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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...
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
I am now testing Google Wifi and will keep the one that performs better in my environment. Right away my Note 5 went back to about 8% battery drain overnight. Each night with the Orbi, the battery would fully deplete, even from 40-50% battery remaining.
While there are some customization and administration features available through Orbi that are not found in Google Wifi, this battery drain issue could be a dealbreaker for me. So far, coverage and performance are pretty equal for me.
Dupe from another thread but was relevant here too; ( first time I turned BOTH Beamforming and MU-MIMO off together )
WIFI not draining S7 now...
Just an observation re the Android devices,... Not exactly sure if new sw or changes made
Have a new S7 that was draining 30-40 % at night on standby with only wifi on, and IOS drop outs. I was more concerned with the IOS/Ipad issue as it stopped me from streaming without dropouts several times per hour.
Put in a trouble report and was sent a new debug version of sw just a bit newer than the latest version issued, ( .12 debug ) .06 is current.
Been running the debug sw for a week now and no answers yet from techs after 2 sets of logs submitted.
Last night I turned off Beamforming and MU-MIMO to try a few others things that others post here... for the IOS problem ( not even thinking about the android as I got use to turning off wifi at night )
Last night charged phone to 100% at 9pm, this morning at 8 am ( I left the wifi on just to see changes if any ) and found the S7 sitting at 97%...WOW!
The draining of the battery on the phone has stopped with wifi on. ( I was turning off the wifi and loosing 2% ) In both cases wifi on /wifi off the phone was in sleep mode with no apps runniing in background overnight
So, it appears that either the new SW or the disabling of Beamforming & MU-MIMO or both have solved my S7 wifi issue ( will turn the two back on tonight and retest to see if it's just the SW )
Sadly, still seeing the ipad drops now and then..but one issue fixed is better than none
+1 here, massive battery drain on my Android devices.
What's been the feedback from Netgear support?
battery drain can be caused by many things like having to many wifi signals in the one area , eg router and sat to close , to aggressive wifi settings in the client , sleep mode to sensivitive
check your logs and see how many times the device is reconnecting during the night
i have quite a few andriod type phones etc here and have no real issue with battery drain , in all i think we have 5 andriod phones ranging from sony xpedia to samsung 6 and no real noticable battery drain issues
Hello ThaBazz
We are aware of issues with battery drain on some devices have you tried to disable beam forming and MUMIMO?
DarrenM
I'll have to try with those off as well. I've been seeing the drain too, mostly on Android devices, though iOS to a lesser degree.
It is rather vexing as wifi performance has been exceptional.
