Vent: My phone got weirdly hot and the battery drained in 2 hours

Jenny Wright · 2026-03-17T14:35:06.913817+00:00

It happened last Tuesday morning. The phone was just sitting on my desk. I checked the app list and saw something called 'WeatherWidget' using 80% of the battery. I never installed that. Ran a malware scan and it found three hidden apps. Had to do a full factory reset. Has anyone else had a random app show up and eat their battery like that?

park.max7mo ago

My phone did that last month, and I felt like I was holding a hot potato, lol.

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julia_carter6mo ago

Ugh, that's the worst. It feels like everything is just crammed with junk now. My smart TV started showing weird ads and it turned out some "free" app I tried was loading it with adware. Same with my brother's tablet, it came with a bunch of games he didn't even download. It's like you buy a thing and it's already half broken with all this garbage software. Makes you not want to update anything.

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hollydixon7mo ago

My old laptop did that once, turned out to be a crypto miner hiding in a screensaver. What kind of phone was it?

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