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Samsung Phones battery life sucks with Orbi
Since adding the RBR50 and 2 slave units my Samsung Phones (S8 and S5 and TabA's) all have horrible battery life. If I turn off Orbi and go back to the old AT&T Router and Mesh units the battery lif...
I'm experiencing a similar issue on my Razer Phone and I'm currently on the latest firmware for Orbi.
I've tried as suggested, enabling beamforming and MIMO and WMM, while disabling daisy chain, fast roaming , 20/40 mhz coexist, and ipv6.
My RBR50 router sits in my basement, while the satellite sits on one side of the house on the first floor. I also have 2 rbw30, 1 that sits on the other side of the first floor and then one that sits in the 2nd floor. Overall, the set up resembles a bit of a diamond.
Originally, everything was fine when I had just my RBR50 with the satellite included with it. I was running firmware 2.1.4.16 at the time since the latest firmware was giving me the battery drain issue. Once I bought the 2 rbw30's, the drain issue came back so I figured maybe the latest firmware would resolve the issue. Unfortuntely, it is not. I go to be around 1:30am (battery is at 100%) and wake up around 8am, which puts it at about 60%. Before buying the 2 rbw30's, it would only go from 100% to ~93%. I was wondering if there were any other suggestions that I can try.
What happens if you remove the RBWs from the mix and just run the RBR and the 1 RBS?
jaychu wrote:I'm experiencing a similar issue on my Razer Phone and I'm currently on the latest firmware for Orbi.
I've tried as suggested, enabling beamforming and MIMO and WMM, while disabling daisy chain, fast roaming , 20/40 mhz coexist, and ipv6.
My RBR50 router sits in my basement, while the satellite sits on one side of the house on the first floor. I also have 2 rbw30, 1 that sits on the other side of the first floor and then one that sits in the 2nd floor. Overall, the set up resembles a bit of a diamond.
Originally, everything was fine when I had just my RBR50 with the satellite included with it. I was running firmware 2.1.4.16 at the time since the latest firmware was giving me the battery drain issue. Once I bought the 2 rbw30's, the drain issue came back so I figured maybe the latest firmware would resolve the issue. Unfortuntely, it is not. I go to be around 1:30am (battery is at 100%) and wake up around 8am, which puts it at about 60%. Before buying the 2 rbw30's, it would only go from 100% to ~93%. I was wondering if there were any other suggestions that I can try.
FURRYe38 wrote:What happens if you remove the RBWs from the mix and just run the RBR and the 1 RBS?
I'll give it a shot tonight. Just out of curosity, I noticed OP had mentioned a galaxy tab was battery draining but you also having a galaxy tab was not battery draining. I've read a lot about factory resetting after firmware updates so I was wondering if you had done any factory resetting and if this was potentially an issue with old firmware sitting idly in the routers / satellitesAs part of my normal method of upgrading FW, I do also include a factory reset and setup from scratch for any router I test with.
jaychu wrote:
I'll give it a shot tonight. Just out of curosity, I noticed OP had mentioned a galaxy tab was battery draining but you also having a galaxy tab was not battery draining. I've read a lot about factory resetting after firmware updates so I was wondering if you had done any factory resetting and if this was potentially an issue with old firmware sitting idly in the routers / satellitesI am the one with the Galaxy Tab A that displays "normal" battery behavior. This time, I did not do a factory reset and reconfigure after updating firmware. Was prepared to, but no problems have surfaced (yet).
