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This being an Android techy forum, I thought I'm likely to get an answer ...
I have a Galaxy S3, running Android 4.0.4. I haven't, and have no interest in, rooting it, up-flashing it, or anything similar.
I primarily use it for phone-type activities, but also a little for email, sattynavvy, and media playing (downloaded podcasts via DogCatcher, some Amazon mp3 downloads via the Amazon player app, and mp3s transferred from my PC).
Until a week or so back, it would quite happily do everything that I asked of it, in exchange for a battery re-charge every other day.
About a week or so back, battery consumption increased hugely - it would drain the battery in <10-12 hours.
No change in my usage pattern, and no new apps installed (AFAIK).
I've tried nuking all the running / cached apps. Didn't seem to make any difference. I bought a new battery. Didn't seem to make any difference. I deleted Dogcatcher and all podcasts. Didn't seem to make any difference.
I took out the microSD card (on which all podcasts & mp3s are stored) and battery usage seemed to revert to normal levels - ie quite happily a couple of days between charges.
So, what's going on with the microSD card to drain the battery, and how can I fix it?
Suggestions please, oh wise forum.
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Maybe it's on it's way out - you tried saving to it from the phone again? If it's taking ages due to errors it'll be draining the battery.
is it a pukka card and not a fake?
It's a genuine (Samsung) 32Gb card.
I'll try wiping it clean and copying everything back to it ...
Seems like the card is borked.
Can't get it to read in anything else, and the phone refuses to mount it now too.
Pah.
Bandcamp
Spotify, Apple et al