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csetera
Apr 10, 2017Tutor
Android battery impacts with Orbi
I recently purchased an Orbi with a single satellite from Amazon. Unfortunately, I'm seeing serious battery drain on my Android devices with the Orbi versus my R6250 setup. If I swap the R6250 back...
TomMac
Apr 10, 2017Guru
this may help...my S7 was draining up to 40% at night before changes, now its down to 2-3% ( which is normal )
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Dupe from another thread but was relevant here too; ( first time I turned BOTH Beamforming and MU-MIMO off together )
WIFI not draining S7 now...
Just an observation re the Android devices,... Not exactly sure if new sw or changes made
Have a new S7 that was draining 30-40 % at night on standby with only wifi on, and IOS drop outs. I was more concerned with the IOS/Ipad issue as it stopped me from streaming without dropouts several times per hour.
Put in a trouble report and was sent a new debug version of sw just a bit newer than the latest version issued, ( .12 debug ) .06 is current.
Been running the debug sw for a week now and no answers yet from techs after 2 sets of logs submitted.
Last night I turned off Beamforming and MU-MIMO to try a few others things that others post here... for the IOS problem ( not even thinking about the android as I got use to turning off wifi at night )
Last night charged phone to 100% at 9pm, this morning at 8 am ( I left the wifi on just to see changes if any ) and found the S7 sitting at 97%...WOW!
The draining of the battery on the phone has stopped with wifi on. ( I was turning off the wifi and loosing 2% ) In both cases wifi on /wifi off the phone was in sleep mode with no apps runniing in background overnight
So, it appears that either the new SW or the disabling of Beamforming & MU-MIMO or both have solved my S7 wifi issue