Jagalah Hati, Jagalah Mulut

Dua hal yang harus aku jaga sekarang-sekarang ini.

Aku jaga hati, aku jaga jantung, aku lemaskan syaraf. No extreme movement.

Aku jaga mulut, dari kata-kata, dari makanan, batasi saja kata-kata, batasi saja makanan yang masuk lewat mulut ke perut.

Selebihnya biar waktu yang berbicara, biar waktu yang menjaga.

Improving Battery Life on your Android Device

I often hear people say, “My Android battery life sucks!”

To which I usually reply, “Yeah, unless you’ve tweaked it, it probably does.”

This article will explore some easy ways for any Android device user to improve their battery life, using :

MonkeyBiz’s Rules of Android Battery Conservation

First off, let’s talk reasonable expectations. No amount of tweaking will make your phone battery last forever. In fact, barring something extraordinary, your phone will probably top out at 16-20 hours of normal use. With an extended battery, you might hit a full 24. Consequently, charge your phone every night.

From a purely practical perspective, the absolute best I advice I can give for improving your Android experience, as it relates to battery life, is buying a second battery and a charger and leaving it plugged in. It gives you the option of changing batteries and moving on with a full charge in under a minute. It’ll cost you a little, but it’s well worth the investment.

If your device has a non-removable battery, tough noogies. Shoulda bought a better device.

The Golden Rule: Always have a second battery on the charger.

Moreover, it doesn’t hurt to have chargers everywhere. I have one in my car, at my desk at work, at home on my desk, and at home on my nightstand. Considering most devices use a micro-USB compatible port, you shouldn’t have a problem finding a few.

The Silver Rule: Have battery chargers everywhere you go.

Now, the first thing you’re going to want to do to determine what exactly is draining your phone’s battery life is to go to the Battery page. Did you know that your phone has a Battery page? I bet you didn’t. You access it by going to Settings > About Phone > Battery. Selecting “Battery use” will give you a detailed display of what exactly has been using your device’s battery.

More likely than not, your biggest power hogs are going to be your display, cell standby, and Wifi standby.

So, now that we know what’s draining your juice, let’s talk about how we can stop the bleeding.

The #1 thing, in my experience, that people fail to do, is properly manage their display brightness. They leave the brightness cranked up on their screen and wonder why their battery dies in four hours. I have a toggle widget on my home screen that toggles between 0% (low light conditions light nighttime and bars), 30% (where I normally keep my brightness), and 100% (outside on a sunny day). You’ll find that smartly adjusting your display brightness based on conditions makes for a much improved battery life.

Another good tip is to check what your screen timeout is. I typically keep mine set at 30 seconds to a minute. You can adjust this under Settings > Display. The higher the timeout, the longer it takes your screen to turn off if you’re not using it.

A quick note on Automatic Brightness: some people like it, some do not. I feel like it sets my brightness too high by default and doesn’t adapt well. Your results may vary. It is, strictly speaking, better than nothing, but not comparable to manual management.

Rule #1: Turn your display brightness down unless a higher brightness is absolutely necessary.

Mobile data (3G, 4G, 4G LTE) is incredibly battery intensive compared to WiFi. Simply connecting to WiFi when you’re at home, work, etc. can extend your battery life significantly. Typically speaking, I’m on WiFi at home and at work, and on 4G LTE in between, or when I’m out and about.

Rule #2: Only use mobile data if WiFi is not available.

I love the fact that we’re finally getting broadband-class speeds to our mobile phones. I just wish that it didn’t absolutely thrash the battery in the process.

Every 4G LTE phone on the market today is running a first generation LTE radio, which is to say it’s not incredibly power efficient. Consequently, using 4G LTE for an extended period of time will drain your battery significantly.

So, if you happen to have a 4G LTE device, I would recommend picking up a toggle widget from the Android Market. I use LTE OnOff, which opens a settings menu that allows you to change from 4G to 3G.

Worth noting: the next version of CyanogenMod, CM9, will include an LTE toggle in its built in notification settings.

Rule #3: 4G is a battery destroyer.

Do me a quick favor: go to Settings > Accounts & sync. How many things do you have listed there? 6? 10? Every one of those items works in the background of your OS, using precious battery life to send and receive data. Now, some of those things you want to run. For example, I like having my Google Contacts synced on a regular basis, so that if something happens to my phone they’re still available. I like getting my Gmail in a timely fashion. I like getting notifications for Facebook and Twitter. These are all important things. However, the Stocks and the News apps that are included on my phone don’t need to sync, because I don’t use them.

If you’re rooted, you can remove some of these included applications without issue. If not, select the application, then uncheck everything that’s selected to sync. It’s not a perfect solution, but it’s better than nothing. Moreover, you can select to only sync certain things. The choice is yours.

Rule #5: Beware of Accounts & sync.

So, if you’ve done all of these things, and your battery is still dying after 8 hours, it’s possible your phone is running dogshit software. This is not out of the question. With the exception of the Nexus series, most phones do not run stock Android, and stuff like TouchWiz and Sense can easily suck your battery to nothing. However, we’re Android users, and unlike those silly iPhone users, we can do something about this. We can root our phones and install new software like Cyanogenmod that can significantly improve the battery life, just by virtue of not being entirely full of carrier-mandated crap.

And that brings us to our final rule…

The Android Prime Directive: When in doubt, hack the planet.

If anyone has anything they’d like to add, or would like some advice, leave a comment!

Soekarno Di Mata Orang Uzbekistan

Najib : Sebuah Catatan Perjalanan

Di belahan dunia mana pun, Najib merasa bangga menjadi warga negara Indonesia. Jika mendengar kata Indonesia, mereka akan bilang, “Waaah, saya bertemu banyak sekali jamaah haji, di baju-baju mereka tertulis INDONESIA, mereka sangat ramah”.

Tidak lama setelah kedatangan Najib ke Yekaterinburg, di acara Hormat Haji, salah satu jamaah dengan bangga bercerita, kalau di Mekkah dia bertemu dengan banyak sekali jamaah dari Indonesia. 

Begitu pula hari itu - Ahad 24 April 2011 - di acara Akhir Sanah Madrasah Nur, Oktyabriski, ketika Najib ikut membantu memasak Plov, masakan tradisional Uzbekistan. Najib berkenalan dengan tiga orang asal Uzbekistan, di antaranya Syuhrat Jiyanbekov Aka, dua lainnya Najib tidak bisa mengingat nama mereka.

Ketika mereka menanyakan asal negara Najib dijawab, “Saya dari Indonesia”. Salah satu diantara mereka, meminta untuk mengulangi jawabannya.

“Indonesia“, jawab Najib sekali lagi.

“Orang Uzbekistan harus berterima kasih kepada presiden kamu yang namanya..… “, dia lupa nama presiden Indonesia yang dimaksud.

“Yang mana“, tanya Najib.

“Yang pertama“, jawabnya.

“Soekarno“, timpal Najib.

Mengapa dan Bagaimana Soekarno di Mata Mereka?

Cerita ini mungkin cerita rakyat, namun mari kita pikirkan. Jika kita sampai mengenal Sir Thomas Stanfort Rafles dan Dr. Joseph Arnold, bukan lain karena penemuan mereka terhadap bunga Raflesia. Atau jika nama Jendral Deandles sampai dikenang oleh orang Indonesia, tidak lain karena kebijakan pembukaan jalan dengan sistem kerja paksa. Intinya cerita itu sudah menjadi sejarah.

Kenalan saya bercerita tentang Presiden Soekarno. Presiden pertama RI, sekitar tahun 1956 datang ke Russia (Uni Soviet). Selanjutnya Soekarno memiliki satu permohonan kepada pemerintah Russia, yaitu ingin mengunjungi Makam Imam Bukhori.

Soekarno hanya mengetahui bahwa Makam Imam Bukhori ada di Asia Tengah. Kemudian sang penjamu – Pemerintah Uni Soviet – menghubungi wakil pemerintahan di wilayah Asia Tengah - Ma Waro’a Nahr.

Wakil pemerintahan kemudian menghubungi Mullah di sana untuk mengetahui di mana letak Makam Imam Bukhori, dan akhirnya ditemukan Makam Imam Bukhori berada di Bukhoro 500 km dari Tashkent. Namun, saat itu akses untuk ke makam belum ada, hanya sedikit orang yang tahu.

Setelah mendapat informasi tersebut Soekarno langsung berangkat ke wilayah yang sekarang menjadi negara Uzbekistan. Tentunya tuan rumah tidak ingin malu di hadapan tamu kenegaraan.

Demi memuluskan perjalanan Soekarno, pemerintah pusat memerintahkan untuk membuka akses ke Makam Imam Bukhori. Akses pun terbuka.

Di sini Soekarno membuat kagum orang–orang Uzbekistan. Setelah akses terbuka Soekarno justru memilih untuk berjalan kaki untuk bisa mencapai makam penyusun kitab hadist pertama tersebut.

Setelah sampai di makam, soekarno meminta ditinggal untuk beberapa lama. Dan dia berpesan agar tidak ada yang mengganggu. Mungkin tahlilan.

Setelah selesai, Soekarno secara khusus meminta kepada pemerintah wilayah untuk membuka Makam Imam Bukhori dan menghormatinya sebagai ulama besar.

Setelah kedatangan Soekarno, orang–orang sekitar baru mengetahui siapa sebenarnya Imam Bukhori. Dengan sebab kedatangan Soekarno kini orang bisa mengambil pelajaran dan menauladani hidup beliau.

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Orang yang paling depanlah yang bercerita kepada Najib tentang Soekarno. Dari segi data cerita ini memang sangat kurang. Namun kita kembali lagi, jika nama seseorang sampai di kenang di negara lain, itu bukan karena apa, namun karena suatu jasa.

“Itulah sebabnya mengapa, kita harus berterima kasih kepada orang Indonesia”, dia mengahiri ceritanya.

Ya, semakin bangga jadi orang Indonesia. Jujur, wilayah Ma Waro’a An-Nahr, yang sekarang sudah terpecah menjadi beberapa negara di wilayah Asia Tengah adalah salah satu cita–cita dan keinginan saya untuk mengunjunginya. Karena di sana Islam pernah mencapai masa keemasannya sebelum akhirnya berusaha dibumihanguskan.

Bukhoro adalah salah satu tujuan yang ingin saya kunjungi. Allah maha tahu niat saya, semoga mengabulkannya. Dan akan saya dapatkan data-data yang akurat. Ya, sekarang usaha saya hanya kirim Fatihah saja, supaya nanti dipanggil ke Uzbekistan.
Sumber :
http://masnaguib.blogspot.com/2011/07/catatan-santri-6-presiden-soekarno-di.html