Hello!
I have been having an interesting problem in the past few days that I couldn't find a solution to. I'm posting this in the hopes that anyone has experienced this behavior before and found a solution that doesn't involve getting the phone in service.
The culprit is a 3 week old Samsung Galaxy Chat (nifty little phone) running Android 4.0. For the first two and a half weeks it's been running like a charm, with a battery life of ~1.5 days. My charging behavior is "plug it in when it says so".
However, for the last three charges, I experienced the following behavior: with the phone at about 30-35% charge, I got a call (interesting, from the same person
). Sometime during the call, the battery starts discharging at a rate of 0.3%/second. Needless to say, it shuts down fairly quickly afterwards and won't reboot until plugged in.
After the last time this happened, I plugged it in for ~25 minutes and got the battery to 20%. I could use the phone normally, made at least 3 calls and received just as many, without it discharging.
I would be interested if this could be a software error (e.g. in the battery status reading, or maybe the kernel or some app doing weird stuff) or if it's a hardware problem. I would like to avoid the service as much as possible. Has anyone had this problem before?
I uploaded an image to tinypic[dot]com/r/110hxn8/6
Sorry for dodging the newbie link restriction.
Thank you.
I have been having an interesting problem in the past few days that I couldn't find a solution to. I'm posting this in the hopes that anyone has experienced this behavior before and found a solution that doesn't involve getting the phone in service.
The culprit is a 3 week old Samsung Galaxy Chat (nifty little phone) running Android 4.0. For the first two and a half weeks it's been running like a charm, with a battery life of ~1.5 days. My charging behavior is "plug it in when it says so".
However, for the last three charges, I experienced the following behavior: with the phone at about 30-35% charge, I got a call (interesting, from the same person
). Sometime during the call, the battery starts discharging at a rate of 0.3%/second. Needless to say, it shuts down fairly quickly afterwards and won't reboot until plugged in.After the last time this happened, I plugged it in for ~25 minutes and got the battery to 20%. I could use the phone normally, made at least 3 calls and received just as many, without it discharging.
I would be interested if this could be a software error (e.g. in the battery status reading, or maybe the kernel or some app doing weird stuff) or if it's a hardware problem. I would like to avoid the service as much as possible. Has anyone had this problem before?
I uploaded an image to tinypic[dot]com/r/110hxn8/6
Sorry for dodging the newbie link restriction.
Thank you.
