Does keeping data on here absolutely drain your phone battery?
I'm asking in case it's just me, but doesn't leaving your phone data on completely melt the battery? Even when I'm not using it and it's just sitting in my pocket, it seems to lose almost 10% an hour. When I actually use it, half the battery is gone in a couple of hours just from reading. If I turn data off and only keep cell signal, it still drains more than it did in other countries, but not by much.
To be honest, I do have a US number through Tello, but I set it up following Tello's instructions so it doesn't look for local cell towers and only gets texts and calls over the internet. Even so, unless the signal is really strong (which isn't often in Metro Manila), the battery drain seems to keep happening.
So what I do is basically keep my phone in airplane mode 24/7 and only switch it off the occasional time I need data. My carrier is Globe, which I've heard secondhand has somewhat better service.
If the Tello line is still 'on', it'll keep searching for signal. That eats the battery.
It's because the network is garbage. Even after I switched to a Globe SIM my phone still drained fast. That was a few years ago, but knowing how terrible the Philippine telecom network is, I doubt it's gotten better.
You must be roaming. It's constantly looking for signal. Mine does the same thing when I'm in the mountains here in California.
Yep. The networks are congested, so batteries drain much faster. That's why power banks are so popular and so necessary.
Even McDonald's tastes like trash in the Philippines (the only country I've been to with worse McDonald's than the US). Networks are obviously more complicated than burgers, so the optimization is probably horrible.
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