"cell standby" using 71% of power in airplane mode

[Lew Rockwell Fan]

Any way to disable the cell phone functions entirely? My battery is being depleted rapidly and all I really want to use this for is reading ebooks. "Cell standby" is killing my battery even in airplane mode.

 

[leeshor]

Welcome to the forum

This may sound strange but how strong is the cell signal? The reason I ask is because my cell phones use less power for the phone than anything else, unless the signal is really weak. Even then the screen and WiFi use more battery.

 

[Lew Rockwell Fan]

Thanks for the response. Signal is probably pretty weak here. Some people can use there cell phones here, sometimes. Others never. I probably ought to root this and install a simpler system, assuming I keep it. I was hoping there might be some easier way, at least for the moment.

 

[leeshor]

You may want to try Airplane Mode. If the signal is the problem rooting and installing a new ROM may be fruitless. I would look at turning off data and WiFi.

 

[Lew Rockwell Fan]

Thanks again, Leeshor.

You may want to try Airplane Mode. If the signal is the problem rooting and installing a new ROM may be fruitless. I would look at turning off data and WiFi.

As mentioned:

even in airplane mode.

So I'm doing that already. I'm not sure it is taking though. Settings show airplane mode set, but I still get the suggestion to turn it on when I look at the battery section in settings. Wifi doesn't appear to be using much power and I do need to use it, at least until I get it tweaked, so I can access the repository. What do you mean by "turning off data"?

 

[leeshor]

I suggest you consider doing a factory reset. Don't allow any apps to install again that aren't critical until you can determine it's stable. Be sure to save what data you can on a microSD card, the cloud or your computer.