I am curious if there is software out there (or if it exists internal to the omnia or WM OS) that manages multiple data connections. In other words, I have wifi on as well as my cellular broadband. In my workplace, my phone often switches from EV to 1X and burns up my battery juice within a few hours. I would like to use wifi at work so the connection is fast and battery life is saved a bit. A couple questions though:
1 - will wifi burn up my battery quickly?
2 - does the omnia automatically manage which connection (if both are on) handles data?
3 - is there software out there where I can set up 'profiles' that say, if wifi connected, always use first, yada, yada?
I am curious if there is software out there (or if it exists internal to the omnia or WM OS) that manages multiple data connections. In other words, I have wifi on as well as my cellular broadband. In my workplace, my phone often switches from EV to 1X and burns up my battery juice within a few hours. I would like to use wifi at work so the connection is fast and battery life is saved a bit. A couple questions though:
1 - will wifi burn up my battery quickly?
2 - does the omnia automatically manage which connection (if both are on) handles data?
3 - is there software out there where I can set up 'profiles' that say, if wifi connected, always use first, yada, yada?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
In my limited experience, wifi burns up your battery faster than a cellular connection and having both on at the same time is more of a drain than just having one or the other on. I would think doing dslreports (large text file download) with and without wifi on ought to quickly show whether the Omnia is smart enough to use wifi. The dslreports download speed with wifi on ought to be a lot faster than just cellular.
I missed mentioning one thing. At my workplace, I intend to have the device plugged into a USB port. However, as most know, this doesn't really effectively charge the device, only maintains around the same level of battery life. I find that using the cellular signal in this situation (at work plugged into USB), the reception switching to and from EV/1X causes a strain that heats up the device and affects the battery. Along with this, the 1x connection is slower.
I am hoping to mitigate this by using the wifi but still plugged into the USB port. My theory is that this will avoid the band switching, being easier on the device and a faster connection. I plan to do some tests today and see how it goes.
A couple more observations:
- the device has a power setting that turns off the wifi when the screen goes blank, this won't do in my work setting
- the cellular automatically connects, even if I manually disconnect it. the only way I've found to avoid this is to turn the phone off. this also won't do
I don't pay attention to this things as much as I should but when you have a USB Activesync connection to a computer on the Internet, I believe your Omnia will attempt to sync to Exchange Server through the Internet connection of the host computer. So if that were so, except for receiving incoming phone calls on your cell, you'd need neither WiFi nor cellular to be synching your Omnia to your mail. For all my advice, whenever I sync my Omnia to my home computer, I get a message "Connection cannot be established" for connecting to the Exchange Server while I am synching to my PC!
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