I picked this phone up based on this forums recommendation and it was fantastic for a good while. It's an S7 Active.
What it is doing:
Extremely sluggish.
Sometimes you swipe right to unlock the phone and it will just have a pop up that says "System UI has crashed"
Often (daily, sometimes several times a day) you will try to unlock it and about the 4th character input to the password it will freeze, the screen will go black and you have to start over. It does this 8-12 times before it finally lets you put the entire password in and open the phone.
It has had a lot of updates over the last few months, and like windows update it is seemingly unstoppable. Just yesterday I was on the phone and mid call it hung up and the screen went blue and started a system update... How do I stop this?
It's battery drains FAST. 10 minutes of email will drain 8-15% of the battery depending on the signs in the sky, the alignment of the stars and the moon phase...
It gets HOT. Especially if I have it streaming youtube over bluetooth or something similar. Never too hot to touch, but quite warm. It has never swollen or anything like that.
What I have done:
Factory reset the device and re-updated it to current.
Removed everything I could that I don't use. Admittedly I only use youtube, audible, waze, and the phone functions. And sometimes the smart tools functions, but rarely since I broke my last phone with a forklift... And the one before that with a Clauser machine. And the one before that with a hot tub.
Removed it from it's case so it could cool easier.
Is there any hope? Should I just commit to getting a new phone?
What it is doing:
Extremely sluggish.
Sometimes you swipe right to unlock the phone and it will just have a pop up that says "System UI has crashed"
Often (daily, sometimes several times a day) you will try to unlock it and about the 4th character input to the password it will freeze, the screen will go black and you have to start over. It does this 8-12 times before it finally lets you put the entire password in and open the phone.
It has had a lot of updates over the last few months, and like windows update it is seemingly unstoppable. Just yesterday I was on the phone and mid call it hung up and the screen went blue and started a system update... How do I stop this?
It's battery drains FAST. 10 minutes of email will drain 8-15% of the battery depending on the signs in the sky, the alignment of the stars and the moon phase...
It gets HOT. Especially if I have it streaming youtube over bluetooth or something similar. Never too hot to touch, but quite warm. It has never swollen or anything like that.
What I have done:
Factory reset the device and re-updated it to current.
Removed everything I could that I don't use. Admittedly I only use youtube, audible, waze, and the phone functions. And sometimes the smart tools functions, but rarely since I broke my last phone with a forklift... And the one before that with a Clauser machine. And the one before that with a hot tub.
Removed it from it's case so it could cool easier.
Is there any hope? Should I just commit to getting a new phone?
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