Most iPhone owners say, "My iPhone has Transformed their lives!" but are they more concerned with function and form than how to care for their new iPhone.Why worry about caring for it anyway, its unbreakable, right?
There are more and more new iPhone upgrades and clones coming out all the time. Everyone stronger than the last.
You're only going to use it for 6 months and then swap it, aren't you?
If you have spent your life-savings on it and you do want to hang on to it for a while, make sure you are not keeping it in grotty surroundings. If you are it will suffer and blame you. So, here are some tips to keep your brand new iPhone in hip-hop tip-top condition.
1. Are you having Audio Problems?
At the bottom of the iPhone, there's a speaker on the left and a mic on the right. If you can't hear anything or if someone can't hear you, most people fear the worst: (Sudden Deafness?) internal damage in the sound system but it's more likely that the holes are merely clogged with debris. No, put that cotton bud down, we are talking about the holes in the iPhone.
If you're experiencing sound degradation and creeping deafness: try giving it a dab with strong alcohol, 90% alcohol. No, not the good Polish Vodka. Get it from the chemist.
Use an old tooth brush and brush away the gunk. You can also use a can of compressed air, from the camera shop to clean the holes, but don't use the air hose at the garage cause that's just way too strong.
Also don't use too much alcohol, leave some for the party, tonight! No, cause you don't want any liquid to find its way into the speaker or mic. Why? The chance of getting liquid into the phone would make any sane person nervous, so you have warned, proceed at your own risk. Keep it dry.
2. Already you have Cracks in the Casing, and Scratches on the Glass
If you are bit heavy handed: cracks will appear around the dock connector and headphone jack where the plastic is at its thinnest.
Apple is apparently aware of the problem because many iPhone owners report that Apple Geniuses are adept at evaluating the crack and quick to replace a unit.
With a crack near the dock connector, for instance, a Genius will examine the area with a light scope (torch) and eventually swap the SIM chip into a new iPhone. Mention 'litigation' and 'fit for purpose' when he is examining it to help him decide.
The simple answer is to get a fab and funky hard case for your iPhone, as well as a thin skin protector on the glass. Although the iPhone glass is fairly scratch resistant, it's defenseless against diamonds, keys, and sharp objects in your purse or pocket. You know what you're carrying! Keep your iPhone in a separate pocket from your other bling and personal defense systems!
Apple accessory shops say "Don't be afraid to replace the hard case and skin protector regularly, because they wear out." We say, the best answer is to upgrade your iPhone every 6 months.
3. Your iPhone is Over-heating, even in the winter
Most sensitive electrical devices, including the iPhone shouldn't be exposed to hours and hours of endless gossip or extreme temperatures, +30C degrees, -0C degrees on the low end.
It will quickly degrade the performance of the battery. If your iPhone is heating up, try to determine if it's heat from the iPhone itself or reflected heat from the sun. Sit it in the cupboard under the stairs for an hour and see what happens.
Turn off a hot iPhone and let it sit for a couple of hours. If the iPhone emits heat while off, then 'Run", it's got to be a really serious problem. Don't turn it back on, or 'meltdown' may occur, just take it straight to an Apple store.
This could only be a runaway chemical reaction in the battery cell. Keep a fire extinguisher at the ready too and shout 'Danger, danger, danger!" as you head to the Apple shop. This simple action may save dozens of innocent bystanders.
If the phone continues to produce a lot of heat when turned on, it might be time to head back to the Apple store to get it checked out again: you might be holding an iPhone lemon. Not too technical a term for you is it?
4. Apps Regularly Crashing: Leave a Little Headroom and wear a Helmet
If Apps are crashing or Web pages freeze up Safari, you can't blame Microsoft, it could be a memory problem. Don't fully load your iPhone.
Leave at least a half gig of headroom to handle spikes in memory use. You're driving it too hard, man! She cannae take it captain! She's breakin' up!
Also be mindful of fashions, modes and trends and check your iPhone blogs regularly. If a certain application keeps crashing, it could be a problem with that particular app.
If a certain Web page continues to freeze Safari, it could be that the page is too big. Most major Web sites have a mobile version that requires less memory. Seek them out!
Either way, If you're iPhone freezes, reboot it. This will clear or ease the burden on the memory. Remember, people forget. The iPhone is really a small computer. So, if it starts to act up or operate slowly, it's a one-minute process to reboot it, whilst cursing loudly.
5. Car Charger Safety
Don't use car chargers as a primary means of charging. The 12 volt electrical system of cars used primarily for headlights and interior lights is quite crude. It was not designed to handle the loads of modern cars with their big boom boom quad surround around sound systems, myriad sharp gadgets and electronic enhanced features.
It's very common to have power surges and dips on a car's electrical system, simply because we're overloading a small capacity system, and the noise suppresion system is primitive. All this fluctuation and spikiness, will fry your iPhone.
If you really must use a car charger, try not to have the iPhone plugged in when you're starting or turning off a car. That's usually when electrical spikes occur and they will go through your iPhone like a bolt of lightening.
Only buy brand-name chargers, because hopefully they'll have a better and faster acting fuse to protect the iPhone and be sure to check the fuse regularly for signs of burning, charring or disintegration. If the plastic holder has melted, take this as a bad sign.
6. Battery Woes: Monitoring Chips May Be Out of Sync
Some iPhone owners complain that their iPhone won't charge fully. The iPhone indicates a less-than-100 percent charge. Yet the problem might be that there are 2 chips involved.
The chip on the battery and the chip on the device, measuring the juice flowing back and forth are out of sync.
Run the iPhone battery completely dead, charge it until it can't take anymore charge, run it down fully again, and this should sync up the chips. Do this every month or two. Keep a log book, if you must.
If your iPhone is experience real battery drain, remember there are many ways to improve battery life, which are not very user friendly. You've been warned.
Check out these three tips for iPhone battery life: Try disabling power-hungry features, buying a battery pack, or getting it tested at an Apple Store to make sure it's working within normal parameters.
7. In Summary Tacit ergo Quark!
So, after all that, aren't you glad you bought an iPhone and now maybe you'll beleive me when I say, upgrade it regularly to avoid hot spots, cracks, sparks, blanks and techno-disappointment.
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