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Thanks for the replies! What's stopping me from buying the Note 4 is the price and the TouchWiz UI mainly. I guess the latter isn't too big a problem, as I can root it or at the very least install a custom launcher, but the price is still pretty hefty, being around €600 - €700. Are there any...

Hey! Sorry in advance if this is the wrong place to ask about this kind of thing. Basically I might be looking into buying a new Android phone. I'm currently on a Samsung Galaxy S4 which has served me well for around a year and a half, but I'm starting to get a little annoyed by its lacklustre...

Thanks for the reply! I don't think it has to do with my actual consumption of battery since my phone used to always last a full day with plenty of juice to spare (and Android OS never affected my battery drainage so heavily). I keep location services turned off all the time and my battery saver...

Sorry for another battery drain thread. I tried searching about this problem on google and haven't found solutions that worked. I have a Galaxy S4, which is almost a year old. I take good care of it (it was only ever dropped once and that wasn't even by me) and it isn't rooted. Recently I've...

Thanks for the reply! I'll give that a shot.

I'm looking to buy a tablet for: - Watching movies - Playing games - Reading books - University (taking notes, doing research, following presentations/PDFs, etc) I'd like it to be fairly powerful (for my price range), have a good quality screen and great battery life. Around 32 GB of space will...

For the past few months - seemingly after installing KitKat 4.4 - my S4 has been acting up. Practically once a day, the phone would briefly crash while I'm using it, restart itself, and turn back on with around 4% less battery than it had before restarting. Not sure what's causing it. The phone...

Nah the battery saving app I use just turns off Wi-Fi and mobile data 1 minute after I lock my phone, and turns it on and off again every 15 minutes to sync data. It's good, and I noticed a significant increase in battery life because of it. Still, I dunno. Ever since the Android 4.3 update, I...

I use my mobile like a computer. Email, instant messaging, web browsing, posting on forums, watching movies, downloading torrents, listening to music, etc. Ironically I rarely use it as an actual phone; I don't call people, texting is done via instant messengers, and the only times I ever take...

I found that my battery life is poorer too since the update and one time my battery was at 14% and it just turned off as if it ran out of batteries. I don't know what's up but it might make you feel better that it's happening to me too :p. Posted via Android Central App

I was going to make a new thread but I thought there's no need since this thread is relevant to my question. I'm still pretty new to the whole smartphone business and while the S4 is leaps and bounds better than my old phone, the only disadvantage is the fact that my battery lasts just a day...

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For a while now, my phone has been running out of battery more quickly than it used to. I obviously went to Settings and checked the Battery page, to find that "Exchange Services" is using up a hell of a lot of battery. It uses around 30%, and even more if I leave my phone idle without using it...