Does WiFi drain your battery?

[anon(782252)]

Is creating tons of threads a thing nowadays?

It's so easy even a caveman can do it.

 

[B. Diddy]

Is creating tons of threads a thing nowadays?

What are you referring to?

 

[recDNA]

Is wi-fi scanning turned on? That can be found in different locations depending on the phone On my Nexus 6P, it's in Settings>Location, then Menu>Scanning>Wi-Fi Scanning. On the Note5, it's in Settings>Privacy>Location>Improve Accuracy​. Not sure where it is on the V20.

If I shut off wifi does the setting keep wifi on during sleep eat battery life?

 

[Matty]

Without a doubt utilizing Wi-Fi instead of your cellular connection extends your battery life a lot. Especially if you have low signal strength where you live. Love using it.

A droid a day, keep the apple away.

 

[recDNA]

Without a doubt utilizing Wi-Fi instead of your cellular connection extends your battery life a lot. Especially if you have low signal strength where you live. Love using it.

A droid a day, keep the apple away.

Not in my experience. In fact battery shows wifi using battery even when phone is sleeping and wifi is turned off! I get 3 or 4 bars of LTE at home and I have udp so I usually shut off wifi at night. With wifi off it annoys me to see it uses battery.

My wifi signal may not be great where I leave my phone overnight. Router is at other end of house on a different floor. I also only use the fast wifi channel (5 GHz) which doesn't have as much range as the slower.

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

Without a doubt utilizing Wi-Fi instead of your cellular connection extends your battery life a lot. Especially if you have low signal strength where you live. Love using it.

A droid a day, keep the apple away.

Nope. My battery dies way quicker with WiFi.

 

[Ryano89]

Without a doubt utilizing Wi-Fi instead of your cellular connection extends your battery life a lot. Especially if you have low signal strength where you live. Love using it.

A droid a day, keep the apple away.

Not so much on my V20.

 

[Almeuit]

Not in my experience. In fact battery shows wifi using battery even when phone is sleeping and wifi is turned off! I get 3 or 4 bars of LTE at home and I have udp so I usually shut off wifi at night. With wifi off it annoys me to see it uses battery.

My wifi signal may not be great where I leave my phone overnight. Router is at other end of house on a different floor. I also only use the fast wifi channel which doesn't have as much range as the slower. I forget the jargon.

Any weak signal (wifi or LTE) can drain a battery. Since your WiFi is weak in your house when you sleep that could very well explain the bigger drain on WiFi VS LTE.

 

[recDNA]

Any weak signal (wifi or LTE) can drain a battery. Since your WiFi is weak in your house when you sleep that could very well explain the bigger drain on WiFi VS LTE.

But even with wifi OFF on phone it uses 2% of battery a night.

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

Any weak signal (wifi or LTE) can drain a battery. Since your WiFi is weak in your house when you sleep that could very well explain the bigger drain on WiFi VS LTE.

My work WiFi drains my battery and Im right by the modem and its a strong signal.. I started a topic about it a little while ago

 

[Almeuit]

But even with wifi OFF on phone it uses 2% of battery a night.

Do you have this option on? Under location > Advanced? Also check under WiFi > Advanced and ensure you don't have it set to allow Google to randomly check WiFi networks around you.

 

[Almeuit]

My work WiFi drains my battery and Im right by the modem and its a strong signal.. I started a topic about it a little while ago

Technically anything will drain the battery but are you doing stuff like streaming music and stuff over the WiFi or is it sitting idle?

 

[recDNA]

Technically anything will drain the battery but are you doing stuff like streaming music and stuff over the WiFi or is it sitting idle?

Sitting idle overnight. I shut off wifi and bluetooth scanning. Didn't happen at first. Used to get 100% overnight. Then 99. Then 98. This morning only 95%. Always charge fully before going to bed. Leave phone face down which I think shuts of second screen. Phone idle and wifi use the most battery even wifi and wifi scanning are shut off. I wondered if shutting off "wifi stays awake" setting would do anything? I've tried wifi on and wifi off. Doesn't seem to matter. Wifi using about 2% of battery every night. I was spoiled by the great numbers the first week. 95% Isn't horrible after 8 hours but had been pretty consistently at 98% or better before. Phone seems to go about 6 hours with no drain at all then last 2 or 3 hours it drains.

 

[recDNA]

My work WiFi drains my battery and Im right by the modem and its a strong signal.. I started a topic about it a little while ago

This is yours! LOL

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

This is yours! LOL

Hahahahahahahahahaha darn Tapatalk.

 

[Almeuit]

Sitting idle overnight. I shut off wifi and bluetooth scanning. Didn't happen at first. Used to get 100% overnight. Then 99. Then 98. This morning only 95%. Always charge fully before going to bed. Leave phone face down which I think shuts of second screen. Phone idle and wifi use the most battery even wifi and wifi scanning are shut off. I wondered if shutting off "wifi stays awake" setting would do anything? I've tried wifi on and wifi off. Doesn't seem to matter. Wifi using about 2% of battery every night. I was spoiled by the great numbers the first week. 95% Isn't horrible after 8 hours but had been pretty consistently at 98% or better before. Phone seems to go about 6 hours with no drain at all then last 2 or 3 hours it drains.

I mean did you check for those settings? The settings I am talking about allows Google to fire up your wifi and bluetooth to scan nearby devices at random. Even if you shut them off before you went to bed.

 

[recDNA]

I mean did you check for those settings? The settings I am talking about allows Google to fire up your wifi and bluetooth to scan nearby devices at random. Even if you shut them off before you went to bed.

wifi scanning right? it's off.

 

[B. Diddy]

If I shut off wifi does the setting keep wifi on during sleep eat battery life?

Keep Wi-fi On During Sleep only matters if you have wi-fi turned on. If that setting is off, then even if you have wi-fi turned on, it will turn off when the phone is asleep. However, the wi-fi scanning option we've been discussing can allow the system to turn on wi-fi (sometimes very often), even when you have manually kept it off, in order to improve location accuracy.

Conventional wisdom is that wi-fi uses less battery than mobile data, but I also have seen the opposite. My Nexus 6P often shows the battery curve leveling off when I turn off wi-fi at home, and just use my T-Mobile data connection (which is faster than my home wi-fi anyway!). And my wi-fi signal is strong at home.

 

[recDNA]

My home wifi is much faster but at the far end of the house where signal is weak it drains battery. I really have no serious complaint. So phone loses 5% overnight. I push 4 email addys. Just find it odd wifi uses battery with wifi off. wifi scanning off. Bluetooth scanning off.

 

[RaRa85]

I'm just gonna say this one time :If your battery is draining with Wi-Fi connected, you're doing it wrong. So many factors though but Wi-Fi is like Viagra for my phone. Keeps it up all the time.lol Disclaimer: I've never used Viagra personally.

Nothing to see here folks. Carry on.