{"id":290460,"date":"2018-12-31T07:30:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T05:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=290460"},"modified":"2018-12-31T07:32:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T05:32:15","slug":"samsung-galaxy-s9-users-suffer-battery-issues-after-latest-android-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/290460-samsung-galaxy-s9-users-suffer-battery-issues-after-latest-android-update.html","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Galaxy S9 users suffer battery issues after latest Android update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Galaxy S9 users are reporting battery issues after Android&#8217;s latest 9.0 update earlier this month, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/samsung-galaxy-s9-experiencing-battery-issues-after-android-pie-update-524395.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>reports Softpedia News.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/2018\/12\/28\/final-galaxy-s9-pie-update-possible-battery-drain-issue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SamMobile writer<\/strong><\/a> reported seeing his battery sink from 10% to 5% in seconds, and his experience has been echoed by several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/GalaxyS9\/comments\/aay6xc\/final_galaxy_s9_pie_update_may_have_a_serious\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Reddit<\/strong><\/a> users.<\/p>\n<p>Reddit user ToonTonic reported losing nearly 50% of their battery charge in an hour with no apps open.<\/p>\n<p>Another Reddit user reported their battery dropping from 10% to 4% in 3 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just this Android 9.0 update that has affected battery life negatively, however.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung will possibly look to fix these battery issues in January 2019 as part of its expected patching cycle.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/290410-more-android-users-are-moving-to-the-iphone-xr.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">More Android users are moving to the iPhone Xr<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Android Pie user reported losing nearly 50% of their battery charge in an hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":268787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,53557,49341,645],"class_list":["post-290460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-android-pie","tag-mobile-operating-systems","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290462,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290460\/revisions\/290462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}