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O3D from GumMobile UK, faulty or has to be like that

I bought my o3d from gum mobile UK, after month and a half daily use, I'm worried if my phone is damaged or not, I have 3 batteries for phone now to survive day at work. When I listen music and use MSN, battery dies after 4 to 5 hours, recently started to happen weird stuff with 2g network, I used to use 2g only option to save battery but now my radio signal is 1 to 0 like week ago I had it all the time at 4. Phone is Simfree and I use o2. Yesterday my 2g network continuously swapped between e to g every min causing my phone staying without signal, so I had to use 3g to get atleast some network signal, its at 0 to 2 on 3g but also was at about 3 to 4 before.
My battery drains like 30 % per hour when playing dungeon defenders 2 and when I'm on standby its about 5 to 10% per hour, I changed LG home to go loader ex to fix Android system to use 60 % of battery but battery life still hasn't improved.
Anyone experience same issue and how good are gum mobile UK return faulty product policy ?
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Seems about normal that, battery life is not that good then again most smart phones don't last much these days.
Since you had the phone for a while they might tell you to take it up with lg if you are having issues.
But I don't see it as faulty, though

Today started to happen complete madness with phone, since I'm using 2g most is the time, today my sister couldn't call me neither I could call her back while with 2g network with 3g I could call and text her but when I also tried to call friend of mine who stood next to me, I couldn't because some weird error occur saying that connection was impossible to made. Has anyone experiencing samelately?
I'm on o2 and such weird stuff started to happen few days ago. Is there problem with phone or It's O2?

Hey there,
I'm with O2 as well and my 3G is ALWAYS off and I've never had this problem.
I'm in London I dunno about you.
Perhaps your region isn't so go with 2G?
I mean I dunno for sure this but I have no probs here with my 3G off.
And the battery isn't the best of this phone, but you can do some stuff that might help to improve its life.
At work, where I have access to internet, I switch off the Wi-Fi from my phone and that has helped a lot!
Don't worry your phone shouldn't be a problem. Try to restart it to see if it helps or something.

As its only just started happening then give O2 a call, perhaps they have a problem in your area.
Even if they deny it I would be inclined to give it a week or so before worrying about it being a problem with the phone.
I also have doubts about 2G saving much battery power compared to 3G on the Optimus 3D, as it uses so much power idling anyway. I have tried my phone overnight in airline mode, 2G and 3G, it doesn't seem to make a great deal of difference unless you accidentally leave messenger running which really kills the battery.

I not touched my O3D lately as I hate the battery life, picked up a Galaxy S2 last week and I can easily last 2 days on this phone and the choice of custom roms out is insane, take away the 3D side and it trumps the O3D in every department.

I am absolutely fed up with this phone. Have the above isdues and more. I am so angered that I paid for this piece of junk a efin premium price on a contract and now I'm stuck with this phone. Battery life is unbelievable. Never once had it such lousy batterylife with a smart phone. I have to reboot this jubk phone every then and now to work with it. LG u make me sick.
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Sim with "limited service"

I have a sim from Asian carier (doesn't work in the US). I get limited service message. The battery drains much faster with this sim in the phone.
Would I get better battery life once I travel to the home country and use this sim there?

If it doesn't work in the US then yes it will drain your battery faster because it is constantly searching for a tower to connect to.

[Q] D6633 - cell standby drain?

Hello everyone,
I purchased my new D6633 (dual SIM) recently (atm only using one slot) and noticed that the cell standby causes more battery drain than 5h of SOT.. That isn't normal, is it? I was on WiFi 90% of the time..

It depends on the signal quality/strength in your area. If you don't have full bars all the time, then that may be normal, esp if you're on LTE.

DaVince said:
It depends on the signal quality/strength in your area. If you don't have full bars all the time, then that may be normal, esp if you're on LTE.
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I noticed that it was due to a temporary bug, both WiFi and mobile data were activated all the time, though data was transmitted via WiFi. It still showed LTE and drained. Fixed by a reboot

Darn bugs.
Good to hear that you got it fixed and it's fine now.

Happened again, went away without reboot, but still I don't get why it connects to mobile data while I have internet access through WiFi..

Phone radio battery drain is high although you have excellent coverage ? Here is why

My S8 plus had terrible battery life compared to the reviews . I get an average of 3-5 hours of SOT
i opened the stock android battery monitor and couldn't see what was eating up My battery so i downloaded the gsam monitor and found out that the phone radio was totaling a 60-70% of my consumption even exceeding my screen power consumption.
But i had excellent coverage(always full bars and -70 to -60 dbms)why would my phone radio consumption be that high ??
And my phone could last up to 11 hours of screen on time with continuous wifi websurfing with no mobile data usage so i know it isnt defective
Well i decided to do some research and testing.
In my country the cellphone network companies signed a national roaming agreement in an attempt to allow better coverage , which basically means that i can connect to any tower in my country even if its not the one that belongs to my provider. Which makes my phone always looking for the tower that has a stronger signal and switching to it.
I then decided to put that theory to the test and downloaded an app that lets me see the towers i am connected to
Check out the madness
https://youtu.be/n1VEjeskadU
3 towers in an area of less than 300 meters raduis and my phone keeps switching up between them .
So no matter what i do i will get the battery life of a roaming device ?

Chuck 3310 said:
My S8 plus had terrible battery life compared to the reviews . I get an average of 3-5 hours of SOT
i opened the stock android battery monitor and couldn't see what was eating up My battery so i downloaded the gsam monitor and found out that the phone radio was totaling a 60-70% of my consumption even exceeding my screen power consumption.
But i had excellent coverage(always full bars and -70 to -60 dbms)why would my phone radio consumption be that high ??
And my phone could last up to 11 hours of screen on time with continuous wifi websurfing with no mobile data usage so i know it isnt defective
Well i decided to do some research and testing.
In my country the cellphone network companies signed a national roaming agreement in an attempt to allow better coverage , which basically means that i can connect to any tower in my country even if its not the one that belongs to my provider. Which makes my phone always looking for the tower that has a stronger signal and switching to it.
I then decided to put that theory to the test and downloaded an app that lets me see the towers i am connected to
Check out the madness
https://youtu.be/n1VEjeskadU
3 towers in an area of less than 300 meters raduis and my phone keeps switching up between them .
So no matter what i do i will get the battery life of a roaming device ?
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That the same issue i am facing here. I'm using lycamobile during my visit in germany and i noticed a heavy battery drain during the standby. Usually i disconnect my phone from the charger before i sleep so i always loose arround 6 to 7% also i can confirm that roaming is actually consumes lots of juice specially mobile data. While in wifi network the battery life is great.
Try to use a local sim card like Vodafone or etesalat and compare it to the one you are using. Cheers
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Amar.B said:
That the same issue i am facing here. I'm using lycamobile during my visit in germany and i noticed a heavy battery drain during the standby. Usually i disconnect my phone from the charger before i sleep so i always loose arround 6 to 7% also i can confirm that roaming is actually consumes lots of juice specially mobile data. While in wifi network the battery life is great.
Try to use a local sim card like Vodafone or etesalat and compare it to the one you are using. Cheers
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I do have a local line which is orange previously was mobinil . You missed the point I am not talking about international roaming . The issue is national roaming in egypt . As since 2007 the 3 major companies signed an agreement

Chuck 3310 said:
I do have a local line which is orange previously was mobinil . You missed the point I am not talking about international roaming . The issue is national roaming in egypt . As since 2007 the 3 major companies signed an agreement
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Aha i got your point now. Well i am not sure how you are going to solve this problem as you can't do nothing about it. Have you experienced the same issues with your previous android phones!
You shouldn't have any problems with battery as your network provider assigns automatically to the nearest tower to insure the best network reception.
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Amar.B said:
Aha i got your point now. Well i am not sure how you are going to solve this problem as you can't do nothing about it. Have you experienced the same issues with your previous android phones!
You shouldn't have any problems with battery as your network provider assigns automatically to the nearest tower to insure the best network reception.
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The constant connection and disconnection from towers does drain battery
My previous smartphones always had a battery life that is sub par with reviews

So today i activated tge 4g service on my sim card as the national roaming doesnt work on 4g . And to have 4g u have to be connected to your providers tower only ... and guess what ?
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That SOT was continuous surfing using 4g and 20 mins of youtube using wifi and a mere 15 mins of playing fallout shelter
This is astonishing for me

Standby battery not good, get a new sim card

So a little back story, Ive had my s8+ intl version(exynos) for about 6 months now. And although standby battery performance has never been iPhone like, it was pretty decent until about two months ago. When my standby consumption started getting fairly high.
Then a couple of weeks ago, I randomly checked my battery usage settings and under "cell standby" it would have time without a signal anywhere from 0% to 40% which is around the max I've seen.
i tried all solutions from changing rooms, kernels, factory restore, until i did the last thing i could which was a brand new flash via odin. Even then the problem remained and decided to swap sims with my other phone and back. Turned out the sim had somehow gotten faulty. I mean it would work marjority of the time, and funny things is, it was never removed from my phone so not like it was damaged and even the gold strips were fine. I guess even without changing sims they can wear out.
After I got the new sim and i swapped it over, i have never seen a time without signal percentage and standby has nearly doubled. So i would suggest everyone to get a new sim at least every 6 months or so. And to people with similar standby drain, try doing this and report back to see if this issue is more common than it may seem.

Interesting info, thank you.