Can some one help me understand this. I'm some what confused as to what it is. My understanding is that cell stand by is when there is no signal to the device. But when I am seeing cell stand by for 11 hrs and 0 for no signal, it really confuses the hell outta me.
Cell standby is basically the time your cell radio spends in standby mode; hence when it isn't making calls, sending texts or sending and receiving data.
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Generally speaking, my battery life is pretty good. However, at least half the day, I am in areas of poor cellular strength; I am usually in the -120 to -100 dBm range. I know this is eating up my battery, but is there anything I can do about it? I don't really want to manually go in and out of airplane mode, but I guess I will if I have to. I do turn off mobile data and stick to WiFi, but the phone radio is still sucking the battery juice.
Does anyone have any advice on how to save some battery in poor coverage areas?
When I am at parents I have no service (which destroys battery like you said) so I use Google voice and VoIP over WiFi. It greatly helps but a bit of a pain setting up. I know not perfect answer but it's all the help I have to offer
The radio on this device does not eat that much battery... on average my device spends most of the time over -100db signal and gets great battery life.
I have realised something with all the Samsung Android's I've used over the years.
When one has been in a known area with mobile data on, regardless of wifi state, like home or work, standby battery drain is normal, 1% per 1-3 hrs. However, when one begins to travel, with mobile data on, battery idle drain becomes 1% per 10-20 minutes pretty immediately.
This is regardless of whether Wifi is On or Off (obviously disconnected in both cases).
I have ran so many tests on this with the S3, S5, N2 and N3, and all the results are the same, battery drain goes wild when one begins to travel.
I have tried turning location on/off, syncing on/off and again results are pretty much exactly the same.
It's got to be something to do with how well the phones deal with handshakes from cell tower to cell tower, but it really shouldn't eat the battery so much. The iPhone for example performs much better in this situation.
Has anyone come across this and any ideas?
I will try to explain what may is the problem in simple words. I am studying computer and electronic engineering and we had a class this semester based on phone signals.
When you stay at home your phone is connected on the phone company's antenna. To connect you need to exchange some info so i think this will consume some power. Also one you are connected the amount of data receiving and sending are the minimum possible.
When you travel your phone has to keep connect on an other antenna and keep searching for signal. Many connecting tries may fail due to bad signal and based on the phone and the company, if your phone keep change on 3G for better signal this "change" is that consumes much power.
This is probably the reason. I may be wrong because we did only some base things over the wireless communications signals.
Different phones operate different on the signal density. Good density better signal = better battery life
Hey guys
I've had this phoen a few weeks, and battery life has been great. Idles well, whether on wifi or 4g....phone idles very well, 2 to 4% per hour.
I recently had my desk moved to an area where cell coverage is BAD. Even on wifi, you can see t he icon go from 3g to 1x, back n forth. signal is weak...but enough to make calls and txt. This is KILLING my battery. I lose 8 to 12% an hour during idling.
Is this normal for phones in dead areas? ANy suggestions?
Thanks
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Hey guys
I've had this phoen a few weeks, and battery life has been great. Idles well, whether on wifi or 4g....phone idles very well, 2 to 4% per hour.
I recently had my desk moved to an area where cell coverage is BAD. Even on wifi, you can see t he icon go from 3g to 1x, back n forth. signal is weak...but enough to make calls and txt. This is KILLING my battery. I lose 8 to 12% an hour during idling.
Is this normal for phones in dead areas? ANy suggestions?
Thanks
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Yes, that sounds normal for the conditions you described. Being in an area where the radio is constantly losing signal and having to reconnect is a very large drain on the battery.
Not much you can do unless you get a signal booster installed.
wishfull thinking i geuss, haha
Previous phones, I would just change the network to just 1x. this usually helped...
Thanks!!!
Not to dig up an old thread....but this is gettign worse...
If I get a network extender (provided I can get it to get GPS), will this prevent the phone from constantly looking? or will the phone still search...
Thanks!
I own an LTE through TMob. I don't do alot on it - I get text, email, use GPS when I run, A little bit on the phone but not alot. My battery life is erratic. Mostly its connected to trying to find a signal when I'm traveling outside coverage areas - at least I think so. When I do that my battery life drops about 10% every 15-20 mins. Anyone have any ideas on how to prevent it from constantly searching for a signal? Current I have to remember to switch it to airplane mode when I'm in the sticks then remember to turn it back on later.
Even on my phone I cut the GSM signal when I am in no coverage zone
Well I guess that's that. Thanks!
Now when I say cell phone booster app, I am not talking about apps that just cut your signal off and on again to try to find the best towers etc.
I was once in an emergency situation, where a buddy nearly died, and I barely had one bar on my cell phone. I called 9/11 and they told me they were boosting my signal on my phone using 911 capability on my phone and my bars went up to like 3-4 bars after they did that so they could locate me. I was in the middle of nowhere.
The lady said this would drain my batter faster. This indicates to me that a power increase use on the phone could actually improve signal. Is there an app that can make use of the same functionality as the 9/11 Services but on a whim where I can use more battery to boost my signal. I know this could make my battery hotter etc. I don't really care about that. I only want replies about doing it. I don't want to hear from people about why it's a bad idea. I just need to run an app and boost my signal a couple of bars for like an hour once in awhile using a similar method.
All of the cell phone booster apps I've looked at, NONE of them use a battery increase to boost signal. I know this is possible as it's built into nearly all phones today with 911 capability.