Re: Recommendations for Android based AT&T phone

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

John

Also see if your wife is using the 4G feature - that's another power 
eater, I believe. Especially if there are no towers for it nearby.

There are other optimization ideas out on the net - even Sprint has some 
for the Epic.

Vern

On 8/5/2011 12:27 PM, John Jones wrote:
> 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.