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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...
Just upgraded to v19112 a few days ago. Will be testing to see if the drain persists, I did notice alot of actual drops and switching. Eg: my phone reconnects to the Orbi vs being seamless.
I have completely turned off the 2.4GHz radio on the Orbi since I don't have any legacy devices and also disable beam forming and MUMIMO and all this has seemed to help with the battery drain somewhat but again these are only bandaids to a bigger problem the root cause still need to be addressed by Engineering.
I have been dealing with this issue since February purchase (2017). It looks like my specific use case issue went away when I updated my Samsung Galexy Note 5 OS from 6.0.1 Marshmallow to 7.0 Nougat (not a recomendation from Netgear). In fact, it seems that the Orbi/Nougat combination is draining the battery even less that the Netgear N600/Marshmallow setup I had before. (Of course, that could be related to any number of Nougat system efficiencies.) The open ticket I had with Netgear for my particular situation was closed. We have another Note 5 from another carrier that isn't ready to be upgraded to Nougat that is still experiencing the problem. I don't believe that the root cause of the issue was necessarily addressed, which is probably some kind of backward compatibility thing.
Yes, this appears to still be happening.
Running Galaxy S7 with both os 6.x and 7, I experienced drain on the phone over night. Originally it was as high as 40% but as the Orbi FW got a bit better it dropped to about 25%...still not exceptable.
I currently run the ORBI with beamforming and mu-mimmo off ( no other settings changes )... this fixes the issue as phone now drops only 2-3% overnight while in standby. (
I do know that Netgear is working on the issue and maybe soon to resolve it
