Help Wi-fi eating battery

[Inspector72]

So to find out what' s eating my battery ( like 50% in 2 hours ) I've either deleted or stopped all known battery burners ( macfee, weather channel, locations ,etc. ) . The problem still continued and when I checked the battery in settings it showed wi- if was using 30% and phone idle was using 21%. Everything else was under 8 so is this normal ? Phone is casio g'z lte commando and os is 4.1.2 ( kitkat I think)

 

[Inspector72]

So I read some other articles on the subject and if it was a known problem back in 2011, wouldn't you think that android would have addressed the problem of phone searching for a signal while in wi- fi?

 

[Inspector72]

Here's the usage after turning off the cell search and using straight wi- fi

 

[Crashdamage]

A phone will not use much power if it is locked onto a signal. I always leave WiFi on with minor effect on power use. But if the cell signal or WiFi signal is too weak of course the phone will keep searching and use up the battery. This is not a fault in Android, it's simply your phone trying to do what you told it to do.

Not much you can do if spend a lot of time where the phone cannot get a cell signal to lock on to except turn off the phone. Turn off WiFi.

I use WiFi Location Toggle to automatically turn off WiFi when away from home or other trusted WiFi networks.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eshayne.android.WiFiLocToggle

 

[Neo Sluf]

I have a very cheap phone less than 100 dollars with 4.4 kitkat and the battery life last up to 2 days. seriously...

I turned wifi off, bluetooth off, brightness to zero..... change the wallpaper to dead which means i am not using live wallpapers...

Well aside from wifi do these practices and your good to go!...

But actually i was joking... my phone lasted two days cause i am just reading pdf files.. not playing games...hehehee