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I've noticed that the battery drains much faster on 3G/4G than Wifi. What i've read is that wifi uses more battery than 3G and 4G uses the most. I don't find much difference between 3g/4g and find much better battery while on wifi.
please advise.
thanks.
wifi uses way less battery than either 3g or 4g.
The battery life will depend on the signal strength of your 3G or 4G connection. This does not always equate with the number of bars. (Settings=>About phone=>Status=>Signal strength) A reading of -90 dBm is better than -109 dBm. Being inside a building vs outside will give you different readings as well. You are likely to get a stronger signal outside in the open than inside an inclosed space. The weaker your 3G/4G signal, the more power required to sustain the connection. Your WiFi signal (assuming it's strong) will help conserve your battery better than a weak 3G/4G signal.
Its commonly known that wifi indeed uses much less battery life that 3g. Wifi latency and speeds compensate and you get much longer battery life using wifi rather than 3g. So use wifi whenever possible.
You even see manufacturers rated specs confirm this. Look at apple's specs for iphone, they give higher times on wifi than 3g. And anandtech tests confirm this with every handset they test.
Rate this thread to express how you think the Honor 8's Wifi performs. A higher rating indicates that it has excellent range, throughput, and signal strength. Like when you're taking a dump in the bedroom upstairs, do your videos have to buffer or do they come through without interruption?
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Excellent range, picks up my wifi as soon as I pull in range. I pick up service outside myhouse, my garage, downstair, and every corner upstair. I like the wifi+ setup they have going on that manages your wifi settings. Neat feature.
mgbotoe said:
Excellent range, picks up my wifi as soon as I pull in range. I pick up service outside myhouse, my garage, downstair, and every corner upstair. I like the wifi+ setup they have going on that manages your wifi settings. Neat feature.
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What does this Wi-Fi+ do?!
Wifi... Not working. Haha. I mean, not working AT ALL.
I should be really unlucky and may have received a defective unit. When trying to activate WiFi, it does nothing, then the phone is laggy when trying to move away from the settings screen. Wifi never turns on, I even tried a stock wipe, it did not help.
I think I'll have to send it back to the shop
Wifi reception is very good actually. We have a room in the house that has very poor reception but i can easily watch a 1080p 60fps youtube video with the Honor 8. Something i wasn't able to do before.
very long wifi range on this phone
Excellent wifi reception, connects very fast though
i feel like wifi is not as stroong as it should
Wi-fi seems very good to me
Wifi range is long enough
Wifi is good enough for me. Signal reception is good through close to three brick walled room. After that wifi+ will kick in and switch to mobile data. It's much better than my mom's huawei g8
Wifi is good, but no Wifi-Calling so far. Hopefully there will be future release to fix the wifi calling feature on their part.
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What does this Wi-Fi+ do?!
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It will automatically turn off Wifi and switch to mobile data when there is no known networks. But when you are in coverage of known (saved) networks it will turned on and connect automatically.
I have problems with Wifi. I only have 40 Mbits/s on my 120 Mbits connection. Other devices have 80 or more.
I'm using newest nougat update from 6.02.2017.
Any idea what to do?
Best regards
My WiFi shows only two bars even within the range of less than 1 meter. It happens sometimes. What could be the issue?
The wifi is overall very good but it drains the battery .. so if someone want better battery and SOT he should turn it always of to save the battery
I had problem with Wifi when I was on B131, it tooks forever to connect, on A7 it's okay.
I'm a little bit dissapointed with speed, i think it's slower then other devices same as using LTE connection. (max. 25Mbps, while on O+3 40Mbps).
The strenght of the WiFi signal is good, but the speed is very bad. In 100Mbps WiFi network the Speed test results vary from 40 to 70Mbps.
Got no problems with my 5GHz router.
no signal drop.connct really fast.
We know how much you like to stream, ahem, "videos", and so cellular data is mega-important. Rate this thread to express how you think the Google Pixel's LTE performs. A higher rating indicates that it's fantastic: throughput is excellent and signal strength is top-notch.
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I have been having awful 4g signal strength, throughput is fine, but suffers greatly when the signal drops out every 30-60 seconds. I might have a faulty device, not sure. Currently testing side by side with an identical device.
Edit: Pixel on Verizon, purchased through Google Store.
I give it much higher rating over my Nexus 5 as comparison.
For instance, in a regional "subway tunnel" with a roof opening to the air over it, I have more consistent signal. So far, the signal drops less than it used to in those dropout areas.
Data transmission is faster too. In general sites load well.
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When sitting right next to my Galaxy S6, the signal strength of the Pixel seems to be consistently 1 bar lower than what the S6 is showing. I know that is relative terms, but in terms of absolutes, as it sits right this minute, the Pixel is fluctuating between -85 dbm and -117dbm, whereas the S6 is at a very solid -72-77dbm, when connected to a Verizon Microcell across the room (~20 ft) from me.
This shows that the Pixel indeed has lower signal strength.
I average 80 - 160 Mbps on Verizon. Any slowness I have is directly related to the carriers business, aggregation, etc. and not the phone. Im totally happy with it.
I know they're not exactly related, but one of the main reasons I bought a pixel (besides just wanting one) is because my Nexus 6p seems to have horrendous cell and gps signal strength. How consistant is the signal? Does it disconnect from either and if it does, how frequent is it? I'm picking up my shiny new pixel phone today, and I guess I'll find out soon enough, I just wanted to see how your guys' experiences have been so far.
same here!
I noticed terrible service with the 6p as well, so far the pixel seems better. The GPS is much better as well.
Speed seems ok, havent noticed any real lag yet, I have had mine for about a week, somehow got mine a few days early (shipping error?)
Based on speedtest.net tests, WiFi appears to be much slower than the 6p, coming in at 17 Mbps where my 6p sitting in the same spot on the same network was at 26-30 Mbps
Regular black Pixel 128GB ordered through the Google store. Signal strength at home isn't quite as good as my Moto X Pure. Not a big surprise, because if nothing else, Moto has the reception game down pat. Will have a better Idea tomorrow because I just received the phone today and have been nowhere else but home.
On a side note, this phone just feels a lot nicer than my X. It's all of the little things that add up to make it a very nice experience.
I live in a poor signal area, and Telstra (Australia) LTE signal strength is higher than my Galaxy S6
I was a bit reluctant to get the pixel because my carrier didn't enable VoLTE and Wifi calling on it. I noticed that even though it goes down to 3G for phone calls, it goes back to LTE right after I hang up which it pretty bad ass!
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With my 5X I was getting dropouts and dropped calls at work which is a metal clean room inside a metal factory building. I could barely maintain 3G, most of the times on 1x. Every so often I would get lucky and be able to stream a youtube video. Speed was less than 1mbs, usually 0.2-0.5. With the Pixel I see LTE and have used it for a few phone calls expecting it to drop or not be heard on the phone but I had no problems. I don't use LTE for voice calls. Data speeds are now about 2-3 mbps. 20 mb app took about 10 seconds to download. That would have taken several minutes with the 5X. So in my experience much better signal using Verizon UDP.
Out side the house didn't notice any issues but at my house **** reception which is normal so I had a service extender that my galaxy 5 used just fine my pixel don't like it thought . But now that I can use wifi calling with this phone don't matter
So far it seems to be about on par with my Nexus 6 which had better signal than any other phone I've used. My 5x would drop to 3g in certain spots in my house and was a pain tethering occasionally. The pixel has been great.
Google store pixel on vzw
Not happy with cell reception. My HTC One M9 gets better signal. Drops from 4G to 3G then nothing until I cut the radio off and then back on. Flashed most recent radio from verizon software with no difference.
For me Nexus 5 works in subway tunnel on first 3 staitions from home without problem. I can talk whole time, but on pixel i can't do the same thing. Nexus 5 is so much better. Better reception, same display size with same resolution but more ergonomic, wireless charging, screen casting (which works everywhere not only on google chromecast like pixel does), easy to open and replace battery or anything and it's 3 years older then Pixel. Feels like Google degraded in those 3 years. Released nexus 6 which sucks, then nexus 5x which bricks itself in an instant, and 6p which does same thing plus bends like a b**ch
Google should have just released Nexus 5 again with amoled screen, better specs and 100% Same visually, that would be absolutely AMAZING.
Rate this thread to express how you think the Samsung Galaxy S8+'s Wifi performs. A higher rating indicates that it has excellent range, throughput, and signal strength. Like when you're taking a dump in the bedroom upstairs, do your videos have to buffer or do they come through without interruption?
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I find that there is no buffering, good wifi signal all over my house. Home router is a big part of that.
This is the worst part of the phone byfar. Wifi extend much further than it did on my Nexus 6 but it extends it so far that my connection could be at 50k and remain connected. This causes the connection to appear stalled but really it is just buffering.
I have turned on WiFi switching and then advanced WiFi switching but both options are subpar. They almost never like the strength of my wifi signal.
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good wifi signal all over my house
im at the edge of the garden, some 100m away and still getting good WiFi netflix without buffering on an older linksys E3200
i get enough lag that playing online MOBA's on wifi is awful.
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i get enough lag that playing online MOBA's on wifi is awful.
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That might be because of your network? I'm playing Arena of Valor another MOBA and I have no lag at all with a constant 60fps gameplay
We know how much you like to stream, ahem, "videos", and so cellular data is mega-important. Rate this thread to express how you think the Samsung Galaxy A51's LTE performs. A higher rating indicates that it's fantastic: throughput is excellent and signal strength is top-notch.
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I want to know A51 cellular strength, I have A50 and it's bad. So I want to change to A51 if it's not have signal problem
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SixPaths said:
I want to know A51 cellular strength, I have A50 and it's bad. So I want to change to A51 if it's not have signal problem
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from indonesia. works fine here. never experienced bad reception.
Quite weak in Bangladesh. Not that apparent in city areas but when you go outside the city it is extremely weak. The wifi is also weak, walking a little far from the router will totally disconnect it. Ans once disconnected, it doesn't connect to the router automatically, you have to toggle wifi off/on. Doesn't happen with my 4 year old J7 Pro. Apparently all the recent models of Samsung has weak antenna design for health safety.