Two Huge Galaxy S II Problems

[Havraha]

Problem number 1 -- battery life. I'm use to a Bold 9700, and messaging and web browsing on the thing all the time. I switch to the Galaxy S II and the battery runs down in 2 hours MAX. More like 1 hour. What gives!?

Problem number 2 -- I bought the T-Mobile 3DO case and put it on my Galaxy S II, and it killed the call quality. Garbling, echoing, the works. The bad thing is I bought the same things for the rest of my family and when we talk to each other, its chaotic. I would have tried a different case but some people online are saying it happens with EVERY case they try. Has anyone heard of or found a solution to this?

[GarySmiles]

2 hours? Really? I work at a gas station and since I do basically nothing here I just browse, watch movies from my sd card and play restaurant story all the time and my phone can last at least 7 hours without charge and no help from the juice defender app.

maybe it's your phone because it seems like some people get unlucky with under problem. Or I'm just lucky to have a good phone, I don't know.





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[cbreze]

Regarding the battery life, if you know what's running in the background perhaps it's constantly connecting and updating social app feeds etc. On my android device i keep an eye on what runs behind the scenes and disable what I can, if you've ruled this out then it's a faulty battery or your device has faulty software drawing it down. GPS is another power hog as can be wifi. Is a replacement an option?

[Havraha]

I do have Beejive IM and Tweetdeck running in the background. Tweetdeck is set to refresh every 30 minutes, Beejive pushes IMs I'm pretty certain so it shouldn't be doing too much, and my email syncs every hour.

I browse the internet with Opera Mobile when I'm on it.

But seriously, I'm not joking. It runs down super fast it seems. The other day I was barely on it, only off and on, texting a few people here and there, refreshing tweetdeck, trying to listen to a little music ... by 5 in the afternoon I had 10% battery left. And that was me trying to CONSERVE my usage.

I don't have a problem with a battery lasting a day ... IF it lasted a day. This isn't. This is lasting half a day with light to moderate use. It's stupid.

Can anyone help?

And I got it from customer retention and it was delivered last Tuesday, so if they're nice to me I think I'm within the time frame for T-Mobile to return or swap out a phone, right? I just need to call customer retention back up.

But like I said, I bought 3 of these for the whole family. Sure, the other phones don't drain quite as fast, but they certainly drain fast! I can watch the percentage drop every few minutes as the screen is lit up.

[trelawrence]

What radios do you have on?

[Havraha]

Just T-Mobile's 4G. I've turned off wifi and gps, and I still get this kind of battery life. When i turn on GPS and use Telenav, 10 minutes = 10% of battery. Ugh.

[trelawrence]

Wi-fi is preferred. 4G does chew up battery. If you use GPS and 4G at the same time, it will be pretty rough.

[dragonsamus]

Try lengthening the sync times. That could be the main culprit. Also keep brightness low.

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[Havraha]

But, has anyone heard anything about this case issue or have any solutions?

[howarmat]

sounds like a bad unit....2 hours is way to fast, take it back

[avt123]

Yea two hours sounds like a faulty unit. Definitely return it.

[Rickroller]

Before returning the unit..i'd try doing a Factory Reset on the device. I know a lot of times there are little glitches and bugs that a reset will get rid of. This applies to any Android phone. Be sure to back up what you can before however, and then after the reset, if you can, try not to install any 3rd party apps..even for a few hours, and try to gauge your battery time and compare.

I know when I'm browsing the web constantly, i'll lose 1% battery every 3 minutes (yes..i counted). This will equate to a 20% loss over 1 hour..or 5 hours of onscreen time (contant useage) using a full battery..which is pretty good imo.

[Havraha]

I haven't been on the phone as much today, but right now at 8:19, I have 19% battery life. So maybe its better than what I thought, but still not as good as I would have hoped. The battery may be improving, or maybe switching out beejive for ebuddy was an improvement. I dont know. Hmmm.

[BoldtotheMax]

Try the Juice Defender app. It has helped me out quite a bit.

Honestly though even with certain programs sucking juice, 2 hours is way low. I would imagine it has a bad battery.

Try the app 1st, they have a free version and if that don't help, take it back.

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[JNM]

The Galaxy S II burns through battery quite quickly on standby. However, it is pretty normal during use with the screen on and whatever you might bending on it...for such a powerful phone.

When connected to Wifi for data, mine can last at least awfully day and well into the next day. That is wit plentynof web browsing, a few calls, messaging much of the day, push email via Exchange as well as Gmail, and Google+ and Twitter running.

When connected to 4g the same phone under the same conditions barely makes it from 8am past 1pm. Something is worsening in recent phone's 4g/3g connections that is burning more battery tan necessary.