I’ve been struggling with my cell phones battery life for a good year plus now. I had enough yesterday and did a factory reset. I forgot to do a back up in Google drive to save all my contacts and photos before I did it so I lost everything but I can tell you my battery life is back to like it was when I bought my old samsung galaxy 3 straight talk phone years ago. Yes I’m cheap and I like my phone. I’ve had it for a good 5+ years and paid a couple hundred bucks for it at the time and don’t want to upgrade if I don’t have to. Before I did the reset as soon as I unplugged the charger it seemed like every three seconds or so I could watch the battery countdown drop and within probably an hour and a half it needed to be charged again as it was completely drained. After the reset yesterday morning I left it unplugged. I was happy to see my battery was over 3/4 charged when I checked it this morning so problem solved. The only bad part is straight talk has texted me a few times saying that I need to upgrade my phone because my old model that I have will not work properly and drain faster with their new updated system. I wonder if there was something that straight talk downloaded in my phone causing the fast drain that I have now fixed? Either that or there had been programs that were running nonstop. I removed Facebook messenger and that seemed to help quite a bit with the drain about a month ago.
The only other thing I need to figure out now is why my phone does not want to charge properly with a car charger but charges fine when it’s in the house.