Forcing 3g.. - Motorola Droid Bionic

Does anyone really see that much of an increase in battery life if you're in a 4g area but force 3g?
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Powell730 said:
Does anyone really see that much of an increase in battery life if you're in a 4g area but force 3g?
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I do on the Bionic and the TBolt. I always leave them on 3G. 4G is not needed for anything I do.

It makes a big difference on my Bionic. I don't use 4G unless I'm doing some real surfing. Otherwise I leave it in 3G only mode.

It makes a huge difference in battery life for me, and I live in a good LTE area (Portland, OR). I generally only turn it on 4G if I need the throughput.

Well it was helping but since the update anytime I force cdma only I don't get any data...
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also saves me a buttload of battery. Once the update hits my phone, I'll be interested to see if it's still a big battery saver or if the frequent G-Cycle issue was responsible for more of the battery drain than the LTE is, seeing as how that bug has been known to lose me 50% or more of my battery in less than an hour on occasion

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Getting rid of tmobile g2

Well I'm a little mad at my phone I'm going to a 3g only phone because on the tmobile map it shows 4g availible in my area and no 4g struggle for 3g half the time...now what phone should I get?
Tmobile
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The defy is a good all around phone. And you can't really break it either. Believe me. I tried. There are some excellent roms out for it, battery life is incredible (I averaged 3 days w\o a charger). It all depends on if you can deal with the Motorola bootloader shizniz. They're not too nice when you update and you're rooted
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dakkywantstodocrazysht said:
Well I'm a little mad at my phone I'm going to a 3g only phone because on the tmobile map it shows 4g availible in my area and no 4g struggle for 3g half the time...now what phone should I get?
Tmobile
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Maybe wait for the LG 2X as it's supposed to have bands for T-Mo AND AT&T.
(That might future proof you in case AT&T actually gets their way. And not to mention dual core )
Otherwise I say Nexus S

Bionic ICS no more 4G?

I have a Droid Bionic under Verizon. I did the OTA update to ICS yesterday and since then I haven't switched to 4G once. Places where I had 4G signal before I'm left in 3G.
What did they 'fix' on the 4G/3G problem? Does it force a much higher 4G signal before switching now, or is it something else?
I'm on unofficial 232 and the 3g 4g is awesome....however it eats battery life so bad it almost drains the battery faster than I can charge it.. j have to turn on airplane mode to get it to charge in a decent time frame
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RILJ wakelock

Anyone having this issue? I'm getting unbelievable drain both on stock 4.2.2 and leaked OTA 4.4.2. I have all location services off so not sure why I have this issue? Any ideas or recommendations greatly appreciated.
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That's your phone buddy. Making lots of calls or on hold?
No I hardly ever use the phone ..would changing kernels fix it? I have noticed it is much worse when in bad signal area.
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Of course it would be, it's the phone looking for signal or GPS location. It's the area you are in. A fringe area causes much more drain like you are seeing being that the radio is constantly searching for a signal. A kernel, not much, modem possibly. I have the RILJ wakelock when my area surrounded by water goes in a low state. Nothing to really be done... I've even tried to have Verizon upgrade tower here as it affects everyone in my location, pretty much service ticketed, loled at, and told about femtocell that I would need to pay for running off my internet..... LOL
dave2775 said:
No I hardly ever use the phone ..would changing kernels fix it? I have noticed it is much worse when in bad signal area.
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this app and maybe others may help, I have not tried it :.http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2698432 and http://lifehacker.com/auto-pilot-mode-puts-your-phone-in-airplane-mode-when-y-1556047508 by putting phone in airport mode in low signal areas and only searching at intervals you want.

WiFi and LTE at the same time?

Does anyone have a issue while being on WiFi and the LTE is still being didplayed? My device does this is there a way to eliminate the LTE while being on WiFi?
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nickhowell25 said:
Does anyone have a issue while being on WiFi and the LTE is still being didplayed? My device does this is there a way to eliminate the LTE while being on WiFi?
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This phone prefers LTE, I have a very week and unstable LTE at my house so it's constantly cutting in and out. When I'm at home or work I set the phone to CDMA only. Look under mobile data settings. My battery lasts WAY longer and don't have a problem with getting calls. There is zero benefit to being on LTE when you are using wifi. Since LTE at the moment is data only. Only annoying part is switching it back and forth. I wish there was a widget for it or could set tasker to do it automatically.
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Sim-X said:
This phone prefers LTE, I have a very week and unstable LTE at my house so it's constantly cutting in and out. When I'm at home or work I set the phone to CDMA only. Look under mobile data settings. My battery lasts WAY longer and don't have a problem with getting calls. There is zero benefit to being on LTE when you are using wifi. Since LTE at the moment is data only. Only annoying part is switching it back and forth. I wish there was a widget for it or could set tasker to do it automatically.
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Yea
LTE is built in to the SoC so when activated, it doesn't turn off. Unlike previous phones who had an external LTE radio, the battery usage is minimal. So overall you are saving battery. and true if you have weak or no LTE signal turning it off will help.
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drigout said:
LTE is built in to the SoC so when activated, it doesn't turn off. Unlike previous phones who had an external LTE radio, the battery usage is minimal. So overall you are saving battery. and true if you have weak or no LTE signal turning it off will help.
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SoC Im struggling to figure out what that means?
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SoC Im struggling to figure out what that means?
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SoC = System on a Chip so LTE, CPU, GPU, CDMA, 3G etc... Are all on 1 chip the Snapdragon 801. Older phones had separate components and used more power but the components could be turned off when not needed. When you are switching to CDMA only you are not just turning off LTE you are changing the core settings on the chip.
Sim-X said:
This phone prefers LTE, I have a very week and unstable LTE at my house so it's constantly cutting in and out. When I'm at home or work I set the phone to CDMA only. Look under mobile data settings. My battery lasts WAY longer and don't have a problem with getting calls. There is zero benefit to being on LTE when you are using wifi. Since LTE at the moment is data only. Only annoying part is switching it back and forth. I wish there was a widget for it or could set tasker to do it automatically.
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I most definitely agree. I have an Airave at home and I have to manually switch to CDMA only while at home for the phone to connect to it. I have a very weak LTE signal so the phone automatically tries to connect to it. Very frustrating. Called airave supprt who said they are aware of the problem and are trying to work on a solution, but for now just manually switch to CDMA only when I get home.

Bad update? Battery / signal to suffer

So yes it's another battery thread but I'm noticing that my signal compared to the note 3 is not even as half good.. Where I would get lte, it drops to 4g, and it's alot of dropping back and forth between the signals and where I would get 4g I get edge, is it possible of being the update?
Just curious.
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