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According to Apple, now there's a new way to speed up the process.
Backup times can suffer when there are a large number of photos or videos on the Camera Roll. To speed up your iPhone backup the media files must be imported to your computer, removed from the camera roll, and re-synced to the iPhone.

1. Ensure the iPhone is connected to your computer.
2. Open iTunes.
3. Select the iPhone in the Devices list in the left column.
4. Click the Photos tab.
5. Ensure that "Sync photos from" is enabled and choose the appropriate source from the adjacent pop-up menu.
6. Click Apply or Sync.
In that way the next time when you sync the iPhone everything will be much faster. Enjoy!

So users may not be aware of until they start flexing the application. The key here is that you can send much more than photos. Information from your Contacts can be sent via MMS by touching the Share Contact button when viewing entry details.
ouching the share button in Voice Memos will give the option to send via MMS or email. The iPhone 3GS will send video using MMS, although it will severely degrade the size and quality. This helps to insure the video will play on smaller and older phones.

iPhone have the ability to use Wi-Fi while in Airplane Mode.
To do this, simply enable Airplane Mode and then switch on Wi-Fi. The orange airplane icon will stay in the status bar and Wi-Fi will be enabled.
Apple says that the feature is good for those on Wi-Fi enabled planes, but it may come in handy if you're in an area with no cell reception (such as basement or college building).

Ever since my first iPhone, there was always one feature I thought Safari was lacking; the ability to open links in a new page. I mean, Safari for iPhone let you have multiple pages open, but there was never a way to explicitly open a link in a new page! Every competent desktop browser can do this. Thankfully this feature was finally added in iPhone 3.0. To make it work, simply tap and hold a link to bring up a nice little dialogue which allows you to open the link in a new page. Hooray, perfect for Google searching across multiple sites!

Many of our the-iPhone.org visitors ask us how to use the iPhone headphones, one of the great things about the iPhone is that its headphones come with a handy little microphone with an integrated button. The button of course allows you to answer and end calls, as well as play and pause your music. You've also been able to double-click them to skip to the next song, but in iPhone 3.0 you can actually triple-click to rewind and go back to the previous track! It's a little tough to do at first, but it's a handy little addition that's sure to help out with your daily iPhone use. Enjoy!

If I run too many apps at once, the system starts to be less responsive. On larger machines, this isn’t really a problem but if you use a mac mini or an older G4 then you’ll know what I mean. Anyway, launch the Maps or iPod application, play a few songs and mess with the GPS a little bit. Maybe check your email and play around as you normally do and you’ll start to get the lag. So the question I asked myself is, what would I do on my mac if this were happening? Force quit some apps maybe? For a while I had been shutting down the phone and restarting until I figured out that if I launch an app, say Maps for example, then hold down the “home” button for 6 seconds, the app is forced to quit. Keyboard and contacts lag seems to be remedied for now. So, I guess keeping my iPhone happy may require me to treat it a little less like a phone and more like a little mac, but in the end it’s still a badass little phone.

1. Pause Push
The push feature is great, I’ve figured out that I get email on my phone faster than it hits my inbox on my computer. But do you really need to get it instantly, are emails from facebook really that critical? You might think so, but honestly think about how often you look at your email on your phone. If you’re like me you can afford to turn Push off on your personal mail. Here’s how: 1. Open “Settings” 2. Select: “Fetch New Data” 3. Flip the “Push” Switch from “On” to “Off”. By default, this turns the “Fetch” feature to “Every 15 Minutes”. This is the default for how the previous releases of the iPhone managed it. If you want to conserve even more power consider increasing that to 30 minutes, an Hour, or even manage it Manually. I personally have it set to “Every 15 Minutes.”

2. Wi-Fi, Why?
With Wi-Fi turned on, your iPhone will search for access points at all times. If it finds an access point that it has connected to before in the past, it will automatically connect to it, even if you don’t plan on using internet features in that area. All this searching and constant connecting and disconnecting drains power. So turn it off when you aren’t using it and then when you take your phone out to really surf the internet, flip it back on. Here’s how to turn it off if you don’t know how: 1. Open “Settings.” 2. Select “Wi-Fi.” 3. Flip the “Wi-Fi” Switch from “On” to “Off”. If however, you’d prefer to have your Wi-Fi feature turned on, you can still conserve a bit of energy. All you have to do is turn the “Ask to Join Networks” feature off. This way when the phone is not connected to a Wi-Fi access point, it won’t be trying to get you to connect to networks you don’t know. 1. Open “Settings.” 2. Select “Wi-Fi.” 3. Flip the “Ask to Join Networks” Switch from “On” to “Off”. By default, this turns the “Fetch” feature to “Every 15 Minutes”. This is the default for how the previous releases of the iPhone managed it. If you want to conserve even more power consider increasing that to 30 minutes, an Hour, or even manage it Manually. I personally have it set to “Every 15 Minutes.”

3. How Bright You Are.
Don’t you love that great, bright screen of the iPhone? Sometimes it’s so bright you should wear sunglasses, right? Well, why not turn the brightness down? It’s saves power and you don’t need to wear sunglasses at night any longer. Here’s How: 1. Open “Settings.” 2. Select “Brightness.” 3. Slide the “Brightness” Slider to the left. Down to something that is still comfortable and usable for you. You can take it one step further and turn the “Auto-Brightness” switch to off. This will power down the light sensor and prevent the device from adjusting the screen brightness depending on the brightness of then environment. Personally I leave this option On.

4. Gee 3G.
This last one is for iPhone 3G users only. Like Wi-Fi, the 3G feature is a constant data connection to the internet. But you aren’t constantly on the internet, so why have it on all the time. Just turn it off when you aren’t using it. Here’s How: 1. Open “Settings.” 2. Select “General.” 3. Select “Network.” 4. Flip the “Enable 3G” switch from “On” to “Off.” This feature is such a power drain that Apple even mentions it on the “Network” screen. Something else that I have figured out by having 3G turned off is that my reception goes up and I get fewer dropped calls. Why exactly this is happening I don’t know. My educated guess though is this: Not every cell tower in an area is 3G enabled in any given area. The iPhone was programmed to first look for a 3G tower and then any tower if a 3G one doesn’t exist in that area. This means that you could literally be standing next to a tower that isn’t 3G enabled and it still won’t connect to it, cause it wants the 3G one first.

5. The Last Resorts
There are two options, that are guaranteed to conserve your battery power when you are in a dire situation and you need to make sure that you can make calls and sends messages. * Turn On Airplane Mode. * Turn iPhone Off. The iPhone is a great device. It’s really the new crackberry. The only problem with the release of iPhone software 2.0, it won’t even last till the end of the day on a single charge. Apple clearly has some work to do, to get it back to where it was. In the mean time it, with the 5 tips above, your iPhone will last a lot longer. Try them out and let me know how much longer your iPhone lasts in the comments below.

One user writes: “I had the same issue with some of my Videos that were converted using Visual Hub. Once I upgraded my iPod Touch to 2.0 they stopped working. I eas confused at first as all of the the ones that still worked were in 4:3 aspect ratio. Anyway after trying many different solutions and settings. I found that if I used ffmpegX instead of Visual Hub to encode I had no problems with any of the resulting my videos-both 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratio and different frame sizes.” Per the above user’s commentary, re-encoding movies may be the most viable fix for this issue. Try using an alternative video encoder or a lower resolution/bitrate.

You can sync

• Contacts—names, phone numbers, addresses, email addresses, and so on
• Calendars—appointments and events
• Web bookmarks
• Music and audiobooks
• Photos
• Podcasts
• Movies and TV shows
• Applications

You only have to set which items are synced in iTunes on your computer once. After that, just connect iPhone or iPod touch to start a sync.

Contacts, calendars, and bookmarks are synced from (or to) your computer, so if you add, change, or delete them on iPhone , they are changed on your computer, and vice versa. You can also sync contacts with your Yahoo! or Google Address Book.

Email account settings (on iPhone only), music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and photos are synced one-way, from your computer to iPhone (though you can import photos taken with iPhone to your computer).

If you like, you can set iPhone or iPod touch to sync with only a portion of what's on your computer. For example, you might want to sync only a group of contacts from your address book, or you may want to sync only songs from certain playlists so you don't fill up iPhone or iPod touch with all your music.