Did a network settings reset and now have battery drain

[sunking101]

Why would a simple thing like resetting my network settings cause my battery to drain faster? Usually this trick is used to help fix battery drain issues! My battery life was brilliant before I reset my network settings, has anyone any idea what might have happened?

 

[C DM]

Has it noticeably gotten worse over at least about 3 cycles?

 

[Armen]

Why would a simple thing like resetting my network settings cause my battery to drain faster? Usually this trick is used to help fix battery drain issues! My battery life was brilliant before I reset my network settings, has anyone any idea what might have happened?

One of the functions of a network reset is to update the list of cellular towers.

do you have a weaker signal now than before? weaker signal makes for battery drain.

 

[C DM]

One of the functions of a network reset is to update the list of cellular towers.

do you have a weaker signal now than before? weaker signal makes for battery drain.

Don't think cell connections (aside from roaming basically) work off a list as much as simply based on whatever compatible carrier signal they can find and connect to.

 

[Armen]

Don't think cell connections (aside from roaming basically) work off a list as much as simply based on whatever compatible carrier signal they can find and connect to.

resetting network settings is the same as dialing *226. It updates the tower list from my understanding. It's possible a tower that was closer to his location was not on the iPhone's grid until he updated and now he's connecting to that one.

 

[sbailey4]

resetting network settings is the same as dialing *226. It updates the tower list from my understanding. It's possible a tower that was closer to his location was not on the iPhone's grid until he updated and now he's connecting to that one.

On Verizon that's was *228 (PRL Update) but it is no longer needed for LTE devices. All that does is updates the roaming agreement towers list for other carriers that the home system has roaming agreements with. Does nothing to the home system carriers towers. With that said, I have no idea how resetting network settings would cause battery drain. I would suspect it is coincidental.