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Hutchie wrote:Sounds a fair swap
You haven't seen her, its a f'king bargain
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Not sure if this should be on the phones thread, please feel free to tell me if it should...
So I got conned into letting my youngest daughter swap her old Samsung Galaxy SII with my new Galaxy Ace, then a week later realised that there is something wrong with the SII (she scammed me, what can I say, just like her grandfather).
The SII never stays charged overnight even with a new battery thats fully charged, it also locks up during the day and if you are relying on it then you need to keep removing the battery and restarting it every couple of hours, I deleted a load of apps that she had downloaded in the time that she had it and eventually I did a factory reset on it and just installed the apps that I wanted but I suspect that there is something else running in the background chewing up memory and battery (although he task manager shows nothing out of the ordinary).
Just to prove a point I made sure that the battery was fully charged, removed the memory card and removed the SIM then did another factory reset, the phone has stayed on and functioning normally (in that you can select the default apps and browse the screens ok) albeit without any connection to the wide world, for three days now and the battery indicator is still showing full - this is by far the longest time that I have ever seen it keep working.
So, I want to make sure that I really have removed all of the crap - the reset that I did was "Vol up" + "Home" + "switch on" and then select "wipe data/factory reset", it sounds like thats the correct option but is there anything out there that can check to make sure there is nothing lurking in there ready to start consuming power again and are there any obvious apps or default programmes that do this ?
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JerryChicken wrote:Not sure if this should be on the phones thread, please feel free to tell me if it should...
So I got conned into letting my youngest daughter swap her old Samsung Galaxy SII with my new Galaxy Ace, then a week later realised that there is something wrong with the SII (she scammed me, what can I say, just like her grandfather).
The SII never stays charged overnight even with a new battery thats fully charged, it also locks up during the day and if you are relying on it then you need to keep removing the battery and restarting it every couple of hours, I deleted a load of apps that she had downloaded in the time that she had it and eventually I did a factory reset on it and just installed the apps that I wanted but I suspect that there is something else running in the background chewing up memory and battery (although he task manager shows nothing out of the ordinary).
Just to prove a point I made sure that the battery was fully charged, removed the memory card and removed the SIM then did another factory reset, the phone has stayed on and functioning normally (in that you can select the default apps and browse the screens ok) albeit without any connection to the wide world, for three days now and the battery indicator is still showing full - this is by far the longest time that I have ever seen it keep working.
So, I want to make sure that I really have removed all of the crap - the reset that I did was "Vol up" + "Home" + "switch on" and then select "wipe data/factory reset", it sounds like thats the correct option but is there anything out there that can check to make sure there is nothing lurking in there ready to start consuming power again and are there any obvious apps or default programmes that do this ?
Does it have a memory (SD) card in it? , If so, you might want to reformat that to clear anything on there (make sure you have everything you need from it saved backed up elsewhere (photos, videos, etc).
LF13 wrote:Does it have a memory (SD) card in it? , If so, you might want to reformat that to clear anything on there (make sure you have everything you need from it saved backed up elsewhere (photos, videos, etc).
I've removed it for the sake of the "test", I now have a perfectly functioning phone without a SIM, the next stage is to re-introduce the SIM without the SD card after I'm sure that there is nothing in the phone that will run in the background, I'm aware of Google taking location fixes for instance which aren't totally necessary, but was just wondering if anything else is left behind by a factory reset that could balls it up.
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nothing that eats battery to the extent you were experiencing before the reset. if you go into settings there should be a setting that lets you see the battery use stats. in my android it is settings - about phone - battery use.
LF13 wrote:nothing that eats battery to the extent you were experiencing before the reset. if you go into settings there should be a setting that lets you see the battery use stats. in my android it is settings - about phone - battery use.
Cheers, checked that but its 98% standby which is to be expected as its been sat for three days with no SIM so hasn't been communicating with anything.
However, I've formatted the internal SD card now and done a factory reset and then put the SIM back in, have disabled Google Location and checked Task Manager and apart from the operating system nothing seems to be running now, there's no external SD and the internal SD is completely empty, there are no Apps other than the default ones that come with the operating system, the battery is one notch off full so I'm going to charge it fully now and leave it for a couple of days to see what happens.
Someday everything is gonna be different, when I paint my masterpiece ---------------------------------------------------------- Online art gallery, selling original landscape artwork ---------------------------------------------------------- JerryChicken - The Blog ----------------------------------------------------------
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