So in the screenshot above, the first long standby was on WiFi, and according to GSam it was draining 0.8%/h, but when on mobile data it drains around double that, at 1.9%/h. I get a full signal with 4G LTE and all when on data, so weak reception isnt an issue. What ways are there to reduce the consumption when on data?
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Is it normal for 3g to consume more power than wifi?
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yes it will consume more power
Standby or data transfer?
In my experience, they are similar in standby. but I guess it depends on the conditions.
Yes, it is normal. Whether it is on standby or in usage, it's definitely the case for me.
To my experience and observation WiFi consumes less power than while browsing/surfing on 3G.
Sometimes I spend all evening at home on WiFi (which automatically turns odd data connections on 3G/other) with little consumption. A friend of mine observed this too on his Samsung I5800.
I keep reading that mobile data is supposed to consume more battery than WIFI, but whenever I have WIFI on, I drop a percent every couple of minutes. And this is unusual, because I undervolt and generally have much, much less drain on mobile data.
When I check the battery stats, its "Android System" that is taking a lot of the percentage, not the WIFI itself. I think this is because my system is set to update only on WIFI or something. Does anyone know how I would shut this off? This only happens on WIFI, not mobile data.
Hey there, what firmware are you on?
Hi guys.
I know there are million of threads very similar about battery drains, but I can't find a definitive answer.
On wifi I think our x8 works with no particular drains. But on 3g is very bad.
Only data, whatsapp and mail (every 3 hours update) on. Well, 1 hours of web browsing has been my maximum(always thalking about 3g). Is this normal, according to you?
I'm now testing Gingerdx x30, but I tried other roms with more or less the same results.
What about you?
IAmNice said:
3g should drain battery more then wifi. So its normal.
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Even if I have 3g on in standby mode , battery drains too much imho.
3g Reduce the battery ..due to receiving large amounts of data transferring great performance, decibel
Hz, everything thin reduce it
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paulebe525 said:
3g Reduce the battery ..due to receiving large amounts of data transferring great performance, decibel
Hz, everything thin reduce it
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Ok, I Understand.
What's your usage with 3g?
The 3G mode power consumption depends on the signal quality and the distance from the connected rx/tx station. With 2G mode too (this is normal), but the 3G range is much smaller than the 2G range (approx. half distance than the 2G). So, the power consumption increasing quickly with the distance. With weak signal the radio device working on max power, and the battery draining due the higher frequency (1800/2100MHz instead of 900MHz of 2G) Example: if my 3G signal is weak, my battery is burn like the hell (in standby too), if I go to the nearest rx/tx station (max. 3G signal), the battery burn faster than 2G, but the difference not significant. You can play with some RIL settings in build.prop, but you can't win extreme battery savings with these settings.
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That is normal.
However, if you're a light internet user, I would definitely recommend you switch to 2G only. All the web pages and mails would take a bit longer to load, but you would do a lot to save your battery. You can do it from the settings screen if your ROM supports it, but if it doesn't, the code *#*#4636#*#* can get you there.
Well I'm testing 2x battery
For everyone having high battery drain on cell standby on 5,1, I think the issue isn't as bad as the Android battery stats show in settings. I have installed Gsam Battery Monitor and the stats that the app show, are way different then the stats that the battery settings show. The Gsam Battery stats look much more realistic.
I have the stats from a day and a half, but I didn't turn on cell data, unless I needed it, which gets rid of the cell standby bug on lollipop, so you don't see the high cell stanby issue. Today I will keep data and WiFi on and post tomorrow, just to show the high cell data battery usage on Android settings, compared to GSM Battery.
Notice the screen use is 20% different, the WiFi is 4% different, which is almost a third, even with data off to stop high cell stanby battery use, my radio uses a total of 9%, but GSM battery app, has a total of 3%, which is 2/3rd less. The only thing, that looks correct is app use in settings battery.
It will be interesting to see the difference on cell standby and phone idle, when I have WiFi and data on the whole time, which makes the cell stanby use like 50% in the battery settings stats for me normally. I will post when my phone gets low
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Notice the screen use is 20% different, the WiFi is 4% different, which is almost a third, even with data off to stop high cell stanby battery use, my radio uses a total of 9%, but GSM battery app, has a total of 3%, which is 2/3rd less. The only thing, that looks correct is app use in settings battery.
It will be interesting to see the difference on cell standby and phone idle, when I have WiFi and data on the whole time, which makes the cell stanby use like 50% in the battery settings stats for me normally. I will post when my phone gets low
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These effects are not bugs in general. LP just has bad description of what Cell Stand-by is exactly. Same goes to wifi and other stuff.
It's also very bad idea in general to claim bugs, when you have so little info to rely on, let alone how accurate the tools you use are.
Unless you got direct access to actual measurement of a given component, everything goes in the realm of hugely distorted approximation.
In other words, you're wasting your time.But hey, it's your time after all!
Um this is a well known bug not claimed by me lol
Play store services says 30% in the Android settings and 1.2% in GSM today. The cell stanby us at 20% in Android and 10% in GSm
So my question is is that why is the Wifi usage is not shown at all in battery stats? My guess is that it's merged with cell standby. Also my cell standby consumes around 1000 Mah in one day, i think that's quite alot. Also my signal is good, 0% without signal.