Does WiFi kill battery life??

[dajobo]

Just as the subject reads....

 

[GODMODE]

I have found that since the RC29 update, my phone lasts a lot longer regardless of what I am doing with it. Lasts all day - a miracle.

 

[dkaufman1]

But yeah all extra protocols kill it faster....turn on what you need.

Bluetooth
Wifi
3G
GPS

 

[Pathosis]

I have found that since the RC29 update, my phone lasts a lot longer regardless of what I am doing with it. Lasts all day - a miracle.

I'm the opposite. Mine dies a lot faster now .

 

[brianb7590]

my phone seems to be dying alot faster too now....what gives?

 

[Deleted User]

I'm the opposite. Mine dies a lot faster now .

my phone seems to be dying alot faster too now....what gives?

Same here!

 

[punkzanyj]

longer battery life can happen if you turn off these services when you don't need them:

-Data synch (gmail, calendar, contacts)

-WiFi

-3G

-GPS

-Bluetooth


You can also improve battery by making a few other adjustments.
-Have the screen timeout after 30 seconds
-Turn down the brightness on the screen. I can see just fine with it at like 30%



You might also want to consider downloading Locale.

Locale lets you set up times and locations for different settings and changes.

For example when I get near my office Mon-Friday from 9am to 5pm, wifi gets turned off, my phone gets set on vibrate (with no ringtone) and my wallpaper changes (just because).

When I get close to my apartment, WiFi turns back on automatically.


There's also a Toggle program that basically lets you make these chanages manually without running all over the settings menus looking for them.

 

[cyber_system_tk]

The problem is just that if you use locate with locations based settings
that kills your battery