So I've been on a cruise for the past week and my phone has been in airplane mode for the week so I wouldn't get texts or calls. All was fine until last night. Last night I set down my phone on the table and started packing and getting ready for bed. I came back to check the time, the phone was very warm and the phone was dead. Okay, so I plug it in for the night and see if tht does anything. Nothing. Just warm again. SO I unplug the battery for a few hours and STILL, nothing. I'm from Dallas and now I'm in Tamps but in an hour I'm going to a nearby verizon store. Anybody know what's going on? When I plug it in the LED does not turn on.
I have not rooted this phone...
yet
mrpurplehawk said:
So I've been on a cruise for the past week and my phone has been in airplane mode for the week so I wouldn't get texts or calls. All was fine until last night. Last night I set down my phone on the table and started packing and getting ready for bed. I came back to check the time, the phone was very warm and the phone was dead. Okay, so I plug it in for the night and see if tht does anything. Nothing. Just warm again. SO I unplug the battery for a few hours and STILL, nothing. I'm from Dallas and now I'm in Tamps but in an hour I'm going to a nearby verizon store. Anybody know what's going on? When I plug it in the LED does not turn on.
I have not rooted this phone...
yet
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If you haven't rooted or anything just take it to Verizon. Assuming you haven't messed with it, it's probably faulty hardware and thus covered by warranty.
Tried pulling the battery? That don't work, get it replaced at the Verizon store.
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mrpurplehawk said:
So I've been on a cruise for the past week and my phone has been in airplane mode for the week so I wouldn't get texts or calls. All was fine until last night. Last night I set down my phone on the table and started packing and getting ready for bed. I came back to check the time, the phone was very warm and the phone was dead. Okay, so I plug it in for the night and see if tht does anything. Nothing. Just warm again. SO I unplug the battery for a few hours and STILL, nothing. I'm from Dallas and now I'm in Tamps but in an hour I'm going to a nearby verizon store. Anybody know what's going on? When I plug it in the LED does not turn on.
I have not rooted this phone...
yet
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Phone over heated. Happened to me. Check the edges of your phone (silver casing) is their any slits in it.
meh just got a new one.
Yeah mate don't worry about that just take it back to the store or you can just call Samsung and book it in for repair.You have a two year warranty on it still and seeing that you haven't rooted the phone there's really no need to worry. Samsung take 5 -10 working days and your phone will be as good as new. Trus me I've send even my friends phone back to Samsung and they fixed it free of charge
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Several days ago my phone starting dropping battery much faster than usual. While I am at work I barely touch my phone and some days I will only use 15% over an 8 hour period. This suddenly increased to about 40-50% a few days ago. I tracked it down to the bluetooth being enabled or not. My bluetooth has been always-on for the last several months without an issue. Now I can see the battery discharge rate increase immediately when the bluetooth is turned on. I've attached a screenshot showing the problem. I had the bluetooth off in the morning and you can see the slow discharge. I turned it on for several hours and you see the steep discharge until I turned it off again and the discharge levels out. It was not connected to anything during the entire day. Does anyone have any idea why this would suddenly happen? I am going to have to turn off my bluetooth when not in use until I figure this out.
Ugggh, the more I have this phone, the more I'm starting to dislike it. I'm having the same exact issue as you! I actually wiped the phone and it's been good for about 3 days, but just today I'm back again with BT killing my battery. Plus, now there's a new OTA today, but I don't know if I wanna take it since it may cripple the phone even more and maybe kill my chances of rooting one day (if OG5 is ever rooted). Tempted to sell this damn thing and go back to an S5.
Not sure if you're still having this issue, but I wiped the phone 3 separate times and each time it resolved the issue for a few days, but then randomly would start acting up again. I wear a Pebble, so disabling BT isn't really an option. Got tired of resetting, so I went to Verizon and a replacement is being shipped to me this week. Still not sure what the cause of the issue is/was since it was flawless for 6 months....
Hey peeps had a really strange issue this morning ???? I went out last night on the town and came home rather intoxicated. Went to bed and forgot to put my phone on charge. At 6am I woke up phone was on 13% put my phone on charge and the screen wasn't responding.
So I forced shutdown and when it started up I couldn't unlock my phone because my keyboard wasn't appearing.
Forced shutdown again put on charge again and went back to sleep.
When I woke up an hour later late for work I took my phone and unlocked it and all my home was messed up. All folders are left most apps are spread out over 5 pages Google account had logged out. My messages didn't show my Google picture showed my 1st initial.
I have the latest marshmallow and I'm wondering if anyone else knows why this may have happened?
Thank you
My money's on 6 a.m. drunken "troubleshooting"
I suppose that is a possibility that's why I added that in lol I really can't see it though as that would have been a lot of work to do in that state ? that's why I'm looking for another possible reason
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My S3 Frontier was a problem child when I first got it a year ago. It would never stay connected to my phone, and all I did was tinker with it and reset it over and over again for months. I was ready to Ebay it when the Tizen 3 update was pushed. Since that time, this watch has worked great, up until now. About a month ago I got new iPhone. I had a LG V10 Android phone and was a little concerned that the iPhone would mess up the watch. The Samsung app on IOS was a bit limited, but it still worked fine. About 2 days ago, the watch all of a sudden started eating up the battery. It went from 100% to 31% in about 3 hours Tuesday morn. I charged it over night, and yesterday it was fine. Today it was OK up until an hour or so ago. It went from 71% to 17% in just over an hour. I was not even using the watch. I have wifi on auto, the display always off, brightness on 6, heart rate monitor off, and no 3rd party apps installed. All I use the watch for is to keep me alerted when I get incoming texts, weather alerts, and it tells me to get up off my arse sometimes and move! I do not use it to make or answer calls, GPS and location is off. Up until now, when I would put the watch on the charger when I went to bed, the battery would be at 70-75%. I have about 20 or so watch faces all from the Samsung store and have uninstalled Facer and Watchmaker. I do not see how the watch faces could be causing this when the screen is off, but I do not know all the technical details on how this thing operates. The Samsung app on my phone does not show anything out of the ordinary running on the watch. Does anybody have any ideas before I rest this thing, or worse yet, chuck it and just go back to using my $10.00 Walmart watches!!? :laugh:
Won't hurt to try another factory reset before you retire it.
Same thing for mine was great then all the sudden drains battery like crazy.
I just did ANOTHER reset from the watch, and also removed and reinstalled the Gear app on my phone. Afterwards, did not install anything on the watch. It is still draining way too fast. This morn at 6 it was at 100%, after not using it at all, it is at 82. It is still setup as in my original post. The only thing I can think of that may have caused this was a small update that got pushed on it a few weeks go. Either way, I am tired of fighting it! I may have to contact Samsung, but I think it is out of warranty. If this thing gets the Tizen 4 update, I will give it another shot.
I just thought of something. Is there a way to reinstall Tizen 3.0.0.2 again manually without hacking the watch or sending it back to Samsung? Maybe resetting it is not enough and it needs to to be wiped , then have the OS reinstalled.
I just started experiencing the rapid drain as well? Noticed it yesterday. Put the watch on at 7am and by 11am had the warning pop up that battery was at 15%
If you Google this, there are lot of folks having the same problem with this watch. I was just on a Samsung forum where several people were reporting this issue after the 3.0.0.2 update. The thing is, my watch ran great after the 3.0.02 update! Better than it did on version 2. My problem started after no updates. My best guess is another patch or the Tizen 4 update (assuming this watch will get it) may hopefully fix this. I am found no resolution so far.
I would say try a couple things. Turn Wi-Fi off completely. Mine gets hammered when I have it on in any way, and you COULD be seeing it poll like crazy in Auto. After testing that, I'd also try turning the BT off too (Just to test)
Mine started doing this two days ago and I made no changes (I always have Wifi off, heart rate once every ten minutes, AOD off, , no GPS, non-LTE watch). I usually get up to three days and now if I fully charge it by 9pm is't dead in less than 11 hours.
I have this problem as well, started yesterday. Looking through the apps, seems like s health is the one to blame! Before once charge was getting the phone still at 77% by the end of the day....
Same here, since a couple of days ago, Samsung Health draining the battery. Can´t be a coincidence.
I guess it is possible the battery is going bad, but rechargeable batteries normally do not start losing capacity at one year of age, and it is normally a gradual process. I tried turning off wifi, and that did not help. Between 6 this morn and now (8.00 am) it went from 100 to 88% and all it did was show a few text messages from my wife. To add to my misery, the Samsung app just updated on my iPhone and now the program crashes whenever I open it and to go the Gear apps and faces. I can try reinstalling it, but it will reset the watch AGAIN, and I will have to start all over. If I was Bruce Banner I would be turning into The Hulk right now!!
son of a b!tch... i was hoping that it was a fixable thing, seems like its a widespread issue. Im having the exact same problem. started 2 days ago. Factory reset the watch and didnt even install any apps on it, just configured the watchface to diable the AOD and bezel wake. Its been fine for about 10 months and boom... utter failure. guess ill start a claim with samsung
Yes mine has worked great for over a year then all of a sudden 2 days ago it started going from 100% to dead in 3 hours or less.
sooooooo, i submitted my claim info on samsungs site and no more than 30 min following, my gear started turning its watchface on while on the charger very randomly. Did it about 6 times. Stupid coincidence? poltergeist? or are they digging into the device?
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factory resetting it via recovery, wish me luck
ok, reset via recovery, fully charged, lets see how this goes
sparky1337 said:
Yes mine has worked great for over a year then all of a sudden 2 days ago it started going from 100% to dead in 3 hours or less.
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Same with my device. It started 2 days ago after a factory reset, goes from 100% to dead within the first 3-4 hours of the day.
youdoofus said:
ok, reset via recovery, fully charged, lets see how this goes
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I did not think of that! I am going to try that also!!
same here started 2 days ago, haven't changed anything ... they want us to get frustrated and buy the new galaxy watch!lol
I did a reset and a master reset then restored the backup, was good for the rest of the day after that.
Yesterday, 10 minutes before a major interview, my rog phone 5S locked up while reading a PDF. It froze for 5 min before rebooting itself. It responded to no input from me at all, not even attempts to get to the bootloader. When it started back up, nothing worked without crashing. I powered it off and switched to my old Pixel 4 XL to do the interview, which worked out fine. I then went back to my 5S and tried to get it working. At first it was fine and I could make and receive calls, but I could only receive texts. I couldn't send them. I left it be for a while longer and then it started rebooting on its own at random. At some point in this, texting started working again and it was fine for a few hours till I went to sleep. However, during the night it started rebooting at random, constantly waking me up. I turned it off, but that didn't stop it. It would turn itself on and reboot. I got next to no sleep till I buried it in my dresser and clothes. I did a reset last night, before going to bed, and I thought that had fixed it, but clearly it didn't do anything except cause me a **** load of unnecessary work.
I went to file for an RMA just now. I provided the serial and ASUS said they won't honor it because it's an international model and has to be returned to the country it was bought in. I have no idea where it's from. I assume China and I can't read Chinese to do any of that, much less know where I'd even go to start that process. It's an expensive phone and I'm without a job right now. I don't know what to do.
I've had nothing but problems with this damned phone since day 1 and I'm sick of it. It's awful. The ROG Phone 3, which I also have, is only slightly less problematic. At least it never did this. I only have it for the gaming controller at this point and I'm gonna get a new phone once a phone comes out with the new Immortalis GPU.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I want to pot on the ROG Phone 5 subreddit, but they are restricted and IDK how long it'll take to get approved. The last restricted subreddit I applied to took 5 months.