I just purchased a Pantech Maurader and I keep getting a message "Sorry, your Settings have stopped".

Question

Do I have a setting wrong somewhere?  Also, the battery runs down so quick.  I take it off the charger and within 5-10 minutes, the battery is down to 90% and that's without using the phone. It would never keep a charge all day. Do I have a setting wrong somewhere that's causing the battery to drain and my settings keep stopping...this happens every single time I use my phone.  I would appreciate any help.  Thanks.

Answer 1

I'm not familiar with the Marauder, but the stopping of Settings sounds somewhat similar to a problem that happened with Samsung Stratospheres last fall after an update. The solution is discussed in this post: https://community.verizonwireless.com/message/877152#877152. Basically, the steps are:
Tap on Settings, then Applications, then Manage Applications, then select All.
Scroll all the way down until you reach Settings, then tap on that to open it.
You should see two 'buttons' that you can click -- "Force stop" and "Clear data."
Choose the "Clear data" option, then restart the phone.
Users who did this often reported they had to reselect their wallpaper or some other easily-fixed setting. However, that was on a different device, perhaps dealing with a different problem. The sequence of steps and menus might be somewhat different for the Marauder, and they might or might not work, and might or might not cause other headaches. But there it is as a possibility.
As to battery drain, smartphones often have background activity going on that you're not aware of. If you have Bluetooth or GPS turned on, that will drain the battery. Like any cell phone, when the phone itself is turned on it will keep searching for a tower to connect to. Etc., depending on what apps you have installed. Whatever you do, don't install a so-called app killer or battery saver app; many of these actually end up causing a greater drain on the battery. My wife has a plain feature phone and can go days without recharging. I've got a Stratosphere, and it must be recharged every night, and occasionally during the day, depending on what I'm doing. It's just the nature of the beast, the tradeoff for having so many goodies to play (and occasionally even work!) with.