How to save battery on your Android Phone with an Advanced Wifi Setting

[regression]

What do you think about keeping wifi turned on even if you are not in an area that has wifi? I have heard conflicting theories on this. One that it will keep searching for an open wifi network and use more battery. And, I have heard that leaving wifi on doesn't have much of an impact on battery life, even if you are using 3g and not in a wifi area...

[qbking77]

@regression If you're not connected to wifi... always turn your wifi radio off. Always.

[49ersAwday]

Can you yell me what's so good about putting roms on phones

[qbking77]

@49ersAwday It gives tweaks that save battery, make thigns faster, give lockscreen options etc.

[AngelosDracul]

I keep mine on "Never when plugged in" all the time, but kill data when I am not using it using the advanced power control widget. That way, when the screen turns off, no data is going, and if I am out and about and forget to kill the wifi, the system does it for me, but I never have to worry about data sucking my battery dry.

[internalflatulence]

thanks so much... if it wasnt for this, my money would have still been being stolen away from me

[carebo8889]

Hopefully this option will be available for Galaxy Nexus

[wwjoshdew]

@carebo8889 it's been that way on every Android, since 1.5. So they shouldn't take it away! lol. Plus i'm getting the Galaxy Nexus imported from another country here very soon!

[ChuckNorris813]

just changed my setting i have to see if this works for myself im open to peoples suggestions =)

[WhosYourChubby]

Thanks, I always thought WiFi used more Battery. So thanks :-)

[qbking77]

@WhosYourChubby Nope! Wifi uses much less battery then 3g

[UndergarmentBurglar]

I'm using Lite'ning Rom v6.1 XXXKH3 and this was selected to never as default which pretty cool that developers are paying attention to that. I didn't even know that advanced menu was there. It wouldn't effect me though because I always have my data network mode turned off unless I'm doing some quick browsing when I'm out, in which case I would have WiFi turned off all together. Thanks for this tip. This will come in handy in the future!

[IronReaver17]

Never knew this helped! But I've always had my wifi set to "Never"...

[TheFury12369]

just did this on cm7 and wifi stopped working it just disconnects.

[wwjoshdew]

0:56 That's the FIRST thing I do when I install a rom or get a new phone! Because it DOES save battery but other people swear it doesn't. I get NO SIGNAL, and I rely on Groove IP to make/receive calls... so yeah, very good tip! You do videos (like the how to change brightness) that I don't do... because it's little things like this that are common sense to me, that other people **MAY** not know about! Good video!!

[qbking77]

@wwjoshdew Thanks man!