Comments on: Where Your Smartphone Energy Goes… http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/09/where-smart-phone-energy-use/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 03:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Zachary Shahan http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/09/where-smart-phone-energy-use/#comment-118122 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:04:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36857#comment-118122 Sounds like a good (though somewhat hidden?) end-user option for now..

]]> By: Andy Miles http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/09/where-smart-phone-energy-use/#comment-118033 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 06:55:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36857#comment-118033 I discovered this for myself when I first bought a smart-phone and started downloading “free” apps, and monitoring my internet usage, and realised that my air time was being eaten up by “free” apps’ constantly generating automated traffic.

The simple solution, I found, was to turn my internet connection off, on the smart-phone menus, when not using it. On my phone this was achieved by unchecking the “Use Packet Data” option.

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