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RE: Samsung S7 $179.50 shipped! - Steemhunt - 143
I've had pretty good luck with refurbished phones. They are pretty cheap and look brand new. I think the S8 battery lasts slightly longer so I might upgrade in a year or two.
It's a good phone. The only problem I have had was when I upgraded the android version. From then on sometimes my phone switched off. I have able to fix it by removing all the cache files from the installation.
The performance manager thing didn't fix it? That would suck. Mine did recently update and still seems to work fine although the battery does seem to drain a bit fast. I may need to turn the phone off and back on or adjust the screen. My screen turns on when I get a notification so that can drain the battery when the phone is in my pocket with the screen on. lol
When I got mine new (bought it 3 months after it came on the market), the battery drained quickly. However after a few days, there were some updates and that fixed the battery drain. Regarding the problem I had with upgrading to the newer andriod: no the performance manager did not fix the issue. I had to boot my phone while holding some button combination if I remember correctly. That would flush all the remaining files of the update that were no longer needed.
Oh, and by the way, check the resolution your phone is using. You can lower it, and your phone will be quicker and consume less battery, while visually there is barely any difference. But I believe that right now the default setting already puts the resolution a bit lower, so you wouldn't have to change that.
I checked and turned off my power saver and I did have it in regular HD. I also did performance manager and that did some stuff and I deleted an app. Hopefully I don't drop below 50% tomorrow. I normally always run power saver and the phone usually does pretty well. It's tricky though because if you use navigation it does the GPS thing and that will drain your phone if you don't go back to powersaver GPS.
Hopefully in a few year solid state batteries will come out and be much better but who knows.
Make sure you turn off wifi etc. Can make a big difference.
Yeah if I'm out and about and need to conserve I have turned off wifi and data before. That does help a good amount I think. Normally I need the data connection though.
Yeah, in de car I'm using Waze, or a stream some youtube videos all the time. But I'm using 4G for that.
Do you have it plugged into the car charger when you do that? That would drain my battery pretty quick unless you are doing short 10 minute rides. I generally prefer the car stereo because I like local radio dj's even though they can be super annoying especially in the morning. I do not like talk radio in the morning. lol