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Help SD card errors = bad battery life? Guru help??

So I've had some issues with this phone since it was new... glitches in the gallery where photos are lost (show as empty files), some times the gallery "camera roll" would show up blank and be un-clickable. Eventually I lost my SD card completely, even recovery programs on my PC are unable to access it, has to buy new...

I put a new SD card in it and SBF'd the phone (was rooted) and it was like a new phone. I went from 9 hours to 26+ hours w/o a charge, everything was working great, then one day (literally over night) I went back to the way it was... 8 hours and battery was warning me, I'd take one photo and all subsequent photos would not save to the card, gallery issues... reformat the SD and problems are gone again WTF as of this writing I'm into day 2 since format and showing 16 hours "on" 2 hours screen time, and 60% battery left!

So question for the guru's: What is going on? What is screwing up my SD card? I am stock .605, but this issue goes back like 14 months now (way before GB). The day things changed, the one think I can say for certain I used for Google Maps, which also killed my battery that day. I'm going to experiment with it to see if I can duplicate, but is it possible that Google Maps is screwing up my SD card? Any other apps which I should be aware of?

Do I have a bad phone?

I'd like to ask anyone else having simular problems to see if they can duplicate this.
 
So I've had some issues with this phone since it was new... glitches in the gallery where photos are lost (show as empty files), some times the gallery "camera roll" would show up blank and be un-clickable. Eventually I lost my SD card completely, even recovery programs on my PC are unable to access it, has to buy new...

I put a new SD card in it and SBF'd the phone (was rooted) and it was like a new phone. I went from 9 hours to 26+ hours w/o a charge, everything was working great, then one day (literally over night) I went back to the way it was... 8 hours and battery was warning me, I'd take one photo and all subsequent photos would not save to the card, gallery issues... reformat the SD and problems are gone again WTF as of this writing I'm into day 2 since format and showing 16 hours "on" 2 hours screen time, and 60% battery left!

So question for the guru's: What is going on? What is screwing up my SD card? I am stock .605, but this issue goes back like 14 months now (way before GB). The day things changed, the one think I can say for certain I used for Google Maps, which also killed my battery that day. I'm going to experiment with it to see if I can duplicate, but is it possible that Google Maps is screwing up my SD card? Any other apps which I should be aware of?

Do I have a bad phone?

I'd like to ask anyone else having simular problems to see if they can duplicate this.

Since you're having the same problem with a second SDCard I would say it's more than likely phone related. If it was me I would do a complete factory reset and then set the phone back up and see if the problem continues. One other thing you may want to try is to check to see if there are any apps installed on the SDCard and then move those apps into the internal phone storage.
 
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Airmaxx, I'm on my second factory reset with the same results. Following the reset my battery life doubles and then some, everything works OK. As for apps, yes there are several on the SD card, however the day things went south I had not installed any new ones in several days, in fact I've been holding off on installing anything like I had before for that very reason. All the apps I currently have I use daily (many for work). None of them is causing the problem. I will be turning on Google Maps which I suspect is the culprit. I know in the past that program has been a problem sucking down batteries (keeping phone awake even after its been "turned off"). Will post up the results.
 
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