When you sleep, does your phone sleep, or does it stay up all night and crunch 1s and 0s? Rate this thread to express how you deem the speed at which the HTC U11's battery drains under standby conditions. A higher rating indicates that when the phone is not in use, the battery drains minimally.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
I lose almost zero percent when the screen is off. Awesome.
cell stanby is killing me
Between 0.5 to 1% per hour overnight drain for me.
Never less, rarely more.
If mine is at 100% at 11PM when I go to bed .. it's often at 97% when I wake up around 7am. I'm satisfied with this. It's as good as the 7+ I have.
Just got it 2 days ago and it goes from 100% to 80% over night. Battery usage shows it's constantly waking up. Major consumer was Cell Standby and Android OS. The cell bar was green though over night (and the reception where it lies is generally good). And it was connected to Wifi (with data saver enabled).
I hope this doesn't stay like that. Quite disappointed. I haven't installed many other apps to cause that, well, Facebook, but still. It's worse than my previous N5X so far in that regard.
Anyone has a fix for cell standby battery drain? When I first got the phone I only lose 1-2% overnight. Now, Im losing 5% or more in a few hours. Cell standby 60% usage?
msi.1362 said:
cell stanby is killing me
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It may depends by your carrier signal..
You can put your phone in airplane mode when the signal is poor..
If you have high standby drain and your provider supports WiFi calling, put the radio into airplane mode and use WiFi calling whenever you can. I'm already 10 minutes over my previous SoT record of 8h4m at 1% where I didn't do any gaming and I spent 2h21m in Endless Frontier on this charge and this phone takes awhile to hit 1% (GSam is estimating another hour of battery life and the phone is reading 5%).
You can also experiment with *#*#4636#*#* settings. I have a feeling WCDMA preferred would increase battery life vs auto but not as much as WiFi only obviously.
rxzlmn said:
Just got it 2 days ago and it goes from 100% to 80% over night. Battery usage shows it's constantly waking up. Major consumer was Cell Standby and Android OS. The cell bar was green though over night (and the reception where it lies is generally good). And it was connected to Wifi (with data saver enabled).
I hope this doesn't stay like that. Quite disappointed. I haven't installed many other apps to cause that, well, Facebook, but still. It's worse than my previous N5X so far in that regard.
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I was battery drain like you but after updated to 1.27 it seems fixed the problem, now I only drain 3% over night.
TheEndHK said:
I was battery drain like you but after updated to 1.27 it seems fixed the problem, now I only drain 3% over night.
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I just installed the new 1.27.400.8 update. Will see if it fixes the cell standby drain
Cell standby drain after 1.27 definitely went down, but there is still draining abit. Will do a factory reset to see if it helps also
Unfortunately it seems standby power management has some issues on 1.13.401, hope to see some improvement on next update.
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If you have high standby drain and your provider supports WiFi calling, put the radio into airplane mode and use WiFi calling whenever you can. I'm already 10 minutes over my previous SoT record of 8h4m at 1% where I didn't do any gaming and I spent 2h21m in Endless Frontier on this charge and this phone takes awhile to hit 1% (GSam is estimating another hour of battery life and the phone is reading 5%).
You can also experiment with *#*#4636#*#* settings. I have a feeling WCDMA preferred would increase battery life vs auto but not as much as WiFi only obviously.
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You think I should select LTE only for Verizon?
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EtherealRemnant said:
If you have high standby drain and your provider supports WiFi calling, put the radio into airplane mode and use WiFi calling whenever you can. I'm already 10 minutes over my previous SoT record of 8h4m at 1% where I didn't do any gaming and I spent 2h21m in Endless Frontier on this charge and this phone takes awhile to hit 1% (GSam is estimating another hour of battery life and the phone is reading 5%).
You can also experiment with *#*#4636#*#* settings. I have a feeling WCDMA preferred would increase battery life vs auto but not as much as WiFi only obviously.
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Airplane mode turns off WiFi doesn't it?
LibertyMonger said:
You think I should select LTE only for Verizon?
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Airplane mode turns off WiFi doesn't it?
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LTE only for Verizon since there is no CDMA support makes sense, airplane mode turns off Wi-Fi but you can turn it back on manually and leave the cellular radio off still.
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LTE only for Verizon since there is no CDMA support makes sense, airplane mode turns off Wi-Fi but you can turn it back on manually and leave the cellular radio off still.
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Yeah standby drain is looking to be pretty awful. I'm gonna reflash back to stock or clean flash viper. I didn't have this issue on my first U11.
~ 7 hours of sleep time, 3% battery drained.
WiFi off, location on ( precise mode ), cellular signal on and mediocre signal reception in my room, mobile data off.
Pretty good if you ask me.
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LTE only for Verizon since there is no CDMA support makes sense, airplane mode turns off Wi-Fi but you can turn it back on manually and leave the cellular radio off still.
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It's so weird to me how much the media and people talk about how the u11 doesn't support cdma, when it supports it just fine. Or am I missing something?
beaups said:
It's so weird to me how much the media and people talk about how the u11 doesn't support cdma, when it supports it just fine. Or am I missing something?
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Verizon hasn't actually allowed the device on their network, only B13 LTE because of open access rules forcing them to. So while it supports CDMA (as we know from specs and the fact Sprint sells it with full CDMA), HTC is selling the U11 to Verizon customers as being compatible when in reality, Verizon hasn't actually whitelisted it for their network. It doesn't use CDMA or band 2 and 4 LTE, just band 13.
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It's so weird to me how much the media and people talk about how the u11 doesn't support cdma, when it supports it just fine. Or am I missing something?
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Yes Verizon is pretending to finally let us bring our own device but refuse us full access, only band 13 and no one will tell us the truth as to why. It has been an absolutely horrible experience for us Verizon users who love HTC and love this phone. We need a savior.
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beaups said:
It's so weird to me how much the media and people talk about how the u11 doesn't support cdma, when it supports it just fine. Or am I missing something?
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HTC keeps telling me it's not a cdma device, it is gsm that is why we only get band 13. I've talked to so many HTC reps and Verizon reps and no one will tell us the truth. They keep blaming each other.
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So my battery time isn't horrible but why the heck is cell standby using 40% when time without signal is only 3%?! Doesn't make any sense.. anyway of resolving this?
I'm seeing the same thing, in fact most of the time 'cell standby' is on the top of my battery usage chart. I suspect some of this is because I live in a relatively weak sprint signal area, its shouting pretty loud to get to the tower.
Every once in a while the phone will boot and have service, but time without signal will show 98-100%, I haven't figured this problem out yet (and yes I've done the GSM/CDMA switch in the test menu).
If you don't want your phone to go into standby, use it more.
abcdfv said:
If you don't want your phone to go into standby, use it more.
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BAAAHHHAHAHAHAHAHA
Good one
Look guys, the battery usage is always going to total between 99% and 101%
This is not an indication of how much or fast your battery is being used, it is a reflection of how the amount of battery used IS BEING USED
Like adcdfv said, and he's absolutely right, if you want to see your cell standby percentage decrease then make more phone calls.
But there's no reason to do that.
Thank you, Thank you.
lawl.
I've done a lot of reading on this and everyone seems to say that Cell Standby has nothing to do with phone use. I use my phone all day to text and randomly use it to browse. Either way my phone is "in use" more or less all day.
And I did that same "fix" in the Test menu that Fird spoke of. I do not live in an area with a weak signal, either. Most of the time I'm getting 3+ bars..
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lawl.
I've done a lot of reading on this and everyone seems to say that Cell Standby has nothing to do with phone use. I use my phone all day to text and randomly use it to browse. Either way my phone is "in use" more or less all day.
And I did that same "fix" in the Test menu that Fird spoke of. I do not live in an area with a weak signal, either. Most of the time I'm getting 3+ bars..
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Having a high cell standby is good. It means that the radio is going to sleep properly. It's the Time Without Signal that you'd want to worry about, but with the latest ROMs it's no longer an issue.
I know this is an old thread and it's for a diffrent phone model, but i've been searching the web for the last hour and this thread is the closest one i've found to what i'm experiencing. I have an LG optimus one phone using knzo's Void Forever(2.3.4 based on CM) and the cell standby battery usege is 37% with only 1% time without signal. Can anybody tell me why this is happening?
did you read the previous posts?
Yes i did, and i don't think it's normal to have a high battery usage if TWS is 1%.
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Yes i did, and i don't think it's normal to have a high battery usage if TWS is 1%.
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What that means is cell standby is 40% or so TOTAL. It will always add up to around 100% no matter what. Your phone is fine.
Hi, need some help,
I got this phone a couple of days back, its an unlocked one. Battery on the phone seems to be draining faster than i expected it to. The first time i charged it, it took 3 hours in the afternoon. By night it was 20% this was after playing games and downloading through wifi, so it seemed ok. I then put it for charge overnight. The next day it still seemed to drained by 7pm only used whats app this day, so i had to put for charge again.
Once fully charged (2 hrs) I shut off wifi, bluetooth, nfc and others. Switched off smart stay options and the display is set to lowest brightness (not auto). The wallpapers is also black so it will not drain battery. Overnight without the phone being used (only thing i set was alarm) the charge went from 89% to 78%. During the day I also find the charge still dropping pretty rapidly. I have included the screen shot of the battery from the same day. Between the first pictures there is no difference in use and still drops by 3% in 20 mins or so.
Is this a problem with the battery or is that how it is?
(Stock, no changes to rom)
Not sure if this is your specific problem - but one thing I've found that kills this phone fast is bad 4G cell reception. By default the phone runs as LTE/GSM/WCDMA (Auto) in Settings->Mobile Networks . If you are in a location with patchy (or none at all) 4G Coverage, the phone wastes an inordinate amount of juice switching to high-power mode on the cell radio searching for the elusive 4G/LTE ... Just like a 3G phone will deplete its battery extremly fast in a location with no/poor 3G connectivity (inside the 'secure' datacentres I wander into occasionally that have cell blockers, I can deplete the battery in a phone in about 3 hours just due to it constantly switching to high-power 'cell search' mode as it has no details on any cells to 'hand off' to....)
The difference is palpable... inside my office, if I have the phone on the right side of my desk closest to some windows, it will receive 'patchy' 4G and I'll go through about 60% battery over about 8-10 hours with intermittent phone use (most of the battery goes to screen time as I'm a 'fiddler' whenever I leave my desk for a coffee/break/etc...) If I place it on the left side of my desk, where the reception is much worse, it'll fall back to 3G and I'll go through about 80% battery doing nothing different...
I'm now in the habit of switching the phone to WCDMA Only when I'm going to be working in the bowels of the building, as there aint no hope of 4G there...Doing this drastically improves battery life.. Likewise if I'm stuck at home over the weekend, I leave it on WCDMA, as where I live has very patchy 4G as well and I only get it if I walk outside and down the street...
Just a possible reason for the excessive drain... at least worth trying anyway... *shrug*
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Not sure if this is your specific problem - but one thing I've found that kills this phone fast is bad 4G cell reception. By default the phone runs as LTE/GSM/WCDMA (Auto) in Settings->Mobile Networks . If you are in a location with patchy (or none at all) 4G Coverage, the phone wastes an inordinate amount of juice switching to high-power mode on the cell radio searching for the elusive 4G/LTE ... Just like a 3G phone will deplete its battery extremly fast in a location with no/poor 3G connectivity (inside the 'secure' datacentres I wander into occasionally that have cell blockers, I can deplete the battery in a phone in about 3 hours just due to it constantly switching to high-power 'cell search' mode as it has no details on any cells to 'hand off' to....)
The difference is palpable... inside my office, if I have the phone on the right side of my desk closest to some windows, it will receive 'patchy' 4G and I'll go through about 60% battery over about 8-10 hours with intermittent phone use (most of the battery goes to screen time as I'm a 'fiddler' whenever I leave my desk for a coffee/break/etc...) If I place it on the left side of my desk, where the reception is much worse, it'll fall back to 3G and I'll go through about 80% battery doing nothing different...
I'm now in the habit of switching the phone to WCDMA Only when I'm going to be working in the bowels of the building, as there aint no hope of 4G there...Doing this drastically improves battery life.. Likewise if I'm stuck at home over the weekend, I leave it on WCDMA, as where I live has very patchy 4G as well and I only get it if I walk outside and down the street...
Just a possible reason for the excessive drain... at least worth trying anyway... *shrug*
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Hi thanks for the reply. My phone does not show WCDMA in settings. It just has 2g/3g/4g/ auto OR 3g in network modes under mobile networks.
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Hi thanks for the reply. My phone does not show WCDMA in settings. It just has 2g/3g/4g/ auto OR 3g in network modes under mobile networks.
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I have used an app called "Radio Switcher" to activate "gsm auto (prl)", when i open the app it seems to go into "Device info". It seems to work but "Network mode" does not seem to change.
I have uploaded the screenshots
Seems as though the system is using more battery than the screen itself.
The system seems to really take up way too much battery power. Mine is at 4%.
What are your sync settings? Especially for things like Weather, stocks, news etc. If you set them to sync every hour or so, your phone will keep running on the 3G network which will end up draining your battery.
Also, switch off motion. It's a cool feature, but it's not necessary. Same with auto-rotate.
Finally, use WiFi instead of 3G where possible. That saves battery too.
If you're rooted, download noFrills CPU control and reduce your max clock frequency on days where you won't get a charge. Phone runs well enough on 800mhz, but has a tendency to keep going at 1.4Ghz for no reason.
Otherwise, get a higher capacity battery
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The system seems to really take up way too much battery power. Mine is at 4%.
What are your sync settings? Especially for things like Weather, stocks, news etc. If you set them to sync every hour or so, your phone will keep running on the 3G network which will end up draining your battery.
Also, switch off motion. It's a cool feature, but it's not necessary. Same with auto-rotate.
Finally, use WiFi instead of 3G where possible. That saves battery too.
If you're rooted, download noFrills CPU control and reduce your max clock frequency on days where you won't get a charge. Phone runs well enough on 800mhz, but has a tendency to keep going at 1.4Ghz for no reason.
Otherwise, get a higher capacity battery
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My sync is off, plus i have disabled sync for everything individuality and disabled all unwanted apps. Data service is also off, only use wi-fi. under motion only smart call is on and auto rotate us off.
I have uploaded a screen shot off after ti disable all these apps.(went to bed with 35% and was 28% in the mornin, turned wifi off before)
Will upgrading (official) phone to android 4.1.2 help (current ver is 4.1.1)? Current base band version is i9305BVALI5 i got an update on kies to i9305BVALI3. I don't think this is update to 4.1.2 is it?
I have updated to 4.1.2, and applied only gsm setting in mobile network. All apps are still disabled as before. The system still seems to be suing most amount of battery, more than the screen. I do not know what is using the system.
I have stared having the same problem a couple of days ago. Though I have sync enabled 0-24 for 3 gmail accounts, motions are on, screen auto rotate is also on. I am using nova launcher, almost all Samsung apps are frozen and most of time I am on wifi.
Now, this drain has nothing to do with the stuff I just mentioned (Enabled sync, motions...). I have all that things enabled all the time, and yes MPU and GPU are OC to 1600 and 640 MHz. But I was always getting >= 24h with ~3,5 h of screen on time. As I already mentioned, problem started a couple of days ago. Only thing which comes to my mind is that I have played with freezing / defrosting apps and I probably installed a couple of apps too. Like Beautiful Widgets and that's my main candidate to blame for this at the moment.
Though I am still not sure... Better than battery stats didn't show anything what could help. Network location locator or similar is at the top of the list of partial wake locks. But the time it hold the lock (About 25 min.) can't be the reason for such a high drain.
I have switched to HD Widgets, what I was using before (With this app one can disable auto location.) removed Beautiful Widgets, and turned off'Use wireless networks' and GPS in location services hoping it will help... So we'll see...
For me it still shows that adroid system and cell standby time is using a lot battery.
I don't get why android system and OS is using so much battery, everything is disabled. Network is on only GSM setting and i have network all the time, why is that also high? Does someone else also have the same problem?
If possible, install Better Battery Stats, maybe it will help you to identify the problem... In my case it is not of much use at the moment.
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Strange idea: download an anti-virus and let it run.
Might as well give it a shot now, especially since AV is free.
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Strange idea: download an anti-virus and let it run.
Might as well give it a shot now, especially since AV is free.
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I was using AVG, but i removed it thinking it could drain battery.
Sv: Battery Drain On s3 i19305
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I was using AVG, but i removed it thinking it could drain battery.
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I think he meant that it could be a virus that drains all the battery.
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sebbe312 said:
I think he meant that it could be a virus that drains all the battery.
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I did an upgrade using odin to 4.1.2, the issue still remains though. The screen shots i posted is with the update.
So any virus should also be wiped out right?
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I did an upgrade using odin to 4.1.2, the issue still remains though. The screen shots i posted is with the update.
So any virus should also be wiped out right?
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Anyways i tried it, does not seem to work though.
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If possible, install Better Battery Stats, maybe it will help you to identify the problem... In my case it is not of much use at the moment.
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I have installed better battery stats, and it says that battery drain is 6% an hour at idle. I have attached the screen shots. I do not have root access to access some of its functions though.
Picked up my phone yesterday afternoon and after receiving the OTA and factory resetting afterwards, my battery life has been fantastic on the first initial charge. My screen on time is at 6+ hours and still going.
I haven't done anything special. My phone is bone stock with only T Mobile bloat disabled.
Is anyone else getting ridiculous screen on time?
Is this just leaving the screen on and not doing anything?
No...Just my regular usage on a lazy Sunday night while in bed.
I'm on wifi.. with Wifi calling on, web browsing watching videos on youtube, a couple phone calls and heavy texting. Also have 3 gmail account with push notification.
Stats look funny with the cell standby on top of my usage. Usually it's the screen that's on top
I've been really impressed with the battery on this device. It's been more than enough to get me through an entire work day. The fast charge feature is great for a quick top off before a night out.
I don't think this is out of the ordinary, I think the question was standby + SOT. It's easier to get high SOT times if there is no standby associated. So 6hrs SOT while the phone has been off the charger for 7hrs isn't as big of a deal as 6hrs SOT + being off the charger for over 24hrs.
That Cell Standby too, damn...that's caused by having VoLTE and WiFi Calling on. Agree with what everyone else said, 6hrs SOT with the phone being on for 7hrs41min is not really a proper measure of your battery.
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No...Just my regular usage on a lazy Sunday night while in bed.
I'm on wifi.. with Wifi calling on, web browsing watching videos on youtube, a couple phone calls and heavy texting. Also have 3 gmail account with push notification.
Stats look funny with the cell standby on top of my usage. Usually it's the screen that's on top
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The real question is...why is cell standby the highest battery user if you've been on wifi with wifi-calling? this is what makes no sense.
I am able to last a full work day just streaming satellite radio and always on and off it throughout the day and still have a lot of a room to spare. Pleasantly suprised with how great the battery life is. Short of watching video's I am still at 30% range come night time. My S4 would of bottomed out at some point in the afternoon. I have to train myself to not have this phone plugged in every outlet I can lol.
That screen-on time.....
I get 4 hours max....... With whiped cache, VoLTE off, wi-fi scanning off, and wi-fi calling off.
Spotify and maps both slaughter the battery, but still.
Wifi/VoLTE calling
Yeah I've noticed that when on WiFi calling (with or without VoLTE enabled) phone never shuts down the radio. As in, I actually see both the signal strength indicator (crappy at my office) and WiFi calling, which never happened on my Lg G3 -- as soon as it goes on WiFi calling it'd turn off regular radio.
I bet that's the reason for big cell standby energy consumption.
Did anyone else notice this?
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Yeah I've noticed that when on WiFi calling (with or without VoLTE enabled) phone never shuts down the radio. As in, I actually see both the signal strength indicator (crappy at my office) and WiFi calling, which never happened on my Lg G3 -- as soon as it goes on WiFi calling it'd turn off regular radio.
I bet that's the reason for big cell standby energy consumption.
Did anyone else notice this?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-galaxy-s6/general/discuss-battery-problem-t3071622
Whipe your cache and disable wifi-calling and volte. The radio won't consume so much battery afterwards.
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Whipe your cache and disable wifi-calling and volte. The radio won't consume so much battery afterwards.
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Um... no. Without WiFi calling phone is useless. I was asking if anyone else had WiFi calling on and NO cell signal indicator at the same time
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Um... no. Without WiFi calling phone is useless. I was asking if anyone else had WiFi calling on and NO cell signal indicator at the same time
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i get the wifi calling and no signal type indicator (IE 4g, LTE, etc) but i do get signal bars. This is exactly how it functioned on my g3 as well though with the lollipop update. If you want no bars showing, you have to change your wifi calling prefs to "never use cellar network"
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i get the wifi calling and no signal type indicator (IE 4g, LTE, etc) but i do get signal bars. This is exactly how it functioned on my g3 as well though with the lollipop update. If you want no bars showing, you have to change your wifi calling prefs to "never use cellar network"
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Yeah my G3 before lollipop would simply remove the cellular indicator after about a second on the WiFi calling. I wonder if it's something that just changed in the system.
It's really annoying as previous behavior was exactly the logical one -- found WiFi, WiFi calling kicks in, regular radio gets turned off in a bit (hence no bars any more), if you go outside of WiFi coverage it turns back cell radio. Signal is so crappy at the office
Hopefully they'll fix it. I guess for now I have to keep switching "no cell at all, WiFi only" and back to "ok, cell but no WiFi calling". Ick.
I got 3 hours sot with 53% left to go. I have to say i am getting close to my note4 on this. I am very impressed so far.
Mine is doing well today. This is with Spotify and Snapchat usage.
Mine is getting better
So WiFi calling and volte on?
Yes to volte I don't use WiFi calling
I have airplane mode on, wifi calling, while I'm at home. Saves the most battery.
When you sleep, does your phone sleep, or does it stay up all night and crunch 1s and 0s? Rate this thread to express how you deem the speed at which the LG V10's battery drains under standby conditions. A higher rating indicates that when the phone is not in use, the battery drains minimally.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
Not impressed with the steady drain.
Turn off Enhanced LTE.
Yes I went to bed last night and lost 43 percent in 8 hours!
my battery drain is minimal
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When you sleep, does your phone sleep, or does it stay up all night and crunch 1s and 0s? Rate this thread to express how you deem the speed at which the LG V10's battery drains under standby conditions. A higher rating indicates that when the phone is not in use, the battery drains minimally.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
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I find it drops less than 5% overnight
I recently returned my first LG V10 to T-mobile and have found the battery
life to be greatly improved however on the previous phone it would drop
about 40% overnight!!!
vexter777 said:
I find it drops less than 5% overnight
I recently returned my first LG V10 to T-mobile and have found the battery
life to be greatly improved however on the previous phone it would drop
about 40% overnight!!!
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How did you convince them to do an exchange... was battery life one of the reasons?
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How did you convince them to do an exchange... was battery life one of the reasons?
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It was a combination of poor audio and overheating but I did
mention the battery drain was ridiculous!
I knew something was wrong with the phone and I was within my
14 days at T-mobile so they replaced the phone and since then
my battery life has greatly improved!!! and it does not get hot like it did
also I had stuttering before that doesn't happen either
wow lots wrong. my problem is that i'm rooted and have exposed installed so i never know if its the mods affecting the phone overheating and battery drain. Glad tmobile was able to do a swap.
WIFI is stuck on and won't chut-off for dep sleep. How do you turn off enhanced LTE?
is enhanced LTE named volte?
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is enhanced LTE named volte?
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Turn off VoLTE and also look in the advanced setting in the wifi area, press the three dots at the upper right of the screen, and turn off location and passport.
I still have the feeling that I bought a 'red headed step child' and I don't know if I'm liking it.
Coming up on 4 hours on battery (unplugged at home, trip to work, sitting at work) and I am still showing 100%, not seeing an idle drain issue. Running bone stock.
I have both WiFi(not connected to a network for commute or at work) and sync enabled (Google, Facebook), GPS and Bluetooth disabled.
Coming up on 8 hours on battery and a few texts and quick Facebook scrolls... sitting at 94%. Estimated time remaining is around 58 hours.
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Coming up on 8 hours on battery and a few texts and quick Facebook scrolls... sitting at 94%. Estimated time remaining is around 58 hours.
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I think I'm getting mine to sleep now. Unchecking the location and passport options under the wifi advanced settings appears to have helped dramatically.
Excellent!
lost about 10% during my sleep of 6 hours..
Some of the ideas mentioned above helped, but rooting my phone i noticed a process kept wanting root. Non stop. Did some research on this process and its tmobile checking for things. I plan on keeping phone, but supposedly it will report back to tmobile about your device being rooted and void warranty. Regardless, i used titanium and froze it. the run away process is "com.tmobile.pr.adapt". My battery actually hasn't dropped in almost 2 hours but 1 % since freezing this application, and that's because of other applications i have going in the background. Hopefully this can help ya'll out too.
Do some research if you want on that process, before freezing it, but i've noticed no changes to anything else. Nor do i use the tmobile account app and such on my phone.
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Some of the ideas mentioned above helped, but rooting my phone i noticed a process kept wanting root. Non stop. Did some research on this process and its tmobile checking for things. I plan on keeping phone, but supposedly it will report back to tmobile about your device being rooted and void warranty. Regardless, i used titanium and froze it. the run away process is "com.tmobile.pr.adapt". My battery actually hasn't dropped in almost 2 hours but 1 % since freezing this application, and that's because of other applications i have going in the background. Hopefully this can help ya'll out too.
Do some research if you want on that process, before freezing it, but i've noticed no changes to anything else. Nor do i use the tmobile account app and such on my phone.
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Yes, T-mobile likes to have all their branded devices phone home, including their ASUS router. I unplugged a T-mobile branded ASUS router for two weeks I had connected to my internal network and one day I received a text stating I was being charged a hundred and something bucks for it. I called TMO and they acknowledged not seeing it active so they billed me for it. I sent it back. I'm not surprised that the router phoned home, but no where in the documentation included with the router did it mention that the device would phone home nor did it mention what type of data the router would be including with each call to the mother ship. That really urked me.
It also urks me that I cannot uninstall the t-mobile app, or disable it. What if I wanted to switch carriers? My phone is paid for. How would I go about uninstalling the TMO stuff? blah!
I'm on the Verizon (VS990) variant.
I installed Greenify (as I always have) and was getting stupid battery drain. I noticed that I have an app called 'Restrict Idle Apps', which is a system app that I've never seen before. Hmm. Just for fun, I removed Greenify. I now get 1% or less per hour drain on idle. My guess is that LG made "their own version of greenify" and they were fighting it out, with my battery being the collateral damage.
Does anyone else have the 'Restrict Idle Apps' or is it unique to the VS990?
U can uninstall all the T-mobile bloat ware. Even the PR.adapt ect. I have on g4 and my v10. Don't uninstall the unlock app til 40 days after its been on the network then u can submit a temp unlock remove the app so it doesnt phone back to them that its a temp unlock and unlock your phone from the network without their help. Volte defense decreases battery life on all devices and wifi calling enabled will send all the same information that the my tmobile app does and is also how they are cracking down on people abusing the hotspot/teth feature
I was wondering if the battery would be good if it was used without a sim card and all the cellular features? I'm considering this watch because of the design. It does have a huge 570mah battery and I wouldnt use its cellular features. Thanks
anees167 said:
I was wondering if the battery would be good if it was used without a sim card and all the cellular features? I'm considering this watch because of the design. It does have a huge 570mah battery and I wouldnt use its cellular features. Thanks
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I lose 3-4% an hour with cellular off and paired by bluetooth.
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I lose 3-4% an hour with cellular off and paired by bluetooth.
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so it seems there isnt much of a difference compared to my sony smartwatch 3 which i get 2 to 3% loss an hour and it has a smaller battery at 400mah. I'm guessing probably that cellular hardware modules are draining the power, even though its not being used. it would be great to see the same watch without cellular function and same large battery. thanks
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I lose 3-4% an hour with cellular off and paired by bluetooth.
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By cellular off, do you have it in airplane mode or just left the SIM out and cellular set to automatic? I have mine in airplane right now, figuring that would save more battery, because I couldn't find a way to change cellular from "automatic" to "off" unless it was bugged or something.
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By cellular off, do you have it in airplane mode or just left the SIM out and cellular set to automatic? I have mine in airplane right now, figuring that would save more battery, because I couldn't find a way to change cellular from "automatic" to "off" unless it was bugged or something.
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I just turn cellular off. When I leave the phone behind I turn cellular to automatic to activate the SIM. When paired by bluetooth I just toggle cellular to off. Occasionally when I go out of bt range cellular will switch back to automatic on it's own. Most of the time mine will stay off. I never use airplane mode.
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I just turn cellular off. When I leave the phone behind I turn cellular to automatic to activate the SIM. When paired by bluetooth I just toggle cellular to off. Occasionally when I go out of bt range cellular will switch back to automatic on it's own. Most of the time mine will stay off. I never use airplane mode.
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I was able to turn off cellular without putting on Airplane mode after restarting the watch.
I used it heavily this weekend for GPS navigation, tracking on a 5K, notifications, phone calls (via BT), and ambient display always on. The watch never went below 50% during a single day of fairly heavy use. With the display off, I imagine it could get 2.5-3 days easily. 2 days should be do-able with the display always on, but I turn it off at night just to combat any chance of screen burn since we don't know how well this P-OLED will handle it.
Today my battery is at 98% after about 8 hours of use.
I get email notifications, etc. This is with cellular radio and wifi off.
It shows remaining battery of 3 days.
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Today my battery is at 98% after about 8 hours of use.
I get email notifications, etc. This is with cellular radio and wifi off.
It shows remaining battery of 3 days.
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That's impossible. Even if you disable the always on display. Your watch just isn't reporting the battery correctly. Might take a few cycles to get the battery level settled in. And if nothing else, I have noticed mine stays above 90% for awhile then drops off quicker.
You guys are doing much better than I am. I can take the watch off the charger, goto the office and be at 90% in less than an hour with LTE on. I can't get more than 4 hours with LTE on on this watch. I think it has to do with crappy signal strength, but what do I know? I just leave cellular turned off. Taked to LG and might send them the watch back to take a look at it.
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You guys are doing much better than I am. I can take the watch off the charger, goto the office and be at 90% in less than an hour with LTE on. I can't get more than 4 hours with LTE on on this watch. I think it has to do with crappy signal strength, but what do I know? I just leave cellular turned off. Taked to LG and might send them the watch back to take a look at it.
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I'd say if the signal reception is bad, that's definitely the reason. I've read several posts with this being the reason the battery drops fast. An example, I lose about 25%-30% an hour when I'm tracking runs with GPS, playing music through bluetooth and with cellular on paired to my phone that I leave behind. The cell signal in my area is good. A friend loses 60% an hour doing the same thing in a poor signal area. I lose about 3% an hour with normal usage and cell radio off.