I have unlimited data on vzw. Wodering what people have seen as less battery drain.WiFi vs 3g and WiFi vs LTE?
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WiFi is the least drain
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I have unlimited data on vzw. Wodering what people have seen as less battery drain.WiFi vs 3g and WiFi vs LTE?
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I never turn Wifi on. I have unlimited data and get more than a day out of the battery.
So I'm in a spot where 4g and 3g is spotty and weak. WiFi is spotty weak...disable data altogether?
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So I'm in a spot where 4g and 3g is spotty and weak. WiFi is spotty weak...disable data altogether?
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I have just created a profile in Tasker where if I'm on a wifi, it automatically turns off mobile data. Once I turn off or lose the WiFi connection, it turns mobile data back on. I used almost zero battery last night for the first time since I've owned this phone. I might experiment with turning wifi off when I leave the house with another Tasker profile, too, so wifi doesn't pull juice searching for signals and hotspots. Here's to hoping this helps extend battery life; all signs so far are that it's working.
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Those two flat lines are my phone sitting idle last night with mobile data off.
Doesn't it already disable mobile data when WiFi runs on
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I have unlimited data on vzw. Wodering what people have seen as less battery drain.WiFi vs 3g and WiFi vs LTE?
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So I'm in a spot where 4g and 3g is spotty and weak. WiFi is spotty weak...disable data altogether?
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If you are in an area with weak signal, you will kill the battery faster.
The radio will ramp to maximum output and that burn battery.
Phone batteries last longer in strong signal areas.
If you are in a bad area, turn off radios to preserve battery.
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Doesn't it already disable mobile data when WiFi runs on
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I don't think that it does. I've never had virtually flat battery use lines at night in any of the past 2 + weeks. There's always a steady drop and I can now attribute that to mobile data doing "something". It says it's disconnected when you're on WiFi; however, the 4G symbol is still highlighted. When I use tasker, it greys out. For some reason, I believe it's still maintaining a slight connection to the network for location or some other unknown reason. I could be wrong, buy my perception now is that this is working. I'll know better in the next few days.
battery sucks on both
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I don't think that it does. I've never had virtually flat battery use lines at night in any of the past 2 + weeks. There's always a steady drop and I can now attribute that to mobile data doing "something". It says it's disconnected when you're on WiFi; however, the 4G symbol is still highlighted. When I use tasker, it greys out. For some reason, I believe it's still maintaining a slight connection to the network for location or some other unknown reason. I could be wrong, buy my perception now is that this is working. I'll know better in the next few days.
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this is something that has bugged me since I got this phone, my last phone was a Droid Razr Maxx and when I used the Motorola Smart Actions to disable data the 3G/4G icon would completely disappear from the status bar, but when I toggle data off with the pull down menu on the G3 I can still see it switch between 3G and 4G icons and even with both DATA and WIFI off the 11c update was still downloading and I had to keep killing it till I was able to root, so it's like it disables apps access to the data but doesn't actually power the radio down all the way.
Another thing was when I had mobile data off on my Razr and someone sent a Picture message (regular text and calls came thru fine) I would get a text with a download button on it where I would need to turn data on then download it, but on this phone it just comes straight thru.
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this is something that has bugged me since I got this phone, my last phone was a Droid Razr Maxx and when I used the Motorola Smart Actions to disable data the 3G/4G icon would completely disappear from the status bar, but when I toggle data off with the pull down menu on the G3 I can still see it switch between 3G and 4G icons and even with both DATA and WIFI off the 11c update was still downloading and I had to keep killing it till I was able to root, so it's like it disables apps access to the data but doesn't actually power the radio down all the way.
Another thing was when I had mobile data off on my Razr and someone sent a Picture message (regular text and calls came thru fine) I would get a text with a download button on it where I would need to turn data on then download it, but on this phone it just comes straight thru.
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use "green power" from the market, works like a champ, problem solved!
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everyone knows that using 3g as opposed to 4g when u have a choice saves a significant amount of battery life. but i read somewhere that it's possible to set your phone to use 4g ONLY as opposed to 4G + 3G if 4g isnt avil.
For people like me who live in LA, 4g is almost everywhere. That same article said that if you go with 4G only, the battery life used is almost similar to 3G only, since it's not constantly looking for both 3g/4g signals. can anyone confirm this?
i use an app called "LTE OnOff" And it 1 click takes you to a screen of options between:
1. 4g only
2. 4g & 3g (CDMA)
3. 3g (CDMA)
There's also *#*#4636#*#* for those who don't want to use an app to access the menu.
I just put mine in LTE mode with voice. I am gonna see how that is tomorrow.
I posted this app in a couple other threads. You will still incur the same battery drain with 4G+Voice as you do with 4G/3g.
oh wow okay, so then that option is pretty much useless... theres no real advantage to going 4g only i guess...
thanks for clearing that up, much appreciated.
on a side note, is a true that using launchers increases battery life roughly 20% or so?
im considering going with go launcher ex
I paid for ADW Launcher EX when I had my X2. I haven't taken the leap because I enjoy Sense right now. Someone else may be in your shoes though. Let us know in a couple days if you see a difference.
I have several times switched to 3G only on days when I was out all day in an effort to increase battery life. I saw NO improvement on 3G only. I still saw 1-2% lost per hour in standby.
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everyone knows that using 3g as opposed to 4g when u have a choice saves a significant amount of battery life. but i read somewhere that it's possible to set your phone to use 4g ONLY as opposed to 4G + 3G if 4g isnt avil.
For people like me who live in LA, 4g is almost everywhere. That same article said that if you go with 4G only, the battery life used is almost similar to 3G only, since it's not constantly looking for both 3g/4g signals. can anyone confirm this?
i use an app called "LTE OnOff" And it 1 click takes you to a screen of options between:
1. 4g only
2. 4g & 3g (CDMA)
3. 3g (CDMA)
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I have that app but I have different options.
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I also have been using LTE onoff. All I use is LTE w/ voice. I gain about 4 hours of stand bye by using either LTE or CDMA compared to LTE/CDMA.
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I also have been using LTE onoff. All I use is LTE w/ voice. I gain about 4 hours of stand bye by using either LTE or CDMA compared to LTE/CDMA.
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I also have been using LTE onoff. All I use is LTE w/ voice. I gain about 4 hours of stand bye by using either LTE or CDMA compared to LTE/CDMA.
are you sure? because couple posts up, AtLemacks says:
I posted this app in a couple other threads. You will still incur the same battery drain with 4G+Voice as you do with 4G/3g.
You can always try the free version of juice defender, that may help.
Nope juice defender doesn't really seem to help either. As an experiment, I put my phone in airplane mode, off the charger, overnight one night while I slept. I STILL lost an average of 1-2% battery per hour.
It's weird though, the first 10%, from 100 down to 90%, will drain very slow. Once it gets past 90%, it drops rapidly, even in standby, regardless if I'm on 3G only or LTE/Voice or data off it doesn't matter.
I don't see the problem with leaving it on 3g/4g I only saw a battery drain problem when switching between both. being in a solid 4g area, I am amazed at standby time. It seems to almost not move. The phone will never standby completely lossless. 1-2% an hour? That is not bad at all. That is over 3 days. I've done 3g stuff, 4g stuff... Never noticed a difference. Big users... GPS. then netflix streaming. But those make sense because more is on, and netflix is full bore usage.
Even then, I go through 30% in an hour of streaming.
Obviously you're never going to have no battery drain on a device that is powered on because it constantly requires power to keep data in the RAM (unless NVRAM is used). 1-2% drop isn't bad at all, that's probably the least you're going to achieve.
my Incredible on a 1500 mah battery (stock EVO battery), running a leaned stock group ROM and Chad's incredikernel would lose 1% every 2-3 hours in stand by. If I needed to stretch it I would turn data off and go 4 hours before dropping a percent. I don't understand why this phone drains so much in standby even with data off. With the phone on and doing stuff on 4g sure, I never expected the battery to last like my Inc, but 2% an hour in standby with data off sucks.
I would hope that w/ 4G+3G, the phone would really have the LTE radio on for data and the 1xRTT radio on for voice, and only fire-up the EV-DO radio if LTE drops out.
With LTE+Voice, the phone probably does the same basic thing, since Vzw doesn't have VoLTE yet. So LTE radio on and 1xRTT radio on. So the only difference between the two is probably if LTE drops out, instead of firing up the EV-DO radio, you got stuck with 1xRTT for data. So if you're in a strong LTE area, you probably won't notice a difference between the two.
Although this is just a huge guess on my part.
My old MT4G when in airplane mode (and no apps installed) ran over 24 hours and only dropped 1%
I did this as an experiment as I knew I was selling the phone to my cousin the next day. It dropped the 1% after I handed it to him and he was messing with it.
All the phone had was CM7 and a good (non cyanogen) under-volt kernel that defaulted to a governor that had a screen off profile built in. It had been factory reset as well. A good ROM and kernel really helps, this just goes to show you where the real power drains are.
What this tells me is that these phones have the potential to have great standby time but for the radio and account syncing. (and any poorly written apps that cause the phone to enter an awake state too much) That is one reason that I am excited about the new S4 chips that have all the radios built in. That should help power consumption from the radio in general and even more when the phone is idle an not transmitting.
Hi, im not really sure about my evos battery life. I took it off of the charger and its already dropped to 87% i have all of the recomended apps such as battery deffender and advanced task manager and nothing helps. Any help i could get?
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DroidModderXXL said:
Hi, im not really sure about my evos battery life. I took it off of the charger and its already dropped to 87% i have all of the recomended apps such as battery deffender and advanced task manager and nothing helps. Any help i could get?
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first drop task manager.. evolte has one built in sorta but android doesnt need it. i would drop both to be honest ive pounded mine in use and still havent gone into the yellow. first thin i would look at is cell signal.. update prl/profile etc. then second check your stats sending.. did you agree to send HTC/google data on usage? if so maybe thats it tho i doubt it
last check on apps youve installed maybe you got one thats going nuts.. take a screen shot of your power usage and post it too
Yeah, you don't need a task manager on android 2.2+
Also, does Evo LTE have the same charging circuitry the Evo 4g did, where if you pull it off the charger at 100%, it really could be anywhere from 90-100 and battery meter shows the true charge a couple minutes off charger ?
sent from 2yr old Evo on ICS
scottspa74 said:
Yeah, you don't need a task manager on android 2.2+
Also, does Evo LTE have the same charging circuitry the Evo 4g did, where if you pull it off the charger at 100%, it really could be anywhere from 90-100 and battery meter shows the true charge a couple minutes off charger ?
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ive charged mine to full twice and both times ( tho ive never checked on power stats ) ive never been below 100%
I got about 27 hours of light to moderate usuage yesterday into today. Loving it so far.
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I'm with everyone else....I've been using the hell out of this thing and haven't made it even close to the yellow. I'm super impressed.
The problem is according to your username and icon you're on AT&T.
It takes a lot of juice for that Sprint phone to pick up an AT&T signal so it runs your battery down faster.
This is after the initial charge
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I love how well this phone "sleeps." I left it unplugged during the night, and when I check it this morning it only had two little blips of Awake time.
I'm not getting more than 10 to 12 hours out of a charge with light use. I have got to figure this out.
Edit: battery use says 68% is the display. Maybe its the newness still.
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Oh and what are you guys using to grab screenshots?
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I also get about 10-12 hours of charge. Help anyone?
The screen is a pig, so worth it though. Try dimming it makrs a big difference.
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Oh and what are you guys using to grab screenshots?
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Power button + Home button
Make sure LTE is off if you're not in an LTE area. settings, mobile network, network mode, cdma only.
I'm having the same problems. I am on it constantly, but no more than my 3d and it's not getting any better battery life at all. From 8-10 hours.
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Make sure LTE is off if you're not in an LTE area. settings, mobile network, network mode, cdma only.
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i dont think it makes a difference on this phone. on the OG yes.. if you turned on wimax even in a wimax area it sucked power. my understanding is the wimax used a separate chip and thus drew more power where as LTE is built in and uses no real extra power
Ive fully charged the phone twice so far and both times Ive gotten around 23hours of use. Thats with moderate usage of texts, facebook, internet, and the addicting yet battery killing game Crime City. I bet if I didnt play that game I could easily get a day and a half.
For reference, my OG evo battery would be dead in about 6 hours doing the same exact stuff. Granted, I was on the original 2 year old battery.
I've used the crap out of my phone the last two days and my phone has lasted all day and then some. Yesterday I was in an area that had no service and I was taking pictures all day and my battery was at 40 percent after 15 hours of heavy use.
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My battery is amazing I still have 70% after 8 hrs. Try downloading bad ass battery monitor it's great. I also use battery level to keep my screen at 25% and not auto brightness or nothing. The other saving tips could be obvious, no vibration on anything, wifi if possible, not many widgets running, syncing. I always turn my 3G/mobile network off when I leave the house I just turn it on when I'm checking FB, Twitter stuff like that
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I bought a fairly new unlocked, rooted (but stock) i717 just under a week ago. I'd been looking for the T879 so I'd have something similar to swap back and forth with my S2 but couldn't find one.
Initially, I figured battery life would be fine based on my internet research but I might have issues with speed and coverage. What actually happened is my battery life stinks and I get pretty good speeds in refarmed Chicago with higher upload than the S2 ever got.
Here's where I am for battery life-
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I have the same settings on the S2 and get much better battery life with the same use. Any thoughts?
Here's my speed results, fwiw-
Your pic shows that you rebooted your phone 1 hour 47 minutes ago and that will reset all battery stats.
That's when it was fully charged. I don't have a lot of "evidence" as after the first day or two of such behavior I was sticking the sim back in the S2 for work.
Maybe this will help. I've been using it sim-less on wifi only lately but today I tried using it as a regular phone. Stated at 95% and took these at 15%. Ugh. I just ordered a 2700mah Anker; hopefully my battery's the problem...-
Have you tried without LTE yet? - that is known to be hungry.
I've only had it on TMobile; no LTE yet in Chicago and I'm not sure it will work on TMobile LTE anyways.
I came from an S2X and have noticed the same. The screen always hogs battery and I sometimes don't get a day from the charge. I tried playing with a different governor and that helped a bit, but frankly the battery on this isn't as good as my Hercules. Mind you, the old S2X maybe had an extra hour or hour and a half so at least they aren't grossly different.
I might play around with underclocking or other governors, but I don't know how much more one could do. Oh well, I just accept it as it is. I still like this phone, but battery could be a bit better in my opinion. Oh well, just me.
Carry on all
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I've only had it on TMobile; no LTE yet in Chicago and I'm not sure it will work on TMobile LTE anyways.
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I believe that if in Settings/Wireless&Networks/Mobile Networks/Network Mode you allow it look for LTE then it will energize 2|4 antennas rather than one. I don't know if that is accounted for in "Cell Standby" or not. Turn it off when you don't need the LTE service.
Your stats show what I would expect - your beautiful screen is consuming your battery. Some ROMS are better than others at battery conservation.
So far I am quite happy with "Vanilla". Today I'm at 7 hours, mostly idle with 80% battery left using 35% screen and 30% Cell standby on LTE with Auto brightness and 1 min to display sleep.
Thanks Dan, when I get off the train I'll swap my sim back in and have a look.
Fwiw, I have a good data widget on my home screen and use that when the sim's in it.
When I got to mobile networks all I saw were 2 TMobile's and three AT&T's with no option for LTE or to even view the above.
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When I got to mobile networks all I saw were 2 TMobile's and three AT&T's with no option for LTE or to even view the above.
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I don't know for sure and do not have the same ROM as you but there is some way in one of those Mobile Network menus (Not in APN section) to specify 2G only, CDMA, GSM, GSM+HSPA, GSM+HSPA+LTE.
Hey guys .
I have an S6 Edge SM G925F
I leave my mobile network set to WCDMA/GSM (auto connect) .
Signal constantly changes from H to H+
Would this be reason I'm getting bad battery drain while device is idle ?
And if I have a 4G connection with 1 bar signal would that use less battery than the constant changing H, H + signal ?
I'm on 5.1.1
Am not rooted.
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Hey guys .
I have an S6 Edge SM G925F
I leave my mobile network set to WCDMA/GSM (auto connect) .
Signal constantly changes from H to H+
Would this be reason I'm getting bad battery drain while device is idle ?
And if I have a 4G connection with 1 bar signal would that use less battery than the constant changing H, H + signal ?
I'm on 5.1.1
Am not rooted.
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Can post a screen shot of your battery usage? IF the Cell Standby percentage is high than you would need to uncheck some settings under 'Data Usage'. I have a G925A so the settings are a little bit different. The things you should uncheck would 'Calling over Wifi only' and change it to 'Perferred Cellular Nework'. Hopefully it helps.
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Can post a screen shot of your battery usage? IF the Cell Standby percentage is high than you would need to uncheck some settings under 'Data Usage'. I have a G925A so the settings are a little bit different. The things you should uncheck would 'Calling over Wifi only' and change it to 'Perferred Cellular Nework'. Hopefully it helps.
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Will also monitor today and see .
All those settings are turned off.
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Nothing to worry
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Hey guys .
I have an S6 Edge SM G925F
I leave my mobile network set to WCDMA/GSM (auto connect) .
Signal constantly changes from H to H+
Would this be reason I'm getting bad battery drain while device is idle ?
And if I have a 4G connection with 1 bar signal would that use less battery than the constant changing H, H + signal ?
I'm on 5.1.1
Am not rooted.
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This is normal behavior to save battery.
The device reverts to H when no significant data is going in or out because maintaining H+ connection unnecessarily can cause battery drain. The phone is able to do this rapidly as data goes on and off rapidly. I believe H is the normal always-on connection and the H+ is the extra speed that's only active when there is actual data transfer. This behavior is called Fast Dormancy and exists in maybe all smartphones. There are ways you can switch off Fast Dormancy using secret codes and some believe this improves battery life. I don't know because I never bothered with it. There are countless articles on this, I'm sure you'll find more information on this easily.
As for the 4G issue. Holding a 4G connection when reception is low also causes battery drain which is why the device reverts to 3G/H/H+ instead. When reception is low, whether 3G/H/H+/4G, the phone has to deliver more power to the antenna to hold a connection.
I have a 4G plan, but because 4G reception is not as widespread and strong as GSM, I have turned off 4G on my phone to save battery.
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This is normal behavior to save battery.
The device reverts to H when no significant data is going in or out because maintaining H+ connection unnecessarily can cause battery drain. The phone is able to do this rapidly as data goes on and off rapidly. I believe H is the normal always-on connection and the H+ is the extra speed that's only active when there is actual data transfer. This behavior is called Fast Dormancy and exists in maybe all smartphones. There are ways you can switch off Fast Dormancy using secret codes and some believe this improves battery life. I don't know because I never bothered with it. There are countless articles on this, I'm sure you'll find more information on this easily.
As for the 4G issue. Holding a 4G connection when reception is low also causes battery drain which is why the device reverts to 3G/H/H+ instead. When reception is low, whether 3G/H/H+/4G, the phone has to deliver more power to the antenna to hold a connection.
I have a 4G plan, but because 4G reception is not as widespread and strong as GSM, I have turned off 4G on my phone to save battery.
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Thank you for your feedback.
I'm pretty sure that viber is the main cause of my standby battery drain.
I disabled it and whoopy yesterday I got insanely good battery.
Seems like it's really using my cpu during standby.
Thanks for the info.
Am also going to try to find the secret codes to disable H/H+ and see if that helps .
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There is no such secret code. The only way is with SU permissions.
Aslan01 said:
This is normal behavior to save battery.
The device reverts to H when no significant data is going in or out because maintaining H+ connection unnecessarily can cause battery drain. The phone is able to do this rapidly as data goes on and off rapidly. I believe H is the normal always-on connection and the H+ is the extra speed that's only active when there is actual data transfer. This behavior is called Fast Dormancy and exists in maybe all smartphones. There are ways you can switch off Fast Dormancy using secret codes and some believe this improves battery life. I don't know because I never bothered with it. There are countless articles on this, I'm sure you'll find more information on this easily.
As for the 4G issue. Holding a 4G connection when reception is low also causes battery drain which is why the device reverts to 3G/H/H+ instead. When reception is low, whether 3G/H/H+/4G, the phone has to deliver more power to the antenna to hold a connection.
I have a 4G plan, but because 4G reception is not as widespread and strong as GSM, I have turned off 4G on my phone to save battery.
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Is there any way to always keep it H+ instead of switching? My voip calls are dropped and internet gets stuck because of this switching. Even when using internet actively, it goes to H and ruins everything on my K3 Note.
Has anyone else noticed that WiFi drains the battery faster than LTE? Even when I have a good, working WiFi signal, my phone's battery drains much more quickly, when idle on my desk, than when I on LTE.
My battery dies twice as fast on WiFi vs Mobile Data. My phone also get overheated on WiFi.
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My battery dies twice as fast on WiFi vs Mobile Data. My phone also get overheated on WiFi.
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Debating to switch this one out. I have already switch this phone out once.
hank863 said:
Has anyone else noticed that WiFi drains the battery faster than LTE? Even when I have a good, working WiFi signal, my phone's battery drains much more quickly, when idle on my desk, than when I on LTE.
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Are you sure that something isn't syncing over Wi-Fi like Google photos or something like that?
Easy fix, just change the setting.
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btothec said:
Are you sure that something isn't syncing over Wi-Fi like Google photos or something like that?
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I have unlimited Data so I have it where I sync up photos/music and all others over wifi and mobile data.
jlpotter76 said:
I have unlimited Data so I have it where I sync up photos/music and all others over wifi and mobile data.
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I have enabled those settings and this made no difference. LG G5 gets warm and the battery drains rapidly.
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I ran into the same issue with my S7E during the first week I had it. Then a update was released and the WiFi issue went away. But yea, it was draining my battery and making my device get hot even if I was just browsing the Internet.
Maybe it's a problem with Marshmallow.
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Well i can't say for sure what drains my battery faster since i use wifi whenever i have access and lte when im out of wifi coverage and my battery life i would say is really good for my usage and the signal reception to the places i go
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I do not have anything syncing over WiFi, at least not frequently. Also, changing the switch to mobile data setting does not help my problem. When on WiFi, the highest battery user is "Phone Idle." The issue has seemed to be less prominent over the past few days, but WiFi does still use more battery than LTE.
jlpotter76 said:
My battery dies twice as fast on WiFi vs Mobile Data. My phone also get overheated on WiFi.
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Debating to switch this one out. I have already switch this phone out once.
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If your within your exchange period, I'd take advantage of that. I have no such issue with my G5 and my WiFi is always on.
So I went and switch my G5 out for a new one. Same thing with the WiFi overheating and draining the battery. I can't believe I am the only one having this issue on 3 devices.
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Interestingly, it appears as though my WiFi battery drain issues are related to a particular network I connect to. For other networks, I don't seem to have the problem. I have no idea what the difference is.
Is it a 5ghz network by any chance?
On WIFI all day long and my battery is draining very slowly (1% per hour when idle) BUT i am not on a 5ghz wifi network.
I'm actually looking for a way to FORCE 5ghz on my wifi network for my LG G5... Did not notice any battery drain.
SPBoss said:
Is it a 5ghz network by any chance?
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It is
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At home I am on 5G and I don't have any abnormal battery drain. When not at home I am on LTE.
Anyway, the only drain problem I experience appears to be associated with use of Google (Now) and/or Chrome. Haven't narrowed it down yet. And with those it is on either LTE or Wifi. When I get the issue I have to force close the apps and reboot to get it to stop draining at a fast rate. At least that is what it seems like. Only had a couple occurrences since I don't use those apps too much.
karendar said:
I'm actually looking for a way to FORCE 5ghz on my wifi network for my LG G5... Did not notice any battery drain.
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I don't see the problem there, when selecting a wifi ID, just select ID with 5ghz.
My router is/was configured with a shared SSID for 2.4 and 5 ghz... It always defaults to 2.4 instead of using 5 as a preferred connection. I had to separate my router SSID for it to work.
karendar said:
My router is/was configured with a shared SSID for 2.4 and 5 ghz... It always defaults to 2.4 instead of using 5 as a preferred connection. I had to separate my router SSID for it to work.
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Many router will default to 2.4, as the signal is much strong, your only way is to forget the 2.4 for it to auto connect to 5ghz, but for a phone 2.4ghz is probably much better.