The Galaxy J1 might have been a good device if it had launched back in 2013, but at this point in time, there isn’t really a sufficient reason for why you would want to spend your money on it. Except for the cameras and battery life, the J1 doesn’t really offer anything worthy of its $120 price tag.
Versions: J106F/DS (UAE); J106B/DS (Colombia); J106H/DS (Africa)Also known as Samsung Galaxy J1 Mini Prime (2016), Samsung Galaxy V2 NetworkGSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - SIM 1 & SIM 2 (dual-SIM model only)HSDPA 850 / 900 / 2100 - J106F/DSHSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 - J106B/DSHSDPA 900 / 2100 - J106H/DSLTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 20(800), 40(2300) - J106F/DSHSPA 21.1/5.76 Mbps, LTE Cat4 150/50 MbpsLaunch2016, DecemberAvailable.
Sometimes the draining is a direct result of apps installed on your device. It could be that you have not optimized your battery settings and other settings on your device for optimal performance. Over the next few minutes you are going to learn what to do if your Galaxy J7 battery drains fast so read on for all the possible causes and solutions to your problem.We will begin with the battery draining issue and the possible causes and fixes, after which, we will talk about overheating issues and the possible causes and fixes for that problem in the second section. METHOD 1: USE AN APP TO REDUCE BATTERY DRAIN ON THE GALAXY J7The first thing you can do to help save battery life on the Galaxy J7 is install an app. I would suggest.
This useful app allows you to place all your apps in a state of hibernation and they will only be activated when you choose to launch the app yourself. After you have finished using the app, the Greenify application checks for the amount of time that the app has been inactive and then places it back into hibernation. With no apps running in the background, you will definitely see an increase in battery health on your Galaxy J7 device.You can read this article to learn.
METHOD 2: CHANGE GALAXY J7 SETTINGS TO EXTEND BATTERY LIFEThe first thing you need to do is turn off the automatic brightness feature and set the brightness to a lower setting manually (not so low that you can hardly see the screen). Turning your Galaxy J7 display brightness down is a simple way to seriously improve battery life. The next thing you might want to do is limit location services. One of the most power consuming features of the Galaxy J7 is the GPS location services.
And you might be surprised to know that it is used for more than just Google Maps. Social networking apps like Facebook, Twitter and even WhatsApp make use of the GPS functionality of your Galaxy J7 which in turn drains your battery even more.And while location services are useful, limiting those settings boosts battery life and this is what we are focused on. In order to limit the location services on you Samsung Galaxy J7, do the following: CONTINUE TWEAKING GPS SETTINGS TO IMPROVE YOUR GALAXY J7 BATTERY LIFEGo into Settings Location Mode and you will find three options: High Accuracy, which uses GPS, Wi-Fi and the mobile network to determine your position, which in turn uses quite a lot of power to do so; Battery Saving which, as the name suggests, reduces battery drain; and Device Only, which only uses the on-board GPS.
You can also turn off location services altogether, but of course that then limits your devices capabilities. You can adjust the settings to your liking. I personally use the battery saving option, unless I am out for a jog or walk, in which case I will momentarily use the High Accuracy setting. MODIFYING THE SYNC SETTINGS ON YOUR GALAXY J7 TO STOP THE BATTERY FROM DRAINING FASTAnother setting that you can tweak is the Sync setting.
This is used to deliver push notifications such as emails to your Galaxy J7 smartphone. When you disable syncing you also prevent a ton of app update notifications, which gives you time to actually connect your device to a charge port to install the updates.Of course, you can choose to disable certain sync features while leaving the important ones (email delivery) enabled. Again, this is totally up to you. Lastly you can explore the battery settings on your Galaxy J7. This way you can get of feel of what is using up your battery life and take steps to reduce the load on the battery.
Android devices have lots of settings that can reduce battery drain. CHECK TO SEE WHICH APPS ARE DRAINING YOUR GALAXY J7 BATTERYGo into Settings Device Battery and you will see exactly what’s making your Samsung Galaxy J7 battery drain very fast – and if you tap on each of the apps you can then adjust the settings to improve battery performance. Click on the dotted icon at the top right of the screen and you’ll see the option for Battery Saver. If you enable this you can specify when it should activate (never, 5% battery or 15% battery), and when it does it’ll seriously limit the over-usage of your battery. It’ll reduce app activity, disable syncing for some apps, reduce vibration, dim the screen, etc.You can choose to customize these features to your liking for optimal battery performance on your Galaxy J7. However, none of them are mandatory and you will know what works best for you. To be honest the Greenify app already saves a ton load of battery life on my device and the extra settings that can be tweaked are only used when I really need to squeeze the extra life out of my battery.
Calibrate your Samsung GALAXY J7 batteryThe Android operating system has a feature called Battery Stats, which keeps track of battery capacity, when it is full or empty. The problem is that it sometimes it become corrupted and starts displaying data that isn’t real, which, for example, causes the phone to turn off before reaching 0 percent.
Calibrating your Android battery simply means getting the Android OS to correct this information so it is reflective of your actual battery levels once again. It’s important to understand that you can’t actually calibrate the battery: it is, after all, just a cell that stores and discharges. However, lithium-ion batteries do include a printed circuit board (PCB) that serves as a protection switch to stop them from exploding or deep discharging. How to calibrate GALAXY J7 battery without root access? Method 1. Discharge your GALAXY J7 fully until it turns itself off. Turn it on again and let it turn off.
Plug your phone into a charger and, without turning it on, let it charge until the on-screen or LED indicator says 100 percent. Unplug your charger. Turn your phone on. The battery indicator will likely not say 100 percent, so plug it in (leave your phone on for this) and continue charging until it says 100 percent on-screen as well. Unplug your phone and restart it.
If it doesn’t say 100 percent plug the charger back in until it says 100 percent on screen. Repeat this cycle until it says 100 percent (or as close as you think it’s going to get) when you start it up without being plugged in. Now, let your battery discharge all the way down to 0 percent and let your phone turn off again. Fully charge the battery one more time without interruption and you should have reset the Android system’s battery percentage.Please remember that it is not recommended to perform this process all the time. Even when your battery is so dead your phone won’t even turn on, your battery still has enough reserve charge to avoid system damage. Perform this process once every three months at the most.
If it is required more often than that you have bigger problems at hand.Put plainly: fully discharging a battery is bad for it. Trying to overload a battery is also bad for it. The good news is that charging batteries automatically shut off when their safe limit is reached and there’s always a little in reserve even if your GALAXY J7 won’t start. But again: do this only when really necessary, because it does have a negative impact on battery life.
How to calibrate GALAXY J7 battery with root access?Even though it is not clear if clearing the batterystats.bin file has any meaningful effect on how the Android system reports remaining battery charge, there are those who swear by this method. So in the interests of fairness the process is included for you here (it is true that different manufacturers use the batterystats.bin file for different things). It’s basically the same process as above but with the added step of a root-enabled app. Method 2. Discharge your GALAXY J7 fully until it turns itself off.
Turn it on and let it discharge and turn off again. Plug your phone into a charger and, without turning it on, let it charge until the on-screen or LED indicator says 100 percent. Unplug your charger. Turn your phone on. The battery indicator will likely not say 100 percent, so plug it in (leave your phone on) and continue charging until it says 100 percent on the screen as well. Unplug your phone and restart it. Hello I bought a new Samsung J7 8 month ago in march 2016, everything was working fine until 2 weeks ago where the battery is now draining so fast.
From 3 days autonomy to not even a day. It happened overnight, everything was fine before.Here are the “symptoms”:– The screen is draining almost all of the battery (more than 60%, using more than 2020mAh for 7h time on)– The phone is now getting very hot in the upper part of the back, same for the screen. It never happened before.I don’t play games with my phone, I mostly use instagram, facebook and I do some videos.Here’s what I tried already:– I turned off wi-fi, location, bluetooth and all the rest that could drain the battery– Samsung gave me a new battery– Samsung changed the all board– I have the greenify app– I did the battery’s calibration, which helped a little bit– Luminosity is set to lowI still have the same problem and even if my phone is under warranty Samsung is telling me that they cannot do anything more because they changed everything already. They are telling me that they cannot give me a new phone.I’m now quite disappointed, I’d like it to be fix to use it normally before taking the S8 next year. Until this problem that phone was great, good autonomy, good pictures and never getting hot.Thanks for your help.Gilbert. Hello I bought a new Samsung J7 8 month ago in march 2016, everything was working fine until 2 weeks ago where the battery is now draining so fast.
From 3 days autonomy to not even a day. It happened overnight, everything was fine before.Here are the “symptoms”:– The screen is draining almost all of the battery (more than 60%, using more than 2020mAh for 7h time on)– The phone is now getting very hot in the upper part of the back, same for the screen. It never happened before.I don’t play games with my phone, I mostly use instagram, facebook and I do some videos.Here’s what I tried already:– I turned off wi-fi, location, bluetooth and all the rest that could drain the battery– Samsung gave me a new battery– Samsung changed the all board– I have the greenify app– I did the battery’s calibration, which helped a little bit– Luminosity is set to lowI still have the same problem and even if my phone is under warranty Samsung is telling me that they cannot do anything more because they changed everything already. They are telling me that they cannot give me a new phone.I’m now quite disappointed, I’d like it to be fix to use it normally before taking the S8 next year. Until this problem that phone was great, good autonomy, good pictures and never getting hot.Thanks for your help.Gilbert.