My attempt to use proper grammar in my daily writing

I participate in online discussions on Apple Inc's website for their iPod Touch product. It's a user-to-user forum where you can ask questions and try to get help from fellow users from around the world.

My attempts to use proper grammar have not started this year with my MComm class--it really started last fall with four classes requiring papers to be written throughout the semester and my wife, who is an English major, becoming my editor and giving me some insight. I will say, however, that MComm's focus on grammar has helped me understand grammar a lot more than I did, and I have become more confident as I try to use more punctuation and other grammar in my writing.

While I was in the MTC in Sao Paulo, Brasil, a member of the branch presidency told my district before we left that in order for us to become fluent in Portuguese, we had to make 50,000 mistakes in the process in order to learn and refine our language skills. I submit, just as this counselor said, that in order to become "fluent" in grammar, I also must make mistakes in order to learn and improve my writing skills.

The following is a post that I wrote in the Apple iPod Touch forums in response to a user who reported issues with alarms not going off as they should. She later reported that the problem had reversed itself, but she did not know what she did to fix it. I'm sure there are still many mistakes in this post; however, I also know that there are not nearly as many as there could have been because of a few simple grammatical changes I've made in my writing.

"I accidentally replicated your problem this evening. My voice control didn't make it's normal ding and an alarm didn't play its sound; however, I figured out why it did this. 

What you need to keep in mind is that there are three volume levels that are controlled separately by your iPod: 
(1) the built-in speaker
(2) headphones(when they are plugged in)
(3) paired Bluetooth audio devices

If you unplug the headphones, turn the volume down completely for the built-in speaker, and then plug in headphones and adjust the volume, the volume is still off for the speaker, and is consequently off for alarms--and the voice control ding as I discovered tonight--and they won't play/sound even if you are listening to music or a podcast with headphones. 

It used to say speaker when you adjusted the volume without headphones plugged in, but it does say headphones when you adjust the volume when headphones are plugged in. The volume control for paired Bluetooth devices, I believe, is new with iOS 4(at least that's when I noticed it). It also doesn't say anything when you adjust the volume. The key is to remember that the three volumes are controlled separately--which ever you are using at that time. 

Hope this helps explain your problem."