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Galaxy S3 4.3 - battery drain
Is anyone else experiencing a severe decrease in battery life after getting the 4.3 update? My battery now only lasts about 60% as long as it used to. Also, I am seeing some other annoying things happening. There seems to be initial delays when waking the device up from sleep. I think that is due to how memory is being handle, and a possible bug there. If I have Chome open, turn off the display, then turn it back on, Chrome's page is completely black unless I scroll on it. This seems to be an issue with how memory is being utilized. But, I can live with that. I cannot, however, deal with this horrible battery life of this phone now.
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asupercoder
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10 years ago
I too have this problem with the battery not charging. I also have problems with my apps now, my phone runs slow as a turtle, my screen goes blank and I have to take the battery out of it, and sometimes it just freezes. My phone is a piece of junk!!!! Wish I could uninstall the 4.3 and go back to the previous version!!!
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Rdechiara
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OK, I'm tired of this buggy 4.3 update. Used my Christmas and birthday money to get a Moto G from Motorola to hold me over. I will hopefully have it soon. Whenever a fix for the battery drain issues or the update to 4.4 comes out, I will switch back to the S3. The whole thing just left a bad taste in my mouth.
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mtbiker
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It is rumored that 4.4 is coming out by the end of March so, to me, it doesn't make sense for At&t to push a fix so close to the new update.
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Rdechiara
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I remember reading that in various sources I have so it will probably happen. Got my Moto G and it has been wonderful so I may not switch back to my S3 right away. The battery on the Moto G is smaller but lasts at least twice as long as the S3 after 4.3 messed it up. I loved my S3 before the update, but now I'm saying "Hello Moto" .
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mmuscio
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I am having the same problem. It is awful. I got pushed the update. Told it to postpone, and then it started downloading anyway. Now the battery drains so fast. I have barely used the phone at all and it is below 50% at 2 PM. It used to be 8 or even 10 pm with heavy useage before this would happen prior to the update. I've checked online and this is not a carrier-specific issue, but it seems to be a pervasive problem. Someone needs to force Samsung to fix this ASAP. The phone is now almost useless since it drains so fast. I need to be tethered to a charger if I want to do anything. I'm ready to ditch it if they don't do something soon.
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ppiercy
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No updates yet.
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Rdechiara
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