"Even if you drive your car every day, its battery will die and you won't be able to start it."
How do you figure this? Seems unlikely to me that a 15 min drive would not bring a car batter drained my occasional failed phone connections back to full
How do you figure this? Seems unlikely to me that a 15 min drive would not bring a car batter drained my occasional failed phone connections back to full
The thing drains your battery precipitously.
There must be more to this story. I've parked that car in an underground parking garage with absolutely no signal on any carrier for at least 2 weeks straight (likely more) with no issue. I've parked it for days at trailheads and wild camping spots around the High Rockies where there's also no signal.
I 100% believe that the Starlink module is poorly programmed, reliant on false assumptions of 3G always existing, and capable of draining the battery. But I would really love to know why that's never happened to me.
That would be different to having no signal whatsoever, where modem wakes up, listens for a tower, concludes there’s nothing there and goes back to sleep again.
That would explain why this issue is only cropping up now that 3G is being turned off, and how this scenario was missed by engineers. They assumed there was either a tower they could communicate with, or nothing. They didn’t account for a perfectly good tower being available, advertising itself as a recognisable network, but refusing to handshake.
Perhaps they are not impacted for some reason.
I hadn't gone camping for ~4-5 weeks, but still drove my car every day. Suddenly had the battery issue, pulled the plug, and the issue is gone.
I don't really know how to debug this. Something recently changed, but I don't know what. You'd think my battery would've died during all the time that I was out of service.