It's my opinion that WiFi drains the battery faster than using strictly cell. I did two different tests on this for two days straight. With just WiFi on an in airplane mode in two hours doing Web surfing and social media as well as some light email and text battery drain was 11%.
Then I did the opposite using just 4g and no WiFi. Under the same circumstance I dropped only 8%.
Also I charged the battery back to 100% each time I tested.
My conclusion is that using WiFi only in certain circumstances would be ideal. Since I don't have great reception from home I need wifi BUT not when the phone sleeps. So the great solution is to select Never when asked in WiFi settings when to allow WiFi during sleep.
Easy right? Nope. Not. Because I'm now convinced that option is for some reason not working. Unless of course sleep only occurs after a certain time frame from shutting off the screen.
You can see I have option properly selected.
You can also see that according to GSM battery WiFi and cell signal are on for the same period of time despite my screen not being on at all times. How does this make sense?
Unless there is something else causing this to not work properly.
Thoughts anyone?
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Then I did the opposite using just 4g and no WiFi. Under the same circumstance I dropped only 8%.
Also I charged the battery back to 100% each time I tested.
My conclusion is that using WiFi only in certain circumstances would be ideal. Since I don't have great reception from home I need wifi BUT not when the phone sleeps. So the great solution is to select Never when asked in WiFi settings when to allow WiFi during sleep.
Easy right? Nope. Not. Because I'm now convinced that option is for some reason not working. Unless of course sleep only occurs after a certain time frame from shutting off the screen.
You can see I have option properly selected.
You can also see that according to GSM battery WiFi and cell signal are on for the same period of time despite my screen not being on at all times. How does this make sense?
Unless there is something else causing this to not work properly.
Thoughts anyone?
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