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Google Apps will drain your battery when they can't access Google's servers. Roaming with a China Unicom Hong Kong sim card, like the cross border king, will gi
by gozo 11y ago
Google Apps will drain your battery when they can't access Google's servers. Roaming with a China Unicom Hong Kong sim card, like the cross border king, will give you gfw free access.
- kuschku 11y ago> Google Apps will drain your battery Google Apps will also drain your battery if you are in a region where Google has no network-location data yet, because then Google will turn on your GPS, and send to their servers the pair of GPS-coords and strength of networks. If you live in a suburb in Germany where almost no networks are known to Google, this means if you enable location services your GPS will try to get a fix 24/7, eating your battery in about 2 hours. This is probably going to be an issue in China, too, considering that Google doesn’t have location data there.
- rahimnathwani 11y agoI think you can turn this off. My phone has a setting called 'Scanning always available', which says "Let Google's location service and other apps scan for networks, even when Wi-Fi is off.". If I turn off this setting, and turn off wi-fi, then the problem you point out should be avoided, right?
- kuschku 11y agoYes. But if you turn on WiFi and Location at the same time (which is not uncommon), then it will suck your battery dry in seconds. Turn any of those two off, and it works.
- rahimnathwani 11y agoOh. My phone has three options for 'Location mode': - High accuracy (GPS, wi-fi, mobile) - Battery saving (Wi-fi, mobile) - Device only (GPS) From what you say, it sounds like 'Device only' would save more battery than 'Battery saving'?