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How many people actually bother to turn their WiFi off? I don't know of any who do it manually (although I do have Juice Defender to do it for me, based on loc
by andrewaylett 15y ago
How many people actually bother to turn their WiFi off? I don't know of any who do it manually (although I do have Juice Defender to do it for me, based on location).
- recursive 15y agoFunny. I don't know of any who don't do it manually.
- Retric 15y agoI don't turn WiFi on. It wastes battery life, and I don't download enough to worry about caps etc. PS: I also tend to go a few days between charges so my usage patterns are far from the norm.
- Fishkins 15y agoI do. I believe it saves battery, and it's really quick. In Touchwiz, the WiFi/GPS/4G controls are built into the notification pulldown. I believe the same is true of cyanogenmod. Having it automated might be better, but it's never bothered me enough to look into that.
- ryandvm 15y agoIt only saves battery if your wifi is continuously scanning and not actually getting on a network. Otherwise, wifi is preferable to using a mobile network for data traffic as far as battery life is concerned.
- tsotha 15y agoWiFi is a big battery hog on my phone. I can go three days on one charge without it, but if I connect up to my home network with WiFi I get less than two.
- brlewis 15y agoAre you running an app that's configured to perform a particularly data-intensive activity only on wifi? That's the only way I can reconcile your experience with ryandvm's comment (sibling to yours).
- tsotha 15y agoNope. That's with virtually no data usage at all. Just turning it on and connecting to my home network.
- andrewaylett 15y agoI run CyanogenMod, and have the pull-down. I agree that it saves battery. I probably wouldn't bother turning WiFi on and off manually though -- and my wife definitely wouldn't (and didn't, before I set up JD on her phone). That's why I like Juice Defender...