The mighty SAMSUNG Galaxy S II I9100 is the king of mobile handsets with a screen size of 4.3 inches, latest Gingerbread 2.3.3 firmaware, powerful 1 GB RAM, Super AMOLED Plus capacitive touchscreen, Dual-core 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor, Mali-400MP GPU and Orion chip set. However, the downside of the device, is the poor battery life. Is there a way to resolve the situation? Read on to find more.

For an increased longevity of battery life it is essential to ensure an effective battery maintenance strategy. Here’s how.

• Clean the battery contacts (Golden in colour) with a piece of dry cloth every 3-4 months.
• Ensure that battery is not pulled out often, as this will spoil the battery contacts and makes the battery contacts loosen up.
• Never put battery in extreme temperatures (extreme hot/cold). It will spoil the battery immediately.
• Never place anything (SIM Card) above or below the battery shelf. It spoils the battery and may even result in the dangerous battery bulging situation.
• Unless the battery charge prompts for the low battery, it’s not recommended to charge your phone. Every battery should be charged only after a particular cycle of time has elapsed for enhanced battery life.
• Never charge your phone with USB when the charge is below 20%. USB charging uses trickle charging concept that uses AC Power chargers to charge your phone. It is unhealthy for the life of battery.
• Although, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, Sync and brightness are important widgets, yet these drain out the battery life. You can tone them down, especially the brightness for enhanced battery life. For further enhancing the battery life use advanced power control widget from My Settings- a smart application that can be downloaded from the Android Market.
• Always ensure you have turned off the GPS because it continuously searches for the location and drains the battery.
• Turn off the Bluetooth as soon you finish sending the files, because GPS alos contributes heavily to battery drain.
• When using Wi-Fi ensure it’s on the 2G network as with simultaneous turn on of Wi-Fi and 3G will drain the battery faster.
• As soon you are through taking pictures, turn off the camera. Long periods of switched on camera will put it in the stand-by mode, again draining the battery.
• Multitasking is the chief aspect of an Android device; several apps running in the background exhaust the battery. Hence, it becomes essential to close these apps to save battery.

Now that you are the proud owner of all new Android device from HTC – EVO 4G, have you been able to update the latest version of Gingerbread 2.3.3 update?

The update is being pushed slowly around the globe, and we take this pleasant opportunity to bring forth the procedure that will enable you to update your HTC EVO 4G with Android 2.3.3 firmware. The phone in not required to be rooted for this firmware update, hence your phone will have the warranty, intact.

Pre Requisites:

• Synchronize all your contacts with your Google Account. Take a backup of all applications, videos, SMS and music files in event of losing data. You can save on the microSD card, as any data stored here is safe.
• Remove the SIM card and any external SD cards to ensure data is not corrupted.
• Keep the original USB cable handy with your HTC Evo 4G.
• Ensure your phone has at least 50% of battery power left for uninterrupted updation.

Procedure:

Step 1:  Download the Over the Air update for Gingerbread 2.3.3, and rename the zipped file as “update.zip”

Step 2: After downloading the firmware package, copy it to your phone. Note that any modification or unzipping of the file will prevent the update to occur, as the phone will not recognize any other name/format, except the one given by default.

Step 3: After file transfer, turn off the phone and pull off the USB cable, connected between computer and phone.

Step 4: After copying the file, power up your phone, hold volume down and hit then power button, now your phone will be turned ON in the recovery mode.

Step 5: Select the bootloader with the power button> Scroll down to Recovery> Select it with the power button.

Step 6: Now, press the power button and volume up button, simultaneously. It could take couple of trials. With the help of the trackball select “Apply sdcard:update.zip”.

Step 7: Now, press the “Power” button to select the stored firmaware zipped folder.

 Step 8: Once the firmaware zip file is selected, the update process will begin. It takes approximately 5 – 7 minutes.

Step 9: Once the update process is completed, you’re phone will get back into recovery mode. Now, you must reboot the phone. Home screen will be turned on, select the language if prompted.

That’s it, you have now successfully upgraded the HTC Evo 4G with the latest Android’s Gingerbread 2.3.3 version. Feel free to leave a comment in the box below. 

Here’s a game of physics with a twist. Display your stacking skills, blow things up, avoid obstacles and use many awesome tricks to experience the ShakyTower.

Explore the Forest World, ski your way through the Ice World, avoid sunburns in the Desert World, fend off sharks in the Underwater World, don’t get lost in the Computer World, and show off your cosmic skills in the Moon World!

Sway your phone to control gravity. Watch out for obstacles and relentlessly moving lines. The building blocks available in different types look cute but don’t get fooled, they can get really nasty. Enjoy impressively smooth gameplay in over hundred different levels and two game modes: quick-game and adventure.

The game is OpenFeint integrated to see who’s the real pro and who’s only bragging!

Download the game here. 

Talking Ben is a retired chemistry professor who likes his quiet comfortable life of eating, drinking and reading newspapers. To make him responsive, you will have to try hard to bother him so that he will fold his newspaper and begins talking to you. You can then poke, tickle, talk and even have a telephone conversation with him. You can record a funny video of your telephone conversation with Ben and send it to your friends.

 However, if you get Ben to his laboratory, he becomes as happy as a puppy. In the lab, obtain hilarious results by mixing a combination of two test tubes together.

Games Play:

• Poke Ben’s newspaper to make him fold it.
• Then you can talk to Ben and he will repeat.
• Poke or slap Ben’s face, belly, feet or hands.
• Tickle Ben’s belly.
• Poke or swipe Ben’s graduation picture.
• Press the phone button and have a conversation with Ben.
• Record a funny video of your telephone conversation with Ben.
• Press buttons to make Ben eat, drink or belch.
• Press the chemistry button to switch Ben to the laboratory.
• Mix any two test tubes together and see the hilarious chemical reaction.
• Record videos and share them on YouTube, Facebook or send them to your friends and family by email or MMS.

Sounds funny? Download your share of app here.

This is pro version Mp3 downloader what you can do with this app is easily search and download mp3 music from public domain via public search engines.

Features:

• Search artists by genres
• Search and download full albums
• Search similar tracks and artists
• Chart by artists and tracks
• View events your favourite artist
• Edit track tag
• Edit track for ringtone
• Share with friends on social networks and via e-mail 

Download Mp3 Downloader here.

The modern version of Tic Tac Toe or Naughts and crosses is now available on cool Android design plus Honeycomb theme. Tic Tac Toe is an excellent way to pass the time during those boring moments of your vocation. You can see who out of your friends is a true Droid Tac Toe champion, with the integrated Facebook and Twitter accounts.

Game rules are still the same: 2 Players, 2 Androids, one field. Each of the players try to place their droids in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row. Whoever succeeds first in placing their droids 3 in a row wins!

Features:

• Vs Android or a friend
• Choose who starts or make it random
• 5 levels of difficulty
• Retro sounds
• Cool animations and vibrate options
•  Openfeint Leader boards integration
• Openfeint Achievements integration
• HeyZap, facebook and twitter Integration
• Theme Chooser

Download the game here.