Did anyone try to compare battery life between no data connection and idle data connection?
I always turn data connection off after update, but I am asking how does idle data connection effects battery?
I know it drains it...but how much?
And the reason I don't know results from myself...
Sometimes my battery drops from 100 to 90 or less over the night, sometimes from 100 to 80 or even more, with the same usage or any usage at all...so I don't know how to compare it because it's so random...and this is without data connections, it is only device with phone on in sleep mode...
I once compared an over night-drain where no connection took 3% of the battery and with data connection 4%. Approx 8h sleep
It's hard for me to compare during normal use since my usage varies a lot from day to day. So I have nothing to contribute during daytime usage.
umiss said:
I once compared an over night-drain where no connection took 3% of the battery and with data connection 4%. Approx 8h sleep
It's hard for me to compare during normal use since my usage varies a lot from day to day. So I have nothing to contribute during daytime usage.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I was using wmlonglife for some time, however one time it stops to work - i have found that i had a permament data connection in idle, but didn't notice a thing, so technically it do not drains the phone dramatically
when you guys say "idle" data connection, is the phone not automatically checking for email accounts etc? If not have you disabled them overnight - how do you do that please?
From yesterday until today, until now, I left idle data connection and it dropped in 12h from 80 to 75.
When I tried to close connection and left it overnight it dropped from 100 to 93.
By my expirience there is difference in battery drain: 15% with idle data connectino and 7% without data connection.
But numbers change from day to day...but more or less is 2x more when i have data connection on idle
might have to do with the network.. most networks do their work at night because they seem to asume everybody is asleep.. it could be offline every now and then but keeps searching for updates..
Mine has 3g toggle turned off, but the 'data connection' toggle is always on, i have three email accounts that get checked over edge every 2 hours, and battery drops roughly 2% during 7 hours sleep.
yuo have 3g off permanently or just overnight?
What do you "lose" when using 2g vs 3g?
My options about 3g mode is set to auto, so I guess it switch to 3g or hsdpa when available...
wigwam12 said:
yuo have 3g off permanently or just overnight?
What do you "lose" when using 2g vs 3g?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
yea 3g permanently off. I live right on the edge of my local 3g coverage, and with it on itchews through the battery as it switches on/off/on/off. I get full reception using edge which is easily fast enough for surfing low bandwidth sites(like xda dev! ) twitter and emails etc.
my HD2 drains battery VERY fast when i have idle connections. when i don't turn them off my phone battery is from 100% to empty in about 6 hours.. but maybe there is a problem with my device / rom.
i hate to use your thread for topic for this but maybe anyone can help me with my battery being empty so fast? i am using Dutch stock rom v1.66 with standard radio rom. i am going to try a newer radio rom tonight. but i dont think that is going to help mutch.. i dont mind flashing to a custom rom but i want the same user interface as i now have. i dont like the custom one's with their shiny buttons and stuff..
would really apreciate help / advise!
samsamuel said:
yea 3g permanently off. I live right on the edge of my local 3g coverage, and with it on itchews through the battery as it switches on/off/on/off. I get full reception using edge which is easily fast enough for surfing low bandwidth sites(like xda dev! ) twitter and emails etc.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks. I think the most bandwidth site I would currently access is Facebook.
I will try 2G then. When I get more into using the phone as an internet device I guess I could turn it on.
Mind you in the middle of a major city and moving from Voda "excellent" to "very good" signal zones it should stay 3G most of the time not switch so often......
the rom i.m using makes it easy to manage data, left soft button on home screen brings up comm manager and all the toggles have been activated, takes moments to switch on/off 3g and wifi, the rest of the time the edge data just works fine.
incidentally, in terms of power use other things to look at that might get overlooked, block size on sd card, if its real small and you have lots of sd card access, such as progs installed there, browser cache there, can significantly increase the number of read writes to the card in any given time period, costing power.
I was looking through the settings menu on my phone , I9023 running nexus beam 4.1, and we all know about the android os battery drain problem. Well I was looking through data usage and saw that android is d/l like 1mb of background data over my 3g connection and about 17mb over my wifi. This would surely push up the percentage of battery used by Android os.
I would like to know what data this is and will it stop d/ling data and leaving our batteries alone. If it is the reason for the battery drain.
Just checked mine
Almost same usage here
How can I stop it from accessing the network
Sent from an oICS'd Nexus S 4G v36 cuz Google dissed us
nodstuff said:
I was looking through the settings menu on my phone , I9023 running nexus beam 4.1, and we all know about the android os battery drain problem. Well I was looking through data usage and saw that android is d/l like 1mb of background data over my 3g connection and about 17mb over my wifi. This would surely push up the percentage of battery used by Android os.
I would like to know what data this is and will it stop d/ling data and leaving our batteries alone. If it is the reason for the battery drain.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
How do you check this?
Using battery settings, I cannot see how much on mobile data and how much on wifi. Mine is about 750kb...
not sure how to stop it, or if it can be stopped but that background data A. costs money if over 3g and B. is surely contributing to battery problems! the sooner it is sorted the better. sometimes android os uses more battery than my screen.
gogol said:
How do you check this?
Using battery settings, I cannot see how much on mobile data and how much on wifi. Mine is about 750kb...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
press menu cap button when in data usage and tick wifi usage box, then click wifi tab on top and scroll down to find android os.
I've got a daily plan. 1GB each day. I wanted to set daily data usage for my phone and i remember there was a daily option on android 4 but now there's no option to change.. only monthly. This is so silly.
Also, third party apps now are not able to block data when the counter reaches a certain amount. This means that if i have a daily plan i cannot stop the connection if it reaches a certain amount.
I am missing something here? Hope so.
After i got essential phone , i am seeing a difference in the data usage reported by phone vs the actual usage. Phone always shows the data usage as less 10 MB but actual network usage is above 1 GB. Is there a easy fix for this? I am on Android 7.1.1 and with Jan security update installed.
Screenshots:
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOSzLYInMzVY397g6MM4jzersVU5l0h7SNt5LL3OE_8et4ryfreRS8OCPo98lPokQ?key=Mmk3OU1WYXZwY2JmRWtHUElQc2dncWFVZU5ZMUR3
Thanks
When you click more options on the data usage screen, look at the middle of the screen that comes up. There should be an option for billing cycle, make sure it syncs up with your actual billing cycle.
barteringram said:
When you click more options on the data usage screen, look at the middle of the screen that comes up. There should be an option for billing cycle, make sure it syncs up with your actual billing cycle.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Issue is not with the billing cycle. Billing cycle is correct for me. Even at the end of billing it has not crossed 10MB in the past 2 cycles.
There's a bug with this phone regarding this issue. Mine is the same, but I've never relied on the phone's reporting. That's what the MySprint app is for.
It seems WiFi usage only displays the last 30 days or something. Is there any way to make it more specific?
I need an app that can filter past WiFi usage to specific days. It cannot just start monitoring after I install it.
The ability to filter data usage the same way would be nice too, instead of only seeing billing cycle. Thanks.