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Dear Friends of Jacob's Cure,
It is with great hope and appreciation that I announce Jacob's Cure will be closing its doors but not its mission. This is extremely bittersweet because of the enormous growth you have made possible. Simply, our infrastructure can no longer maintain our great work. So while our doors will close, our mission will remain open as we will join forces with a leading non-profit patient advocacy group that raises money and awareness for Canavan and other related genetic diseases.
National Tay-Sachs & Allied Diseases Association (www.ntsad.org) just celebrated their 56th year and is recognized as one of the oldest, most respected, and widely-known genetic disease patient groups. NTSAD is a strong fit for Jacob's Cure; their mission is to lead the fight to treat and cure Tay-Sachs, Canavan, and related genetic diseases, and to support affected families and individuals in leading fuller lives. This amazing organization supports an extensive Research Initiative and annual research grant making process. They also offer family support services, which include a yearly conference for families who are caring for very sick children or whose children have passed. It is an informative, supportive conference that addresses all family members, including grandparents and siblings.
I have been a member of NTSAD's parent network since 1996, so I can personally attest to their ability to serve families well and advance research. By passing the baton to NTSAD, the hope is that the Canavan community will be united and that research and fundraising capacity can be expanded as a single, stronger organization. The Jacob's Cure legacy continues. I would like to encourage you to get involved with NTSAD, whom you will be hearing from directly in the coming months.
Proudly, as a volunteer and with the support of other organizations, I will continue to work with Dr. Paola Leone and her team at a federal level along with NTSAD in their advocacy efforts. I will also continue to meet with key members of congress and Directors at the NIH and FDA to push for funding that is so desperately needed.
Jacob's Cure will disperse the majority of the remaining funds to Dr. Paola Leone's lab at Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine to support their great work, which encompasses stem-cell therapies, gene therapies and pharmacological approaches towards treating Canavan disease. In addition, Dr. Leone has had a link with NTSAD through their Scientific Advisory Committee for a number of years. Some funds will go to NTSAD as well as other organizations that support rare disease.
I want to thank each and every one of you for your endless support and generosity. This started with one mom's plea for help, and with your support, we grew to a nationally recognized disease and organization. Your dedication allowed us to DREAM BIG, and I will continue to fight in your honor.
I have had the privilege of seeing the best in people. I have felt your passion to help us eradicate Canavan disease and have marveled at seeing all of your faces at our events year after year. I don't believe there is a more committed group of donors and supporters, and for that I will always be eternally grateful. Thank you for joining me in this journey...I could never have done it without you.
My shoes were to be worn by me alone, but the mountains I climbed and conquered were because I had you by my side.
With deepest gratitude,
Jacob's Cure


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Evening Reading: Inoculationsby Garnett Lee, Dec 08, 2010 5:00pm PST
You may have noticed Brian hasn't been around this week. He got hit full-force with the flu over this past weekend and is at home recuperating--not playing Cataclysm (at least so he says). As fate would have it, both Xav and Jeff are fighting off bugs as well. All of which got me thinking about flu shots. I've never gotten one but maybe they're not such a bad idea.
On the other hand, I just installed Cataclysm myself and wouldn't mind a little time to level, rrr ... rest up. In the meantime, here's what made news around the Shack today:

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Poll: How's your iPhone 4S battery life?
So... how's the battery life on your brand new iPhone 4S? We've already asked you about battery life under iOS 5 in general, but now that you have that Apple A5 processor to power and the Siri voice assistant feature to play with, battery life could be getting hit harder than ever.
Now a new phone, especially one that talks back to you, is so fun to use that we might not get back down to every day levels for a while still. But if you're not talking to Siri every minute, if you set up as new rather than restoring from backup, if you're not lighting up all the new location-based Reminders and Find my Friends, and your Notification Center isn't set to the full fire hose, how do you think battery life compares to your previous phone?
Is it great, gets through the day, no problems whatsoever? Is it about the same? Is it so bad you've stopped using Siri, turned off location services, disabled push notifications, and gone to commiserate with your Android wielding friends?
Vote up top and give us the details, including anything that's helped you improve battery life, in the comments below!
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I think it's worse!!!! Get abt 6 hours of use thats it!!!
Same. I only got 6 hours. Can't blame apple or iPhone 4 since I never used an iPhone before but I still think 6 hours of juice is not enough
Not an iPhone 4 user but looks to be getting me through a days use....so i would say about an average battery comparing it to my old phone...
Went from a Droid X to the iPhone (very first iPhone) specifically for the battery life and all I can say is WOW! And I'm no longer tethered to my charger! Woot!
Just came in to type the exact same thing. Doesn't matter how it compares to the iPhone 4 to me, compared to the X, it's a dream!
I too just switched to the iphone from the Droid X. Hated the Droid so much that the iphone is amazingly easier, SMALLER, and much clearer with the buttons you are really pushing. I love it. Hoping the battery is not going to become an issue, cause I really don't think I could give up the awesome iphone. PS, Droid went straight to the garbage!
I assumed the first day with it, I couldnt use that as a gauge of battery life but today , minimal use it is at 50% already. DEF worse that iPhone4
Not dramatically worse, but not as good iPhone4. I lose about 5% overnight if not on a charger, and wifi use drains faster. About what I expect with the new goodies. Still acceptable and better than most other smartphones.
I'm still enabling and disabling features to see how it does. So far, by disabling Mail, Notes, Contacts, and Calendars (which synced before iCloud), battery doesn't take that much of hit. It's been now 2 hours, and the phone is at 96%.
After 2 hours of use and only 96%? That's really great. On my Android phone, as soon as I unplug it from a full charge on the charger it instantly drops to 98%, and is already now on 87% from web browsing for a little bit. Worst thing of a Android device. I miss my iPhone!
2 hours not doing anything. 4 hours later: some calls, occasional texting... 80%. Not too bad now. So far.
Not as good as the iPhone 4, but probably still good enough to get me through a normal day. The first few days have not been normal!
This is my 1st iPhone, so I can't say. I do know I will need a charging dock at work though.
Worse than the iPhone 4, but probably enough to get me through a night at work (I normally top up before I head in.) It's possible Apple can tweak it over time with iOS updates, so we'll just see what happens. Still the best smartphone on earth.
The problem is that I'm playing with it SO much it's had to get a good gauge of it. I took 300+ photos and videos yesterday, not a good gauge. And I dropped to 40% in 3 hours. I also played with Siri outside on a super windy day (amazingly well) and used foursquare and uploaded photos and videos to FourSquare and Facebook and shot some PhotoSynsths.
But I think I now that I think about it, that's an awful lot to only drop to 40%. Somewhere after hour 3 I plugged in a spare battery (some of the above was done after hour 3), but I was really out 5 hours.
I'm a compulsively charger prepared person: I've got a car charger and USBs plugged into my computer and 2 cheap spare external batteries (I keep one in my backpack and one in my bicycle bag).
[pedant mode] Don't know, still using it toO much!
I upgraded from a 3G running iOS 4.1 and my phone could go for days on one charge. This thing gets like maybe 8hours of course I can do a lot more on the 4s but I thought you know it could make it though the whole day
I can't complain. I had a Palm Pre plus on Verizon before my iPhone 4S. I was lucky if I got 2 hours of use out of it. Maps? Maybe 30 minutes. But with the iPhone, life is a candy dream of long lasting power.
Jack, you probably "used up" the battery on the Pre. Mine got to where I could eke out 1 hour of use, took it to the Sprint store where they tested it and gave me a new battery. Said the old one was "unchargeable".
I almost always had to charge my Pre during the day, with wifi and GPS off. Yesterday the 4S went all day, wifi and GPS on, and I still had 30% left when I went to bed. Candy dream indeed!
I still have my Pre+ (waiting on my iPhone order to arrive). The first 40% burns up in about an hour of very heavy use. I don't play games, just listen to podcasts, web surf and read news, Twitter and FB. The remaining 60% takes at least a few hours to use up. It can stay on standby for an entire work day and still be at 80% remaining. If this new iPhone shows similar battery life as my Pre+ even on a good day, I will be very disappointed as it should be 10x better, literally.
Updated 3 devices...2 iphone 4 and an iPad 2. Had horrible battery drain on one of the iPhones. Had to restore as a new phone to rectify situation. Battery life is now slightly better than ios 4.3 on all devices.
First time IPhone owner here. Unplugged the phone from the wall charger at 7:30 am used 4Square a lot, twitter, facebook, Sportsmobile, Whatsapp and iMessage. At 11:45 had 20% left. Not bad at all!
Sadly, the battery life on my 4S is very similar to the Pre that was my previous phone. This includes not only battery drain while in use but also on my nightstand while sleeping. Both of the areas of use are fairly poor signal strength so hopefully that's the reason.
Bingo. Cycle the battery a few times. Mine keeps getting better and better! Love the 4s!
Could you say more about "cycling the battery" for those of us unfamiliar with the practice?
What does Restore from Backup have to do with it?
Battery life is awesome. 3 hours at work listening to iTunes non stop and only dropped 10 percent. My nexus would have been almost ready for a charge by now.
My 4S has been heating up very warm when making calls and is losing battery life rapidly. I think I am going to downgrade back to my 3GS on 2G as battery life is important to me. Data etc. is a luxury but I am buying a phone and want to be able to turn off extras.
I think the battery duration is assuming Siri is turned off to get the maximum battery performance.
Just upgraded from jailbroken 3gs. the 4s seems to drain the battery much quicker. Had the phone charging over night, unplugged it and left it on my desk all morning--didn't use it. Went to check email and saw the batter was down to 80%. WTF? I'm assuming some of the background apps and possibly iCloud stuff was going on while the phone was idle, but that was a huge drop for me not actively using it. Never saw that on the 3gs.
I unplugged my 4s at approx 6:30 am; fully charged. i made one phonecall, which was less than 20 minutes, played some words with friends and sent two or three texts. By noon it was 40%. I don't feel this is very good...my 4 did not go down that quickly.
Coming from HTC EVO Shift 4g and battery life is night and day....
Off the charger Saturday morning at 7am from full charge and at Sunday night at 8pm and down to 7%.
That time included many text messages, playing with phone, some games and picture of my 22 month old son.
Very impressed with battery compared to my android phone.
Impossible!!!! mine is full at 7 am and down to 15% before i arrive my home after work around 6:30pm. I never listen to music, I only use IM+, and several text, play game for half an hour, and that's it. and I have already put off the notification, location, push functions. I totally disappointedly about the battery life!!!!!
My phone used to go 3-4 days w/o a charge. Now need to charge every day and I only used the phone like 1/2 hour today. Went from 100% to 35% in 8 hours.
I can't help but open and close thing to compare to how fast my 4 was, so at this point it's kind of hard to compare because it certainly hasn't had any thing near "normal usage". That being said I am still not disappointed.
Battery life WILL be worse...new OS = users playing with all the new features. Ask again in 3 months and I bet 80%+ will say its the same.
I have restored from my 3gs and i think i am going to reset and then sync so i get the battery optimization from the 4s. The restore from the 3gs is killing my battery life. We will see what happens.
Battery is draining way to fast on the 4S compared to the 4. I was at 100% and dropped down to 47% in 1 hour and 47 minutes. That's horrible compared to the 4.
Dont you think this is bizzare! Calibrate your battery first.. "Even a fool is considered wise when he keeps his mouth shut"
Mine is calibrated/conditioned (through 3 cycles of 0-100% and it still has terrible battery... i've even turned certain features off and dimmed the screen as much as I can bare! I have to have bluetooth, push, and locations enabled... the rest is off (ping, certain locations, notification center... etc). Apple definetely lied about battery life... or just ran the phone with NOTHING on... and used it as an iTouch!
Man..I feel that my iphone 4 battery power was way better. Hope apple can do something about it.
Firstly, its mere stupidity to ask about the iphone 4s battery life at this time. Its been only 4 days since everyone got their iPhone 4S!! It takes many charge cycles to estimate the battery life. Moreover, I am sure many would not have calibrated their batteries (Charge and complete discharge for 2-3 times).
It's not stupidity - you can tell straight away how the battery is doing. If, like some of us, you have gone from an iPhone 4 to a 4S, then you know what to expect. And you also know that if it is just sitting on the desk it shouldn't run out of battery in 8 hours (as mine is doing). Calibrating the batteries like you say is not really necessary.
So far the battery life seems good, having no issues with it, working fine and enjoying it. Hope that later on it doesn't get worst.
Not as good as the Droid X I replaced yet but I still need to do a full charging cycle or 2
Bzzzzzzt.... Wrong! You don't need to condition the battery.http://www.apple.com/batteries/
"You can also recharge a lithium-ion polymer battery whenever convenient, without the full charge or discharge cycle necessary to keep nickel-based batteries at peak performance."
Different kind of conditioning. You still need to give it at least 7-10 FULL charge cycles before you'll see realistic performacne of battery life. It's the same thing every year with every iphone. People get excited the first 48-72 hours. But after 2 weeks you'll see much better battery life. Tipb should remeber this.
I noticed today that the Location Service for Setting Time Zone was constantly using the GPS so switched that off as was losing around 1-2% every 10 mins whilst it wasn't being used. Seems a lot better now :)
This is my first iPhone and the better life is so much better than my Epic 4g.
My battery life has been less than what I expected, based on Apple's site. However, just today I turned off location services, bluetooth, change email to manually pull in new mail and shut off notifications on things I didn't care to receive notifications on. Hopefully this will do wonders!
Upgraded from 3GS and battery is amazing! Have used my phone a lot today and have still got 50% left 3GS would have died by now
i don't know what you guys are talking about... it is about 2:30PM where i am at, and i wake up at 7am. from about 7:30am that i unplugged the iPhone 4s, using it non-stop, making calls, texting, sending e-mails, and facebooking all day so far i am down to 73% battery, i have my screen set to about 80% bright, all my features like bluetooth, wireless, push notifications, and everything pretty much you can turn on the phone, ON... so i don't know if people are lying, or just a bunch of android users here, or if these people are just crazy, but i think the Battery life is pretty much amazing...
Samson, I am not doubting your very respectable battery performance, but all I can say is where there's smoke there's fire, and there are clearly a lot of people that "perceive" the battery to be draining inexplicably fast. As for my experience, I left my new 4S in the car at 8:00 AM (not permitted to bring it inside due to security restrictions) when I went in to work. I returned to the car at 1:30 PM to find that it had dropped from 95% to 65%. That works out to ~5.5%/hr doing nothing but laying around in standby mode. Of course I had all the iCloud and Google mail/contacts/calendar sync'ing ON and probably about 15 apps with push notifications ON, but then apparently so do you. So maybe there's just one thing or a specific combination of settings and factors, that is nailing a lot of people, and apparently some have it even worse. At any rate, assuming it is not all in our heads, I hope it either gets fixed or we can determine the cause and find a palatable work around.
(full disclosure: Former Droid user; first time iPhone user, and so far I love it in spite of a few Android things I dearly miss, and in spite of my concerns about the alleged battery issue.)
Don't be ridiculous. I'm glad you're not having issues but I doubt all of theses people are complaining because they use android and want to make apple look bad. I have a 4s and always use apple products, but my phone's battery is terrible!
I switched from my iPhone 4 to 4S & the the battery life on 4S drains much much faster than the 4. I believe SIRI sucks a lot of its energy. Its quite noticable & I am starting to worry about it.
Have same issues with 4s battery life, new to Iphone have always had Blackberry. This link has some useful tips which I will try before returning mine to Tmobile http://www.iphonestuffs4u.com/iphone-4-battery-life/
Compared to my 4, its worse but I'm not complaining. Today is the only time I even let the battery hit the red zone (was at 1% before I noticed and plugged it in). I'm using Siri, mostly asking for drugs and hookers and setting alarms but still... I'm constantly being pushed FB and Twitter updates with emails. I'm wirelessly syncing and using iCloud between the phone and iPad. Its worse but I'm using it and I haven't done the suggested charge cycles so yah... I can't really bitch about it.
My battery sucks and I have a lot of the features turned off in fact my 4S should be considered in airplane mode but I have my Facebook open so I can not go into airplane mode. I do have Wi-Fi off and my email push is off and my fetch my mail in about 30 minutes. I do have to carry my car charger with me because my battery will die by the end of this day.
FIXED MY BATTERY DRAIN ISSUE! – I tried all the tweaks as well, to no avail. What finally brought my new iPhone 4s back to the battery longevity of my iPhone 4 (pre-iOS5) was turning off the Notification Widgets (weather and stocks) that are the default in the new notification bar (the one that now acts like an android). Simply go to settings, then "notifications" is the 3rd option. Next, find the two default widgets (Stock Widget and Weather Widget), and turn them off. If you have any other widgets running, turn them off as well.
I don't feel it is good. I charged my phone in the night to 100%. It's just half a day... I just listened to 2-3 songs...and that's it...my battery is at 75%... I think it's really bad.... I m sad :(
Deleted my transferred email accounts and then re-added them. Improved my battery life drastically!
Apple pre-calibrates all of their batteries.
Agreed. Apple usually pre-calibrates the batteries before they sell
Well, if I unplug it at 730 am when I get up
and it is down to 80% at 830 before I leave home
and I haven`t done anything with it in the meantime
then there must be something wrong.
And I already deactived the "rise to speech" option at Siri.
My battery drained almost 30% in 3 and a half hours of sending a single text listening to musics for 10 min, and surfing the web for 30 min looking up battery problems with the Iphone 4S. Not happy :(
My 4S was worse than 4 and was having to boost the charge during the day. Been slowly turning off location based and already had brightness optimized. BUT I think I've made some real progress with Siri -- TURN OFF RAISE TO SPEAK and just use the home button. I'm now down only 22% in 4-5 hrs.
Thank you for this suggestion! I had shut down just about everything else that could be shut down and was still recharging after 3-5 hours of moderate use. I shut down this part of Siri's function and now have gone for about 8 hours of moderate to high use, including over an hour of turn by turn audio navigation, and still have 28% battery left. It's not perfect, but it is livable.
Very disappointed. The UI is backwards, the battery is not that great for a real power user. I liked my Palm pre (Original one from 2 years ago) much better. I expect to get more than 12 hours of use out of a brand new phone. Especially one advertised to get 200 hours of stand by time.
NO LONGER AN ISSUE After letting the battery nearly die, its fine and I'm still pushing, clouding, SIRI-ing and everything. For most people letting the battery die or restoring it does the trick. We go through this every year. Also, turn off the push and location stuff you aren't using.
NO LONGER AN ISSUE After letting the battery nearly die, its fine and I'm still pushing, clouding, SIRI-ing and everything. For most people letting the battery die or restoring it does the trick. We go through this every year. Also, turn off the push and location stuff you aren't using.
After letting battery run down and charging to 100% I made one phone call and phone went down 20% - then I called Apple Care. I was told to shut off wifi, notifications, (they were all off) blue tooth, auto brightness and just about every auto function on the phone to get it to last more than 7 hours. I did this and phone lasted about 7 1/2 hours. I asked them if I had to turn everything off what was use of having all this on the phone - and the rep told me to get an after market type charger so I could charge phone during the day. By the way Apple Care did not recommend cycling the battery but I did that anyway - no help. I think Apple knows this is a huge issue and expects people to just like it. Our iphone 4 works all day with all of the above on. Nice phone if only you could use it with all its features for more than 1/2 day.
The battery life is pathetic. Mine has to be charged every day around noon - afternoon time and it still dies again before I go to bed. If this isn't a bug or hardware issue I'll be selling it and going back to my iPhone 4. This thing is pretty much worthless to me like this.
Got up at 06.00 this morning 4S 64G showing 100% battery it's now 10.09 and my phone is showing just 56%!! I'm at work so I've only used it moderately. My last phone was a 28 month old 3GS 16G with original battery and the battery level is what I would have expected with my old phone!!
I had the 4 for a week and the battery life would last me two full days.. now with the 4s.. i only make it one full day. :(
what was the point of that comment? troll.
Have both data and locations turned off, display at half brightness and don't use Siri or talk to text, but have to charge 4s everyday. I hardly even use it!
I bought two IPhone4s's, one for myself and one for my son. Both phones while everything is turned off(no bluetooth, no wifi, no apps, running etc....) looses 1% per hour.... Returned them both to Apple today. One now gets great battery life the other is just as bad. Clearly there is something wrong with a subset of the manufacturing batch..... After speaking with the apple rep (which apparently is mathematically challenged and can't figure out that 1% per hour = 100 hours of life).... eventually did give us two new phone.
I see a recall or patch in apple's future.
4S battery life is wretched!! WAY worse than my iPhone 3. My iPhone 4 was the best of all of them. I would say its at least 40% worse than the 4.
My 4S battery life started out much worse than the 4 (third of the time) so I let the battery of down below 20% charged it up to 100% then did a factory wipe and restore from backup using iTunes. Now it is just as good as the 4 and in some ways better. I suspect the way the phones had IOS5 applied at the factory may be the issue and as there are two manufacturing sites maybe what they did was slightly different. Anyway very pleased now to get the same sort of life from a machine with a dramatically faster processor and 4 times the memory of my old iPhone 4. Yipee !
At first my iPhone 4s 32GB battery sucked, I couldnt get through the day without charging it at least 2-3times. But I tried all the tricks that I did with the 4 and still not much difference. I started to play around with it he other day and found the most helpful thing. TURN OFF THE STOCK WIDGET! And the weather one if you feel like it will help you more. I've been off the charger since 630am and it's now 1030am and I'm down 5%. So far I've made 2-10minute phone calls and sent/receieved 100+text messages. It really does make a difference
At first my iPhone 4s 32GB battery sucked, I couldnt get through the day without charging it at least 2-3times. But I tried all the tricks that I did with the 4 and still not much difference. I started to play around with it he other day and found the most helpful thing. TURN OFF THE STOCK WIDGET! And the weather one if you feel like it will help you more. I've been off the charger since 630am and it's now 1030am and I'm down 5%. So far I've made 2-10minute phone calls and sent/receieved 100+text messages. It really does make a difference
Make sure all apps are off! I notice some apps not completely shutting Down and it was draining my 4s awful! So I went into usage and noticed that I had 9 hours usage and 9 hours standby so I knew something was draining it! My battery was draining 20% every 4 hours, and I was very upset. Now I made sure today that all apps were shutting off, and I have 15 hours standby time 1 hour of usage and my battery is @ 82%. No complaints anymore. Love my iPhone 4s now. Those of you that aren't sure how to check running apps.... Just hit the home button twice and apps will appear at the bottom of the screen. Hold your finger on the apps and wait till a red dot appears and tap on it and shut the app down. Just do this until you figure out which app is draining your battery! Hope this helps!!
This is my first iPhone (the 4S), so I don't have much to compare it with. But the battery life is slightly underwhelming.
I have been having lots of drainage problems with my new phone 4s... but there are a few tips to help save the battery life http://bluewheelmedia.com/save-iphone-4-4s-battery-life
I thought that my iphone 4 battery life was far better than my iPhone 3 GS. but find that my iPhone 4 s is worse than my iphone 4 and closer to my 3 GS. I have had iPhones since day 1 and take all of the same measures to reduce battery consumption. My thought is that the duo processor and and IOS 5 are using up more power.
I've noticed my battery started to suck when I turned "push" on. With that on was the first time my battery didn't make it all day . Testing from full batt tomorrow to see if that is the Batt killer
With my Palm Centro I had two backup batteries that I could pop after a few days when the juice ran low. With the iPhone 4S I have to make sure I put it on the charger every frickin' day or it just becomes an expensive pocketweight. I've turned off half the great new features that brought me to the iPhone in the first place just so I might squeeze a few more hours of life out of the non-user serviceable battery. All this and I pay Sprint $10 more a month for what has become slower 3G service.
Hey Apple and Sprint! Ever heard of load testing?!?!?!
Battery life is not even close to what's advertised. This is false advertising. Most likely my last iphone
Took my 4s off the charger at 7am.. worked all day so it was on standby, aside from checking the time a few times.. by 3pm it was down to 13%... and thats with all my notifications turned off, wifi turned off, location services turned off, and nothing running in the background.. this is my first iphone, before this i had a blackberry torch.. my torch would last a solid 2-3 days of heavy use without charging it... i got the iphone for siri, but if apple doesn't do something soon i'm going back to blackberry for the battery life
Left my phone unplugged by my bedside last night... Battery was at 86 percent. Woke up at 12 percent.... REALLY? I know I wasn't talking to Siri, my notifications didn't light up and now I'm heading I work with a dead iPhone. Ugh.
I don't risk leaving location services off, lose your phone and the. What happens? Keep it locked keep location on for find my iPhone.
Found this site trying to find out why my new 4s battery was diminishing so much in one day. First smart phone, minimal use, everything location & update, etc that I can find is off. Minimal use of siri so far too. I'm a little nervous about maintaining the battery life.
I am a developer and all I can say is that iPhone 4S is really an amazing phone. Owning such a phone is really a great stuff and you get a lot of amazing features. The battery has a longer span compared to other phones I have tried.


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This durable white powder-coated steel clamp-on tub rail can fit just about any style of bathtub. The adjustable height clamp-on tub rail by Drive Medical is designed to meet your needs. It sits parallel to the tub and can adjust from 3"-7" in width and 14"-17" in height, all without the need for tools. Sturdy handle design and a stainless steel locking mechanism both provide added security, while non-wearing rubber pads ensure the product will not scratch your tub's surface. This product is not for use on fiberglass tubs. It comes with a limited lifetime warranty.
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The marking of No 3, 'Tempestoso', together with the heading 'Brioso' for No 5, never satisfied Scriabin. This is an early example of an increasing desire to express in words the content of his music. Later he was to take this to such lengths with such annotations as 'divin' and 'sublime' in The Divine Poem (Symphony No 3, Op 43) that his old teacher Taneiev remarked drily: 'You are the first composer to write praise of your compositions instead of performance directions.' However, the violently alternating double and single notes across the 6/8 metre in this study, further complicated later by left hand cross-rhythms, are indeed tempestuous. This Étude anticipates the oceanic imagery of the second Sonata's finale (work on the Sonata extended from 1892 to 1897).
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Convinced they were on the verge of another epic comeback, the Niners fell 5 yards short of a touchdown, three points short of a victory and one win short of Super Bowl perfection, losing 34-31 to the Baltimore Ravens after a last-minute drive stalled in Super Bowl XLVII.
The formula had worked to perfection in the NFC championship game, as the 49ers made up a 17-point gap and overturned the Falcons in Atlanta. But the Ravens proved more resilient. And while Jim Harbaugh was again able to rally his team, it was his older brother, John, who is a Super Bowl champion.
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Baltimore added another field goal to make the score 34-29, then came up with the big defensive stop. The 49ers padded their final score on a safety when Ravens punter Sam Koch ran around in the end zone to kill time and took a safety.
The first half was a nightmare for San Francisco. The dagger came with the 49ers trailing 14-3, just after the two-minute warning in the first half. Nickel back Chris Culliver had been playing well to that point, but he let speedster Jones run by him. Joe Flacco's throw hung a bit, forcing Jones to make a falling catch, and Culliver failed to touch him down.
Jones got up, eluded Dashon Goldson and beat a couple of 49ers into the end zone for a touchdown that gave Baltimore a commanding 21-3 lead.
The Ravens had struck first on a 13-yard scoring pass from Flacco to Anquan Bolden just 4:24 into the game. They added another touchdown pass in the second quarter when Flacco found tight end Dennis Pitta wide open between Patrick Willis and Donte Whitner. Both of those first-half scoring throws were right down the middle of the field.
The Niners' 15-point halftime deficit could have been worse, too. The Ravens were poised to pad what was then a 14-3 lead when John Harbaugh, a long-time special teams coach before getting the head job at Baltimore, called for a fake field goal on fourth-and-9 from the San Francisco 14. Kicker Justin Tucker took a direct snap and ran for the left edge, but Darcel McBath pushed him out of bounds a yard short and the 49ers took possession.
Kaepernick nearly threw back-to-back interceptions, too. After Ed Reed's first-half pick, Kaepernick's next throw was a toss to Randy Moss that Baltimore's Cary Williams nearly caught inside the San Francisco 15.
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Tim Cook tells competitors to invent their own stuff -- Apple is not the world's developer
Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked during Apple's Q2 2012 conference call how he felt about ongoing patent litigation, and whether he might be more open to a settlement or resolution than his predecessor, Steve Jobs might have been. Cooks answer was pretty much the same now as it was before he became CEO -- he doesn't like litigation, but he also doesn't like other companies using what he feels are Apple innovations to sell competing products. Cook also took it a step further, saying Apple cannot become the developer for the world. Although he didn't elaborate, it seemed to be along the same theme as previous statements -- he believes Apple competitors should invent their own stuff rather than copying Apple.
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[The Microsoft Windows situation was] almost copied verbatim by Android. And then they licence it around promiscuously. And then Android starts surpassing Apple in market share, and this totally infuriated him. It wasn't a matter of money. He said: 'You can't pay me off, I'm here to destroy you'.
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I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this. [...] I don't want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won't want it. I've got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that's all I want.
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However, based on his statements today, it doesn't sound like he's making any drastic policy changes at this point.
(Nor is he addressing examples of Apple using Google and Palm-style elements, like Notifications, in iOS.)
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So the company that was run by a man who had no problem stealing other peoples ideas all of a sudden wants people to stop stealing their ideas?
The apple fanboys in this blog will come up with some excuse that disproves your statement. Just you wait and see. I am dying to read it.
To be fair, if it wasn't for the iPhone Android problably wouldn't be what it is today and most cell phones wouldn't look so "iPhone"ish. It's undeniable that Apple set new grounds in technology and then "magically" all these companies have competitor products that practically mimic the hardware and the software of iPhone and iPad.
Look familiar? That was 2002. Grid of icons and touch interface, similar to iOS.. Every one of your statements can substitute Palm for Apple and Android for Apple. Technology has always been built on innovating over prior ideas.
Let's stop arguing over old arguments based on Steve Jobs' warped sense of history and just enjoy the great innovations both Apple AND Google are bringing us.
The fact that Cook didn't bring up Apple blatantly copying Android's notification pull down or iMessage being a rip of BBM is telling. Apple is hardly the "world's developer". If anything, they are stagnating and iterating on prior designs rather than bringing new innovations to market.
I think they need Android to keep them on their toes and they both push the industry forward in their own way.
The existence of Android should not in any way diminish the enjoyment of your device. No one company should have a death grip on the mobile market.
Well said, I couldn't agree more.
Exactly! When the iPhone first came out, I honestly didn't understand the buzz around it. My Palm had a very similar OS and far superior capability. Granted, Apple immediately overtook Palm in terms of quality and stability, and of course capacitive touch was superior to resistive, but it took them YEARS to match the functionality that Palm had been offering for some time. Once they did, Palm offered too little too late to continue competing.
The question posed to Tim Cook was about patent litigation. The statement was not about "idea" theft. You cannot protect a mere "idea." A basic understanding of intellectual property informs us that an "idea" is not protectable. It is free to be, taken by anyone. Call it stolen if you want it makes no difference. What you can protect is the "tangible expression of an idea." And that is all that Tim is responding to. That is what litigation covers. Patents do not protect an "idea."
I agree. It's not who came up with the idea first. It's who executed the idea well and made it somewhat of a "standard" that everyone just imitated.
Kind of like how Apple invented the notification system in iOS.. They should go after Google for that..
This lack of perspective does nothing but highlight your own limitations.
"I've always hated litigation, and I continue to hate it,"
What a hypocrite. Why didn't you stop it, when you hate it. Patent for a rectangular screen?. Insanity
Thanks God, Apple don't produce microwaves, refrigerators, TVs, tables. chairs,...... etc.
Here we go with rectangles again. Can't people come up with something less stale? Clearly there is more to the case than a rectangle otherwise it would have been tossed by all of the courts a long time ago.
I always thought apple stole ideas from others and then perfected it.
Apple is running out of ideas.
Developers for the world ? Hardly.
Sure iPhone was cool. But hasn't developed much since first release as the main interface is 90% the same as it was 5 years ago. Anything else added was stolen from others. That's not developing ;)
Cook , you don't have a chance in this industry if you're gonna be this cocky without having facts to back you up.
Jobs had vision and he was modest and charming. Without him, Apple is nothing. They're just surviving on his ideas for another couple years.
While there are aspects of iOS that needs to be updated, the interface (while so many years old) and the OS in general is still ahead of anything else in most ways. Why jack with something while it's still unmatched? It's odd that something so "old and simple" has yet to be duplicated. You can't point me to a single Android device out there that performs as smoothly has iOS.
I don't know about Android devices, but have you ever used a Windows Phone 7 device? It is not only just as fluid and responsive as iOS, but it looks much, much, much better. Going from WP7 to iOS makes one really feel the age of iOS, and how it really never evolved.
Why jack with something if it's still unmatched ? To develop further and stay ahead of the competition ;)
If you just stick around with the same and don't worry about staying ahead , then you'll end up like the rabbit who lost the race to the turtle ;)
I own both an iPhone 4S and the Galaxy Nexus and ICS runs just as smooth as the iPhone and is arguably more beautiful in its implementation. I say arguably only because beauty in design is a personal taste rather than a cold hard fact. In my opinion, it blows it away.
Android is much more functional than iOS in terms of customization and utility and its design has come a long way from where it was only a couple short years ago, whereas iOS has the same tired design that has barely changed at all.
If you dislike the design of Android, that's fine, but don't argue your opinion as a fact because design is not a quantifiable, measurable metric, much like art.
IOS is far from perfect and has its share of bugs. No device or OS is perfect, but ICS is very fluid and well designed.
Just like art, design has visual standards, and ID adds human interaction standards. So just like art there are basis (facts) by which to make judgements.
Yeah, it is feeling old and limited. I really wouldn't even consider iOS itself a strong feature right now, Apple is relying on hardware and ecosystem.
I don't think Forestal is going to sit around and do nothing. If anything he will have more freedom under Cook than Jobs.
Well if.that's how they feel. Then they better not use widgets, live wallpapers, opening the camara or automatically send a pre written text from the lock screen, true multitasking and so on. I love how they don't see anything wrong with adding notifications and a bbm like message system. Seems like Apple likes to steal, but can't stand to be the victim.
what exactly is apple's invention? an OS? touch screen? an application store? a cell phone?
Umm... the product that results from combining all of those elements together? Virtually everything about the iPhone is original, minus the stupid, generic traits like "touchscreen", "cellphone" and "OS".
and there is our first fruit fanboy!
why don't u put that in mathematical equation and show what's original minus generic traits!
oh wait..let me add few more stupid traits..
siri = google copied siri and created google voice
notificaiton = google shamelessly copied apple there
OTA Updates, Wifi Sync, iMessage and the list goes on......
Except google voice isn't like Siri it's a replacement for text and call plans. Fail fanboy
Google voice was out for a least a year before sir I was released.
Apples greatest creation was and is their ability to spin the press and bloggers info speaking/writing about their products non-stop... not to mention the millions of fans who also believe Apple can do no wrong. So far it appears no other company has been able to copy that act.
This cultish mentality apple fanboys have is quite intriguing I've never seen it anywhere but with apple where average consumers that have zero input and no profit and absolutely no worth to apple promote and advertise for free basically give a company free labor it's remarkable!
The amount of hubris in that statement is unbelievable. As if Apple is the only company that innovates, or has a slew of patents.
Bold statements
Unless some of you can come up with a miracle solution on how to deal with patents and simultaneous innovations I suggest we remain silent because there aren't many sensible things to say actually. May the best win !
It's hilarious to see all the tiny minds on this site arguing about all the copied little features and missing the point of what was being said completely. The steady increase of dunning-kruger since the idiot portal links at the top of the page are worth the price of admission alone.
I have owned a BB and an Android phone. Both times within weeks i was itching for something. I wasn't sure what it was. But I knew I wasn't happy. iPhone 4 comes to Big Red and bang! I have been happy with it for as long as I have had it. the BB is just plain worthless. unless you like plain and boring. the Android has an app store with apps that appear to be made by children. patent stealing or not. copying or not. iOS and the iPhone are better. End of story.
Correct me if I am wrong, most commonly used apps are made by the same devs for android and iOS? I don't know coz I don't own an android. But your argument hardly makes sense to me.
Many android apps lack professional design, and silky smoothness...your probably just going to claim that I'm an Apple fanboy so my opinion doesn't really matter anywayss
True, however don't mistake smoothness for speed and efficiency or imply that all iOS apps are better than their Android counterparts on all Android phones.
Apple certainly isn't the world's developer. Someone needs to remind Cook of this. One only has to look at the iphone to consider how much IP from competitors is in it.
Do people really think android devices aren't smooth? How about I show you an 2 year old phone that is smooth as butter on CM9? Did I mention it only has a 1GHz CPU and 512mb of ram?
Oh here go apple again with the we created everything...funny thing they were never 1st with anything just 1st to make it popular.
Most of the things they claim to have created all have prior arts lol...his probably vexed that he may have to pay up to moto
The statement is 100% true - only it need not be taken literally.
Apple is not the world's developer - they only make better other's technologies, make it popular and call it their own, forgetting where it actually came from.
Surely, competitors need to invent their own - otherwise where will Apple get things to copy/ make better from?
Somebody needs to remind Mr.Cook the origin of all the technology Apple products use! Apple is spoiling the whole game of technological innovations with all these lawsuits.
it is absolutely unfortunate that when talking about iphone the only other os they mention is android completely leaving out operating systems like windows phone 7 due to market share you if not for lack of developers making quality apps for windows it is easily on par with iphone in terms of fluidity and functionality as much as you like your iphones guess what they are far from perfect and anyone who would give a leg or an arm for them for no gain is a moron im sorry thats they truth IMHO i use a lumia 900 does that make me stupid for buying something i enjoy more than your precious apple.... technology will cease to advance because of all the litigation and it seems all you fools are for it... stop defending they stupid lawsuits and defend advancement in tech
WP 7 is pretty slick, however I wonder how many people look at it and say "I can't use my pictures as wallpaper" and dismiss it without even really trying it.
Never overestimate the average consumer's likeliness to buy what would best meet their needs. They like shiny. They like gimmicks. That's the core of Apple's success in the mobile world.
i absolutely agree i guess it just comes down to what useful/useless things they do with their phones i guess
I can't believe we're still having this argument. The iPhone is obviously far superior to any other phone, Steve Jobs said it is so it has to be true. Android has always been copying ios, they even stole ios's notification center and then RIM comes along and makes up this BBM thing, obviously a rip off of iMessage. The iPhone is the best even though I've never used any other smartphone and have nothing to go on except what i heard from my apple fanboy friends who heard it from their fanboy friends. Its the fastest, its the best, its 100% original and nothing else even comes close, if the iPhone doesn't have 4g and a 4" screen then I don't need them.
Out of the distortion field and back to reality... there are some things I miss from my 3 android phones before i switched to my 4s and there are some things I like more about iOS. Honestly, I'll probably get bored with it and go try a windows phone in a year. I won't bash anything I haven't tried and I'm almost ashamed to own an iPhone simply because i don't want to be considered an apple fanboy. The cult following behind apple is ridiculous.
its all a matter of preference. people get caught up on what they think is their side, but really, its just an industry trying to make money off of everyone. being a 20 yr cellphone user, i've stuck to brands for yrs, cause they were the best made, offered the most features, or were leading the way to new innovations. Nokia, Motorola, Palm, Samsung, BB, Apple, w/ numerous versions of each along the way. currently, i'm very happy w/ my ip4, & waiting to see what this year brings. Just remember, people aren't stupid for liking something that you don't. its like arguing about the scissors your barber or hairdresser uses. if your happy w/ your choice, awesome, if not, fine. But its more helpful to everyone to view all of them fairly. don't knock one if you haven't truly tried it. Some people are still using Motorola's original razr's, & if that's the experience they are happy with, who are we to tell them they are wrong.
No, i disagree apple can't patent such simple ideas like multitouch etc. especially hardware because nowadays let's just face it... all phones are almost exactly the same, in terms of hardware because all they are are massive touch screens especially with tablets. However i do agree that android copied iOS from the start but for iOS to develop and get better to compete with android apple stole some idea off android and put in iOS. But overall I think the patent system should be completely re-thoughtout. but honestly i think windows phone will win once it has more apps, because it definetely hasnt copied anyone and has come up with a new, unique, simple and easier to use design than the other 2.
if you believe android copied then you need to look at the products again truth is everyone rips everyone no reason to say apple did everything first the notification center is God given proof of that clearly they added it because people felt like it was needed..
Ford is better than Chevy, Chevy copied the automobile from Ford.
And Dodge is like Windows phone.
The vast majority of software IP is unprotectable, because once someone sees it it becomes obvious. Not that government won't try to back such protections.
Convergence was always going to happen. People have been writing about it for years. Pretty much everything you do with a mobile device, connected or not, is straightforward. Issuing IP protections is ludicrous.
Check out the story of how Richard Feynman got his patent on the nuclear submarine. That alone should tell you something about how silly the whole system is.
I think they should fire all the lawyers and all just shut up and build better products.
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