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Do you ever get paranoid that your hotspot is draining your battery? You’re not alone. This article will explore some of the truths about hotspot usage and battery drain. We’ll also provide some tips for how to extend your battery life. So, whether you’re a business traveler who needs to stay connected or a student who wants to stream movies on your phone, read on for advice on how to keep your device charged up.<\/p>\n

Does hotspot drain battery?<\/h2>\n

Technology is constantly evolving. When you are connected to the internet, you use your battery faster than usual. And when you switch the hotspot on your phone<\/a> at the same time, it uses even more battery.<\/p>\n

When the hotspot is activated, your phone will always be searching for a connection and therefore draining more battery<\/a> than if you were using mobile data to connect through your service provider’s towers instead of directly from your device.<\/p>\n

If you’re not using Wi-Fi, your phone is just idling in order to save power. When this happens, there are three types of connections that can be made: idle mode, sleep mode, or deep sleep mode.<\/p>\n

Deep sleep saves the most battery<\/a> life by powering down everything other than the parts necessary to wake up the device and communicate with Wi-Fi networks.<\/p>\n

Sleep is next in terms of saving power because it would still keep basic functions like connectivity on standby while putting high-energy tasks like 3G\/4G networking to sleep when possible.<\/p>\n

The idle mode uses very little power but means that any time it tries to search for a connection, this will happen much more often than it would in sleep mode.<\/p>\n

In order to save your battery, you should be aware of how your device is using power and put it into the mode that uses the least amount of battery life<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are many different ways that you can conserve power, so it’s important to be proactive and know what they are.<\/p>\n

Does hotspot consume power?<\/h2>\n

Yes, a hotspot does consume power. The amount of power it consumes depends on the strength of the signal and how many devices are connected to it. The more devices that are connected, the more power it will consume. Additionally, if the hotspot is being used to stream video or music, it will consume more power than if it is just being used for internet access.<\/p>\n

All of these factors can add up and cause the battery on your device to drain<\/a> faster than normal. If you need to extend the battery life on your device, ultimately reducing hotspot usage will help. However, you can also reduce the power demand of a hotspot by setting it to use better encryption and turning off unnecessary features such as Bluetooth and GPS location services when they are not in use.<\/p>\n

How to save the battery when the hotspot is activated?<\/h2>\n

There are plenty of ways on how to save battery while using hotspot, and these are:<\/p>\n