On my Tab3 8.0 recently i have been having problems with crazy bad battery life and and the device not wanting to charge.
Some backstory. I had these issues with the device and did a factory reset and noticed almost no change at all (i was hoping it would remove the kitkat update but did not). I had the device 100% charged and light usage on facebook for like 30min the battery drained about 30% after about 2 hours of chatting on facebook the battery was at 30% (note this was with only Tapatalk and facebook and messanger installed). So i plug in the device wake up in the morning roughly 8-10 hours later and its only at 35%. I open up a battery monitoring widget i have and the device was only charging at a rate of 50mA. I unplug and plug it back in no change it maybe jumped to like 100. Unplugged and plugged again and it jumped to 1200mA charge rate then after a min it dropped back do to mid 100s. I don't understand, then it randomly just starts working fine again charging at 1500mA's. Note this is using the OEM wall charger and cable. Then today I use the device for maybe 20 min and it drops to 85% then after a few hours I'm sitting at 50%ish I swear all of these issues occurred after doing the kitkat update. Anyone have similar issues with simple fixes? I would root the device and use better ROM but I still have some warranty left and am about to hit the point to send the device in to be fixed which I don't want because of the turnaround time. I would do a new battery but I don't want to throw money at random things when to me it seems like a software issue.
Some backstory. I had these issues with the device and did a factory reset and noticed almost no change at all (i was hoping it would remove the kitkat update but did not). I had the device 100% charged and light usage on facebook for like 30min the battery drained about 30% after about 2 hours of chatting on facebook the battery was at 30% (note this was with only Tapatalk and facebook and messanger installed). So i plug in the device wake up in the morning roughly 8-10 hours later and its only at 35%. I open up a battery monitoring widget i have and the device was only charging at a rate of 50mA. I unplug and plug it back in no change it maybe jumped to like 100. Unplugged and plugged again and it jumped to 1200mA charge rate then after a min it dropped back do to mid 100s. I don't understand, then it randomly just starts working fine again charging at 1500mA's. Note this is using the OEM wall charger and cable. Then today I use the device for maybe 20 min and it drops to 85% then after a few hours I'm sitting at 50%ish I swear all of these issues occurred after doing the kitkat update. Anyone have similar issues with simple fixes? I would root the device and use better ROM but I still have some warranty left and am about to hit the point to send the device in to be fixed which I don't want because of the turnaround time. I would do a new battery but I don't want to throw money at random things when to me it seems like a software issue.