If you’re having this issue check out the #batteryguide . Original Post: OK I’ll definitely not win this… My phone was 100% this morning at 7:00. I checked my mails and the forum, played some frozen while waiting for my daughter but not a lot. It’s now 11:00 and it’s down to 50%. Don’t like it… I…

Thx a lot for that information and very thorough explanation.

I have the same issue… Phone becomes hot (above the battery) when I use the Internet (3G, 4G, wifi…) and drains very quickly. But my phone is completely new !! I did kickstart the battery, checked the SIM cards, the SD card, followed the battery guide, but nothing changes. What should I do ? A 55…

[image] Luc13: checked the SIM cards How did you check them? How old are they?

I have one of my former operator (which doesn’t work anymore since I changed my operator some days after getting the fairphone) which is 2 years old, and did perfectly work in the previous phone, and another one from the new operator, which is totally new, that works perfectely in the previous phone…

For last couple of months CPU area of my phone got really hot when watching video, playing game or even some other kinds of apps. I think it was since some Fairphone open update (don’t remember the version). After last update (Fairphone open 18.01.1) it got lot better. It never gets so hot and batt…

This week I suddenly had issues with short battery life. After using CPU Monitor Advanced Lite, an app which I can recommend if you want to find which app is using excessive CPU, I found that it was caused by F-Droid. The CPU usage was so few that the battery settings didn’t show F-Droid at all, but…

In the settings of the F-Droid app I have the updates, automatic update interval to a week. It could be that the setting on your phone was hourly.

It’s set to daily. F-Droid did not appear to be using the network either when it woke up the CPU - usually it takes a while to download the package lists, so that should’ve been visible in the CPU monitor. Anyway after killing its process the CPU usage vanished and I can’t reproduce it anymore. It …

Hi. My fairphone 2 get suddenly really hot and drained battery in 2 hours. I finally found the solution with FAQ of the website (Troubleshoot your Fairphone 2 issue --> Improve and monitor your battery life) I restart on my phone on safe mode. Phone wasn t hot anymore, seems that it was an applic…

I only now happened to stumble upon a possible malware problem, that can be responsible for battery draining as well as overheating the battery. There are apps, that start mininig cryptocurrency (mostly monero) in the background. At a Kaspersky-Lab on battery caught fire, destroing the phone. Main…

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