Hi everyone,
I have bought the Samsung Galaxy S2 a week ago, and I am already having problems with the network usage and the battery life.
- First, the network usage. On Friday, I had my first full day of 3G and I noticed the phone used 15Mb of data, without much surfing or certainly no downloading
. That is, it used 15Mb only with the Twitter/Facebook widget, the exchange mail app (for which I limited the downloaded email size to 2Kb) and Gmail (I didn't even receive any mail)!
Well, that really concerned me and, since then, I've been trying to track the problem down. I am now using "Network Usage" to track my data consumption per app, but I don't see anything relevant there. I deleted my exchange account and now my cell phone used 2Mb of data during the night (during which I didn't even touch it). That's an improvement, but it's still a lot for just the Twitter and Facebook widgets.
I downloaded an Antivirus (from AVG Mobilation), but it doesn't find anything unusual. Do you have any idea what could be causing such data usage? My previous phone, an HTC Legend, had exactly the same set of app, and had, at MAXIMUM, 200Kb of data usage for only these widgets. I'm starting to think the Samsung engineers are really incompetent
.
- The second point: the battery. The phone was fully charged before the night. After 8 hours without using it, the battery has already been drained by 40%! Bluetooth was off, 3G was off, only WiFi was on. The screen was off for the whole night, and I didn't receive any call.
So, I go and check the "Battery Use", and I see the following highest battery user for the last 8 hours:
Android System 18%
Dialer 16%
Cell standby 15%
Phone idle 11%
WTF Samsung??? I know for having had another Android phone that the Android System should NOT use so much battery! And the Dialer? How have they programmed it? I didn't do any call, nor did receive any, and the Dialer is still draining 16% of my battery? Do they use real engineers at Samsung?
Further down the list, I also found that "Polaris Office" was using 5% (this is a program that I never even opened since I bought the phone - at least the HTC bloatware was not draining my battery) and that "Android OS" using 4% (what is the different between Android OS and Android System?).
I am really desperate here as well. This is certainly not what I would expect from a quality phone. Does any of you have any suggestion for this issue?
For information, I bought my phone in Belgium, and did the update to 2.3.5 this week. I am thinking about doing a "factory reset", but I don't know if that would solve anything. Any thought?
Anyway, you can see I am really disappointed in a phone I bought just a week ago. Any help would be greatly appreciated
. Thanks in advance!
I have bought the Samsung Galaxy S2 a week ago, and I am already having problems with the network usage and the battery life.
- First, the network usage. On Friday, I had my first full day of 3G and I noticed the phone used 15Mb of data, without much surfing or certainly no downloading
. That is, it used 15Mb only with the Twitter/Facebook widget, the exchange mail app (for which I limited the downloaded email size to 2Kb) and Gmail (I didn't even receive any mail)! Well, that really concerned me and, since then, I've been trying to track the problem down. I am now using "Network Usage" to track my data consumption per app, but I don't see anything relevant there. I deleted my exchange account and now my cell phone used 2Mb of data during the night (during which I didn't even touch it). That's an improvement, but it's still a lot for just the Twitter and Facebook widgets.
I downloaded an Antivirus (from AVG Mobilation), but it doesn't find anything unusual. Do you have any idea what could be causing such data usage? My previous phone, an HTC Legend, had exactly the same set of app, and had, at MAXIMUM, 200Kb of data usage for only these widgets. I'm starting to think the Samsung engineers are really incompetent
.- The second point: the battery. The phone was fully charged before the night. After 8 hours without using it, the battery has already been drained by 40%!
Bluetooth was off, 3G was off, only WiFi was on. The screen was off for the whole night, and I didn't receive any call. So, I go and check the "Battery Use", and I see the following highest battery user for the last 8 hours:
Android System 18%
Dialer 16%
Cell standby 15%
Phone idle 11%
WTF Samsung??? I know for having had another Android phone that the Android System should NOT use so much battery! And the Dialer? How have they programmed it? I didn't do any call, nor did receive any, and the Dialer is still draining 16% of my battery? Do they use real engineers at Samsung?
Further down the list, I also found that "Polaris Office" was using 5% (this is a program that I never even opened since I bought the phone - at least the HTC bloatware was not draining my battery) and that "Android OS" using 4% (what is the different between Android OS and Android System?).
I am really desperate here as well. This is certainly not what I would expect from a quality phone. Does any of you have any suggestion for this issue?
For information, I bought my phone in Belgium, and did the update to 2.3.5 this week. I am thinking about doing a "factory reset", but I don't know if that would solve anything. Any thought?
Anyway, you can see I am really disappointed in a phone I bought just a week ago. Any help would be greatly appreciated
. Thanks in advance!