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I just received my fuze for 2 weeks, but my talk time is really bad. I tried almost every radio available with matching rilphone.dll. I see its listed at least 5 hours talk time, but my battery drop like 15% battery with 20 mins talk time. that's with 3G off, data off. just Bluetooth and Phone on. I get about the similar battery life with all the radios.
Well , you can just turn the bluetooth off. I have the same problem when I using bluetooth headset .
I guess the CPU and touch screen takes a lot of power , I have to charge my raphael every day.
maybe you can buy a larger battery .
what other programs are you running? Running this like SPB mobile shell and TF3D are big battery drains. Also, keeping your other programs running in the background is bad for the batterylife. try turning off all programs that you're not using after you're done with them.
I do have SPB Mobile Shell running. does SPB Mobile Shell affect talk time battery life? because it drains about 2-3% the whole night when I sleep.
Bluetooth!
Same here, while using bluetooth, the battery drains like anything. I dont use bluetooth anymore. It sucks but cant help.
sorry for not replying after a while.
i have SPB MS3 and it doesnt really drain it too much (a little bit but not too much)
what rom/radio are you using? those can be very significant factors for battery drain
i dont got a problem with mine, im running XBMods Rhodium TF3D with the AT&T Leaked ROM, with radio 1.12.25.19 i get like 7 hours out of it, without TF3D i get like 8.5 hours, and the reason i have that much its because i keep the phone off as in the screen, and like also i dont do anything to it like txt while on the phone and also signal is also a role in battery life as well
I had bad battery performance with Stock AT&T ROM
Then I flashed the Energy ROM 2.0 two weeks back and now the battery performance is much better
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Battery life on my Fuze sucked so bad the first week I had it. I saw it drop 10 percent just by looking at it for 10 minutes. So i started to dig around here on these awesome forums and the solution was simple. Whether you use stock rom or custom rom. Just find a way to turn off 3g networking. There are a bunch of tricks to do it. One thing i noticed is that my area has barely noticable 3g coverage so i found the signal reception always 1 or 2 bars. When i disabled the 3g connection, i found my battery increased dramatically. You can see for yourself by using DrSigstat. With the 3g its using over 200mah constantly trying to acquire the weak signal. This uses the battery very quickly. With the 3g off I am using as of this message 53Mah which extends battery life immensely. I am only connected to edge checking email every 30 minutes and this phone is usable. If you need the speed you simply toggle the 3g back on. The 3g network drains battery quick disable it I know there are a bunch of CABS to do it and even add it to the Comm Manager. Hopefully this helps.
I had the same problem, but that all changed when I took the phone on a Tahoe trip. Since I was using Garmin, the phone was ON most of the time and about 2 or 3 times the battery completely drained -- the phone got switched off on those occasions. And I used Motorola car charger to charge the phone during that trip.
When I got home a couple of days later, all of a sudden, the battery holds up like anything. Now I can go on without charging for upto 3 days with moderate use of course, but I do have google calendar and contacts sync'd up using activesync, 3G is always on and email sync'd thru pop3. weather and stocks updated few times a day as well.
And soon after I flashed EnergyROM with latest radio and matching rilphone.dll and now I have to admit that its a totally different experience with this ROM and the battery holds really well as well.
So I think that draining the battery completely and charging it using Motorola charger helped and then the EneryROM has a part to play as well.
Like zalooa said above, if you are in a poor 3G coverage area, it's going to drain your battery a lot faster, so location matters as well.
I'm on the EagleBlood Rom and currently in Singapore. Becsause I'm not using T-Mobiles expensive service and WLAN is here everywhere I have used the phone with WLAN + GPS only (Airplane mode + manual turned on WLAN + GPS). I used Locus Pro extensivly to navigate through the city and record my track. Battery after first day 8:00AM til 9:00PM was 79%. Second day is 55%.
Therefore the Cell Standby is really the issue here I would asume. But hack what do I have a cell phone for if I can't turn on the radio???
Battery really sucks otherwise. When I go to work at 07:30am and come home at 4:30PM I can put the phone on the charger, even though I barly used it.
I'm in the states, this phone lasts from about 7:30 AM until 8:00 PM with no problem, regular use, 4G all day. I disabled the Wifi which helped a lot.
Wifi uses less battery due to not having to poll the network to renew the connection. Wifi calling uses even less battery because now you have no connection to the network and it can keep a static connection to the wifi network. No need to renew that connection so it just sits there and does nothing.
I've tested and confirmed this on more than one phone.
And of course the radio is using battery. It's second only to the display in battery use. Like you said, what good is a cell phone without having the radio enabled?
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Wifi uses less battery due to not having to poll the network to renew the connection. Wifi calling uses even less battery because now you have no connection to the network and it can keep a static connection to the wifi network. No need to renew that connection so it just sits there and does nothing.
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This all true. Display and 3G/4G radio are the killers.
Unless you have wifi on and aren't connected to a network. Then your phone is polling for wifi connections in addition to 4G
Yay! Yet another battery thread that I get to comment on!
i use wifi/wifi-calling over 95% of the time and my battery rocks! The moment I turn it off... bam.... I get crappy life on a batter. the difference is from around 35hr and drops to around 20. Then if i had moderate to heavy use on it, I'm sure I'd be getting the 8hrs everyone is complaining about.
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I'm on the EagleBlood Rom and currently in Singapore. Becsause I'm not using T-Mobiles expensive service and WLAN is here everywhere I have used the phone with WLAN + GPS only (Airplane mode + manual turned on WLAN + GPS). I used Locus Pro extensivly to navigate through the city and record my track. Battery after first day 8:00AM til 9:00PM was 79%. Second day is 55%.
Therefore the Cell Standby is really the issue here I would asume. But hack what do I have a cell phone for if I can't turn on the radio???
Battery really sucks otherwise. When I go to work at 07:30am and come home at 4:30PM I can put the phone on the charger, even though I barly used it.
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I'm going to Hong Kong this Sunday, then will be in Singapore by the end of next Wednesday. I'm thinking to buy a local sim and use 2g only with manual WLAN, GPS off.
Agreed. I'm running CM7 #9. Took the phone off the charger at 8am. Checked my push exchange, twitter, and facebook updates. Went into work where we have no service. I have WiFi turned on for data.
I still have the cellular radio on, btw. At 3pm I have 88%.
CM7 has a WiFi bug which the WiFi won't stay on (goes to sleep with the screen off). But still pretty good.
it has been proved that 4g kills battery faster then 3g and 2g. http://blog.lifehacker.com/5741627/why-you-might-want-to-wait-for-a-4g-phone until there is a way for 4g radios to manage data more efficiently 4g is gonna kill you battery.
I'm using Eagle Blood 1.03 and my battery life is awesome right now. I think at this point, I could do a couple days before running out. I am just speculating right now, but I will try to leave off the charger tonight to see what I can get out of it.
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it has been proved that 4g kills battery faster then 3g and 2g. http://blog.lifehacker.com/5741627/why-you-might-want-to-wait-for-a-4g-phone until there is a way for 4g radios to manage data more efficiently 4g is gonna kill you battery.
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If you saying only 4G I cannot share the expirience with you. I even turned of data completly, while I was still in the US and still got bad battery life with ONLY the radio turned on (WLAN + Data + GPS turned off)
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I'm going to Hong Kong this Sunday, then will be in Singapore by the end of next Wednesday. I'm thinking to buy a local sim and use 2g only with manual WLAN, GPS off.
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Hong Kong Airport has free WLAN. Singapore has free wirless LAN called [email protected] through the whole downtown area. But there is a catch you have to have a Singapore Mobile number to register. They will send you the UserID and Password via text message. Lucky me I have a friend here sharing his user ID with me ... Therefore no need for the Radio to be turned on at all. And like I said the battery now last forever...
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If you saying only 4G I cannot share the expirience with you. I even turned of data completly, while I was still in the US and still got bad battery life with ONLY the radio turned on (WLAN + Data + GPS turned off)
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Ok let me see if i understand (not trying to be a **** here), if all of the phone functions are turned off, what were you doing?, playing games?, watching videos?, i don't know, because to me it sounds like you phone was idle.
One more example that 4g kills battery is the thunderbolt, if you think that the G2x kills battery you should use that phone and comeback to the G2x, even HTC is selling bigger batteries for thunderbolt because customers are *****ing about the battery life.
You should try and use 2g only and see if this helps you battery life a little, i guess im just lucky, i have no screen bleed, no reboots and battery life for me is awesome, whit and without 4g.
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Ok let me see if i understand (not trying to be a **** here), if all of the phone functions are turned off, what were you doing?, playing games?, watching videos?, i don't know, because to me it sounds like you phone was idle.
One more example that 4g kills battery is the thunderbolt, if you think that the G2x kills battery you should use that phone and comeback to the G2x, even HTC is selling bigger batteries for thunderbolt because customers are *****ing about the battery life.
You should try and use 2g only and see if this helps you battery life a little, i guess im just lucky, i have no screen bleed, no reboots and battery life for me is awesome, whit and without 4g.
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Dude all the functions are turned on except the radio. I use the phone in airplane mode with WLAN + GPS enabled. I use GPS apps to track my way to Singapore. In downtown they have free WLAN everywhere. Phone last for 2 days this way, but makes no sence of course having a phone without a radio...
Oh and I use Sipdroid with Sipgate to receive and do free phone calls
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it has been proved that 4g kills battery faster then 3g and 2g. http://blog.lifehacker.com/5741627/why-you-might-want-to-wait-for-a-4g-phone until there is a way for 4g radios to manage data more efficiently 4g is gonna kill you battery.
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Just making sure here, but you know that T-Mobile's 4G is still using the same existing 3G connections, thus not requiring it to run on a different band, right? HSPA/HSPA+ connections share the same bands, and thus the "4G" connection is running through the same radio without affecting battery life. WiMAX and LTE operate differently and both run seperate from the EVDO that Verizon and Sprint use for their 3G.
That being said, a radio, regardless, will always drain the battery faster than anything, which is why Wifi Calling is so effective in keeping high battery life.
The other HSPA+ enabled phones on T-Mobile are getting fantastic battery life, as long as you aren't constantly using the displays.
I am leaning to believe that's a major reason why everyone's phones are dying so fast. They've got a new toy so they're always playing with it and killing it quickly. I've done that with every new phone I've gotten. My G1, the Cliq, the myTouch Slide, and now this. Give it a few days and when you're not turning the screen on every five seconds to just flick around the menus, and you'll see your life improve.
Yesterday, for example, I ran my phone off of charge from 11 AM EST until 6 AM EST (6 AM, Monday Morning). This was with moderate use.
Its not just that we're playing with our new toys. This phone most definitely drains battery like its going out of style. I had to drive 90 minutes to the client I was coming to work with today. I unplugged my phone when I left my hotel room (and it was at 100%) and when I got to the office, 2hours and 15 minutes later, having never turned my phone on since I was driving the whole time, my phone was at 82%. That's really bad for a phone idling. I think there's a radio bug or its polling too often because if I let JuiceDefender work, then in the same period of time this evening I was at 94% battery. That's a big difference.
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Hong Kong Airport has free WLAN. Singapore has free wirless LAN called [email protected] through the whole downtown area. But there is a catch you have to have a Singapore Mobile number to register. They will send you the UserID and Password via text message. Lucky me I have a friend here sharing his user ID with me ... Therefore no need for the Radio to be turned on at all. And like I said the battery now last forever...
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I know HK airport has free WLAN, but places like starbucks/Mcd only offer 30 mins- 2 hours of free WLAN a day.I will be in HK for a month(after I got back from Singapore), so I might need to purchase a pre-paid internet plan..I will be in Singapore for a week, so hopefully they will have unlimited free WLAN there...
IT'S NOT 4G THAT'S KILLING BATTERY. As was stated above it uses the existing 3G network for faster data speeds. Phones like the Thunderbolt and EVO (and anything else that connects to WIMAX or LTE) need a completely separate radio (and thus controller) to connect to 4G.
HSPA+ is just really fast 3G so the existing SOC's that have support on-die for T-Mobile 3G frequencies just have to have a slightly updated version of the hardware (to support either class 10 or class 14 HSPA+).
This would be a perfect example as to why T-Mobile and AT&T shouldn't be able to market HSPA+ as 4G. It confuses people and makes them think that battery life will suck because of it like it does on Sprint and Verizon. When SOC's come out that have on die support for LTE and WIMAX (I think I heard 2012) then battery life for those phones won't suck anymore.
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Just making sure here, but you know that T-Mobile's 4G is still using the same existing 3G connections, thus not requiring it to run on a different band, right? HSPA/HSPA+ connections share the same bands, and thus the "4G" connection is running through the same radio without affecting battery life. WiMAX and LTE operate differently and both run seperate from the EVDO that Verizon and Sprint use for their 3G.
That being said, a radio, regardless, will always drain the battery faster than anything, which is why Wifi Calling is so effective in keeping high battery life.
The other HSPA+ enabled phones on T-Mobile are getting fantastic battery life, as long as you aren't constantly using the displays.
I am leaning to believe that's a major reason why everyone's phones are dying so fast. They've got a new toy so they're always playing with it and killing it quickly. I've done that with every new phone I've gotten. My G1, the Cliq, the myTouch Slide, and now this. Give it a few days and when you're not turning the screen on every five seconds to just flick around the menus, and you'll see your life improve.
Yesterday, for example, I ran my phone off of charge from 11 AM EST until 6 AM EST (6 AM, Monday Morning). This was with moderate use.
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The antena-radio, is using more battery, just because is handling data at a higher rate.
Just like I said before, until there is a way or update to the radio to handle data more efficiently, 4g radio is gonna keep draining battery.
And yes hspa+ and wimax are similar yet incompatible technologies, but the way they handle data take a big chunk out of you battery.
And is a fact that radio is draining most of the battery, and until we get a radio update, battery is gonna drain fast.
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Hi,
I've searched around on the SGS4G forums, but haven't seemed to find a definitive answer to this question.
If you live in an area where you get good 3G/4G coverage, is it worth having power save options switch your phone to 2G when you turn off the screen for a while (e.g., AOKP's power saver option to switch to 2G after screen off)? As I understand it, turning off that connection will drain additional battery versus just continuing to use the 3G/4G signal that the phone is on. Are the battery use benefits of 2G more than the power cost to switch it off?
If anybody has done an analysis of this, I'd be glad to hear your results. From my own personal experience, it seems like I get slightly better battery life sticking with 3G/4G instead of turning it down to 2G when on standby.
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FB used the power save recently and got 28hours on a single charge. I think he lives in a decent coverage area.
Was he using a standard battery? That's an impressive amount. Even when I was back on a fresh Octane install and running only essential apps, I got 20 hours at best.
I got 28 hours but only had 34 mins of screen on time. I wasn't using my phone at all, but had 53% battery left when I told eollie that.
Normally with about an hour's screen on time I'm at 50% battery. I tend to get a little over 2 hours of screen on time on a full battery, WITHOUT power saver.
I wasn't able to continue using power saver recently since I'm working on the AOKP update but shh! Keep this between us.
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I get around 1-2 bars on 3/4G
I get 3-4 bars on Edge
I think so.
Here's what you can do if you leave it on your desk with the sim card out. lol Still at 58%.
Haha, yeah, figured. Well, normally I get 3-4 bars on 3/4G, and leaving it on my nightstand in the morning, I get about 1-2% drain per hour if I don't touch it at all. So I can definitely see getting days of battery on just standby with nothing running.
AOKP update. Yeus. Can't wait!
Another good tip for battery life, if you'd like to know it, is to have a single colored dark background. Even better if your icons are darker. If you use a totally black background, with dark-colored icons, it can really help conserve battery. Well, I don't know if it's anything substantial, but it will help.
There isn't much "factual" information out there on 2G vs. 3G/HDSPA power consumption that I could find.
http://blog.famzah.net/2010/05/24/2g-gprs-vs-3g-umts-connection-battery-usage-on-mobile-phones/ suggests that the idle consumption is comparable between 2G and 3G on their specific phone. It also suggests that 3G, when you are transferring data, consumes less energy than 2G since the data can be transferred in a significantly shorter period of time.
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I tried searching Google, but get a lot of different answers.
I live in an area with a very bad cellular coverage. I always have 1 out of 5 bars and when I turn mobile data on, it is mainly LTE, but jumps a bit between LTE and Edge and rarely H and H+.
Can that cause a lot of battery drain? As I just factory reset my phone to get rid of every change I did. I enabled Stamina Mode, surfed the web for 15 minutes and my phone was at 95%. Is that normal? Because if my math is right, that shouldn't give me more than 5 hours of screen time, while I heard people getting 8+ without Stamina Mode.
Am I missing something or is their some very needed settings to be changed? Sync off, GPS off, bluetooth, Brightness is as low as possible, NFC off, black background (less power consumption), Wifi off and Wifi constant searching off.
U can easly check urself how cell signal draining battery ,first Check how it is with normal H+/LTE then charg it again for 100% and use ur smartphone with plane mode acivated ,now subtract result from 2 "experiment"
Also of note is that black backgrounds mean diddly on our displays. We aren't on OLEDs.
Also, if you ARE in wifi area it's better to be connected to wifi. Wifi is closer than the cell tower and data disconnects when wifi is connected.
On AMOLED/OLED black background helps because each pixel is individually lit (Black means those pixels are off). In LCDs there is a backlight providing illumination for the entire LCD so as long as your screen is on it won't make a differrence what colors are on your screen.
I'm having a similar issue. I have very low cell reception at work, and I can get maybe 4-5 hours SoT throughout the day and am at 10% when I get home. I've tried uninstalling/disabling apps that use a lot of battery, so hopefully it helps. I'll update if by the end of today I'm able to get 7+ hours SoT (which it seems it's on track to doing).
Edit: For clarification, the apps I've uninstalled that I believed to be using a lot of processing power/ram/battery were Facebook, [Facebook] Messenger, and Words with Friends.
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I'm having a similar issue. I have very low cell reception at work, and I can get maybe 4-5 hours SoT throughout the day and am at 10% when I get home. I've tried uninstalling/disabling apps that use a lot of battery, so hopefully it helps. I'll update if by the end of today I'm able to get 7+ hours SoT (which it seems it's on track to doing).
Edit: For clarification, the apps I've uninstalled that I believed to be using a lot of processing power/ram/battery were Facebook, [Facebook] Messenger, and Words with Friends.
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Just use an app like Greenify to block apps running in the background when not in use so you dont havr to uninstall them.
Brightness can have a lot to play on this one. I tend to go with manual brightness so there's no ambient sensors working all the while the display is on, and if you are doing anything where you can cope with lower brightness then drop it.
Keep an eye in battery stats for "google play services" as this can go nuts. When this happens sometimes clearing data can help.
I also found that using google+ to backup my photos caused a lot of battery drain.
I have not found facebook or whatsapp etc to affect my battery much personally. I use stamina mode when i'm out and about to keep the phone at sleep while the screen is off.
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Just use an app like Greenify to block apps running in the background when not in use so you dont havr to uninstall them.
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No root. WIthout Greenify is just annoying.
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Brightness can have a lot to play on this one. I tend to go with manual brightness so there's no ambient sensors working all the while the display is on, and if you are doing anything where you can cope with lower brightness then drop it.
Keep an eye in battery stats for "google play services" as this can go nuts. When this happens sometimes clearing data can help.
I also found that using google+ to backup my photos caused a lot of battery drain.
I have not found facebook or whatsapp etc to affect my battery much personally. I use stamina mode when i'm out and about to keep the phone at sleep while the screen is off.
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Deleted Messenger and Facebook just for the sake of it. I don't have the need to be online all the time and the people that want to contact me, have my number.
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it is mainly LTE, but jumps a bit between LTE and Edge and rarely H and H+.
Can that cause a lot of battery drain?
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At my house I get just enough LTE to cause our S3 to constantly switch to LTE then loose it and switch back to H+. Battery life couldn't make it thru one day. ATT removes the screen that let's you control network mode but I found a backdoor method to lock the phone out of LTE. The phone now stays on H+ and battery life easily jumped 40%. That's the primary reason I held out this time for an unlocked non-ATT-crippled phone--so I can easily turn LTE off.
Well, tried have my phone on over night (for a change to test it).
Everything off (mobile data, gps etc).
Used 7% of my power and every app was closed. When I looked at battery drain, 55% was from cell standby and 40-45% was from Phone Idle.
Tonight I will try charge it to 100% again and then let it be in Flight Mode to see.
I struggled to flatten the battery on my phone the first day 70% of the day with the screen on, no wifi enabled or stamina.
Another test would be to change mobile settings to 3G or 2G to see what difference that makes. Under settings, wireless & networks, select more, mobile networks, then network mode.
I would try the above first before making your phone completely unavailable, especially the 2G.
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I struggled to flatten the battery on my phone the first day 70% of the day with the screen on, no wifi enabled or stamina.
Another test would be to change mobile settings to 3G or 2G to see what difference that makes. Under settings, wireless & networks, select more, mobile networks, then network mode.
I would try the above first before making your phone completely unavailable, especially the 2G.
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Just did the tests.
Flightmode - 100% after 8 hours (sleep)
Edge - 99% after 8 hours (sleep)
4g - 93% after 8 hours (sleep)
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Just did the tests.
Flightmode - 100% after 8 hours (sleep)
Edge - 99% after 8 hours (sleep)
4g - 93% after 8 hours (sleep)
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Nice, thank you! Care to check hspa too?
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Nice, thank you! Care to check hspa too?
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What is that? H/H+?
GSM - Edge
WCDMA - H/H+
LTE - 4g
But I think 4g uses less power than edge, but it is more than in my area there is 1/5 in 4g coverage, 3-4/5 in H/H+ and 5/5 (always) if using edge.
As I see an better connection gives better batterylife, but 4g uses way less than 3g/edge if same cell signal.
But is going to try it next time I get down to my dad. He got 5/5 in LTE signal. So gonna see if it can stay at 100% over night.
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What is that? H/H+?
GSM - Edge
WCDMA - H/H+
LTE - 4g
But I think 4g uses less power than edge, but it is more than in my area there is 1/5 in 4g coverage, 3-4/5 in H/H+ and 5/5 (always) if using edge.
As I see an better connection gives better batterylife, but 4g uses way less than 3g/edge if same cell signal.
But is going to try it next time I get down to my dad. He got 5/5 in LTE signal. So gonna see if it can stay at 100% over night.
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Hehe, ok I understand. But HSPA = 3G. [emoji4] I haven't done any rigorous testing, but I think my stand by times are much better using edge (2G) compared to 3G.
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Hehe, ok I understand. But HSPA = 3G. [emoji4] I haven't done any rigorous testing, but I think my stand by times are much better using edge (2G) compared to 3G.
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I see. But if you change between those, you probs have an better cell signal with 2g (in your area), right?
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I see. But if you change between those, you probs have an better cell signal with 2g (in your area), right?
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Nope, coverage is about the same. Generally speaking though, 2G > 3G > 4G when it comes to battery life. That's been the rule for years, but as of late, newer radios have become more efficient with 3G and 4G, thus making the difference less noticeable. YMMV. Would be interesting to see your drainage on 3G as well. ☺
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Nope, coverage is about the same. Generally speaking though, 2G > 3G > 4G when it comes to battery life. That's been the rule for years, but as of late, newer radios have become more efficient with 3G and 4G, thus making the difference less noticeable. YMMV. Would be interesting to see your drainage on 3G as well. ☺
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Well could try it tonight.
I've had this thought for a while, but haven't found any practical way of implementing it, perhaps having it out to the broader public may help.
LTE or 4G, as we all know, is fast and great, but it also demands more on our batter than good old 3G.
These are some of the scenarios in which I would love an app, or OS be able to make smarter decisions about the network.
1. When connected to WiFi - When connected to WiFi, our battery life improves when compared to 3G or 4G, but I find sometimes that even though I'm connected to WiFi, my cell network is still connected to 4G (at home, my 3G signal is full bars, but 4G is 3/5), thus, wasting a bit of battery.
2. When phone is in low data use state, or lengthy sleep - Often, when I'm in the office for example, my phone sits there in standby for hours at a time (my emails come onto PC, plus I wear a moto360 so i check notifications there). In these modes, LTE is of little use for me, yet it can often spend hours in LTE standby.
I've looked into IFTTT, and messed with other software apps, but I always end up with the same conclusion, that is, this would have to be manually done...
does anyone know a way?
If you have a root you can do with with xposed and gavitybox (smart radio). I think some other modules can do it as well.
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I've had this thought for a while, but haven't found any practical way of implementing it, perhaps having it out to the broader public may help.
LTE or 4G, as we all know, is fast and great, but it also demands more on our batter than good old 3G.
These are some of the scenarios in which I would love an app, or OS be able to make smarter decisions about the network.
1. When connected to WiFi - When connected to WiFi, our battery life improves when compared to 3G or 4G, but I find sometimes that even though I'm connected to WiFi, my cell network is still connected to 4G (at home, my 3G signal is full bars, but 4G is 3/5), thus, wasting a bit of battery.
2. When phone is in low data use state, or lengthy sleep - Often, when I'm in the office for example, my phone sits there in standby for hours at a time (my emails come onto PC, plus I wear a moto360 so i check notifications there). In these modes, LTE is of little use for me, yet it can often spend hours in LTE standby.
I've looked into IFTTT, and messed with other software apps, but I always end up with the same conclusion, that is, this would have to be manually done...
does anyone know a way?
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Let me guess, not on Telstra. Battery life on mine with Telstra is superb, even with 1-2 bar signal. I guess that would be because it is a stable 1-2 bar, unlike the issues I had previously with Optus, were my phone would drop signal very often in built up areas
danw_oz said:
Let me guess, not on Telstra. Battery life on mine with Telstra is superb, even with 1-2 bar signal. I guess that would be because it is a stable 1-2 bar, unlike the issues I had previously with Optus, were my phone would drop signal very often in built up areas
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Yes, not on Telstra, but that is besides the point here. This is not an AU specific thing. I travel internationally a lot for work, and this would be the same when I'm overseas. In fact, not complaining about battery life at all, just think that the way the phone manages its connections could be improved - this is not a problem on the Sony, but on most phones.
se1000 said:
If you have a root you can do with with xposed and gavitybox (smart radio). I think some other modules can do it as well.
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Good tip. Not rooted, not intending to.