How to find a battery-draining bad piece on S3
About 6 months ago, my wife poured water on her phone, Galaxy S3 (i9300?) SCH-i535 Verizon. This was before I knew about rice, so we had dried it out, and left if off for two days, open with battery out, on the kitchen counter in the dry winter indoor air.
After two days, the phone came on, everything that would could find worked as expected, but the battery would completely drain after 4-6 hours, which usually would have lasted her 24-30 hours. We were three months out from an upgrade, so we bought her a 4400mAh extended battery to get back to the 24 hour charge cycle, then upgraded to the S5.
Now, my Droid4's ribbon cable appears to be broken, so I'm using the old S3 until I can get a replacement cable from Hong Kong. 10 day shipping estimate.
My question is, are there any decent apps, or even things built into the S3's Android, that could help me see what is causing the phone to drain so fast? I assume some capacitor or chip or one of the cameras or the digitizer has an internal short, so hoping to see if a fix is possible. Or at least know what I'm dealing with. If it is cheap enough, maybe I'll replace it and let my daughter use the phone on an as-needed basis once the D4 is back.
If this were a car, I know I could get in there with a voltmeter and hunt around for a short.
I'm due for an upgrade too, but I just can't get over the jump from a physical QWERTY that I can type on without looking, to a buggy onscreen keyboard. Hoping the Droid 5 is a reality.
About 6 months ago, my wife poured water on her phone, Galaxy S3 (i9300?) SCH-i535 Verizon. This was before I knew about rice, so we had dried it out, and left if off for two days, open with battery out, on the kitchen counter in the dry winter indoor air.
After two days, the phone came on, everything that would could find worked as expected, but the battery would completely drain after 4-6 hours, which usually would have lasted her 24-30 hours. We were three months out from an upgrade, so we bought her a 4400mAh extended battery to get back to the 24 hour charge cycle, then upgraded to the S5.
Now, my Droid4's ribbon cable appears to be broken, so I'm using the old S3 until I can get a replacement cable from Hong Kong. 10 day shipping estimate.
My question is, are there any decent apps, or even things built into the S3's Android, that could help me see what is causing the phone to drain so fast? I assume some capacitor or chip or one of the cameras or the digitizer has an internal short, so hoping to see if a fix is possible. Or at least know what I'm dealing with. If it is cheap enough, maybe I'll replace it and let my daughter use the phone on an as-needed basis once the D4 is back.
If this were a car, I know I could get in there with a voltmeter and hunt around for a short.
I'm due for an upgrade too, but I just can't get over the jump from a physical QWERTY that I can type on without looking, to a buggy onscreen keyboard. Hoping the Droid 5 is a reality.
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