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[Q] [QQ]POLL - Are you happy with the battery life

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I am reading a lot of different comments in the battery discussion thread. Its hard to tell how many people are happy and how many
hate the battery life. Some people have their phones on airplane mode to show of the lengevity and it really throws me off. Please vote
on the poll and make this simple. Do not post any screenshots or usage just a simple yes or no. Thanks Guys and Gals!

Says im not allowed to vote in the poll. Very happy with battery life
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I'm quite satisfied with the battery life.
It's my first Android phone and I had three iPhones. I don't find any of iPhones lasted longer than this phone.

kekehuhu said:
I'm quite satisfied with the battery life.
It's my first Android phone and I had three iPhones. I don't find any of iPhones lasted longer than this phone.
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My buddy is coming from an iPhone 4, and so far he hates everything about it as much as I try to change his mind. He is more concerned with the screen-off battery consumption than anything. He swears up and down that if his screen is off 95% of the time (just quick reads of email/sms) then his iPhone 4 will easily last 3 full days while notifying him of sms/email/im/facebook/etc. I don't see how that's possible. He says all the time he would put down the iPhone at night on the 5% warning, NOT charge it over night, and it would always be alive for the alarm in the morning (without disabling any syncing). I don't see how that's possible. He basically believes that phones should not take hardly any battery when their screen is off, and he swears up and down that his iPhone 4 never did. His N5 loses about 6% an hour with the screen off, meaning he has to have over 40% battery for his phone to last through his sleep (he refuses to charge it while sleeping and says he never had to with the iPhone).
Unfortunately GSam battery monitor does not work in KitKat. Can someone recommend a way to get to the bottom of his battery issues (I have already turned off LTE, Location Tracking, auto-brightness, and using ART instead of Dalvik). ...or is 17hours _standby_ all you can expect from this phone?
The ad says: Standby time up to 300 hours†
†Standby time tests used default settings with LTE on and Wi-Fi connected to a test access point. Wi-Fi internet tests had Airplane Mode on with Wi-Fi connected to a test access point, while loading three popular websites cached on a local server. The Nexus 5 loaded a page, waited 40 seconds, and then loaded a page from the next site.
Did he just get a bad one that needs returning?

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My buddy is coming from an iPhone 4, and so far he hates everything about it as much as I try to change his mind. He is more concerned with the screen-off battery consumption than anything. He swears up and down that if his screen is off 95% of the time (just quick reads of email/sms) then his iPhone 4 will easily last 3 full days while notifying him of sms/email/im/facebook/etc. I don't see how that's possible. He says all the time he would put down the iPhone at night on the 5% warning, NOT charge it over night, and it would always be alive for the alarm in the morning (without disabling any syncing). I don't see how that's possible. He basically believes that phones should not take hardly any battery when their screen is off, and he swears up and down that his iPhone 4 never did. His N5 loses about 6% an hour with the screen off, meaning he has to have over 40% battery for his phone to last through his sleep (he refuses to charge it while sleeping and says he never had to with the iPhone).
Unfortunately GSam battery monitor does not work in KitKat. Can someone recommend a way to get to the bottom of his battery issues (I have already turned off LTE, Location Tracking, auto-brightness, and using ART instead of Dalvik). ...or is 17hours _standby_ all you can expect from this phone?
The ad says: Standby time up to 300 hours†
†Standby time tests used default settings with LTE on and Wi-Fi connected to a test access point. Wi-Fi internet tests had Airplane Mode on with Wi-Fi connected to a test access point, while loading three popular websites cached on a local server. The Nexus 5 loaded a page, waited 40 seconds, and then loaded a page from the next site.
Did he just get a bad one that needs returning?
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get betterbatterystats to monitor his wakelocks, 6% per hr drains is BAD, it should be like at most 1% per hour
maybe has location and all syncs enabled?
mine only loses like 6% the whole night, i have like 97% deep sleep at least when screen is off

Check the battery stats in settings. There is a known issue with Google Play Services and wake locks. A reboot usually solves it temporarily.
I put my N5 into airplane mode before I go to bed. No annoying notifications and less drain (no cellular paging). I have verified several nights that I lose 1% battery over 8 hours in airplane mode.
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Yes. Extremely. Coming from gs3, gs4, n4, moto x.
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rpmccormick said:
My buddy is coming from an iPhone 4, and so far he hates everything about it as much as I try to change his mind. He is more concerned with the screen-off battery consumption than anything. He swears up and down that if his screen is off 95% of the time (just quick reads of email/sms) then his iPhone 4 will easily last 3 full days while notifying him of sms/email/im/facebook/etc. I don't see how that's possible. He says all the time he would put down the iPhone at night on the 5% warning, NOT charge it over night, and it would always be alive for the alarm in the morning (without disabling any syncing). I don't see how that's possible. He basically believes that phones should not take hardly any battery when their screen is off, and he swears up and down that his iPhone 4 never did. His N5 loses about 6% an hour with the screen off, meaning he has to have over 40% battery for his phone to last through his sleep (he refuses to charge it while sleeping and says he never had to with the iPhone).
Unfortunately GSam battery monitor does not work in KitKat. Can someone recommend a way to get to the bottom of his battery issues (I have already turned off LTE, Location Tracking, auto-brightness, and using ART instead of Dalvik). ...or is 17hours _standby_ all you can expect from this phone?
The ad says: Standby time up to 300 hours†
†Standby time tests used default settings with LTE on and Wi-Fi connected to a test access point. Wi-Fi internet tests had Airplane Mode on with Wi-Fi connected to a test access point, while loading three popular websites cached on a local server. The Nexus 5 loaded a page, waited 40 seconds, and then loaded a page from the next site.
Did he just get a bad one that needs returning?
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Auto syncs off. Constant account syncing is what drains the most battery when the screen is off.

These solutions unfortunately do not work:
1) BetterBatteryStats requires root to give any useful info. He does not really want to root, but would if he could do it without erasing everything (not fond of backup/restore either, but if you can FULLY backup without root [or get root without erasing so no backup is necessary] then I could get him to let me root it). Probably off-topic, so I will continue to research no-wipe root solutions (keep seeing it referenced with no links)
2) Turning off sync or going in to air-plane mode will not do. He wants an instant notification for any communication-event 24/7 just like his iPhone4 gave him, and I for one cannot blame him, as my HTC One does for me without killing the battery (and thanks to researching this for him, I now have really long battery [even with all notifications] by using Greenify - but he doesn't since he doesn't have root yet).
Number 1 above (and/or Greenify) is the correct solution, I just need to root it first. Hard to do on someone else's phone though... but I hate that he so hates his first Android Experience on the N5 (largely due to the bad battery, and also do to the fact he is scared to root it or even install a custom launcher).
Anyway, thanks for the help (and PM me if you have something to say that is not battery-life related... I'm not trying to thread-hijack)

Samsung Gear S2 3g Battery Life

Hi,
I'm trying to figure out what options would keep my battery life up on the s2 3g.
I've had the watch for a couple days now and I'm trying to figure out which features drain the most battery.
I would like to keep 3g on (but it's not really necessary when sitting at my desk all day), bluetooth, and always on. I don't mind keeping the screen at a brightness of 3, and my watch face is a dark background, I have 6 apps selected for notifications.
I do not have gps, or wifi on.
I guess what would be helpful is basically a list of the most battery draining items on the watch. It would also be great to have a battery management app (for the developers out there) that could quickly turn on/off certain items. Right now there's a battery saving mode, a do not disturb mode, and airplane mode... these are all in different locations, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to have some more quick control over all these types of items and additional ones to just manage all the battery draining items, like the pedometer and other "ometers"... is there a way to turn those items off?
Overall I love the watch, but it would be nice to not be thinking about the battery so much... and just use it.

I'm wondering the same thing. Turned it on at around 6am, have brightness set to 1. Haven't used it that much. Wake up gesture is on but not screen always on. I'm at 30% at 2:41pm....with my gear s I was able to get through a 6am-9/10pm day on auto brightness and still have a little battery left (that included a 2 mile walk in the morning using some health exercise with gear s.) I haven't even used the exercise option in this (other than the pedometer) because I'm afraid it will drain the battery.
I love everything else about the s2 though

I'm suppose to get mine this week and battery is my biggest concern. I plan to use this to run for up to 2.5 hours and play mp3's. I might cancel based on what you 2 are saying.

I do have nfc on, 3g on auto switch, and WiFi set to on (only switches on if I walk out of bt range) I did get a lot of espn notifications, texts, email...but not any more than I did on the gear S. I have the screen set to stay dark and not turn on for notifications. With my gear S I had the screen set to turn on full screen with every notification. I'm going to try tomorrow with nfc, 3g, and WiFi off....but, I shouldn't have to do that...I should be able to use all those, if needed, and still be able to get the 14-16 hours+ that I was getting with my Gear S. Like I said, I do really love everything else about it!

Try a restart
I had a terrible first day, with the Watch dying after 8 hours. I suspected that some of the app installs were having and draining it so I restarted both phone and watch.. The next day, I got 15 hours and still had 40 percent left. I have NFC and wifi turned off, network to autoswitch (with me leaving phone home and relying on 3g for 2 hours), turned off "always on" screen (because the wake gesture is SO much more accurate than with Gear S), and a white watchfacer with brightness set to 7. Very happy so far. Suggest restarting watch and phone after Gear app installs or updates

Thanks! I'll try that. Is your location/gps set to off? I also had s voice set to a voice commands and have now turned that off. Is a white watchface or black more draining? (I would assume white would drain the battery more)

I think the NFC, GPS, Always on being turned off have been a huge help with the battery life, and I understand why those things would drain a battery, but it would be nice to be able to have everything turned on and at least get a day's use.
In general I assume the first day you get the watch it his heavily impacted by the app downloads... I let it drain to zero and then fully to 100%... I also stopped playing with it every ten seconds. BUT as I mentioned earlier, this should be usable for a day minimum with normal usage. If Samsung has a "normal" usage setting in mind that will allow for a day (or the 2 days advertised for the 3g version), there should literally be an option in settings called "normal usage" that should get you the 2 days.

diamondjon said:
I think the NFC, GPS, Always on being turned off have been a huge help with the battery life, and I understand why those things would drain a battery, but it would be nice to be able to have everything turned on and at least get a day's use.
In general I assume the first day you get the watch it his heavily impacted by the app downloads... I let it drain to zero and then fully to 100%... I also stopped playing with it every ten seconds. BUT as I mentioned earlier, this should be usable for a day minimum with normal usage. If Samsung has a "normal" usage setting in mind that will allow for a day (or the 2 days advertised for the 3g version), there should literally be an option in settings called "normal usage" that should get you the 2 days.
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I absolutely agree! I was able to get 14-16 hour day (with some left) on my gear s, with all the options that I wanted turned on. This this new and improved device should, at a minimum, give me comparable battery life! I'm also having an issue with the activity tracker telling me I'm doing light activity when I'm sitting on the couch watching TV....that is definitely not light activity.

AmyMejlak said:
I absolutely agree! I was able to get 14-16 hour day (with some left) on my gear s, with all the options that I wanted turned on. This this new and improved device should, at a minimum, give me comparable battery life! I'm also having an issue with the activity tracker telling me I'm doing light activity when I'm sitting on the couch watching TV....that is definitely not light activity.
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Maybe in Korea "light activity" means "couch potato"?
Yea, we'll see what happens with future updates. One of the big draws to this watch (aside from all the other enticing factors) was the battery life... I guess time will tell.

Use close all apps feature on gear s2 3g to save battery life

Dhern said:
Use close all apps feature on gear s2 3g to save battery life
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How does one get to this 'close all apps' feature?

Go to Apps and select blue circle. I think, it is last opened apps. There You can select Close all.
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Was also curious about everyones setup.
First 2 days i didnt take into account battery because i was playing with it alot.
Today, booted watch at 7am, booted, got on, checked in 15 minutes, and was from 100-69%
Current setup,
display at 3%
about 10 apps that alert,
S Health
3G/4G is at auto
GPS-off
NFC-off
WiFi-off
i did have a Power Ranger face(which i loved) but it had alot livewallpaper action, blinking lights, and pieces that moved etc, changed to the default one with the stars in background with digial.
i am currently at 33% from 7 1/2 hours of usage
no music, have not taken any calls, havent responded to any messages, literally looked and swiped away.
Would a rooted Sam N4 have any effect on the performance of the watch?
I was on stock, but was horrible after the lolipop update.
Still on stock ROM, just rooted and bloatware removed, nothing special.

Ok, good thing there is a thread on this already.
So first day I didn't take battery into consideration, because you always fiddle with it too much. Then I had to work for two days, and my job is heavy construction, so I don't bring my watch, I left it on the charger for two days straight. I put it on Friday night, and didn't charge it till Saturday night. Today (Sunday) I was at 15% by about 12pm, and I took it out of the charger by 9am. This doesn't seem right. Did leaving it on the charger for too long mess up my battery? What is going on here?
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Were you on just 3g...instead of bt? My battery life has improved with turning a lot of the options (wifi, nfc, heartrate monitoring) off. If I'm on 3g it is a whole different story....accidentally left my phone home the other night and was remotely connected between watch and phone....dropped down 40% in less than two hours. Has anyone else had a similar issue?

I don't have the 3g model, I have the classic. Yesterday it was good for the whole day, but to be honest I didn't check the battery when I took it off the charger this morning. I went to bed at 2am,so maybe between 2 am and 9 am it didn't have time to fully charge?
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I think the variant of the 3g gear s2 and your network is key for battery life.
I have a tmobile carrier gear s2 and the battery life for the first two days was at about 18 hours off the charger each day and ending up with 15% at the end of each day before charging.
Mind you this is with 3 email accounts getting maybe 10 emails per hour, Answering texts and even taking a call or two on the watch, and also controlling my spotify for my note.
The tmobile watch has auto on/off 3g for when you disconnect from bluetooth or WiFi to your phone. I've heard that not all gear s2's have the auto on/off 3g feature?
Overall highly satisfied. But just turn off what you don't need when you don't use it has always been the name of the game when it comes to any mobile battery life. Nfc doesn't need to be on if you don't use samsung pay consistently. Neither does WiFi. Bluetooth and or 3g should be all anyone really every needs for true daily usage imo
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I agree. I have had the 3g version since 2 days after its launch on T-Mobile. I had a white one and returned it b/c I was convinced something was wrong with the watch. I got a second one (black one) two weeks later and have the same issue. If I turn off all of the functions I wanted the watch for -- i.e., 3g, Wifi, NFC -- I can get a day of use. This is really disappointing b/c I have the classic as well, and it lasts twice as long with the same amount of activity. I hope Samsung does not something to extend the battery life on the 3g version.

I also have the Tmobile Gear S2 and on the first full day, I only got about 10 hours of battery life with very little use using all of the watch defaults. On day 2, I opted to turn off wifi and the cell radio and now I have great battery life. In excess of 17 hours if not more. On day 3 I decided to turn on wifi and bluetooth only. Battery life is still fantastic, once again in excess of 17 hours if not more. Next test will be all three radios on again, then just the cell radio only.
Hope this helps,
GP

What are you guys doing with your watches that you need 3g and wifi on all the time? I have mine setup with bluetooth on and 3g auto with wifi, gps, and NFC turned off. I also have the heart rate monitor turned on and set to take my heart rate as often as it will. I have screen on all day and display is at 3. I can make it a full day (630a - 10p) and still have about 40% left. I basically use mine while at work to check notifications so I'm not constantly picking up my phone just to clear a twitter notification. I know they made it so that you can use these for content consumption, but I don't think it was ever meant to be it's primary function, that's what the $700 cell phone in my pocket or the 400 tablet in my backpack is for. That being said, if you wanted to use it for a run and listen to music, do it. Just know that you may need to throw it on the charger later on when you are relaxing on the couch. To me, a full days use on any device is fair, but that's just my 2c.

S6 and Gear S2 - Battery

Just started using my watch not my mobile and getting allot of battery drain, my S6 was at 72% 4 hours later at 27%.
Recall with my Gear 2 a similar issue but after a series of firmware updates was all fine.

Same config here, and I don't have this problem. In fact, I was pleasantly surprised to find my S6 doesn't seem to drain battery significantly faster. Haven't done any precise measure though.
I would say you have some problem in one of the bricks of the Gear plugin / apop store / bluetooth link, that makes an app constantly trying to connect or to do something it can't, draining battery in the process.
Also, maybe you have disabled some apps that are needed by the combo S2/S6? Like Samsung account, etc.

Gear S2 Classic Battery Drain
I just got my Gear S2 Classic three days ago and am disappointed with the battery life... lasts maybe 15 hours with the screen set to 3. I'm working with online tech support but definitely disappointed considering my LG G R (one year old technology) has a battery life twice that of the Gear S2 right now.... surely there's a battery drain issue.

Jerz said:
I just got my Gear S2 Classic three days ago and am disappointed with the battery life... lasts maybe 15 hours with the screen set to 3. I'm working with online tech support but definitely disappointed considering my LG G R (one year old technology) has a battery life twice that of the Gear S2 right now.... surely there's a battery drain issue.
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Have you done the firmware update? It literally doubled my battery life.

Jerz said:
I just got my Gear S2 Classic three days ago and am disappointed with the battery life... lasts maybe 15 hours with the screen set to 3. I'm working with online tech support but definitely disappointed considering my LG G R (one year old technology) has a battery life twice that of the Gear S2 right now.... surely there's a battery drain issue.
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I'm using Sport version for about month and what you wrote is strange. Minimum use is solid one day, but usually I'm getting 1.5-2 days of use and with screen always on. Try disable WIFI and NFC and check if this helped.

No all standard configuration as I prefer to do that first and then start tailoring. S6 now down to 37% - last night it went flat (use my S6 as an alarm clock).
On the plus side S2 been on since 6AM only gesture on set to offer - Battery 66% not bad if I can get two full real days.
But not as good as my Gear 2 that did 25% a day.

Have left WIFI on just to start from a standard baseline. Watch is always on BT, assuming only switches if BT signal lost.

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Have you done the firmware update? It literally doubled my battery life.
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I'm not sure is version R732XXU2AOJ3 the latest?
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I'm using Sport version for about month and what you wrote is strange. Minimum use is solid one day, but usually I'm getting 1.5-2 days of use and with screen always on. Try disable WIFI and NFC and check if this helped.
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Glad to hear you're getting solid battery life sounds like i need to figure out what is causing the battery drain. I reset the watch last night and charged it all night, NFC and WIFI off, gesture wake off, brightness set to 3 and screen is always on. I'll see how it goes.
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I'm not sure is version R732XXU2AOJ3 the latest?
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Glad to hear you're getting solid battery life sounds like i need to figure out what is causing the battery drain. I reset the watch last night and charged it all night, NFC and WIFI off, gesture wake off, brightness set to 3 and screen is always on. I'll see how it goes.
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How did it go? I'm having similar issues. Dying at about 13 hours with light usage and mostly everything turned off (gps, wifi, s voice) screen brightness set to 2. My gear s gave much me many more hours with everything turned on.

I installed the linear digital clock face £1 on the watch face gallery, and my S6 edge+ brought up a message stating that I should Uninstal or stop the app as it was using a high percentage of my Phone battery, like nearly as much as screen on usage, guess it was using the phones GPS and weather too frequently Uninstalled and all well again, don't know if this helps
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obsydian said:
Just started using my watch not my mobile and getting allot of battery drain, my S6 was at 72% 4 hours later at 27%.
Recall with my Gear 2 a similar issue but after a series of firmware updates was all fine.
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I have the same problem as the op. My S6 edge battery is draining faster than before. Since the last week with the Gear S2 paired to the phone my battery doesn’t make it through the day even with very light use (screen 20mins on time).
The thing is I think I had this problem start a couple of days before I received the Gear S2. Could it be after some app updates?

I never had any updates only change was the S2

Have done a S2 reset still the same, have to charge at work and in the car otherwise by morning battery is nearly dead.

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Have done a S2 reset still the same, have to charge at work and in the car otherwise by morning battery is nearly dead.
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My S6 edge has been on for 5 hours without any use today and is down to 70% already. If this continues I might try a hard reset on both phone and watch.

Found out why I got battery drain. Phone was connecting to 5Ghz on dual band router which drains battery fast. Switched it over to 2.4Ghz and everything is fine now.

AmyMejlak said:
How did it go? I'm having similar issues. Dying at about 13 hours with light usage and mostly everything turned off (gps, wifi, s voice) screen brightness set to 2. My gear s gave much me many more hours with everything turned on.
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It's going a LOT better but I no longer use the 'always on' face either.
I reset the watch:
1. Power off the device. 2. Hold down the Home button until you see the Samsung logo with the rebooting message. 3. Tap the Home button until you get to the BIOS menu. 4. Tap the Home button to highlight "Recover" and long press. Please note that this will take about 5 minutes.
I have always on face off, brightness set to 4, bluetooth on, wifi off and nfc off. This morning I put on the watch at 6AM, it's now 3:45PM and I'm at 78% so that's about ten hours with 22 percent discharged so 2.2% an hour so realistically at this rate it'll last about 45 hours which is acceptable to me. I don't understand how you would get 2-1/2 days though.

Jerz said:
It's going a LOT better but I no longer use the 'always on' face either.
I reset the watch:
1. Power off the device. 2. Hold down the Home button until you see the Samsung logo with the rebooting message. 3. Tap the Home button until you get to the BIOS menu. 4. Tap the Home button to highlight "Recover" and long press. Please note that this will take about 5 minutes.
I have always on face off, brightness set to 4, bluetooth on, wifi off and nfc off. This morning I put on the watch at 6AM, it's not 3:45PM and I'm at 78% so that's about ten hours with 22 percent discharged so 2.2% an hour so realistically at this rate it'll last about 45 hours which is acceptable to me. I don't understand how you would get 2-1/2 days though.
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Thank you! I'm trying that now. I had about 5-6% per hour which, to me, is not good. Is yours the bt only model or 3g? Do you have wake gesture on?

AmyMejlak said:
Thank you! I'm trying that now. I had about 5-6% per hour which, to me, is not good. Is yours the bt only model or 3g? Do you have wake gesture on?
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Mine does not have 3g and wake gesture is on.
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Gear S2 Battery Life differences from one person to another illuminated....

I have had a Gear S2 for a few month now. Well... not entirely true. I was without for about a month. I sent the first one in to a repair depot who kept it for over a month. In the end I am still awaiting refund but I bought another one. (Side note, Samsung support is the worst I have ever experiences on the planet in over 40 years of dealing with C.S. Count your blessings if you do not have to deal with them)
I have a friend who also has an S2 his is a few moths older now and his battery life is always excellent.
He has sound off, wifi off, NFC, GPS off but bluetooth is on as is his 3G radio.
I have notifications/sound on, 3G radio Off, wifi Off, NFC Off, GPS Off and bluetooth On.
We would compare in the afternoon and I would be around 55-60 percent and he would be mid to high 80's
Even my brand new one that is 4 months newer than his is the same. We sat next to one another in a training class and I started to notice that his watch face was pretty much always off. We both had Gesture On enabled but mine was on far more than his.
I turned gesture On- off and found after 16 hours I was just under 70%. About 2% an hour. That was the best I had ever seen!!
I have been using it that way for 4 days and repeat the results. My next questions are, is it the sensor or the actual movement regardless of the screen state that burns up so much battery?
In other word if I put 2 side by side with gesture on and moved one of them regularly but not to a degree that the screen came on would that one have a lower battery?
In the end, for me what I discovered was that well.. I move more than he does. I have a much higher step count and I am more physically active. Turning off "Gesture On" made this watch more useful to me but it annoys me that I have to press buttons to see notifications.
I am going to see if I can find a way to make a suggestion upstream to Samsung to add a second Gesture On mode that it is only enabled for say 20-30 seconds after a beep/vibrate notification. That should be easily do-able as that is just software.
The second request I have is to allow me to set the angle to which the watch must be to turn it on. Instead of simply facing straight up, maybe more to an angle as if I held it up to face me would be nice..... If I know how it has to be to turn it on I would just set it that way to light it up.... Of course this is also all predicated on the notion that it is not the sensor itself that consumes so much battery.

Same issue on ALL this kind of watch. I really read the time 50 times at days but all my (gesture on) watch turn on 800 time at days so of course much drain that other people who do not move her arm along the day....

I've only had mine for literally 3 days. So far I think the battery life is pretty good. If I don't play with it much I can end a day at about 50%.
I had the 1st galaxy gear and an apple watch, both of those were horrible with the battery. I could only get 6 hours with my Apple watch.
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konaman said:
I've only had mine for literally 3 days. So far I think the battery life is pretty good. If I don't play with it much I can end a day at about 50%.
I had the 1st galaxy gear and an apple watch, both of those were horrible with the battery. I could only get 6 hours with my Apple watch.
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the apple watch is disappointing. Let's hope the next gen will be better. I'll be happier knowing whether to choose the gear s3 or the apple watch. But it depends on the support samsung gives apple

battery life.. at BEST 1 day

Hi,
This is my 3rd day with the watch which I like so far but I was wondering: so far, what is your impression of the battery life?
Yesterday I drained it and food a full charge (about 1.5hrs) and it looks like it will survive fit an approx 24 hours. I've tried to have only light activity (send and receive few messages, play with a few watch faces etc.
From the Samsung gear app on my phone it shows that watch faces takes the majority of the power (makes sense as it's the most running app). In the 2nd place I see "settings"
Also, any proven suggested modification to dramatically improve battery life?

Where is the "no thanks" button??

I have had my Frontier for three weeks tomorrow and the battery lasts three days and still has 10% left. Looks like it takes time to condition the battery.

jb.traveller said:
I have had my Frontier for three weeks tomorrow and the battery lasts three days and still has 10% left. Looks like it takes time to condition the battery.
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Do you use always on display?

lyall29 said:
Do you use always on display?
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No, did set it when I first got it but with a twist of the wrist the display comes on so why bother. I do wear it every day and shealth runs in the background. My two sons have Apple watches and they say the battery only lasts the day and always charge at night.

I have a Non LTE frontier. I have everything on - AOD, most notifications, have used some GPS today, location on. I'm sure I could get 2 full work days out of it. I charge nightly anyway but have yet to have less than 55% left if I put the watch on at 6am and go to bed around 10pm. I'm more than happy with the battery.

Are you interested in metrics just for the sake of it? Under all reasonable circumstances, the S3 will last more than 24 hours. This, combined with its quick charging cycle means that the battery life of this watch has no impact on real-world functionality. I would probably be considered a heavy user: the S3 is my primary phone so it's in standalone mode (LTE always on) with AOD. I wear it at night to track sleep patterns. When I arise, I put it on the charger while I get ready for the day. So the watch is worn 23 hours per day and recharged for one. Most use cases are less demanding than mine and thus require an even less rigorous schedule.
When a device requires charging 20 minutes a day or 30 minutes every other day, battery life discussions become kinda trivial.

I had this issue my first day, It doesnt have a built in way to take out apps that are draining alot of power. SO after I use apps like the media player and such i remove them from ram and it lasts a ton longer.

It takes a few days to settle.
I have everything turned on, enabled, maxed, AOD, brightness, location, wifi, bluetooth, volume, vibration, synced with phone. And I get 2 FULL days out of it.

I don't use the AOD on my watch and I've had mine for about 2 weeks. I can consistently go at least 12 hours with battery remaining around 93%. Granted I don't use any of the SHealth functions because I don't need it, but I get my notifications from my device and frequently switch watch faces.

I don't use AOD and get a good 3 days between charging, one thing I did that improved things was changing from a white watch face to a dark almost black one

When i first received the S3 Frontier, I was getting around 8 hours the first day and 1/2 that on 2nd day.
Mostly due to a new toy and constantly playing with everything.
Now for 12 hours, I lose about 13-18 %.
I have the LTE model with AOD off, BT on and wi-fi off
sound at 15, screen at 5 and screen time out at 30 sec.
Email linked to exchange ( ~ 40-60 emails)
Text - < 100 a day
inbox notices from google
all sounds and vibrations enabled.
Number synced.
< 10 min. on phone

Currently getting 2 days on the battery with everything set to on. Screen brightness set to 5.
I do switch it off at night as I see no need to have it powered up whilst asleep. Always on display is switched on along with Wifi too.
Without AoD and Wifi on I can make 3 days.
Happy with it.

Frotier LTE: I get one full day.
I get one full day 7AM to 1AM.
Brightness: 4
Always On: Yes
Auto low brightness: On
Screen Timeout: 15 seconds
Bluetooth: Always on
Network: Always on <--this is a biggie. BTW: Setting this setting to ON is the only way to get text and phone calls from BOTH you cell phone number and your watch phone number simultaneously.
Phone calls: 10-12 a day.
Text: 10-12 a day
Notifications: ~50 a day
New toy factor: Play with it too much.
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jb.traveller said:
No, did set it when I first got it but with a twist of the wrist the display comes on so why bother. I do wear it every day and shealth runs in the background. My two sons have Apple watches and they say the battery only lasts the day and always charge at night.
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what am I doing wrong? My watch doesn't turn on half the time I flip my wrist. Any suggestions on how to flip my wrist corrrectly?

@joe1234567890
I have a non LTE Frontier (UK) S3 and that may be why I get the three days compared to you, not really sure.

Is it anyway to stop all shealth fonctionality except the cardiometer?

I'm at 11% right now with 4day 13hr 37mins on battery. Only use it for notification and some samsung pay. AOD off. Frontier LTE version.

Frontier BT version, 3rd day in use, first load lasted 2 days, aiming for 3
Aod off
Brightness 2
Dark watchface
Wifi off
BT always on
~50 messages/d
10 phone calls/d
1 hour/d playing with new apps and stuff
1 hour/d training program
Not too bad

In my experience, this thing has awesome battery life. Even better than my Huawei. I have the brightness at maximum, have the AOD enabled, and use the Chronograph+ face. I get notifications on it pretty frequently throughout the day, and when i get home after an 8-9 hour work day, the Gear S3 usually has around 75% battery life left.