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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...
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.
I work from home, so I'd basically have to turn off Wifi 24x7 to avoid this issue. Which seems a bit backwards to me.
We are in the midst of packing to move and if I can't resolve this in the next 2 weeks, I'm just going to have to return the Orbi and worry about all of this after we get settled in at our new place.