Thread: How good/bad is the N9's Cellular/GPS/WiFi/BT reception?
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lennyk1313 is offline lennyk1313
2012-01-25 , 15:45
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#50
Originally Posted by aRTee View Post
lennyk1313, why would you switch to flight mode if there's no (or too bad) reception? It shouldn't cost more than being connected and idling, which your phone would otherwise be doing. Switching to flight mode you have the risk to forget it, and then you still won't get a connection once reception is improved.
Because if there is no signal and I don't switch to flight mode, the battery drains way too fast because the phone is trying to find the signal constantly. I have left it on once before for several hours in the same state only to find out that more than half the battery life was gone in 3-4 hours.