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Vanity - Problem with cell phone shutting off

Posted on 05/06/2014 2:54:52 PM PDT by Perdogg

I have a Samsung smart phone and when I start to play with more than one app, I get this message that my battery is about out of charge and the phone proceeds to shut down. This occurs even after I have fully charged the battery. Last week I was driving to a meeting, was late, and was lost, and I was on the phone with a coworker getting directions when phone shut off. I need the phone in case some thing like this happens.

I am 3 months away from an upgrade, so I am going to get rid of the phone (if I do not smash it out of frustration first) in August.

Has any one had similar problems? I want an inexpensive fix, so will buying a new battery help? I have tried multiple times to restart my phone when this happens to no avail.

thank you,


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1 posted on 05/06/2014 2:54:52 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

Have you downloaded updates for the os


2 posted on 05/06/2014 2:55:58 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

“current software is up to date”


3 posted on 05/06/2014 2:58:32 PM PDT by Perdogg (Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
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To: Perdogg

It sounds like the battery has reached its end of life. Rechargeable batters have a finite number of charge/discharge cycles in them. If it has been used for a long time, that would be my best diagnosis without looking at it.


4 posted on 05/06/2014 2:58:50 PM PDT by soycd
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To: Perdogg

Goto settings, about phne at them bottom. Then software updates and the check for updates.


5 posted on 05/06/2014 2:58:56 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: soycd

okay


6 posted on 05/06/2014 2:59:47 PM PDT by Perdogg (Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
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To: Perdogg

Could be a bad battery or corrupted software. My samsung locks sometimes but never had that issue


7 posted on 05/06/2014 3:00:20 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Perdogg

Check with user groups, do search for Samsung user groups.
You should get valuable info.


8 posted on 05/06/2014 3:02:58 PM PDT by FreedomGuru (Time for torches and pitchforks.)
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To: Perdogg

Do you have a Samsung Galaxy S by any chance? The same thing happens to my phone, its fully charged, something happens and I have to turn it off, when I turn it back on it says the battery is almost dead. I have Tmobile so for me I would have to pay full price for any new phone which stinks but thats a whole other topic


9 posted on 05/06/2014 3:05:19 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Perdogg

My Blackberry did the same thing after about two years.


10 posted on 05/06/2014 3:05:26 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Perdogg
I had a bit of battery trouble,off and on,with my previous Samsung.Restarting it seemed to solve it when it popped up.
11 posted on 05/06/2014 3:05:55 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Stalin Blamed The Kulaks,Obama Blames The Tea Party)
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To: soycd

Yep.


12 posted on 05/06/2014 3:07:49 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Conseravtives are all that's left to defend the Constitution. Dems hate it, and Repubs don't care.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Samsung GH-I927. I am looking at getting an S5 in August.


13 posted on 05/06/2014 3:09:48 PM PDT by Perdogg (Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
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To: Perdogg
I have a Samsung smart phone

I think I found your problem ...

14 posted on 05/06/2014 3:11:33 PM PDT by IronJack
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Not familiar with that particular phone that you have but if its an older model could be that its just, old..same thing happens to me..would love to get the S5 but it would cost me 660 bucks I would never pay that much for a phone..Tmobile doesn’t offer the phone for 199 like other places do


15 posted on 05/06/2014 3:12:15 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Perdogg

Sounds like your battery may not be holding a full charge.

That happened to my Motorola flipfone last year. I ordered a couple of replacements, since the phone is over 5 years old. Popped one in and recharged the unit. It has been fine since.


16 posted on 05/06/2014 3:13:38 PM PDT by TomGuy
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I second the battery. It happened to me on an old Motorola flip-phone (non-smart). New battery and the phone was fine.

-PJ

17 posted on 05/06/2014 3:16:34 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Perdogg

I have an HTC Evo. It got to the point where it would only go 10 minutes on a charge. I got a new battery and that helped for a couple of weeks and then it went back to the same nonsense. Sometimes I guess phones just get old.


18 posted on 05/06/2014 3:20:35 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Perdogg

Batteries aren’t that expensive especially if bought off the net.
Can be a cheap fix if that is your problem.


19 posted on 05/06/2014 3:21:26 PM PDT by deport
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My wife and I both purchased identical Samsung Galaxy S4 Mega phones on the same day last October. Her phone did the same thing from day 1, my phone has never had a problem. Customer service at AT&T was less than helpful (to put it mildly) and last month she had to file an insurance claim through AT&T at a cost of another $125 to have hers replaced.

Her phone just shut itself off for no apparent reason. Turn it back on, it may stay on, it may not. And, of course, it would never do it while at the AT&T store. To this day, no rhyme or reason for what the phone did. One time on a trip to her sister’s house, the phone shut itself off about 15 times during a 50-minute ride. Frustrating as hell for her since she was a Director of Nursing and on-call at all times.


20 posted on 05/06/2014 3:22:07 PM PDT by RonInNaples
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