Talk Time Drain (Verizon VoLTE)

Jbartu

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Is anyone having any issues with excessive battery drain caused by talk time? I was having excellent battery life on my Verizon Note 5 until I used my phone for voice calls for an extended period of time. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with Verizon VoLTE, but I have noticed a considerable difference. My talk time is almost consuming as much battery as my screen.


Thanks!
 
Look on the second battery screen - tap the graph to get to it. Is your cell signal solid green?

Also run LTE Discovery - is your :LTE signal strong?

Weak signals cost battery.
 
Look on the second battery screen - tap the graph to get to it. Is your cell signal solid green?

Also run LTE Discovery - is your :LTE signal strong?



Weak signals cost battery.

I have not been able to access the 2nd battery screen since the rollout of Lollipop. But this is pretty consistent regardless of the area I'm traveling through.
 
An app like gsam would also record signal strength.

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Thanks dphm00,I have Gsam. How do you check signal strength history?

Click on the graph button on the lower left. Then select the phone signal on the top radio buttons.

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Thank you!

It doesn't seem like many people on this forum use their phones for talking much. Can anyone share their battery stats with some talk time on it, and maybe their carrier for comparison?
 
Just want to let people know that if you have high cell standby drain and you're on to go into the phone app settings and turn off voice over LTE. That helps my idle drain tremendously
 
Just want to let people know that if you have high cell standby drain and you're on to go into the phone app settings and turn off voice over LTE. That helps my idle drain tremendously
I think that will also make it so talk and data at same time won't work

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Just want to let people know that if you have high cell standby drain and you're on to go into the phone app settings and turn off voice over LTE. That helps my idle drain tremendously

Thanks for the help but I can't find this setting to turn off. Where exactly is this feature?
 
I don't find having advanced calling off or on makes any difference for my battery

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I wondered if that's what it was under. I have that turned off too. Thanks
 

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I'm pretty sure that it's lillipop cause when I had Samsung Galaxy S6, LG G4, and Note 5 they all had high cell standby time on Verizon. However, if you turn off wifi the high cell standby time disappears. At least it did for me and as i said that it did it for all the 3 phones mentioned. So I leave the wifi off when out and about and turn on when home or office. I use llama app to automate the wifi setting but it doesn't always work for me.... this is at least my solution and has always worked. Hopefully they'll fix...
 
I'm pretty sure that it's lillipop cause when I had Samsung Galaxy S6, LG G4, and Note 5 they all had high cell standby time on Verizon. However, if you turn off wifi the high cell standby time disappears. At least it did for me and as i said that it did it for all the 3 phones mentioned. So I leave the wifi off when out and about and turn on when home or office. I use llama app to automate the wifi setting but it doesn't always work for me.... this is at least my solution and has always worked. Hopefully they'll fix...

Actually that doesn't seem to be the case. I keep WiFi on all the time and have Lollipop, on 3 devices and have never had high cell standby