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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...
Having a S7 edge and a galaxy tab s2, I do not experience any battery drain with orbi.
Beam forming is enabled and MUMIMO is disabled.
firmware version V1.8.0.6.
the only thing I can't manage to work, is registering for a free Netgear account for Dynamic DNS
I have the same problem with my LG G4. Orbi is at V1.9.1.12. The battery drain on my phone is going so fast I can see the % drop as I keep watching. A fully charged phone in the morning barely lasts until lunch time when I am at home and not even using it very much. Before, and when I am not at home, on a typical day it easily lasts through the day with 40% or more left when I go to bed (and plug in the charger). This morning, it didn't even get fully charged overnight.
The main battery drainer according to the battery menu on the phone says simply "Android Operating System" so that is not helping much. The details for Android Operating System specify "keep awake" for excessive times (almost the whole time from the moment it got unplugged).
I also notice the wifi range symbol in the top bar "jumping" a lot, as if it switching between networks with differing signal strength. Opening the wifi menu however it is ever connected to the same network (the Orbi wifi), so that must be between different connections to the Orbi network. It even does this when I am clearly much closer to one of the units, so my guess is (but I cannot back this statement up because I cannot tell the difference from the phone) that the switching is more between the 2.4 and 5 Ghz networks than it is between the main router and the satellite. There are also hardly any other wifi signals around that could have been disturbing.
I have uninstalled the Wifi Prioritizer app I used before, both because I hoped I wouldn't need it any longer now owning an Orbi, and to rule it out as a cause of these issues.
I have tried with beamforming and mu-mimo both off, both on, and with beamforming off and mu-mimo on, but none of these combinations made a difference. At this point I am assuming that the LG G4 (and from what I am reading in this thread, also other phones) somehow does not play well with having a 2.4 and 5 Ghz network with the same SSID.
If I find time this weekend I plan on tinkering with turning the transmit power for either down completely and see if that helps, just to try and pinpoint a cause.