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    Why is My Samsung Galaxy S4 all of the sudden draining so quickly

    thanks. Actually i ran a chkdsk on the sim card through windows (saw it on you tube), and it fixed enough for me to be able to at least access the card. I was able to recover some pics. And actually, a forgot i had backed up my pics on my work PC about 6 months ago. So it wasn't as bad as i...
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    Why is My Samsung Galaxy S4 all of the sudden draining so quickly

    maybe it had something to do with my sim card going bad also. I just lost 7GB of pics and video, mostly of my 2 yr old daughter. Card is coming up damaged on phone and it is telling me to format. might as well now. tried to get pics off through PC also. No good. darn. My own fault. I noticed...
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    Why is My Samsung Galaxy S4 all of the sudden draining so quickly

    ok. I pulled battery the battery for a while and restarted. I turned off location sharing in G+. I don't see G+ at the top of the list in Wakelock detector anymore. Let's see if that solves it.
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    Why is My Samsung Galaxy S4 all of the sudden draining so quickly

    Now phone is inoperable. No screen, solid blue led indicator, unresponsive, and still hot. golly gee. something definitely wrong here. it was working just fine until 2-3 days ago.
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    Why is My Samsung Galaxy S4 all of the sudden draining so quickly

    phone is very hot. running slow. now WiFi won't even come on. What you think?
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    Why is My Samsung Galaxy S4 all of the sudden draining so quickly

    my screen had been on for a total of about 5 minutes at the time of this snap. That would mean that of the 32% of battery that has been used up, about 8% of the battery life has been used by the screen which was only used for about five minutes. Using these numbers, the phone at 100% charge...
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    S4 Battery drain in idle mode

    I am having same problem now with my s4. It doesn't make any sense. I did not make any changes or download anything, and all of the sudden I also lose about 6.25% battery per hour when my phone is in idle. Nothing running. Tried everything I could think of. No change. I think its a Galaxy S4...
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    Why is My Samsung Galaxy S4 all of the sudden draining so quickly

    Ok, I know this is probably the most common newbie question, but i'm not a newbie, and I've checked most obvious reasons, but My Samsung galaxy S4, 4 months old, never let battery completely die, no apps running, minimal screen time (2min max today so far) is draining the battery way more...