Posted on 05/06/2014 2:54:52 PM PDT by Perdogg
Have you downloaded updates for the os
“current software is up to date”
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.
Goto settings, about phne at them bottom. Then software updates and the check for updates.
okay
Could be a bad battery or corrupted software. My samsung locks sometimes but never had that issue
Check with user groups, do search for Samsung user groups.
You should get valuable info.
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
My Blackberry did the same thing after about two years.
Yep.
Samsung GH-I927. I am looking at getting an S5 in August.
I think I found your problem ...
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
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.
-PJ
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.
Batteries aren’t that expensive especially if bought off the net.
Can be a cheap fix if that is your problem.
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.
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