Galaxy S4 issues

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Marthinus100

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Hi guys,
I have had it with this crap phone. Why don't Nokia just bring out 3310's again?
I keep getting "unfortunately, (music,contacts etc.) has stopped" and "currently unable to download try again later".
Also on my home screen, next to the signal bar the h+ comes on and disappears again. Almost like it restarts the whole time.

I have tried the take out battery trick. Clear memory/Cache. Flight mode and back to force restart of Vodacom.
Phone gets very hot and drains battery in 3 hours like this. I had a similar problem last time and I just forced stopped the Vodacom apps and disabled it. Problem went away. Now all of a sudden same thing again. Just this time its default apps.

No I have not installed any apps recently and no I dont use 75% of the phones features, I dont mess around with the phone to much.

Please if anyone knows help me please. Been on the android forums, but that place is painful.
 
Marthinus100 said:
Hi guys,
I have had it with this crap phone. Why don't Nokia just bring out 3310's again?
I keep getting "unfortunately, (music,contacts etc.) has stopped" and "currently unable to download try again later".
Also on my home screen, next to the signal bar the h+ comes on and disappears again. Almost like it restarts the whole time.

I have tried the take out battery trick. Clear memory/Cache. Flight mode and back to force restart of Vodacom.
Phone gets very hot and drains battery in 3 hours like this. I had a similar problem last time and I just forced stopped the Vodacom apps and disabled it. Problem went away. Now all of a sudden same thing again. Just this time its default apps.

No I have not installed any apps recently and no I dont use 75% of the phones features, I dont mess around with the phone to much.

Please if anyone knows help me please. Been on the android forums, but that place is painful.
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1. Check if your battery is swollen.
2. Check for firmware updates.
3. Do a factory wipe and go get the latest firmware from Sammobile
4. Report back
 
Phone gets very hot and drains battery in 3 hours like this.
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That is a common problem with the S4, check with your service provider for a free swop of your battery. After that also check for firmware updates
 
Marthinus100 said:
Phone gets very hot and drains battery in 3 hours like this. I had a similar problem last time and I just forced stopped the Vodacom apps and disabled it. Problem went away. Now all of a sudden same thing again. Just this time its default apps.

No I have not installed any apps recently and no I dont use 75% of the phones features, I dont mess around with the phone to much.

P.
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What's your serial number of your battery? is it between BD1D401XX and BD1D529XX if yes take it to your closest samsung smart care centre they will swap it for free - there is a common issue with the S4 batteries and my anecdotal evidence is Vodacom ended up with a majority of these, so far all the people who had this issue had this serial number were on vodacom :(

You can take it to vodacom but i wouldn't bother they might give you a run around!
 
I had that same problem, got my phone through MTN.
Swopped the battery fore free after having it for more than a year (both Voda and MTN know about the problem).
Suddenly battery was working very well!

I agree after firmware updates some issues did disappear.
Hope you come right cause Ive been using the S4 for roughly 2 years now and its an awesome phone.
 
Keeping GPS or wifihotspot on drains the battery fast.

e.g. if you have the hotspot on then a USB (PC) driven charging will barely keep up with the drain.
 
Hi guys, no its not the battery. If I switch of mobile data the phone stays cool and battery lasts a day at least. I did have a faulty battery that was swelling, but that was replaced a good few months back.
When I switch on mobile data, the H+ next to the signal bar keeps appearing and disappearing. (H+, no H+,H+, no H+, H+ etc)
I had the same issue a month or so back, then it was some vodacom installed apps. I forced stopped the app and disabled the app (unable to download kept popping up), next I switched on flight mode and after a minute switched it off again. Stable H+ next to signal bar ever since untill two days ago. So no I just leave my mobile data off and phone is fine. All hotspots etc is switched off, I never use it

Its the I9500
 
Go into settings and change it to WCDMA only and see if that helps.
 
Same thing soul assassin. Will have to do a factory reset as a last resort though.
Any recommended software to help backup and restore all my data?
 
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