My S8 is acting up. It's running hotter than usual and during that it'll drain battery really fast - I'm not doing anything strange with it either. Every now and again I'll get the notification about the phone requiring a restart because of a system process eating up too much CPU (no information on which process that would be however). The restarts don't help. I've even tried safe mode (the one where only system apps are permitted) and got that warning there too!
Sometimes... it gets better. The phone isn't running hot 100% of the time but I can't link it being hot to any specific action. Realistically I'm not doing much with my phone - pretty generic stuff, really: calls, texts, some internet browsing or YouTube watching, some authenticator apps. The most advanced thing I have on it is a VPN for work and a remote desktop app (recently used very sparingly). But, well, since the CPU issue happened even in safe mode - I don't think this is app related.
I've tried making a report via Samsung Members but all I got was a generic response that my logs will be forwarded to some engineering team and that's it - no more communications while my phone's still running hot.
Admittedly - I haven't tried a phone reset yet. Frankly - I'd rather not do that. I've got those authenticator apps I'd need to back up, as well as quite a bit of photos and videos to back up (I keep things on the phone, not in the cloud), so it'd be a fairly lengthy process to get everything backed up and restored. I'd rather try everything else before I get there.
Any ideas what I can do? The most annoying thing is that phone "maintenance" message... which doesn't tell me which process is eating up CPU. 😕 That, and Samsung support via the Members app being useless (while a mod on an old thread about a similar issue said reporting via Members is exactly what we should do: https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/galaxy-s22-series/overloading-the-system-cpu/td-p/4885636).
