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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...
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
In my case, both of those are already disabled, but I'm on the official release (.6) version. How would I go about getting the unreleased version? Just ask the support tech I've been working with?
csetera wrote:
In my case, both of those are already disabled, but I'm on the official release (.6) version. How would I go about getting the unreleased version? Just ask the support tech I've been working with?
that would prob be the only way... they sent me the debug version to have me capture logs
name of RBR50-V1.8.0.12-db0307
OK. I've asked my support technician for the version you referenced... hopefully they will come through. For the moment, I've had to switch back to my previous AP since the battery drain is so extreme.
Another option, which I was using at night, is to just switch off the wifi before going to bed.