{"id":32,"date":"2015-08-24T22:13:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T20:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2015-08-25T17:34:50","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T15:34:50","slug":"fixing-battery-drain-on-my-samsung-galaxy-note-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/2015\/08\/24\/fixing-battery-drain-on-my-samsung-galaxy-note-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing battery drain on my Samsung Galaxy Note 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a\u00a0Samsung Galaxy Note 3<\/a>\u00a0that I am quite happy with. I have had it for a couple of years now and have no plans of switching to a newer one in a while. Recently, it has started acting up and draining the battery very rapidly. I thought the upgrade to Lollipop (Android 5) would fix that, but it just made it worse. After trying out quite a few things I started researching it and found that an app called “Unified Daemon(EUR)” was using up both a lot of battery power\u00a0and network bandwidth.<\/p>\n

\"2015-08-25<\/a><\/p>\n

Searching for more information on the ‘net, I came up with\u00a0forum thread<\/a>\u00a0describing this very issue. Apparently, the app purpose is to update the weather forecast, news and stock tickers. I don’t really use any of them, although I did have a weather symbol on the S Cover screen, so how it could end up downloading hundreds of megabytes of data I have no idea, something must be very wrong with it.<\/p>\n

To test out if it was indeed the culprit, I went into the settings and disabled the daemon in the App Manager yesterday. And, indeed, today battery usage was down to normal again, and when I came back from work I had 50 % battery life left despite having placed a couple of phone calls, played some games and browsed some web sites. Had I tried that yesterday the battery would either have been empty long before, or I would have had to recharge it during the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a\u00a0Samsung Galaxy Note 3\u00a0that I am quite happy with. I have had it for a couple of years now and have no plans of switching to a newer one in a while. Recently, it has started acting up and draining the battery very rapidly. I thought the upgrade to Lollipop (Android 5) would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23,21,22,20],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-android","tag-apps","tag-battery","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}