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RBR50, Draining mobile phone and tablet battery
Issue: Have new Orbi router and satellite. Install was vanilla - no issues. Updated firmware on both components to latest (a week ago). Worked as advertised- great, as a matter of fact. However, i...
Fair enough. A firmware fix would be welcome, but I could not live with the battery on the S7 draining so quickly, so I looked into it and saw the log had hundreds of connections from the phone IP address and determined that it was also switching bands all the time as well when reconnecting. I surmised this activity was what caused the battery to be used so quickly. As far as I know they have been working on the connecting and reconnecting issue for over 3 months now. My first support ticket on it is from October I think. There are other threads discussing it. My S7 now has approximately the same battery behavior in standby mode as a Google Pixel and Windows Lumia 950. Maybe my S7 is defective in a good way now and the things I tried to mitigate the disconnections were window dressing.
For reference, at another place where I have Linksys Velop setup, I have not experienced any battery draining behaviors, but the wireless backhaul on the Velop isn't nearly as fast or penetrating as the Orbi. That location has Wi-Fi friendly building materials and slower internet provider, so it works out very well.
For reference, at another place where I have Linksys Velop setup, I have not experienced any battery draining behaviors, but the wireless backhaul on the Velop isn't nearly as fast or penetrating as the Orbi. That location has Wi-Fi friendly building materials and slower internet provider, so it works out very well.
I just upgraded from an LG android to an S7... Not putting blame on either end of the phone - router combo but sometihing isn't right.
( first I thought it was just me )
My LG would use 10% max over night sitting 10 feet from the Orbi main router.. My S7 would drain about 40% over night
If it was the screen, I could understand , but sitting in standby with just wifi/data on was weird.
Five days of playing with settings, a few days learning the phone, turning extra junk, off drain was still high...
so last night, i just turned off the wifi leaving data on.
This morning it was down only 2% from full.... Interesting to say the least.
( mind that I haven't looked into why yet, just an obsevation )
I am hitting the same battery drain issue with my Galaxy Note 5. This was not an issue with my previous router. Last few nights the phone was left with about 50% battery remaining and woke up to a dead phone. WIFI signal is strong with the satellite sitting in the next room over.
I have noticed that a couple times yesterday the satellite LED ring turned solid blue instead of off. It stayed solid blue for a few minutes before turning back off. Not sure if this is related, but could be that the satellite is restarting?
As a note, I have started testing a few thing read here ( and a few from my own knowledge which is basic )...
Was updating the SW, but went back to .16 which helped a bit, but now running lastest version for testing
My Ipad g3 / 9.3.2 ios was dropping on a reg basis when streaming ( about every 10+ mins ) ... My new S7 ( on verizon ) was dropping 40% over night in standby without use.... Don't see any issue on a Dell laptop (win 10 ) nor Kindle Fire
So far, I have tried without any change;
1) turned off beam forming
2) turn off mu-mino ( don't think apple uses it (?) )
3) reset both phone and ipad
4) reset the wifi connection/pw in both
5) verified nothing running in back ground that stays alive in non use.
6) move Satellite 2x , in case the problem was jumping back and forth
7) turned off satellite
8) full reset both Sat and Orbi main
Last night , I was reading a prev thread and someone mentioned lowering the 2.4 ghz transmitter... one stated it help , another said NG
So I turned off my 2.4ghz side radio ( have few 2.4 ghz only devices )
It is to early to tell, but last night the ipad ran for 90 mins without a drop out... AND, my phone dropped only 25% over night
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I will be running this way for a few days to verify if it continues working and will add info then
