Hi All,
Over a year my galaxy S i9000 was running OK. Until recently, when it gave up on me all by a sudden.
After switching it on again I found my battery was doing about 80%.
That surprised me a bit so I came here to read about other users experiences.
I detected multiple issues in this thread are mentioned.
1) Battery dies very fast.
2) Sleep of Death - Phone is in use and freezes. This leads to resetting or shutting down after some time.
3) Sudden death - Phone suddenly shutting down with still plenty of battery power left.
Three different problems with all their own solution. I'll try to get some things straight here. Just start reasoning out possibilities to solve the problem with my phone. Maybe It's of any use for all you out there as well. I would appreciate it if any tech whizz could add more knowledge to this.
1) BATTERY DIES FAST. If the battery dies quickly there could be multiple causes
a) High power consumption due to software issues (either android or apps)
b) Battery life isn't endless. Maybe it's had it's best time
c) Some hardware defect (short circuit) causing high power drainage
2) SLEEP OF DEATH. Sounds like a software issue to me. Probably memory is getting clogged up, which in the end leads to a crash. This memory clogging could be caused by bad programming behaviour from newbie programmers (memory leakage) and not properly taken care of by the android system. New firmware could maybe solve this.
When I just had my phone I had this problem, but after some firmware upgrades it seems to be solved.
3) Sudden death... My pain in the buttocks at the moment.
First I thought of some kind of software issue. I did a 'Reset to factory settings' to wipe out everything. This didn't solve the problem. First thought was flashing the phone memory (that's why I landed on this forum). But reading through these threads I noticed that it doesn't seem to help. I read something about SD cards being part of the problem, so I took of the cover to inspect the interior of my phone and to check it's inner integrity. Apart from some dust there wasn't anything that... Wait a minute...
Hmmm.... The battery is wiggling in it's housing. It doesn't stay on it's place the way I would like it to be. It reminded me of my previous phone, the Nokia N73. It had the same crappy mechanical problem...
I took a piece of paper in the same size as the battery. Folding it's edge over the bottom of the battery a few times and jam the whole package back in to the phone. Now the battery stay nicely in it's place, pushed upward against the copper connector pins.
Problem seems to be solved...