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Some Galaxy Note 8 phones not turning on after battery hits zero

Samsung may have another battery related headache on its hands as some Galaxy Note 8 users are reporting that their phones are refusing to accept any charge. According to a number of users on Samsung’s Community Forums, the issue occurs after the phone falls to 0% battery and switches off.
 
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Anyway to know ahead of incident if one's phone has this not able to charge issue when fully drained?
When getting replace phone, does one have to reload all one's apps as well as re-adjust settings (if so, a bit pain)?

I would say no, since the phones aren't really supposed to be dead flat when reporting 0% charge.

As for reloading, yeah. If you has your phone to backup your apps and data with Google, some of it will be restored when you login on the new device, but a lot won't including your home screen configs.
 
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I guess my 8 is NOT one of those that won't come on after dropping to 0%. I was doing some work for the past 6 hours in another part of the house when I thought I'd check my phone. I thought I had something around 70% when I put it down. When I looked at the phone, it was off. I didn't recall turning it off, so I hit the power button. The phone would not start. I hit the power button again and my heart stopped when I saw a very quick flash of 0% and the phone immediately shut down and would not power up anymore. I tried not to panic, but I plugged her in and she immediately started up! WHEW!!! I still don't recommend trying this but I feel pretty lucky after my accident drain.

No idea why I had such a fast power drain other than a new app I just put on. For those of you with a home camera system (child monitor), is it possible that the monitoring app could have caused this faster than normal drain?
 
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