I have a cell phone (flip phone) and the wife has a smart phone.
Seems the wifes phone got hacked somehow, exactly how I have no clue. Mine I never use.......only when I have incoming calls or I make calls which isn't very often, maybe once every other month.
Last months credit card bill came in, there was 3 charges for things from places that have a Russian tie to them. That part we took care of and the CC company shut down the old card and sent us a new card. We have net access but we have limits, and all of a sudden the data usage really climbed to the limit real fast. Wifes phone has a Amazon app, and somehow that app (which came with the phone and can't be deleted) was using a lot of data. Thing is she never uses Amazon for anything and she shut it down, not deleted just shut it down and seems to be OK for the moment.
Now comes my situation: My phone is just your plane jane flip phone, no frills, no apps, nothing added.
Now this is the part that'll make your head spin.....The phone always stays home, I rarely carry it with me since the wife and I are always close together. When the phone stays home I charge it once every other week and even at that it's down by 1 bar out of four and I do it to just keep it topped off.
EVERY SINGLE TIME......and I mean every single time I carry my phone with me, the battery goes dead in 24hrs. If it stays home it's like I said....once every other week just to top it off.
Why all of a sudden ( we're talking the last 6 months) when the phone is moved battery life is next to nothing within 24hrs has me stumped.
Am I missing something?
This has been going on since before the wifes phone went ape sheit, and the wife knows since I tell her I'm charging the phone. We live on solar power folks, so we have this tendency to let the other person know when we're using power so if the person forgets the other person reminds them that they're using power for whatever.
Basically when my phone is moved, and I mean when I go into town, the battery power goes at a rapid rate..