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I have had the SW2 since Tuesday. I charge it at night and at 7:30 am I take it off charge. By 7pm every night (12 hours later) it is about to die. I have to recharge it to use it until about 10pm when I plug it in for the night. I have the weather installed on never refresh, Missed calls, Call handling and watchit. I dont use the watch that much. Normal use. Were is this 3 to 4 day battery life sony is saying??
I replied to your other post not repeating myself here
That doesn't sound normal. I did notice that the watch battery drains quick when my phone and watch are separated by a large distance. With a large distance I mean different rooms in a concrete building.
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Not charged mine since I got it Thursday. I noticed there are some complaints on battery drain using some of the third party apps in the store. The watch faces one seemed to get a lot of mentions... Can't remember the exact name of it.
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my last for 4 days (turn it off at night)
With a moderate use, the charge of my SW2 lasts 2 days.
I get 2 days ish with mine, and i leave mine on at nights
Initially i got 1 day, but i was using it to show off etc
I get 2 days without swithching it off too. This is kinda dissapointing since sony claims 3-4 and even 6 days lith light use.
I use my sw2 with sgs2, i wonder if thats relevant to the battery life.
Another thing ive noticed, I get almnost no diference in bat life when disabling vibrations, changing brightness and stopping notifications. Basicaly i get 2 days with heavy use and 2 days with light use.
Maybe this means most of the battery is drained via BT?
Regards
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battery is Android build dependant
Here is an update.
I've got a replacement since the first sw2's screen got ugly dark spot.
The new one also had about 2 days of battery, then I updated to newer cyanogen version and voila, 3-4 days of battery easily achieved.
Then I changed my S2(i9100) for Moto G. The moto g has original kitkat and the battery life on my sw2 droped to ~1day. phone's battery was also about a day, without sw2 connected it can easily do 2-3 days! my S2 running cm11( kitkat 4.4.2 ) was fine.
Soo, obviously the battey life is very much rom dependant. sony's software works works well with some roms and not so well with others!
regards.
Mine is receiving a charge at the end of every 4th day. I'm not turning it off at night.
I'm using one of the original watchfaces and it has the same behavior with the nexus4 and the Z1C I'm using.
As set of apps installed, the ones waking up the watch are the notification apps: Email, Messaging and Watchify ...
I have mine connected to a Moto G running KitKat and only get 1 day maximum out of the watch
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The current software is not optimized for vers.4.3 and 4.4, a major update coming soon clock software
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Nexus 5 with SlimKat, turning off when I sleep, mostly using Watchify, Hourly Vibration (vibrate every 30 minutes) and Calendar, occasionally Toggles, Runastic and few other apps. 5-7 days on battery. For me battery is great.
Mine lasts 4/5 days being off night
I used to get a week when running on 4.1 and now like 2 days after upgrading Xperia T to 4.3. Hopefully the update will fix this.
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On a G2 with 4.2.2, I consistently got close to 3 days with normal use (with all call handlings, notifications, weather etc working normally). With the 4.4.2 update, I am seeing a bit higher power drain, so I'm looking at about 2 days of full time use. Will try the latest SW2 f/w update and report....
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I have had the SW2 since Tuesday. I charge it at night and at 7:30 am I take it off charge. By 7pm every night (12 hours later) it is about to die. I have to recharge it to use it until about 10pm when I plug it in for the night. I have the weather installed on never refresh, Missed calls, Call handling and watchit. I dont use the watch that much. Normal use. Were is this 3 to 4 day battery life sony is saying??
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I had the same issue with mine; it went away when i uninstalled the music extension....
I got it fixed. Every since update I get 2 days. Not using it though. I had the qualcomm toq and gear 2 and gear 2 neo. Using the gears now.
i'm getting 3-5 days, Butterfly S on 4.4.2, hasn't changed since the update
using
-facebook (selective list of people)
-gmail
-twitter (selective list of people)
-whatsapp
-hangouts
-call handling (just notification, can't answer)
-sms/text
i do have the tap-to-wake disabled, serves no purpose in my opinion
would love to try the Gear 2, not willing to buy a galaxy phone for it though
I think my battery problems are solved after a day with the new firmware. Tap to wake disabled.
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Nothing knowingly changed on my usage (did download a slightly more colourful watch face but stopped using it and back to black) switched off S-Voice and disabled overnight notifications, don't use AOD, and battery is getting worse. 99% at 11.30pm last night and now at 8.20pm next day it's at 21%
Any suggestions? (UK model S3)
Disable Settings->Gear Info->Report Diagnostic and usage info See if that helps.
stewarta13wsb said:
Nothing knowingly changed on my usage (did download a slightly more colourful watch face but stopped using it and back to black) switched off S-Voice and disabled overnight notifications, don't use AOD, and battery is getting worse. 99% at 11.30pm last night and now at 8.20pm next day it's at 21%
Any suggestions? (UK model S3)
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You might also want to force a reboot by Holding in the Power Button. If something odd happened a reboot might clear it.
"You might also want to force a reboot by Holding in the Power Button. If something odd happened a reboot might clear it."
Sorted - thanks. Not sure why, but sorted
Yeah mine went to **** today after weather updated in the gear store. Battery stats showed the weather app drained 57%. Rebooting the watch fixed it and the drain subsided.
craya said:
Yeah mine went to **** today after weather updated in the gear store. Battery stats showed the weather app drained 57%. Rebooting the watch fixed it and the drain subsided.
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Still new to the Gear S3. Where do you find the battery stats for what apps might be using what percentage? Or is it a 3rd party app that shows that info. Thanks.
fred2546 said:
Still new to the Gear S3. Where do you find the battery stats for what apps might be using what percentage? Or is it a 3rd party app that shows that info. Thanks.
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Open gear manager. Go to settings tab. Scroll to bottom and click on About Gear. click on the battery icon.
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Open gear manager. Go to settings tab. Scroll to bottom and click on About Gear. click on the battery icon.
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Thanks. I was looking on the watch not in the phone app - found it. Watch faces are using quite a bit in my Gear.
So I have been getting about 4 days usage up til last night, I normally recharge after about 3 days.
However when I got up this morning my watch was off and when I started it it was on 1 %, this was after 1d 21h of usage :-
Samsung health 29%
watch faces 16%
Notifications 9 % etc
I have not changed the way I use the watch or installed anything new in the last couple of days apart from Samsung pay on the phone (it is not available on the watch yet in UK)
So it looks like samsung health any ideas why its draining the battery?
I found this happens on my S3 and S2 (prior to that), i do a full reset and sorted.
Yes a pain, but i don't have any 3rd party apps and its just tweaking the settings, 15 mins tops.
I just had this begin this week. Used to use the watch and have it last 18hrs with >35% batt at the end of that period.
Suddenly in the middle of this week it began making it less than 8 hrs.
Watch is 1 month old.
Reboots/power offs have not helped. Will try full reset.
Little button on back of watch?
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f4phantomii said:
I just had this begin this week. Used to use the watch and have it last 18hrs with >35% batt at the end of that period.
Suddenly in the middle of this week it began making it less than 8 hrs.
Watch is 1 month old.
Reboots/power offs have not helped. Will try full reset.
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Same problem here on my wifi classic gear s3 idk what's the cause if it like not even 6 hour and it's dead sometimes out of nowhere
Same here. All of a sudden, bad battery life. Turning off S Voice wakeup made things a lot better.
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On Android Wear weather and smarter watch faces normally takes quite a lot of battery.
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I had the same issue for a day, my battery was drained before I left work. I tried power cycling the S3 multiple times without resolution. So, when I got home and charged the S3 back up to troubleshoot the problem, I ended up rebooting my phone that the S3 was tethered to. After rebooting my phone, my S3 was back to normal battery life. Go figure!
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dondavis007 said:
On Android Wear weather and smarter watch faces normally takes quite a lot of battery.
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It was definitely not an app gone wild. In fact, the gear app showed the *only* battery usage was the watch face, and I've been using the same one for weeks.
In my case, as everyone else said, a factory reset fixed whatever the issue was. I restored the same apps and faces from backup. Battery life is back to 1.5 days with screen always on.
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Aaaaaand it's back. Been running solid for days with ample battery remaining.
Last night I powered off the watch, which I had not done since I factory reset last week. This was the first time it has been rebooted or power cycled since the reset.
I noted it showed 55% battery when I put it on the charger last night. That was typical of what I've seen over the last several days after 18+hr days.
This morning I powered on at 7:30am. I have not run any apps on it, or used it for anything other than a watch with the same face I've had the entire time.
In 3.5 hours the battery has dropped to 75%.
The last several days it's been above 90% until well after lunch, even with use.
Don't know what is going on.
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Update on today:
7:30am 100%
5:30pm 20% (last 2 hrs in power save mode)
Previous 5 days:
6:30am 100%
10:30pm >50%
(That's with always on display)
This doesn't feel like a battery calibration issue. The previous days I get a solid 36 hrs with AOD on.
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Do you guys know if the Batter drain is greater if the watch is not connected to the phone? I got a Classic and Frontier. Went to bed with about 5% difference in battery...and woke up to find a 20% difference between the two.
SiNJiN76 said:
Do you guys know if the Batter drain is greater if the watch is not connected to the phone? I got a Classic and Frontier. Went to bed with about 5% difference in battery...and woke up to find a 20% difference between the two.
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The cellular radio is a major drain on the battery. It can be set to ON, OFF, or AUTO. By default it's set to AUTO and will be activated when disconnected from the phone. Under the best circumstances in standalone mode, it can drain at more than 2% per hour. In an area with a weak signal, the battery can be drained dry in a handful of hours.
What's up XDA Forum, TTown here.
I, like many, recently updated my Frontier to Tizen 3. While I've frequently visited this page throughout my ownership of the Gear S3 (along with almost everyone smartphone I have purchased), recently my visits haven't been as frequent until now. My Gear S3 had been doing great. My battery life was 2-3 days, and I had my watch setup just the way I wanted it.
Fast forward to a couple of days ago. Because I haven't been keeping up with the forums, I was pleasantly surprised to see a new update for my watch. Without checking the forum I downloaded and installed the new update. The first thing I notice is my battery took a big hit. No big deal right? I just put my watch on the charger thinking the update was the culprit. Once recharged I placed the watch back on my wrist and went about my day. One hour in, I check my battery life and notice my battery took a hit. I shrugged my shoulders giving the watch the benefit of the doubt. By mid day, I realized things aren't right. The new update is seriously killing my battery.
So I head on over to this forum for news and feedback on the new update. Sure enough, many of you are experiencing battery drain as well. So why create a new thread you ask? Well, I'd like to get some more detailed feedback from you all. Secondly, I'd like to bring more attention to this issue. Besides, how many of you rave about the battery life of the Gear S3? Answer the poll above/below (I can't remember where it's located since I haven't done a poll in awhile), and provide your feedback below.
Thanks!
I just got my Gear S3 yesterday, so I don't know anything about the other software. The battery life doesn't seem like it's going to be that good though. I lose about 10% an hour it seems, so I don't see how this an last me 2-4 days. I hope this gets fixed soon.
Uninstall all 3 apps: Samsung Gear, Samsung accessory service, Gear S plugin. Unpair from BT. Reset the watch. Then start from scratch as if you had just bought it, don't restore from backup. Worked for me.
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Yes i have this problem too. It is too late to regret. We can't go back I just hope that Samsung hear this and fix as soon as possible. I just can't live with it. The battery draining is horrible
You may try to reset without restore if backup.
Without Bluetooth, wifi would consume all in a few hours. So do not use use wifi, sunce you have Bluetooth.
Unfortunelt tizen 3 has lags for me. 2.3 was nire smooth.
Also Bluetooth transfers are more slower in 3.0
It's the weather app
Hi
After the update my battery was also terrible. I did a reset and restore then I did a reset and started from scratch. No improvement.
I saw a comment on Android Police about the update. He suggested that it's the weather app. So I reset, started from scratch and didn't update the weather app. It's only been a day but so far back to normal.
So seems it's not a Tizen 3 issue but the weather app.
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Hi
After the update my battery was also terrible. I did a reset and restore then I did a reset and started from scratch. No improvement.
I saw a comment on Android Police about the update. He suggested that it's the weather app. So I reset, started from scratch and didn't update the weather app. It's only been a day but so far back to normal.
So seems it's not a Tizen 3 issue but the weather app.
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It could be posible, I dont use weather at all and I have very good battery Life, similar to tizen 2. I disabled wifi and real time heart monitoring
One thing I noticed I loose now and then the bluetooth connection to gear s3 after tizen 3.0.1 update. Perhaps this causes higher battery consumption. It connects back after a while but still it happens many times a day. I sent a bug report to Samsung about this with the UE logs. Let's see what they answer... Perhaps do a clean install :/ I hope not.
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It could be posible, I dont use weather at all and I have very good battery Life, similar to tizen 2. I disabled wifi and real time heart monitoring
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Before I reset and was running the updated weather app I was using about 5% an hour and that was on a chilled Sunday with minimal usage. Today it's averaging 3.75% but that includes an hour long walk with heart monitoring, location tracking, interval timer and music to headset. Since then it's using 1-2% per hour which is about the same as pre update.
Oh and I have wifi enabled and it's fine so I don't think that's the issue.
Worth a try if you're suffering battery life issues since update.
No!
I'm here 7.5hrs later and I'm down from 100% to 85% so about 2% per hour. Set for notifications and step/stair counter (almost to my 3 mile daily goal)... overnight i only lose 3% over an 8 hour period... I don't use it for sleep tracking anymore, nor use the weather app with its rogue updating.
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2 full days on tizen3, when on 2.3 was 3/3.5 days.
Also watch lags. Was happy with 2.3, now it sucks
My watch is now 4 full days without charge and i still have 20% left, AoD is off, Bezel wake up off, Gesture off.
I feel like doing a downgrade to 2.3.2.4...is that possible? I cant take this battery drain plus that "...battery needs to cool down to charge..." bug
My battery drains because the heart rate reader is constantly running. Even if I set to disable or check every 10 minutes, it constantly reads my pulse. Heck, even if I take the watch off, the green lights are blinking. Not really sure what to do. I reset the watch and didn't do a restore, reinstalled all apps...
So yeah my watch can't go 12 hours on the new update. Took it off around 6:30 am was dead by 5 pm. This is pathetic Samsung! Before I was getting 4 or 5 days on my battery.
i got mine a couple days ago, so i did a fresh update, reset to factory, and then started from scratch. Downloaded all latest gear s apps, plugins etc.
Battery stats indicate that my watch face is using 76% of battery usage, with settings the next highest at 5%. AOD is on, so maybe it's just a battery hogging face i've been using? Been flicking between a few different ones as it's still all new and shiny.
5 hours of use and i'm down to 78%, so i wouldn't be comfortable not charging it overnight, as it wouldn't last through the next day. certainly not the 2-3 days battery life that was advertised.
Going to try some different faces, though, see if some do better for battery life.
I've done reboots, resets, uninstalled all apps on phone and then factory reset. Updating and not updating the weather app Nothing is fixing this. And it won't even record steps. I've got all the options turned off that I can (no wifi, no diagnostics, no auto heart rate etc). No reply from Samsung either but that is hardly surprising. Overheating when charging as well unless it is turned off.
It was fully charged after lunch today and only 3 hours later is down to 55%
I really like it when it works but this is ridiculous!
No problems here.
I did reset after the update, but now batterylife is the same as before. Maybe even somewhat better.
Maybe worth mentioning is that i use the S3 Classic.
Usage is after 2 hours = 2-3 %
More of a problem with the lag for me. Also auto brightness doesn't work well. Is there a way to downgrade?
Governa said:
Uninstall all 3 apps: Samsung Gear, Samsung accessory service, Gear S plugin. Unpair from BT. Reset the watch. Then start from scratch as if you had just bought it, don't restore from backup. Worked for me.
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Thanks, Governa. This worked for me as well, but I will say that I found out that the update on the weather app is a major issue. So after resetting the watches I did not update the weather app. Six hours after full charge, with GPS on and AOD/Heart rate monitor off, less than 2.5% an hour. Does seem to drain faster initially but levels off. Keep in mind the battery does say it is "learning your habits". I will try it for a few times from 100% to 0% and see if it changes. Hopefully it does or Samsung will be replacing it. Have both Gear S3 Classic and Frontier with Note 8.
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As I just sent my Galaxy S7 back to Samsung for repairs, I had to break out my trusty red Nexus 5 again. I got it up and running with Oreo 8.1 in no time (thanks to the xda community, as always) and so far, it's holding up well for a four-and-a-half year smartphone. Only the issue why I originally replaced it still annoys me, and that's the battery.
Whenever the phone is sitting around, it barely uses any battery - it can be sitting around for over one hour, WiFi and BT on, getting notifications etc., but the battery maybe loses one percent. If I have a phone call, I maybe lose 1% every 5 minutes or so - that's still fine by me. However, as soon as I am "using" the phone and keeping the display on to read emails, text, or browse the web, the battery plummets and I can use up 10% in 10 minutes.
It almost seems like there is a hardware issue with my display causing the extreme power usage. I am on my fourth battery - the first one was replaced with one from ebay (said "original, but you never know) when it didn't last over a day anymore, that improved it for two months or so before it degraded again. Then I decided to spend 40€ on a genuine one directly ordered from LG's spare parts site, but that also only held up for four months or so - and now I'm using a battery from ebay again which has been used for maybe a month (and then sitting around, being charged occasionally), but I struggle to make it until 6 pm without recharging.
Do you have any idea what could be wrong with my phone? Could it actually be an issue with the display itself?
Thanks!
Could be the ROM that is causing the battery drain. Maybe try it on a stock ROM?
So I'm having the same fast battery drain that a lot of people are having where I can lose 30-40% in 1 to 2 hours and be completely dead in 6hrs. But here over the past couple of days my watch will shut down like the battery is dead but when I put it on the charger it will read anywhere between 28 and 32% so I will turn it back on and it will last about a minute and then shut down again and when I place it on the charger it still reads the same thing. Has anyone had this issue? Used to go all the way down to 3% and when I would put it on the charger it would read 3% but not now.
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My wife's did this the other day. She just turned it off and left it on the charger for 24 hours. Seems to be working well today.
mattman86 said:
My wife's did this the other day. She just turned it off and left it on the charger for 24 hours. Seems to be working well today.
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Dis the percent reset?
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Is there a way to reset the battery status and percentage reading. Having the same issue.
Mine has been doing this for a few weeks now. It would power down as if the battery were depleted. When I put it on the charger, it would show 80%. I just bit the bullet and installed a new battery this morning (after trying everything else) and now it is working fine.
@Illusive Man
1.
Your Model Name... + Firmwareversion?
Example...
SM-R760 DSA1 (Tizen 4)
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Own risk!
Code:
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You could try this "Quick Button"...
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adfree said:
@Illusive Man
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Your Model Name... + Firmwareversion?
Example...
SM-R760 DSA1 (Tizen 4)
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Own risk!
Code:
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You could try this "Quick Button"...
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I didn't post any screens because after checking, my battery quick check is exactly like yours except L15 instead of L16
I too am having the same battery rapidly draining. I pulled it off the charger today at 1 after letting it fully drain last night. I had to place the watch twice because initially it was charging at a rate of 25/hr. It's 2:30 and I'm down to 76%.
The odd thing is, I got the watch for Christmas, purchased Monday of black Friday week. It was perfect until the first week of January. Then it slugged up. The the following day I started getting the battery drain issue, 10 - 15% an hr. After countless times of rebooting, factory restoring, letting the watch drain entirely and recharging, and messing with notifications and permissions, it started to act normally again. Then I got the Tizen 4 update and I decided to go through the update. I'm back to square one again...
I have no idea what really set it back to normal the first time. Figured I'd reach out again while I mess with it.
Also, I tried flashing the watch, but every time I went too, the software on my laptop would just crash when I hit start.
SM-R798T running Tizen 4. The upgrade to Tizen 4 wasn't done until after the new battery was installed. Now I can easily get 2 days life out of it. The battery was $24 and took about 25 minutes to install (I was being VERY careful since I had never done this before). The watch ran like a champ with good battery life (this was Saturday), Sunday afternoon, I got the notification to update to Tizen 4.
Watch shuts down quickly
I have had similar issues to all here. My watch is fully charged to 100% and removed from the dock and lasts probably an hour and a half, then shuts down without warning, no low battery signal or anything of the sort.
When it is placed back on the dock it reads anywhere between 80 - 90%.
This must be a software problem. I just upgraded to one UI and the issue has recurred.
Has anyone solved this??
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I have had similar issues to all here. My watch is fully charged to 100% and removed from the dock and lasts probably an hour and a half, then shuts down without warning, no low battery signal or anything of the sort.
When it is placed back on the dock it reads anywhere between 80 - 90%.
This must be a software problem. I just upgraded to one UI and the issue has recurred.
Has anyone solved this??
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same exact thing happening to my watch since updated One UI, did not have any problem before this update.
so far I could not able to solve the issue, not matter what I tried.
@Illusive Man
can you provide more detail how to get that?
Solved: Watch shuts down quickly
vaughnq said:
I have had similar issues to all here. My watch is fully charged to 100% and removed from the dock and lasts probably an hour and a half, then shuts down without warning, no low battery signal or anything of the sort.
When it is placed back on the dock it reads anywhere between 80 - 90%.
This must be a software problem. I just upgraded to one UI and the issue has recurred.
Has anyone solved this??
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I have bit the bullet and changed the battery. Samsung repair shop did the install. On pick up at 15:50, the watch reconnected with my phone, did the update and synchronised at which point the battery went to 84%, from startup at 86%.
It then lasted overnight and for the next day, until the morning of the third day on which it died.
Since then it has lasted 2.5 to three days on one single charge.
I will only be charging it once it dies, not preemptively.
I will continue to monitor and update if any negative changes occur.
See people are still trying to insist it's a battery problem. Not true, most of the issues are software problems.
Still have the original battery in mine and two days is not a problem now. Meanwhile a year ago it didn't last 8 hours.
Charging the watch is a pain because the percentage is way out of whack and doesn't work right but once it's charged it works...
Still absolutely unacceptable for a $350 product that has only worked properly for about a year of the 2.5 years I've owned it due to glitchy software.
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See people are still trying to insist it's a battery problem. Not true, most of the issues are software problems.
Still have the original battery in mine and two days is not a problem now. Meanwhile a year ago it didn't last 8 hours.
Charging the watch is a pain because the percentage is way out of whack and doesn't work right but once it's charged it works...
Still absolutely unacceptable for a $350 product that has only worked properly for about a year of the 2.5 years I've owned it due to glitchy software.
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My watch now depletes its battery in less than 4 hours. Sometimes if I put it on a charger, the watch would instantly say 64%. I agree with you that it's a software problem. Does it help if I reset the watch? Do I have to replace the battery to solve this problem? Thanks.
I wonder if its a bit of both, battery degrading and the watch failing to reclibrate around it. I actually had a new battery in mine recently (GW42 but some of the same problems) as it was under warranty but if it wasn't I would be tempted to just disconnect the battery for a period of time and then reconnect and see if that is enough to reset the battery usage. Intrigued if anyone has tried this.