G'day,
I've just got myself an S8+ and I love it, but I think I stuffed up the settings somewhere.
I've been reading some of the posts here and in some ways there could be a link.
I haven't read all the posts as my attention span is pretty bad these days thanks to a cocktail of pain meds and antidepressants thanks to a workplace injury.
When I got my phone I was wrapped. It was very fast and everything worked very well. I tried the performance mode and was very happy, but I felt the normal mode is fast enough, especially considering I had upgraded from an S5, which had issues with the lack of memory.
For the past week I have been installing my favourite apps, and have been messing around with the settings. Up until yesterday, the battery was going great, but I had found a battery setting that I could put some apps to sleep all the time, and I added all apps that I wouldn't use that often, such as games, and utilities, such as network testers, speed tester etc.
Then I had installed a PGP app so I could send encrypted emails, but I had trouble setting it up to work with my email app (BlueMail). I then found that BlueMail started to freeze and lag, so I uninstalled the PGP app and restarted the phone which helped, but not fully.
Last night I popped my phone on the wireless charger and it appeared to be working, but this morning I found the battery was only at 48%.
I had bought the charger for my S5 as I got sick of opening the little door to plug it in all the time. My wife had the S5 as well, and she broke her little door.
The first charger didn't work as the coil in the receiver and charger didn't line up, so I got a Floureon triple coil charger and it mostly worked. I had to put a pen on the base to lift the phone up and it charged.
With the S8+ I found it was perfect, even better than I realised. The phone charged when I put it on, and the blue light went green straight away. I discovered that when the phone is fully charged, the light changes colour to show it was full. I didn't know it did that.
I recommend the Floureon triple coil charger, it's affordable and it works well. It even charges reasonable fast, especially with the S8.
Considering that I was messing around with some settings, and a couple apps, I think it most likely that I did something wrong somewhere, although right now I can't figure it out. I have tried changing the settings I remember fiddling with back to the way they were before. I removed all the apps from the permanent sleep setting, but no luck.
The charger still works, as the light goes green, and the battery icon on the phone shows it is charging, but it never fully charged. I've got my S5 on the charger now, and it's charging nicely, although no way as fast as the S8+ does. Ok, the S5 has a charging receiver stuck under the back cover, so it's not a proper charging cover, but it does charge, just slowly.
I came here in search of some answers in the hope someone might read this and the light bulb lights up in the head, and thinks of the magic answer which can help most of us.
In the S5, I know the settings and where everything is, but the S8 is totally different, it has some new settings, and some of the old settings are no longer there, and some are well hidden.
I know one solution is to reset the phone and start fresh, but that's not my preferred solution as it can easily happen again if I don't know which settings are responsible. And of course I've been slowly adding my old apps that I had and used before. I've had the phone for about a week and in that time I have backed up my S5 and took my time setting apps up, and trying to figure out the settings. And I'm also somewhat stubborn lol. I used to be a mechanic and I disliked the plug n play systems cars have these days. I would have been suited to the days when mechanics actually fixed a car, rather than remove and replace parts the computer says to replace.
I have been known to stay up all night fixing something rather than give in and reset.
I think that some others here are having a setting issue rather than the phone or charging pad being dodgy.
It's easy to blame the hardware than a setting or app . Sorry, no disrespect intended.
Has anyone tried to not add any apps, or fiddle with any settings when getting a replacement phone to verify if it's the phone? I would be curious to see if the problems exist prior to setting up the phone or if it really is the phone, especially considering that the issues happen after a period of time, rather than straight away.
Prior to my injury I was very good at fixing things. One of my previous jobs was a systems tester with Telstra which is one of our big telcos here in Australia. And I was good at it, but the job became redundant and I took a package.
Now, since the injury, I lack the attention span for such things.
Sorry for the long winded post, I tend to ramble on a lot these days lol.