As someone who is very happy with the battery life of my Tilt2, I have spent
the weekend in an area where 3G is not available and was wondering if all the
reports of poor battery life are the result of being in an "edge" area and the phone constantly searching for a 3G signal?
When I hit the sack at night in a 3G area, battery 100%, weather checking every 30-45 minutes, in the morning, it might drop to 98 or 99%, but the last
two mornings, in an edge area, the battery is down to 65-70%.
Like I said, I never worry about battery life, since most of the time I'm in a 3g(H) area, but wouldn't turning off the 3G radio extend battery life?
p51d007 said:
As someone who is very happy with the battery life of my Tilt2, I have spent
the weekend in an area where 3G is not available and was wondering if all the
reports of poor battery life are the result of being in an "edge" area and the phone constantly searching for a 3G signal?
When I hit the sack at night in a 3G area, battery 100%, weather checking every 30-45 minutes, in the morning, it might drop to 98 or 99%, but the last
two mornings, in an edge area, the battery is down to 65-70%.
Like I said, I never worry about battery life, since most of the time I'm in a 3g(H) area, but wouldn't turning off the 3G radio extend battery life?
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Yes, indeed. If you turn off 3G you get better battery life.
Are there any battery indicators like on this picture?
I've been messing with my gps lately and noticied my gps jumps from 1500 meters to 1 meter. Before my backup was erased it was so accurate it would show my exact position in my house. How can i get it back to original?
Do you get the orange color at signal in the battery usage?
It seems im not getting good signal 100% of the time when i turn on wifi.
Anyone has this problem?
Ever since November update, 5G drains battery at a rate of ~2-3% per hour. The "Mobile network" would go up to 90% battery consumption in Battery usage in Settings while the device is idle.
Before November, the phone would consume 0.5% per hour while idle.
After November, if you turn off 5G in settings and use LTE, the phone would consume 0.5% per hour while idle. The "Mobile network" would now consume less than 40%.
So it's clear that 5G is solely responsible for the accelerated battery drain.
The 5G signal strength is ~ -90 dB, while LTE signal strength is ~ -100 dB from About phone/Sim status in Settings. And yet the connection bars show about 20% full when connected to 5G, while they show about 80% full when connected to LTE.
These observations make me think that the November update introduced some kind of a bug which makes the phone think that the 5G signal is extra weak, which results in constant switching between LTE and 5G.
Does this sound about right? How can this be fixed w/o disabling 5G?
Thanks.
Just checked another phone, Galaxy S22, connected to the same network. It shows the same decibels -95 for signal strength, yet it shows full bars, but my phone shows almost no bars.