Wifi

[Jeremiah Bonds]

I don't know if you've seen my various discussions about wifi, but I always had an issue with wifi sucking my battery for some reason. I always had it set to turning off when the screen is off.. well last night I decided to try to keep it on at all times. I lost only 1% over night. I'll further rest this thought the day at work and such. I remembered I only use wifi where my data is the weakest so it makes total sense. I'll come back with my findings.

 

[JkdJedi]

Also try the aggressive handover in developers section, although I only use Wi-Fi at home (as it really is the only safe place to use from prying eyes), unless you use a VPN when your out there, what service do you have that its better to use Wi-Fi? With unlimited data and strong signals 4g in a lot of areas is faster anyways.

 

[nathdogg1985]

I don't know if you've seen my various discussions about wifi, but I always had an issue with wifi sucking my battery for some reason. I always had it set to turning off when the screen is off.. well last night I decided to try to keep it on at all times. I lost only 1% over night. I'll further rest this thought the day at work and such. I remembered I only use wifi where my data is the weakest so it makes total sense. I'll come back with my findings.

Back in my Galaxy S6 days, I always found leaving wifi on all the time used less battery then having it turn off when the screen was off.

I think if your phone is transferring a lot of background data, it's more efficient to do this over wifi.

At the moment my G6 is set for WiFi off when screen is off and I lose between 6-10% overnight, I may try keeping wifi on all the time tonight to compare data with you.

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

Also try the aggressive handover in developers section, although I only use Wi-Fi at home (as it really is the only safe place to use from prying eyes), unless you use a VPN when your out there, what service do you have that its better to use Wi-Fi? With unlimited data and strong signals 4g in a lot of areas is faster anyways.

I only use wifi at home and at work.. my 4G LTE with T-Mobile is pretty much blazing everywhere I go.. so wifi is never a huge deal for me but i would like to have the option

 

[JkdJedi]

I only use wifi at home and at work.. my 4G LTE with T-Mobile is pretty much blazing everywhere I go.. so wifi is never a huge deal for me but i would like to have the option

First world problems I guess. Hope that doesn't keep you up at night.. yea leaving Wi-Fi on all the time is your safe bet when at home or work, and minimising as much social app notifications too.

 

[smvim]

It might not be so much WiFi itself but rather all the apps that continuously and regularly update themselves as background processes that are tapping your battery. Your email app, your web browser (if you've left it viewing active sites), Facebook, Twitter, Play Store etc. are all checking for new info from their home servers.
This 'SockStat' app is a handy, lightweight utility that will show you which apps and services are using online connectivity in the background. Open it to see a listing of apps and services running when you're connected to WiFi and/or mobile data, and then disable your WiFi and mobile data, wait a few minutes, and then check SockStat again. A lot of apps will just sit there waiting for an online connection again, a lot Android processes just kill themselves until you're back online again.
https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...ls?id=com.powl1.sockstat&hl=en&token=0SpCMcsn

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

I have no issue when I'm off wifi though. I've always switched the wifi settings because that's what i always heard. When i was on Sprint, wifi didn't do that, but when i switched to TMobile four years ago, it's been like this...

So emails and notifications going on in the background are absolutely fine when I'm on my network, but for some reason, when I turn wifi on.. the battery just drains a little quicker.

 

[Almeuit]

I have always kept the "Always keep WiFi on during sleep" option set to on for all my phones. So far I haven't noticed anything drastic. I guess I would have to test without it one night to see.

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

Yeah.. I've never tried it this way, until last night. haha

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

So far I think so good. I have 1.5 hours of SOT with 75% battery left. AOD is on, GPS on High Accuracy. I have Facebook Mentions, Facebook and Facebook Lite on the phone (weird right?).. I'm going to continue this throughout the day. Maybe tomorrow I'll try NFC on.

 

[Almeuit]

So far I think so good. I have 1.5 hours of SOT with 75% battery left. AOD is on, GPS on High Accuracy. I have Facebook Mentions, Facebook and Facebook Lite on the phone (weird right?).. I'm going to continue this throughout the day. Maybe tomorrow I'll try NFC on.

Facebook all the thingz .

I have the regular FB app but I log out of it when not in use -- don't need all the stuff they throw at me. Usually if someone tags me it will throw me an email that I will see.

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

Facebook all the thingz .

I have the regular FB app but I log out of it when not in use -- don't need all the stuff they throw at me. Usually if someone tags me it will throw me an email that I will see.

I have all notifications off on facebook, I only have it for facebook market, so I can sell things.. I used facebook lite (had to sideload it) for pretty much everything because messages works on there. I have facebook mentions because I have a verified account.

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

Reporting back. I'm at 3Hrs SOT, 52% left in the tank. GPS still on high accuracy. Wifi still on. 17h 19m of uptime.

Had the device since day one, for the battery degradation people.

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

Battery died at 23hrs and 6.50hr SOT. I think this may have fixed my nonexistent wifi issue

 

[beagle82]

Battery died at 23hrs and 6.50hr SOT. I think this may have fixed my nonexistent wifi issue

I don't think I've ever switched off WiFi on any of my phones. Never seen any negative impact on battery. I actually believe it's more battery friendly than using 3G or Lte

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

I don't think I've ever switched off WiFi on any of my phones. Never seen any negative impact on battery. I actually believe it's more battery friendly than using 3G or Lte

Right. My issue was the "keep wifi off when phone is sleeping" that everyone always says is one of the first things you should do in your settings. It hasn't really worked for me over the last few years. I randomly decided to throw it back to how it is out of the box and it did wonders.

 

[beagle82]

Right. My issue was the "keep wifi off when phone is sleeping" that everyone always says is one of the first things you should do in your settings. It hasn't really worked for me over the last few years. I randomly decided to throw it back to how it is out of the box and it did wonders.

Great stuff. I see that you are using Lux. When I was using it a while back, I was getting massive wakelocks. Have you noticed it having any impact on your battery. Either good or bad. Hopefully my G6 arrives today, then I will be able to try out a few things I've read in these threads.

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

Great stuff. I see that you are using Lux. When I was using it a while back, I was getting massive wakelocks. Have you noticed it having any impact on your battery. Either good or bad. Hopefully my G6 arrives today, then I will be able to try out a few things I've read in these threads.

Actually yes.. I've been having a hard time with lux but I'm trying it out again. I was gonna uninstall it and see what happens tomorrow.. I think that since i got nearly 7 hours I can do more without lux installed.. but only time will tell.

 

[nathdogg1985]

I lost 5% last night with WiFi permanently on (22:30 - 07:00). I do also leave Bluetooth on and have my fitbit set to all day sync which I'm sure contributes to that 5%. Either way I'm not too unhappy with that. Tonight I will try it again but with the WiFi off when phone is sleeping to compare.

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

I lost 5% last night with WiFi permanently on. I do also leave Bluetooth on and have my fitbit set to all day sync. Tonight I will try it again but with the WiFi off when phone is sleeping to compare. //uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170627/a7501d19a1eb1d0a666ad4a0c36d41e1.jpg//uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170627/ba931b2dfbac8633c594952c8d064e7c.jpg

I have Bluetooth connected to my fitness tracker also.

Interesting. I lose 5-10 through the night on wifi usually... On LTE it stays 100.. but this change definitely added some more bang for my buck.. what carrier?