Recent content by barbow

I have a Galaxy S3 with 4.3 installed. When using the latest version of the Google Maps app in the navigation/guidance mode all works well until at about the 30 minute mark the app shuts down (goes to sleep?) and I'm back to a blank/black screen. I must then re-select app and destination--all...

UPDATE: Finally got this issue resolved. Rather than trying the battery first option we changed out the entire phone, a new SGS3 and voila, everything is working as it should, although this new phone is configured with Android 4.1.2 and I don't plan on upgrading to 4.3 right away. The...

Agree, no doubt good phones but I want an SD card slot.

GSDer: Hello-looking at the examples of battery use screenshots in one of your replies, does the information reflect a pretty standard one day use of your phone--on mobile and wifi? It looks like you got almost 17 hours of use from 100% to 6% on this occasion---is this about average or am I...

Hope to get a new battery tomorrow and you're right, should I experience the same problem then it's a hardware and/or software problem which will mean a new phone--hope to stick with a Galaxy S3. Can't recall if I mentioned it but I have Android 4.3--already loaded when I got the phone new the...

Thanks for all the advice folks!! Tried it again last night, charged to 100% then shut everything down, including a full 'Power Off' of the phone and guess what, this morning once again just after turning the phone on the power level was down to 40%--at least it's being consistent!! Something...

What I meant by 'Power Off' was that I actually shut the phone down, turned it off with a long press of the on/off button and selecting 'Power Off' on the screen, When checking the battery stats, etc the screen is the big user but it has been turned down substantially--using about 21%. But...

Have a new S3 with Android 4.3. Charged to 100% and noted that even with the turned off "POWER OFF" the battery drained to 38% in 8 hours, overnight. Tried it again the next night and the same thing happened and all items that could be turned off were OFF and, I shut the phone OFF completely...