Hi, Is there any apps that give information about the Cells the phones is working on, ie, cell sites, cell id's, signals, neibouring cells, as is available in most nokia's.
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as title says, which ROM for HTC Touch Diamond 2 has the best battery life?
energy with titanium or simple today screen
The ROM will help ~50% of your battery life need, but rest is depends on your kind of usage. Like what kind of network you are using and kind of signal strength you are in, kind of application that you use, your device backlight, WiFi and Bluetooth etc adds to that rest 50%.
Also I am not sure how one ROM will be different from other in 1st 50%, but I feel Photon ROM is good for me.
You may also consider testing different ROMs so that you can confirm as per your usage
well, less eyescandy and function/background service usually mean better battery. The most power hungry component in our phone is the screen and radio (radio include those 2G/3G and wifi).
So, choose a rom running titanium (winmo 6.5 default), mess around with the backlight settings, and choose the right radio mode to meet your Internet usage. If you transfer data heavily over mobile network, choose 3G when available, else 2G/GPRS network will do the job. On my testing, for a same amount of data (i.e. 5MB), transfer using 3G consume less power than 2G. Wifi is more power hungry compare to 2G/3G on my experience.
for the measuring the actual currant of the battery, you can use the software BattClock. This tool helps me a lot with the power consumption controlling. Also can show many other informations like freeRam or CPU usage.
Heya all.
I'd like to know is there some android application that can control my 2G/3G settings based on a rule (something like AutomateIt, which does not do that) so that it stops my phone from trying to connect to 3G network when signal is low or lost?
Let me explain - I go twice a week to a gym which is actually in the basement of a building, and my carrier's network is very weak there, mostly no signal at all.
During those 2hrs period I've noticed that my battery drainage is larger than when I'm in the reach of the network.
Since I know that cell phones tries to log-on to the network using maximum power, and that 3G uses more juice than 2G, I concluded that my phone is trying to reconnect to 3G network when it looses signal instead of doing nothing.
Now, I don't exactly know how phones in general behave when they loose signal alltogether (I think they go from 3G down to 2G and then should go into some passive, listening-only mode, waiting for the beacon from the cell tower), but I guess that in such cases it would be better for me to force the phone to go to 2G (and keep reconnecting/listening on 2G) and later on, when it detects 3G, switch back to it.
Unfortunatelly, AutomateIt does not have radio control and I can't use it like I do at night to turn off sync and data and turn it on in the morning.
Also it does not have a rule related to network signal strength/type/whatever.
I can't use some timer app that would simply turn on/off airplane mode during that period, because I might not go to the gym sometimes, or I might simply be late or leave the gym later, so I'd still have larger battery drainage, even for a short period of time.
Many words, but I hope everybody understands my problem.
Cheers.
OK is it possible that nobody knows the answer to this?
I know that 2g/3g autoswitching should do it's job but watching my power drainage I get the feeling that phone keeps trying to force 3g and that eats the battery.
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It has been documented that using wifi when at home (for example) can conserve battery, however in most cases there is a stable GSM signal. For this reason the phone will not waste a lot of battery trying to connect to the cellular network over and over again. However, I have an unusual situation that I would like advice on. My office has TERRIBLE reception and in fact I constantly lose/regain signal all day long. I believe this contributes to relatively low battery life on my phone(s) that I use. We do have office wifi however, and I am wondering how connecting to it will impact my battery. Would that improve the battery drain, or would it actually make it worse?
I live in a college dorm, and my battery life on my s5 got really bad once I moved back in this year. At home I run this phone exclusively on Wifi, as I am out of a coverage area. Battery life is phenomenal at home, (about a day and a half, light use) but here I can barely make it through a day. I checked my battery stats and from what I can tell, Wifi reconnects are causing my battery drain. There are multiple relay routers throughout my building, and my phone is constantly reconnecting to different ones. My question is, is there any way to fix this issue beyond turning off Wifi?
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I live in a college dorm, and my battery life on my s5 got really bad once I moved back in this year. At home I run this phone exclusively on Wifi, as I am out of a coverage area. Battery life is phenomenal at home, (about a day and a half, light use) but here I can barely make it through a day. I checked my battery stats and from what I can tell, Wifi reconnects are causing my battery drain. There are multiple relay routers throughout my building, and my phone is constantly reconnecting to different ones. My question is, is there any way to fix this issue beyond turning off Wifi?
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I take it all the routers have the same ssid? If not lock it to one . Or you can buy a router that acts as a access point to retransmit the wifi but give it its own ID and just connect to that one . I know this may not be possible especially if your dorms are like the one i was in and had concrete block walls .I guess your phone dont know which one to connect to . I would just buy a router you can flash DD wrt on and use as an access point or just buy one that acts as one .They are pretty cheap to buy and this way you can name it what ever you want and just connect to it and forget the other network ID's
If you are in a limited area, then buy a router and use it as a wireless bridge or repeater. And just have your phone connect to your own router.
A lot of reconnects are due to Google. Google cares a lot more about building a statistical model of your net activity and serving you targeted ads than your battery life. To wit, Google checks whether you have connectivity to their servers and if not will disconnect your wifi and seek a different access point. Do a search for the particulars and block that.
And if your phone is alternating between multiple access points when you are within range of both, then use an app to fix your phone to one access point.
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Hi,
We go on vacation each year to the same place and GSM/2g/3g/lte signal is very poor and varying here. With meter I measure signal strength from -80 to -110 dBm at the same spot. It probably varies due to seaside proximity.
What bothers me is the fact, that when phone looses signal, two weirdos occur:
1.) I need to reboot many times to regain access to my operator...same with other family members, and we use different operators. Why does not phone switch from no signal to my operator by itself always?
2.) Maybe related...cell meter app on my phone show quite strong signal of -80 to -90 dBm all the time when no etwork is found, but network operator name is "none". No calls can be made, even 911 calls end with network error. But signal is strong. What's this? Is this some dormant signal, which I detect practically everywhere, when no network is found?
Above symptoms are present on Samsung s7, s10 and on LG g7, so it's not phone or android version guilty.
Explanations welcome.