S4 battery starting to degrade, approx 15 months old.

Autonomous

My battery recently has started to drain power very quickly, maybe getting 8hrs on a full overnight charge.
Has anyone else noticed this on their S4?
Also, could be be an app or something causing this?

banie01

Modern mobile phone batteries are prone to degredation over time/use.
generally 300 to 500 charge discharge cycles before the the battery starts to lose capacity.
That said.
Yes an app may be causing your issue, check your battery usage in settings.
And also their was a batch of bad Samsung batteries released last year in phones sold between late July and early October.
This is a known issue with a known affected batch number(I think the batch number is BD21.but I'm not certain).
Easiest way to check is remove the battery and check for swelling.

Autonomous

Just got an ota update, says stuff about battery usage improvement. ..hopefully this is a fix.

south

Bought a few of these myself https://www.fasttech.com/products/1414104
For the low price they work pretty well. Delivery was about a month though.

magentis

south wrote: »

Bought a few of these myself https://www.fasttech.com/products/1414104
For the low price they work pretty well. Delivery was about a month though.

Yeah i purchased one of them off fleabay,its still sitting in my drawer im kinda afraid to use it incase it bursts in the phone or something!
Are you using them long?
Do they last long?

Autonomous

Battery appears to be better after the update :-)