So, my battery has really been pretty crappy for a few weeks now (much worse than before).
It all happened right after my phone had ghost dialed *22899 and updated my phone’s PRL.

Now, my phone’s battery is pretty decent, so long as I am connected to the Google Servers (my Wi-Fi & bars are blue).

Here’s the thing – they aren’t blue as often as before. And sometimes, the Wi-Fi icon doesn’t even appear, even though I know that I am connected to Wi-Fi (maybe my work connection is bad).

Anyway, the remedy for this is to turn off my screen and turn it right back on a second later. When I do that, the icons appear and they are blue.

Should I manually call *22899 (since I had factory reset a week ago)?

Would a new SIM Card fix this problem or is that not a factor?

And, when the phone is not being used, JuiceDefender makes it so that the battery barely drains at all.

 

Tim, that’s for all of your help. I try to “thank” you every time.

I’ve already said that I don’t wanna return the phone for a few reasons:

1.) What if the new phone does this?
2.) Will Best Buy give me, and install, a new ZAGG protector without charging me?
3.) I don’t wanna get a phone with vertical banding.

I have disabled JuiceDefender, I am uninstalled JuiceDefender, and I have even factory reset my phone, twice. So, I have listened to that advice and done it. That didn’t help anything. In fact, without JuiceDefender, my phone loses way more power while idle than when I have JuiceDefender turned on. Without JuiceDefender, at work, my phone loses like 8% each hour, versus 2% when on (idle).

The auto-updating of the PRL has ceased, ever since my second factory reset. So, that’s not an issue anymore. However, since those occurrences of the PRL update (and the new PRL), I have noticed that the phone’s Wi-Fi doesn’t appear blue a lot of the time, until I turn off the screen and a second later turn it right back on. So, how come the phone doesn’t stay connected to Wi-Fi? I find that when the screen is on (and I am using the phone), I should be using Wi-Fi, but I am not, and that’s what is killing my battery (a bad cell phone connection).

No one has yet answered my questions about the SIM Card maybe being the culprit. Should I call Verizon and ask for a new one, or is that not even a factor…?

I just don’t want to have to get a new phone because could totally happen with a replacement, and I wanna fix it so I know what the issue(s) is/are.

The phone has stopped ghost dialing, so that’s good. And, the battery is back to only dropping 2% when connected to Wi-Fi and while idle (each hour).

[FONT=&quot]The only thing now is that the battery really drains like crazy while being used – way more than before. I attribute it to the Wi-Fi and cell phone icons not appearing blue at the top of my phone’s screen.[/FONT]

 

Well, the first time they replaced my phone, they said they couldn't test one out before looking at it and told me I would have to take the one they open and turn on.

So, thankfully, it was OK.

Now, as for the "time" you mention - you're right.

Could it be the SIM Card that is the issue or it can't be that?

 

If I turn my phone screen on and off, the WiFi icon will instantly turn blue.

What does that mean?

 

It happens everywhere. It's weird. The icons are not blue, then, I just turn off the screen and turn it right back on and it's blue.

Why might that happen?

 

I only have certain Google things set-up. I turned off the ones I don't use, like GMail, and a few other things I don't use.

 

I've been charging and re-charging a lot. Today ain't a good barometer.

 

Well, it ghost dialed this morning for the first time in 10 days. I had just downloaded Friendcaster and restarted. Upon restarting, it ghost dialed and stopped like 14 seconds in, again. So, I removed the application. Could that be the cause?

 

OK, I put the SIM in. It activated for like 2 minutes. It never said that it was successful, nor did a voice say it was. It just dialed that number and there was music for two minutes. My PRL has a version of 52686, just like earlier.

 

So far, after two days with the new SIM Card, I have not experienced any ghost dialing.

My phone did however randomly turn off last night and restart (and I was not pulling down the notification bar).

Anyway, I also want to mention that my phone has also not been getting warm/hot, so that's good.

I have noticed, however, that when I wake up in the morning, my battery has drained so quickly in my home while having blue icons at the top of the phone, and this morning, with auto-brightness, I have two cell phone bars and three WiFi bars, but my battery dropped to 92% from a full charge in only about 8 minutes of surfing the web. Maybe it was even 10 minutes. And, another drop down to 82% in 30 minutes? For real?

I lost nearly one-fifth of my battery life in 30 minutes? In two and a half hours my phone would be dead?

Yesterday, I had my phone fully charged at work, at 10:00am. I used my phone a little throughout the day, more at lunch, and I was still at like 60% 7 hours later (and my cell phone connection and WiFi connection are dismal there).

Please advise...

 

I've lost 28% of my battery life in 2 hours (with about 35 minutes of screen time).

 

OK, this is odd. I just fully charged my phone, with it off, unplugged the phone, and I restarted the phone. I didn't use the phone at all, and in a half hour, my battery said 94% (with no usage). How can that be?

 

It didn't do that before. And, look at my screenshots, it dropped a ton when it was around 50%. Explain that.