Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep

From	Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.mobile.android
Subject	Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep
Date	2021-01-05 15:40 -0800
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On 1/5/2021 10:54 AM, sms wrote:
> On 1/5/2021 9:44 AM, Bob F wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> I have wifi and mobile data turned off, except I might turn on wifi a 
>> few times a month.
>>
>> HD phone is enabled because that's all Verizon accepts these days
> 
> As someone else postulated. that Wi-Fi percentage might be from some 
> background app just trying to use Wi-Fi which isn't there.
> 
> Also, I've installed some apps on my Samsung that say that they prevent 
> it from going into maximum power savings mode. But with the Note 9 that 
> battery is so large that I don't worry much about power savings.
> 
> As an aside, I used Page Plus many moons ago. But for low-usage, on 
> Verizon's network, Red Pocket is now a much better deal, $2.50 per month 
> for 200 Talk, 1000 Text, 200MB data 
> <https://www.ebay.com/itm/133196831828> and best of all there is no need 
> to add money every 120 days or lose everything! I had been buying the 
> $80/1 year refill, but the Red Pocket $60/year plan was a much better 
> deal than that.

I will check that out. It certainly sounds good.

> 
> With the 50¢/month service fee, the $10/120 day Page Plus refull leaves 
> only about $2 per month for service. At 6¢/minute for voice, 5¢ per SMS, 
> and 5¢/MB of data, it's no bargain. However Page Plus does allow, 
> theoretically, off-network roaming at extra cost (29¢/minute) not sure 
> if that's real or not since they were purchased by Tracfone. At one 
> time, when I had Page Plus, I would often roam onto a small CDMA carrier 
> in central California, and have to pay extra, but then Verizon bought 
> them out.

I don't do much roaming.

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Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com> - 2021-01-04 19:54 -0800
  Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Arlen Holder <arlen_holder@newmachines.com> - 2021-01-05 04:32 +0000
  Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Ralph Fox <-rf-nz-@-.invalid> - 2021-01-05 18:55 +1300
    Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Arlen Holder <arlen_holder@newmachines.com> - 2021-01-05 14:02 +0000
    Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com> - 2021-01-05 09:07 -0800
      Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Arlen Holder <arlen_holder@newmachines.com> - 2021-01-05 17:30 +0000
  Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Dee <d@d.d> - 2021-01-05 12:12 +0000
    Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Arlen Holder <arlen_holder@newmachines.com> - 2021-01-05 14:03 +0000
    Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com> - 2021-01-05 09:16 -0800
      Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Arlen Holder <arlen_holder@newmachines.com> - 2021-01-05 17:30 +0000
        Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com> - 2021-01-05 09:45 -0800
          Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Arlen Holder <arlen_holder@newmachines.com> - 2021-01-05 17:51 +0000
            Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com> - 2021-01-05 09:52 -0800
              Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Arlen Holder <arlen_holder@newmachines.com> - 2021-01-05 17:58 +0000
      Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2021-01-05 12:35 -0600
        Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-01-05 13:46 -0500
        Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com> - 2021-01-05 15:28 -0800
          Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Arlen Holder <arlen_holder@newmachines.com> - 2021-01-05 23:59 +0000
  Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2021-01-05 09:35 -0600
    Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com> - 2021-01-05 09:44 -0800
      Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Arlen Holder <arlen_holder@newmachines.com> - 2021-01-05 17:48 +0000
      Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> - 2021-01-05 10:54 -0800
        Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com> - 2021-01-05 15:40 -0800
          Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Arlen Holder <arlen_holder@newmachines.com> - 2021-01-05 23:59 +0000
          Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-01-05 19:09 -0500
            Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com> - 2021-01-05 16:39 -0800
              Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> - 2021-01-05 16:41 -0800
                Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com> - 2021-01-05 19:11 -0800
                Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> - 2021-01-06 09:27 -0800
                Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> - 2021-01-06 10:17 -0800
                Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com> - 2021-01-06 20:25 -0800
                Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> - 2021-01-07 11:54 -0800
                Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com> - 2021-01-07 14:59 -0800
              Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Arlen Holder <arlen_holder@newmachines.com> - 2021-01-06 02:22 +0000
  Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> - 2021-01-05 08:37 -0800
    Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com> - 2021-01-05 19:30 -0800
      Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep  Arlen Holder <arlen_holder@newmachines.com> - 2021-01-06 14:13 +0000
      Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Arlen Holder <arlen_holder@newmachines.com> - 2021-01-06 14:14 +0000
  Re: Galaxy s5 uses 15% battery on WiFi with Wifi turned off and never on during sleep Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com> - 2021-05-25 08:35 -0700

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