Anyone had problems with Lebara/Vodaphone and battery drain? iPhone SE (2020)

[Soycd]

Switched from GiffGaff (02) to Lebara (Vodaphone) the other day. Started to notice that my battery was running down really quickly. It lost about 18% overnight without being in use at all. I've done all the usual checks, Bluetooth off, Background App refresh off and a host of other power saving things. It's not the phone battery as I've been experimenting putting the sim in an older phone with the same results. With the sim out of the phone and wifi on there is no noticeable battery drain. We have excellent Vodaphone signal here, better than O2. I'm interested to hear if anyone has the same problem and if they have remedied it.

 

[Winger]

Interesting, I recently changed to Talkmobile (vodaphone) and have noticed my battery losing power quicker

 

[Diabalo]

Funny you should have this as over the last few days mine has been doing the same, I'm with Virgin (02) I think it's down to the phone hunting for a signal.

 

[Soycd]

Interesting, I recently changed to Talkmobile (vodaphone) and have noticed my battery losing power quicker

As an example battery dropped from 84% to 59% overnight last night. Second phone without sim dropped by 2 percentage points. Think I’ll request a new SIM card from Lebara in case this one is faulty. If it’s still a problem I’ll have to switch provider.

 

[Soycd]

Funny you should have this as over the last few days mine has been doing the same, I'm with Virgin (02) I think it's down to the phone hunting for a signal.

Mine was fine on GiffGaff (o2) and they have a weaker signal in our area than Lebara (vodaphone) I’ve read that those companies that ‘piggyback’ on the main network providers (MVNOs) sometimes could be compromised to certain network towers, rather than the nearest so have to work harder to pick up a signal, hence the drain on battery.

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[Flairy]

My wife’s iPhone with EE dropping power overnight thr EE shop said there’s a known problem with some we changed to a I phone 15 no more battery loss my old iPhone SE no problems.

 

[Lenny HB]

Funny you should have this as over the last few days mine has been doing the same, I'm with Virgin (02) I think it's down to the phone hunting for a signal.

You will be direct on 02 no piggy backing, Virgin swapped all accounts to 02 last October & increased data, wife's went from 15gb to 100gb. I'll ask her if she has noticed if her phone is using more power.

 

[Soycd]

Reckon I'll experiment with a few other sims. Lyca runs on EE and you can get a 1GB sim for 45p a month, no contract. Got a spare phone at moment so no need to port number yet. If thats not draining the battery I'll switch to their bigger packages with generous roaming allowances. I only moved from GiffGaff as they will only let you have 5gb roaming in Europe then its a whopping £100 ish per GB.

 

[Lenny HB]

Just asked the boss and she said she can't believe how quickly her phone is going flat. She is having to charge it every day when it used to last two or three days. She reckons it's been doing it for a couple of months.

 

[Soycd]

Just asked the boss and she said she can't believe how quickly her phone is going flat. She is having to charge it every day when it used to last two or three days. She reckons it's been doing it for a couple of months.

Thats interesting as I think you said it was on O2, not piggybacking on O2.
To test mine I happened to have another old iPhone. Charged them both up to full. Had the sim in my new one, left it for a few hours and it was down, a lot. The old phone without the sim had not shifted from 100%. Then swapped the sim to the old phone and repeated test. Phone without the sim remained at 100%, old phone now with the sim had drained considerably. Now I know that does not prove anything but I do suspect the sim is responsible for the excessive drain.

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[Manic]

I wonder if it’s to do with the latest iOS, as Shrimp se 2020 is doing the same on Smarty but mine ( same phone and on Smarty) isn’t suffering as much.
At least it will give Apple hater’s something to go at

 

[Soycd]

I wonder if it’s to do with the latest iOS, as Shrimp se 2020 is doing the same on Smarty but mine ( same phone and on Smarty) isn’t suffering as much.
At least it will give Apple hater’s something to go at

I don’t think it is. I was on iOS 17.2.1 before I swapped sims and battery discharge was normal. It’s only since the sim swap that things have gone pear shaped

 

[iandsm]

Switched from GiffGaff (02) to Lebara (Vodaphone) the other day. Started to notice that my battery was running down really quickly. It lost about 18% overnight without being in use at all. I've done all the usual checks, Bluetooth off, Background App refresh off and a host of other power saving things. It's not the phone battery as I've been experimenting putting the sim in an older phone with the same results. With the sim out of the phone and wifi on there is no noticeable battery drain. We have excellent Vodaphone signal here, better than O2. I'm interested to hear if anyone has the same problem and if they have remedied it.

Try going to Battery - Battery Health and Charging - and you can see what is using power over the last 24 hours or last 10 days, that might give you a clue.

 

[Peterd82]

I’m with Lebara, no issues on Android, battery life fine. Phone is Samsung A52.

 

[Soycd]

Try going to Battery - Battery Health and Charging - and you can see what is using power over the last 24 hours or last 10 days, that might give you a clue.

I had a look at that but it only seems to tell me which apps are using power. There does not seem to be anything that tells me how much the sim, on its own when the phone is not being used.

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[Soycd]

I’m with Lebara, no issues on Android, battery life fine. Phone is Samsung A52.

It’s very hit and miss I think, location is probably playing a part. We are away this weekend so it will be interesting to see what happens in a different location

 

[Richard n Ann]

I switched to Labara last year from plusnet and there's no difference in battery drain, both networks reception here is 1 or 2 bars.

Samsung A54

 

[Lenny HB]

Wife's phone is on 02 with Android.

 

[pagey]

Both of ours are on 02 via tescos and batteries ok both cheap samsungs

 

[Soycd]

Luck of the drawer, seems to be a suitable phrase.

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