Hey there!
I'm using a samsung S4, got it in august 2013, don't have any custom ROMS or anything of the like installed, but recently, the battery has been causing a lot of issues with the duration of which it can be used despite having a full charge.
Despite having no apps besides spotify, myfitnesspal and a game, the battery has been Excessively draining for some reason, there are various incidences whereby it is connected to the charger but is losing battery instead of being charged. There was once when it showed 0%; and when I plugged out the charger, the phone automatically shut itself down, it drains at a rate of 2% every minute when on airplane mode and watching youtube videos with wifi being on about 20% brightness. I have tried restoring it to default factory settings which worked about a year ago, but when I tried it several months ago, the battery life still remained miserable but it was never to this extent.
Now, I can't even boot the phone up, it starts itself automatically when I put in the battery, I have tried booting into recovery mode but as soon as the blue message in the top left hand corner appears, the phone shows a black screen. Also tried clearing the RAM by holding onto the power button for three minutes without a battery and memory card.
I was considering that it might be a screen issue however the phone is unable to charge whilst in this "booted" mode and my computer doesn't not recognize it as a device, as if it's turned off.
I also realized that my mother who uses the same phone as me has a slightly different looking OS on her phone ( she would never download custom ROMs) despite my failing to update my phone's OS several times as it said on Kies and on the phone itself that my phone was already on the latest available version.
I'm using a samsung S4, got it in august 2013, don't have any custom ROMS or anything of the like installed, but recently, the battery has been causing a lot of issues with the duration of which it can be used despite having a full charge.
Despite having no apps besides spotify, myfitnesspal and a game, the battery has been Excessively draining for some reason, there are various incidences whereby it is connected to the charger but is losing battery instead of being charged. There was once when it showed 0%; and when I plugged out the charger, the phone automatically shut itself down, it drains at a rate of 2% every minute when on airplane mode and watching youtube videos with wifi being on about 20% brightness. I have tried restoring it to default factory settings which worked about a year ago, but when I tried it several months ago, the battery life still remained miserable but it was never to this extent.
Now, I can't even boot the phone up, it starts itself automatically when I put in the battery, I have tried booting into recovery mode but as soon as the blue message in the top left hand corner appears, the phone shows a black screen. Also tried clearing the RAM by holding onto the power button for three minutes without a battery and memory card.
I was considering that it might be a screen issue however the phone is unable to charge whilst in this "booted" mode and my computer doesn't not recognize it as a device, as if it's turned off.
I also realized that my mother who uses the same phone as me has a slightly different looking OS on her phone ( she would never download custom ROMs) despite my failing to update my phone's OS several times as it said on Kies and on the phone itself that my phone was already on the latest available version.