I came from an S3 and had an S2 briefly before that. I remember how hot the S2 could get, but my S3 mainly ran cool. This S5 (AT&T) is always warm, often above 100 degrees fahrenheit. I can usually overlook small issues, but this is uncomfortable.
I'm open to any good ideas or suggestions. Any one else notice this?
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my g900f is hot too.
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I think I found something that helps: I uninstalled any app that has battery monitoring or control as part of its function. I also cleaned house on apps I don't have to have. Now my battery runs much cooler and lasts longer.
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I'm new to Samsung and touch wiz.
Any tips on settings that will help battery life?
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Dreadsteel said:
I'm new to Samsung and touch wiz.
Any tips on settings that will help battery life?
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Turn off all the gimmicky smart features and disabled as many of the bloatware apps that you can.
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Battery life for me has been stellar. Yesterday was the first full day of use for me and I was at 15 hours with 56% percent of battery left with 3 hours of on screen time. I haven't changed a thing as far as controls. Today I've turned off a few of the finger controls and will see if it saves me anything.
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Oh nice. Let's start posting gsm battery stats. I'm on my first full charge so will report back.
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Battery life has been good on mine so far. Make sure to turn the always on wifi scanning off! Made a world of difference for me.
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On my first charge I got 6 1/2 hours with half on screen time playing games, surfing web etc. and had 50% left! My s4 would have died twice by now.
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Battery life has been good on mine so far. Make sure to turn the always on wifi scanning off! Made a world of difference for me.
You should tell people how to do it. Wifi> advanced> uncheck always allow scanning.
I had totally forgotten about this. But even without if off I was getting 18 hours of heavy usage, no wifi and on lte. This phone, even without turning stuff off has the best battery life I've ever experienced from an android.
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Is this normal seems sort of low I turned off all the samsung features disabled all of att bloat I did not use power save feature
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mike123475 said:
Is this normal seems sort of low I turned off all the samsung features disabled all of att bloat I did not use power save feature
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That's kind of weak if you ask me. I have 64% battery left and have 2 hrs 33 min of on screen time in 10 hours
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bkeaver said:
That's kind of weak if you ask me. I have 64% battery left and have 2 hrs 33 min of on screen time in 10 hours
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Damn hmm and your not using the power save feature correct? I'm thinking about taking it back to att to switch it out...
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Damn hmm and your not using the power save feature correct? I'm thinking about taking it back to att to switch it out...
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No not using the power saving mode at all..
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This too
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Great battery here
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Getting the best battery life I've had with a phone. So far it's been on over a day with auto brightness, LTE, push email, and Wi-Fi when available and it's already hit 6hr30 min screen on. Plus there's 23% left?! Im impressed.
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Battery life has been excellent so far. Got 2 hours of screen time and only used 19% so far
Tappin From My N3
Here's mine for today, unplugged the phone at 96% when I woke up this morning.
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Battery is killing it compared to my galaxy s3. Disabled the extra features, blue tooth, also played music with the screen off for about 2-3 hours with power amp.
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Im playing very often games on my S4. After 30-60 minutes (depending on game) my S4 is getting very hot.
Sometimes so hot i can't touch the screen anymore.
Do you have the same problems? Or is it just me
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Same problems for everyone welcome to the gs4 world. Suggest you get a better case for your phone.
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Ok i will look for another case.
Can it be dangerous for the device? Can it break because of this?
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If it gets 'too' hot in theory it should power off, so it shouldn't break the device.
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Yup man...its disgusting da way it heats up after playing just 10 mins of rr3 or other high end games......
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Mine did that ones while charging all night, next day morning it was extremely hot with burn smell but guess i wass lucky, i charge it every night while sleeping not having this issues n e more....
And i don't know what was the reason!
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Mine did that ones while charging all night, next day morning it was extremely hot with burn smell but guess i wass lucky, i charge it every night while sleeping not having this issues n e more....
And i don't know what was the reason!
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mine done this a few weeks ago, exact same scenario, was charging it at night that it was almost too hot to touch, i was surprised the plastic didnt melt!
As some of you noticed the lg g2 came with a free quick window case. Which I personally really really like. Just when the flap goes over the screen. It never stays on the screen... Its always raised. So its not stable and it can turn on the device by accident. Just wanted to know if anyone is having same issues or have a solution ( if you know what I am on about anyway)
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same issue here
Mine didn't come with the case...
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No free case here. But then again att likes to repackage their phones and take out all the extra goodies a phone would normally come with.
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You have to break it in. It takes about a week or so.
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After about a month, it's still a bit raised for me. I was hoping it'd be magnetized or weighted.
It's nice to see i'm not the only one with this problem, even though it is a pretty minor issue to me anyway, it is REALLY annoying :/
you would of though they would have put a magnet on it or something.
Yes it will work after you open and closer it about 100 times. I also layed a book on mine eventually it works as intended
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Simple but good idea haha. Thanks!
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Hi,
Since about a week ago my nexus suddenly started to die at about 30-40%, it depends. I don't really care about the fact that my battery is empty, but the fact that it happens on 30% and I don't receive a notification at 14% is really annoying. Is there a fix for this?
I'm running Aicp with stock Aicp kernel.
EDIT: Since I stopped charging my battery percentage hasn't changed for about half an hour.
Edit 2: I rebooted and now it's 41%.. Really strange
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It's getting worser now, it usually turns off when it's around 40% and around 50% I lose connection with mobile network and can't connect any more. I've tried different radio's but had no effect. I'd really like to know how to fix this. Or is the only solution to buy a new battery?
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Take the back off the phone and see if your battery is bulging. This sounds like a battery issue. I had similar symptoms on my last phone. I took the battery out and spun it like a top.
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Take the back off the phone and see if your battery is bulging. This sounds like a battery issue. I had similar symptoms on my last phone. I took the battery out and spun it like a top.
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Yeah I had it with my old galaxy Y too, my battery became so fat the battery cover didn't fit any more. But that happened slightly, this came out of nothing.
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Hi! Check my topic
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2649361
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Hi! Check my topic
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2649361
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Thanks, today is saw that my battery also had obesity, so I've ordered a new one.
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Jiddeee said:
Thanks, today is saw that my battery also had obesity, so I've ordered a new one.
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How did you noticed did glass craked or you removed it?, or you feel it under fingers?
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How did you noticed did glass craked or you removed it?, or you feel it under fingers?
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Haha, I was with friends and suddenly I noticed that I was able to spin my phone, and together with the fact that the battery was acting strange I thought it must have been swollen. And yesterday I saw a little lump.
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see your imei and baseband, are they all unknown?
So lately I've been getting a horrible battery drain on my s4 no matter what ROM I use i still have this problem. My phone won't charge, sometimes if I do a reboot it'll work fine but it always comes back. Has anyone else been experiencing this?
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I even lose battery when charging my phone
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I have insurance on it through best buy mobile, so if I return it to stock do you think they would swap it for a new one?
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I'm gonna flash back to stock with the NAE .tar file and if problem still occurs then I'll go to best buy mobile and get it looked at and see if they will swap it out with new one. I really want the s4 with spark compatibility anyway lol.
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Not saying this is what it is but check this out http://mobile.pcmag.com/?origref=ht...-your-android-device-is-infected-with-malware
I use 360 antivirus. One of the best there is.. Just trying to help.. Hope whatever it is you get it resolved @churchey360
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@flashback7 I don't think that's it but it could be lol. I'm thinking its because I've been using wifi tethering alot lately and it drains my battery and makes my phone really hot. One time it got so hot that I got a message saying my battery was overheated and my phone shut off. I think that may be the cause of it.
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That'll do it. I unplug mine before it overheats.