Re: Recommendations for Android based AT&T phone

[John Jones <chianime@xxxxxxxxx>]

Along those lines my wife's Samsung Epic seems to drain a lot during the day
when she's at work.  Right now we're working the assumption that it's the
WiFi.  She doesn't have a WAP she can connect to when at work but there are
WAPs available.  So the phone is apparently always trying to talk to the
available WAP.  At home it connects to our WiFi no problems.

So for the moment I've told her to turn off WiFi when she gets to work &
turn it back on when she gets home.  Not sure if she'll do it or not.  If
she does then we should know in a few days if the battery "mystery" is
solved.

Is there an Android app that'll let us schedule hours for turning WiFi on &
off?  It'd be good to automate that.

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Chuck Lewis
<chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Same here. You get used to what hits the battery pretty quickly. And I
> would expect that behavior with just about any phone. My BB battery
> would DRAIN here at work last year until Verizon activated a new cell
> tower within walking distance of us (irony of irony they were waiting on
> AT&T to run some data cable to it...). It was searching for a signal on
> all bandwidths constantly...
>
> Chuck
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Glenn Hopwood
> Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 11:14 AM
> To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Recommendations for Android based AT&T phone
>
> The only time I've had an issue with the battery life of my Atrix was
> when I used the nav software for an hour or so (no longer an issue now
> that I have the car dock). Normal usage runs the battery down to ~70%
> daily.
>
> Glenn
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