Battery appears to charge increasingly fast, but the charge doesn't hold. Also, the phone heats up; gets extremely hot. I am an infrequent user, so the problem is hardly overuse.
I'm on my second Samsung M300 (replacement) since buying the first 2 months ago, and the same wretched things are happening.
Shockingly short battery life after almost no use.
Phone gets extremely hot with very little use time.
Yep! This review says it all. I guess for a free phone it's ALRIGHT, but I was really expecting more.
The battery life is absolutely garbage. Lasts for less than an hour when talking. Heavy use of text messaging will last you about 6 hours. Just having it in your pocket on will last you about 24 hours.
The phone does get very hot fast with any use, especially phone calls.
Another thing I've noticed is the phone will freeze for sometimes 30+ seconds while typing a text message when it uses the auto word feature.
Reception is pretty terrible unless right by a cell tower. Drops calls frequently. Data reception is also nothing to brag about. When sending a picture I usually get at least 2-3 errors before the picture finally goes through.
This is a follow up to my other comment above. I still agree with everything I've said before except for the standby battery time I mentioned. It will easily last 3-4 days if not more of just being in your pocket on. I've gotten 2-3 days of life from it sitting in my pocket, sending a few text messages on occasion.
I also started using the T9 feature recently and found that sometimes the phone will freeze, again like before, for a little while and any text written before the freeze will be erased forcing you to retype your message. Gets very annoying when it happens frequently.
I have exhausted all possibilities to correct the battery problem -- I cannot get this phone to hold a charge from morning til night WITHOUT using at all all day. The is easily the worst phone I've had.
I have the a640 (which is essentially the same as the m300, it's just the older version) and get great battery life. Have you tried using the "power save" option?
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