MUDI GL-E750 - Turn off modem completely?

[pandaeye]

Hi, got the MUDI for a few days, and was surprised that the 7000mAh battery that feeds a device solely as router purpose last shorter than a mobile phone with half the battery capacity. And such a bulky wifi egg barely last one full day.

Anyway, I am not making complaint. The device is meeting my expectation otherwise. What I want to do is to try to minimize battery usage as possible, e.g. turn off unused services as far as possible. I have made reference to this page:

E750 modem command for turn off modem

Hi glinet team, Is there any at command, or any setting in the admin panel to turn off the e750’s modem to save battery ?

and found that even if I use the uqmi command, I cannot completely turn off the modem. May I ask what action is needed if I want to completely turn of the modem (not just disconnecting the connection)?

Also, I seem to have seen requests in the forum earlier about turning off wifi/modem when the device goes to standby mode. May I ask whether this is under development in future firmware? I do not mind if it takes slightly more time to resume from standby, and I think we should at least be given this option.

I would also like to suggest that, since it is a travel router, the option to enable/disable roaming services should be made more easily accessible, than a manual input of AT command.

Thank you very much.

[Razorline]

In my experience with the v1 mudi, if you press the power button it puts it in a standby mode. This turns all radios off including WiFi and then modem into a semi hibernate state. You can press it again to turn the standby mode off. See if this helps with longivity.

[pandaeye]

I’ve done some study before I post. According to this post, standby mode doesn’t stop the radio. The reason for that is it takes 30s to 1min to reconnect. I would assume the wifi is up as well.

Use Mudi button for airplane mode

Any chance we could an option added to enable/disable airplane mode via the slide switch (button) on the side? I’m thinking have it setup like the VPN options where you have a generic “airplane mode” option in the button options, and a separate “Airplane Mode” settings page where you can define what things are toggled. This would be helpful in a couple of ways, first and foremost when on a plane. The second use case would be for people who plan to use this device primarily as a travel router,…

Actually I am fine with a manually triggered standby mode that stop radio and all wifi (upstream/downstream), or only allow upstream wifi if it is already connected. What I want to achieve is that the device can easily survive a day (12-15 hours) without charging.

Also, I have checked the list of current feature request 2023 and found nothing remotely relevant to this.

[wcs2228]

You can try adding a hefty (e.g., 20,000mAh), if you can live with more size and weight. I actually carry such a powerbank even when travelling, just in case.

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