I have a question to everyone. I understand wifi drains less battery than 3g. But what if you are not surfing the web? Which would drain less battery while using the phone but not surfing the web?
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Depending on what you're doing...
If you have a strong 3G signal, that's probably your best bet.
If you leave wifi on, it will continually search for available networks, which drains battery. However, if you're somewhere with little or no cell reception, the phone uses more power to search for a cell network.
If you're not actually using any online service, airplane mode is unquestionably best.
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Get the smoda widget.
One button, one click. And ur data is off.
Helps w battery. I font know how much. But I ALWAYS download that widget first when I restore my phone
my second widget is from droidmania. Get the wifi one
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At home I have weak 3g signal. Overnight, 8 hrs, WIFI conected to home network uses about 6-7% while weak 3g about 40%.
I leave Wifi, 3g, GPS, and bluetooth on all day and use my phone a lot and my battery lasts a whole day. We shouldn't have to **** around with enabling settings anytime we want to use the damn thing. If however you are running low on juice, then at that time you should start turning things off, and lower the screen brightness. Note: the auto brightness setting uses more juice than manual settings.
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One thing I found to save power that I don't really see posted anywhere is by using this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=AutomateItPro.mainPackage&feature=more_from_developer#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEwMiwiQXV0b21hdGVJdFByby5tYWluUGFja2FnZSJd
I have it programed to turn off 3G/mobile data when it screen's off....unless I have a certain app running like say the browser. It will then keep data connected until the browser is closed, then the screen turned off. I then have it turn 3G/mobile data on as soon as I screen on again, so it's ready to rock instantly. I personally noticed a huge difference in my battery drain when not using the phone.
The app is pretty cool, you can program a ton of things. I have gps auto turn on when I use G-Maps or GasBuddy, then it auto turns off when I close those apps. Saves time and juice imo. Just figured I'd throw this out there.
nice app. isn't there a setting within the OS to do this, though? pretty sure there is.
either way, agreed. data usage can/will cause battery drain.
the real perp is your display, however. adjust your brightness settings, you will see significant battery improvements.
My display is set low, and all my other settings are set to be battery friendly. It's been awhile since I used the app. But after I had that setup, I noticed better life instantly. Went fishing today with the little guy, left the house with 100%. No phone usage for 2hrs, and it was still at 99%.
Can't you do this without the app tho
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If there's a way to set the phone to turn the radio off when screen is off, I'm unaware of that. I tried turning it on and off manually, but it got to be a pain turning it on and off all the time. I would end up just leaving it on. Now I don't even have to think about it, and it gets done everytime.
Sounds similar to Tasker, which is a little confusing to new users.
But as for your post, turning 3g off saves a TON of battery. I have to keep it on during the day to get emails for my job, but at night, I turn 3g off, and the phone will drop maybe 2% overnight with 3g off.
The CDMA version of the 3D has a setting in network that allows you to turn off your mobile network if the screen is off for 5+ minutes. The setting is "turn off always on mobile network". But the screens needs to be off 5 minutes before it will. This setting will not turn off wifi though.
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Lol silly kids, saving battery is for iPhones,lol, but seriously, I have 4g on all day and my battery doesn't drain any faster that it would with normal useage
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Lol silly kids, saving battery is for iPhones,lol, but seriously, I have 4g on all day and my battery doesn't drain any faster that it would with normal useage
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Pix or it didn't happen. I have full bars with 4G and my battery drains a lot faster.
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If you wanted to save battery life without downloading anything you could just use the HTC widgets for mobile network, 4g, WiFi, and GPS. This method allows me to switch the settings on and off on the fly. I've also found that if you disable all GPS options it won't be running in the background and for apps that require it. And if I'm in one spot for a while I just use WiFi.
Hello, my Atrix wifi keeps turning on automatically after some time. Not sure what's causing it to turn on by itself. I don't want to use wifi all the time, but every time I turn it off, its back on after an hour or so. I'm running neutrino 2.9, and undervolted the CPU. Performance is excellent and the battery lasts more than a day easily. Just trying to fix this one little issue.
Any suggestions to fix this? Many thanks in advance.
Cheers
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Go to Settings -> More Settings -> Mobile Network and see if there is an option for Automatic Connections.
I've not used neutrino in years, but one possible reason is Wi-Fi supposedly saves more battery compared to 3G. So it might be set up to always seek hotspots to save battery.
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Thanks. Looked around but I don't see any setting. But your point makes me think. If wifi saves battery then maybe that's what I need. I intended to turn off wifi to save battery since my emails sync just fine with mobile data. I'll read more and find out. Thank you!
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I don't use 3G, just 2G with Wi-Fi is always on, GPS is always on, Bluetooth is always off. I get about 7-8 hours of constant use. (screen on entire time) and about 14-18 hours with average use. This is using CM10 and were about the same with MROM.
Attached screenshot shows a decrease of about 10% every hour. If you're getting better battery, then 3G is probably better.
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Ever since I got my SGS3 last year, I noticed that WiFi would drain battery rather than save battery. For whatever reason I always got better battery life with WiFi off rather than on.
I noticed a lot more wake locks too. I don't know if it was because with a solid WiFi conneciton, apps tend to refresh a lot more than they normally do.
Enter the HTC One. I have noticed the same type of effects. I've only had it for 2 days but I am noticing better battery life without it.
So I want to collect some data using a poll. Do you get better battery life with it on or off?
Off..
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Off..
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Can you please add your vote to the poll? I just want to resolve this for people complaining about the battery life. It might be their WiFi.
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Ever since I got my SGS3 last year, I noticed that WiFi would drain battery rather than save battery. For whatever reason I always got better battery life with WiFi off rather than on.
I noticed a lot more wake locks too. I don't know if it was because with a solid WiFi conneciton, apps tend to refresh a lot more than they normally do.
Enter the HTC One. I have noticed the same type of effects. I've only had it for 2 days but I am noticing better battery life without it.
So I want to collect some data using a poll. Do you get better battery life with it on or off?
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My best setup is with wifi always on, but I set it up so Tasker turns mobile data off as soon as my phone connects to my home or office wifi network.
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My best setup is with wifi always on, but I set it up so Tasker turns mobile data off as soon as my phone connects to my home or office wifi network.
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Shouldn't mobile data turn off automatically when WiFi connects?
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Shouldn't mobile data turn off automatically when WiFi connects?
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It goes inactive, but it doesn't actually get 'turned off'. If I don't have it turned off, what happens is when my wifi goes to sleep then mobile data goes back on. I don't want that.
of course you get better battery with Wifi turned off. but doesn't Wifi consume less battery than cellular data? my balance is to keep Wifi on ANYTIME i'm in a trusted wireless network and manually toggle off cellular data when I'm using Wifi.
It burns battery when it isn't connected and on but I get better battery with it on and connected
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I use the app 2x battery on the play store, and it is excellent at turning off data and WiFi when the screen is off.
Which leads me to my question. Does it save battery leaving WiFi on, than turning it on and off whenever the screen is toggled? I know WiFi has much better battery life than data.
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I use the app 2x battery on the play store, and it is excellent at turning off data and WiFi when the screen is off.
Which leads me to my question. Does it save battery leaving WiFi on, than turning it on and off whenever the screen is toggled? I know WiFi has much better battery life than data.
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I would think just having WiFi turned on with screen on saves more than having it turned off while screen is off. Just because if your on data signal strength can vary and can be worse than WiFi from data pulling signal which = battery darin. I usually just leave my WiFi on 24/7 and toggle it off if I know I'm going out for a while.
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It's a simple question really, and I agree with you for sure. The battery lost turning it.on and off would seem like more than leaving it on and using an app like greenify to tame apps and sync.
I read someplace recently that using Wi-Fi for internet browsing on a cell phone consumes less battery than using 3G. I've been told previously that Wi-Fi, while being a faster connection, also uses more battery. So which is true?
budgreen24 said:
I read someplace recently that using Wi-Fi for internet browsing on a cell phone consumes less battery than using 3G. I've been told previously that Wi-Fi, while being a faster connection, also uses more battery. So which is true?
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I've noticed when I use wifi I have longer battery life then when I have 3g on
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3G consumes a hell lot more power than wifi. My n7.2 has wifi running all the day, and the battery lasts for 1.5 days. My ol' HTC Desire couldn't last 2 hours under 3G.
Wi-Fi uses much less power than 3G. I keep it on 24/7 and there isn't much difference in battery consumption compared to Wi-Fi turned OFF.