Forced roaming saves battery...

[grandpanda]

My diamond has a miserable battery in my house, which reception is marginal. A fully charged battery will be drained from 100% to dead from 8pm to next 8am doing nothing.

Just out of curiosity, I did the forced roaming hack and put my phone on Verizon network, which always shows full bars in my house. I am surprised to find the battery only dropped to 80% from full charge between 5Pm and next 8am.

I always thought roaming drains the battery faster. Seems I am wrong...

[abovelegit]

Roaming just uses other networks, weak signal however makes the phone work harder.

[master4g]

I get bad sprint signal at home too. How do you do the roaming hack? Will I still be able to surf the web on the verison network?