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It's also a huge waste of battery to leave on.... not sure why more people don't disable Wi-Fi.
by nv-vn 9y ago
It's also a huge waste of battery to leave on.... not sure why more people don't disable Wi-Fi.
- StavrosK 9y agoBecause it's yet another thing to remember to turn on and off... I already have to turn off location so Google isn't tracking me all the time.
- moonman272 9y agoHuge?
- tinus_hn 9y agoFor tiny values of huge
- geoffpado 9y agoIs this true? I'd always been under the (unsourced) assumption that the Wi-Fi radio was more power-efficient and it was better to use that than 3G/4G/LTE.
- mpol 9y agoWhen you are using 3G/4G, and not connected to Wifi, your phone still checks all the Wifi accesspoints continuously. When you know for yourself you don't connect to an accesspoint on that location, there is no point in having your phone search for one. You can save on battery there. A personal experience from me (anecdotal)... I was using Wifi from my cable provider that is available all over town. But that means when going into town, I am jumping from one accesspoint to another, sometimes with good and bad connections. My experience was that a battery charge didn't last that long. Disabling that accesspoint on my phone made the batterycharge last much longer.