<\/li>\n
  14. Slide Enable 3G slider to off<\/li>\n
  15. Click Home button to get back to main screen<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    15 steps! That is crazy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    I wouldn’t even might having my iPhone in conserve mode 90% of the time if it were easy to switch out on demand, but it isn’t. I’m not sure if iPhone developers have access to system settings like this, but if they do, this would make a great app. If not, it would also make a great app… Apple<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Given how pathetic the new iPhone 3G’s battery life is, and given that Apple recommends you essentially castrate your device in order to get more hours out of it, I have an idea for an app that would make the castration process both quicker and easily reversible: An app that sits on your home screen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}