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Bubbinos

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I just bought my Samsung Galaxy S3 5 days ago, brand new from a Telus store. I think I may have been screwed on a battery though.
It just seems to drain very quickly.
For example, I unplugged my phone this morning at 6am fully charged, and checked my text messages quickly. I then went to work and left the phone on the table, and came back home at 5:30pm and the phone had died. This was without anybody using it during the day.
When I had used it on Monday and Sunday I get about 2-3 hrs of straight use out of it before the battery dies. I had it on the maps/navigation in my car and it died 2.5hrs later. That's it.

This isn't normal I hope.

I haven't put much in the way of apps on yet (no time).
I've turned off some settings, such as continually trying to connect to WIFI, but that hasn't helped.

Any ideas? Or is the battery the issue and I should try and get Telus to give me a free battery?
 
Bubbinos said:
I just bought my Samsung Galaxy S3 5 days ago, brand new from a Telus store. I think I may have been screwed on a battery though.
It just seems to drain very quickly.
For example, I unplugged my phone this morning at 6am fully charged, and checked my text messages quickly. I then went to work and left the phone on the table, and came back home at 5:30pm and the phone had died. This was without anybody using it during the day.
When I had used it on Monday and Sunday I get about 2-3 hrs of straight use out of it before the battery dies. I had it on the maps/navigation in my car and it died 2.5hrs later. That's it.

This isn't normal I hope.

I haven't put much in the way of apps on yet (no time).
I've turned off some settings, such as continually trying to connect to WIFI, but that hasn't helped.

Any ideas? Or is the battery the issue and I should try and get Telus to give me a free battery?
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are you rooted? i am currently at 65 percent battery remaining after 6 1/2 hours and that's with a 29 minute phone call, bunch of texts, facebook, etc.
 
I'm not rooted at all. I haven't done anything to the phone aside from a couple of phone calls, text msgs, and setting up the home screens with the installed widgets/apps. Like the weather thing.

My phone is pretty much factory default..
 
I put on the Gsam battery monitor like another thread suggested. Currently I'm connected to my WIFI network, but this monitor is showing my phone radio has been on for the entire time I've been unplugged (about 15 mins now).

Would this be the issue then? I read that if the cell radio is on all the time, then it will quickly drain power. How can I turn it off?
 
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