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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...
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
Thanks for sharing, very interesting! I had already lowered the 2.4 radio to 75%, but can't turn it off completely as I do have devices that require it. Also need it for the range, especially in the summer when we're out in the yard.
25% drain still seems very high. I have generally averaged ~10% overnight drop on my Note 5, even with several accounts syncing.
I have a Google Wifi 3-pack on the way and will be testing with that as well and then keeping the best overall performer.
Tag66 wrote:
Thanks for sharing, very interesting! I had already lowered the 2.4 radio to 75%, but can't turn it off completely as I do have devices that require it. Also need it for the range, especially in the summer when we're out in the yard.
25% drain still seems very high. I have generally averaged ~10% overnight drop on my Note 5, even with several accounts syncing.
I have a Google Wifi 3-pack on the way and will be testing with that as well and then keeping the best overall performer.
Yes.. 25% is high, but better than 40% :)...
My old LG android phone use to drop close to yours at about 7% per night. Also the origninal SW that came with the Orbi ( don't remember but it was before guest access ) was the same low usage rate overnight, likewise same low usage with my old phone on old router