Hello,
I'm obviously quite new to this place as it appears. I purchased a brand new Samsung Galaxy S3 in January 2013 through Verizon and I've had it ever since and I've taken excellent care of it, it still looks (and usually behaves) brand new a year and a half later. I can't remember for sure how long I've had Kitkat 4.4.2 on my phone, but it's been a while.
I haven't had any problems thus far until about 24 hours ago when I noticed that the battery levels were going down unbelievably fast. I was using my phone in bed to check my e-mail or something yesterday morning, and noticed it was going down probably a little more than 1% per minute. I hooked it up to my wall charger, which delayed the drainage a little, but it still ended up draining while using it plugged in. Prior to yesterday morning, the battery has been excellent, I can usually go to work for 11 hours and by the time I get back home my battery is still in the 70-85% range. Just a little while ago, I had my phone 100% charged and I took it off the wall charger to move them both into another room, and in a mere 25 seconds (according to system's battery usage graph) it dropped down to 98%!
I have no idea what caused the drainage/slow charging to start out of nowhere yesterday I didn't install any new apps when this problem started, but while trying to remedy the problem on my own, I did uninstall some of the few third-party apps I've had on there for a while (Firefox, Reddit is Fun, Kitco Gold/Silver widget, and one or two others). After Googling this problem quite extensively, I decided to install Easy Battery Saver [apparently I'm not allowed to post links] from the Play Store. It helped a little, but not anything worth bragging about. I've also tried rebooting/powering down the phone several times, draining the battery all the way to 0% and charging it back to 100% before using it, and I've also wiped the cache partition a couple times; all of which to no avail.
I just installed Gsam Battery Monitor and I'm going to let it monitor my phone for a little while and post on here what it tells me. For the short 20 minutes or so I've had it installed already, the "Android System" is using 23.4%, "Kernel (Android OS)" is using 8.7%, followed by the Gsam app at 5.4%, and "System (ndroid.systemui)" at 4.1%.
In the mean time, do any of you smart people happen to have any ideas or suggestions I can try? I work on-call 24/7 and having a stable, reliable cell phone is a must for me, so if this thing keeps acting the way it is I'm going to be in a little bit of a predicament. Is this more of a software/firmware issue (that appeared out of nowhere several months after updating), or could my battery finally be dying after a year and a half of use?
Thank you very, very much!
I'm obviously quite new to this place as it appears. I purchased a brand new Samsung Galaxy S3 in January 2013 through Verizon and I've had it ever since and I've taken excellent care of it, it still looks (and usually behaves) brand new a year and a half later. I can't remember for sure how long I've had Kitkat 4.4.2 on my phone, but it's been a while.
I haven't had any problems thus far until about 24 hours ago when I noticed that the battery levels were going down unbelievably fast. I was using my phone in bed to check my e-mail or something yesterday morning, and noticed it was going down probably a little more than 1% per minute. I hooked it up to my wall charger, which delayed the drainage a little, but it still ended up draining while using it plugged in. Prior to yesterday morning, the battery has been excellent, I can usually go to work for 11 hours and by the time I get back home my battery is still in the 70-85% range. Just a little while ago, I had my phone 100% charged and I took it off the wall charger to move them both into another room, and in a mere 25 seconds (according to system's battery usage graph) it dropped down to 98%!
I have no idea what caused the drainage/slow charging to start out of nowhere yesterday I didn't install any new apps when this problem started, but while trying to remedy the problem on my own, I did uninstall some of the few third-party apps I've had on there for a while (Firefox, Reddit is Fun, Kitco Gold/Silver widget, and one or two others). After Googling this problem quite extensively, I decided to install Easy Battery Saver [apparently I'm not allowed to post links] from the Play Store. It helped a little, but not anything worth bragging about. I've also tried rebooting/powering down the phone several times, draining the battery all the way to 0% and charging it back to 100% before using it, and I've also wiped the cache partition a couple times; all of which to no avail.
I just installed Gsam Battery Monitor and I'm going to let it monitor my phone for a little while and post on here what it tells me. For the short 20 minutes or so I've had it installed already, the "Android System" is using 23.4%, "Kernel (Android OS)" is using 8.7%, followed by the Gsam app at 5.4%, and "System (ndroid.systemui)" at 4.1%.
In the mean time, do any of you smart people happen to have any ideas or suggestions I can try? I work on-call 24/7 and having a stable, reliable cell phone is a must for me, so if this thing keeps acting the way it is I'm going to be in a little bit of a predicament. Is this more of a software/firmware issue (that appeared out of nowhere several months after updating), or could my battery finally be dying after a year and a half of use?
Thank you very, very much!