OBiON and battery drain

[Norman]

One way to look at is not as a problem, but as a feature...
Your iPhone can double as a hand warmer on those cold winter days!

I can practically see the battery meter going down.
Norman

[tommy]

  I installed ver. 1.2.1 on Iphone4. the app could not "acquire service". the battery still drain very quick. Uninstalled the app. I think OBITALK needs to know this issue.

[QBZappy]

Possible work around until this is fixed properly.

I'll quote myself here:

For those suffering severe battery draining when using the OBiON on the various smart phones, this should also be a work around solution if the OBiON is too resource hungry on the smart phone. There is a GTALK app available for these smart phones. You might loose some ability without the OBiON, at least you will be able to make outgoing calls using the OBi AA.

[tome]

I will be surprised if this is ever fixed.  It isn't specifically a bug (unless there is a bug in addition to...) but the fact that the app has to keep a connection open in order to receive incoming calls at any time uses cpu and network resources and keeps the phone from going into ultra lower power mode.  Obion isn't the only app with this problem.  I also have Bria (a nice app despite this issue) and Callcentric's app as well on my phone and they too suck the battery out of it.  I have to kill them from the background in order for them not to eat my battery.  I have friends with both iphones and androids and all say the same thing.  You might think there is a way to do it with notifications, and there is, but then the app would need to register with a service and you break the point-to-point aspect of the app.  There was talk of one of the commercial sip phone apps doing this (the notification method), I can't recall which one, but I don't know if it was ever done.

Tom

[jimgrm]

Possible work around until this is fixed properly.

I'll quote myself here:

For those suffering severe battery draining when using the OBiON on the various smart phones, this should also be a work around solution if the OBiON is too resource hungry on the smart phone. There is a GTALK app available for these smart phones. You might loose some ability without the OBiON, at least you will be able to make outgoing calls using the OBi AA.

@QBZappy, what is the GTALK app that you were referring to in your post?  I too am experiencing fast battery drain.  I have tried Talkatone on my iPhone, but then my Obi 100 at home no longer rings when I have an incoming GV call. Is there a way to use Talkatone with the Obi service?

Does anyone know if there's a way to have ObiON notify you of an incoming call even if your iPhone is in locked mode?

[Hortoristic]

I too am having this problem- I think I'm seeing that just logging out of OBION isn't enough - I actually need to kill it from running in the background on jb iPhone 4G.

I thought Talkatone was somewhat bad - this APP takes the cake as a battery killer...

Even if they just had some options for just using it to make calls - when not outgoing it isn't using battery.