[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] prufessa:
Thank you very much!!!

OMG!!! i've been dealing with this problem for a little over a week now! It's been getting a lot worse lately. the last few days i'v been researching another problem i've been having with my android OS ramping up to <50% and thought that was causing the sharp decrease in battery life. none of the dozens of threads i read mentioned anything about the flickering screen and the battery level going up and down like a yo yo though. but then my phone froze up and even the hold-power-button-for-5-seconds restart method didn't work. so i popped out my battery and was like WOAH! it's not supposed to be bulging like this! so after i get my battery replaced, one way or another (after seeing the possible problem at the sprint store), i'll figure out what's revving up my android OS. that might have been taxing my battery a little bit too, on top of it getting constantly hot for a period of about 3 weeks. now it gets hot here and there and i have to cool it off, but at one point in time it was staying hot all day long.

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i'll just say that if your phone is flickering for a couple of seconds then shutting off and you have a bulging battery then you fall under this category. I also noticed that if i plug it up before it shuts off on me that i will lose my cell signal. it completely locks up. sometimes this was happening prior to the first shut down. this was when i was turning it back on right away to see the decimated battery after it had been on the charger while i was at work.

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yo, are you experiencing a locked up cell signal on top of this as well? at first, like if i was trying to make a call it wouldn't go through and then my phone would shut off. then when i turn it back on my battery is substantially lower than it was before it "died." let me say that it's been happening to me about a week and a half now. well over the past weekend i caught it happening a couple of times and was able to plug it up and noticed the cell signal staying on. now my battery is dying so fast that if i plug it up in the middle of the screen flicker the signal is still lost and i have to turn the power cycle in order to get it back.

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yo, have any of you experienced a locked up cell signal on top of this as well? at first, like if i was trying to make a call it wouldn't go through and then my phone would shut off. then when i turn it back on my battery is substantially lower than it was before it "died." let me say that it's been happening to me about a week and a half now. well over the past weekend i caught it happening a couple of times and was able to plug it up and noticed the cell signal staying on. now my battery is dying so fast that if i plug it up in the middle of the screen flicker the signal is still lost and i have to turn the power cycle in order to get it back.

so i need to know if my locked up cell signal is something that anyone else has experienced because if not i'll have to figure out that problem after i get the battery replaced.