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Appreciate the response guys. For additional information, the phone is not her primary phone. It's used principally to receive Line messages from her staff at her tour counter business confirming each sale and sale details. Seldom used for voice calling and cetainly never used for such battery intensive actions such as streaming videos etc. That's why it's so annoying that the battery runs down so quickly. After setting "Background usage limits" at "Put to sleep" the battery is depleting at 7% per hour, as verified by the the battery staus saying "A full charge will last about 14h 11m" My own secondary phone, the same model, says "A full charge will last about 4d 4h". That massive disparity suggests to me that something is running in the backgroung seriously depleting the battery. Having accessed "Developer mode" and being able to see all apps and services running, I don't know how to identify which app/s are doing the serious depleting.

Yes. Trouble is they only total around 18% of usage. I've just toggled on "Background usage limits" and set "Put to sleep" which, I think, puts rarely used apps which still run in the background into sleep mode. Now leave the phone unused for a couple of hours and see how much the batery depletes.

Afternoon all Her indoors' battery is running down far too quickly and has been doing for some time/. She had a new battery installed by Samsung some three months ago so I assume it's to do with Apps running in the background. I've opened "Develper options" in settings and can see App memory usage. How do I diagnose which apps are draining the battery the most please?

Is it possible to somehow retrieve contacts and chats via WhatsApp when using my old sim and number on a new phone which does not have those contacts stored?

Yes, that would stop the behaviour but I want the taskbar hidden.

Just as the title states, my task bar is hiding and unhiding slowly and juddering as it does. Anyone have any experience of this and a resolution please?

Whilst it's nice to hear your thoughts on the phone I wasn't asking for any such information.

Er...ok.

@vinny41 Appreciate the response.👍

Looking to buy the Samsung A55 5G off Amazon and wondering what the differing model numbers signify. Anyone able to assist please? Phone 1: ASIN ‏: ‎ B0CVQNMCYB Item model number ‏: ‎ SM-A556BZYAEUB Phone 2: ASIN : ‎ B0CYM3BRGG Item model number : ‎ SM-A556BLBAEUB

@jaideedave I feel your pain An absolute f'ing nightmare.

Ok, so bought a used, fully functioning unit off ebay ariving in a couple of days, the screen of which I'll swap out with my unit, job done.

Just try reading my initial post

Investigated that but it's a very old unit. Found some cheap second hand units on ebay so might buy and swap out. In the interim I could do with accessing WhatsApp web..

As I can't see the buttons to press to unlock the, apparently, still functioning device does anyone know of any way I can easily access the stored information? Is there a way of accessing WhatsApp web, usually accessed by using the linked devices procedure so that I a can access my contacts? I've ordered a new phone but delivery isn't until Monday.

Went yesterday to Samsung shop at Big C downstairs. Mrs decided to go for the A53 for Bt13,000. Happy Mrs....for now! Everyone's input much appreciated.

@ozimoron Pretty much agree with that analysis. Guaranteed that all three; A33, A53 and A73 will have a vastly superior picture quality than her 5 year old J7 Prime. It's simply a matter of deciding whether or not we feel it's worth paying whichever price differential.

@TantrikLvr Good call. Just compared specs and you're pretty much right. Definitely worthy of consideration.

Thanks for the input guys. I'm liking the A53 5G but will take at look at A73 and consider whether or not it's worth paying the extra Bt.

@seajae Yep. Looks like another decent option to consider.

@CharlieH Mrs just glared at me over the table when I mentioned the A12. ????

@Swiss1960 Thanks. Just started looking at that and comparing with A73 on GSMArena

Please start your own thread.

@ozimoron Thanks. I'll use that as a search starting point. Probably go down to Big C later and take a look

Looking to buy 'er indoors a new phone just because she wants one. She's been hapily using her J7 Prime bought 5/6 years ago, I think. She doesn't need top of the range so initial budget circa. Bt15,000 but flexible. Any suggestions for Samsung would be welcome.