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gear 2 battery life of 4.5- to 5 days.

Is is just me or the battery of gear 2 have been massively undersold?
I easily get 4.5-5 days of battery life, I charge 100% on Monday morning, and then it will last me until Friday night or Saturday morning.
I use my watch to track my daily cycling commute, and track my sleep every night. I get several notifications, and the notifications that I like the best are from google now, one of which is weather notification that updates it self several times a hour.
I have motion screen activation, which says that it might reduce the battery life but haven't noticed any difference, I have vibration on as well, the only thing I don't have as default is the setting for screen turning on when you receive a notification. ( i am using the default watch face that have shortcuts on it).
Share your experience, what are you doing with your gear 2 and how long does it last.

Yes I have been getting 4 days easy, Samsung are useless at marketing or sticking with a product.
That said most reviews do not state this either, one did but not as a plus point ???
Given the competition cannot doing anything meaningful with a full charge and last the day, Samsung are missing a trick.
Reviews also state Apple if struggling with barely 1 day battery !!! but still expect to sell a million odd watches !!!
If Samsung grows some balls and do there own thing, commit to a product and stick to it, they would succeed.

After the most recent firmware I must say I can get 7 days use without charge.
I use my watch from 7AM to 7PM.
Pretty much everything on notifications, even Twitter but only 7 or so favourites to avoid overload, screen wake up off but wake on notification and brightness to 3.
Laughable when you hear the Apple crap can barely last 18 hrs straight if used as a smart watch
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Wow. I honestly only get two days. I have the brightness set to 3, have notifications on (with screen-on activation for 5 seconds), vibration on, have the wrist-motion-activated screen on, and use it occasionally for calls. I power it completely off at night to sleep, too. There's no way I could ever get 7 days though unless I disabled Bluetooth. What am I missing!? 7 days would be amazing.
Do you guys have the pedometer turned on?
Have you guys flashed the custom ROM? (I haven't, but it says it improves battery life)

jim256 said:
Wow. I honestly only get two days. I have the brightness set to 3, have notifications on (with screen-on activation for 5 seconds), vibration on, have the wrist-motion-activated screen on, and use it occasionally for calls. I power it completely off at night to sleep, too. There's no way I could ever get 7 days though unless I disabled Bluetooth. What am I missing!? 7 days would be amazing.
Do you guys have the pedometer turned on?
Have you guys flashed the custom ROM? (I haven't, but it says it improves battery life)
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I noticed the battery life did improve a lot on the latest Tizen release but I am not getting any more than 3 days with these settings:
Stock, not rooted (root not needed for me with Tizen)
Brightness 3
Timeout 10 seconds
Motion ON (I look at time many times throughout the day)
Calls are rare, 10-20 texts using watch/flesky app
Pedometer on 100% of time, Bluetooth always on too
Keep it on all night but use sleep app
If I decrease the brightness to 2 and turn motion off, I could squeeze 4-5 days out but then I wouldn't enjoy the watch:silly:
Now when I use my Neo, battery life is much worse with the same exact settings....go figure.

No custom ROM, brightness 4, motion off but screen set to on for notification.
You should get 4 days easy being on 24/7.
Try a full reset.
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Pedometer is off as I use my S5 linked as the main pedometer.
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@ obsydian - There are too many variables here. I think the decrease with mine is due to motion and how often it turns on but I'm very happy with it!

I dont use my watch for step counting and screen off for notification.
I have motion detection so the screen only turns on when i look at it.
I have my phone on 24/7, I also track my sleep.
so I am guessing its the step counting that is draining the battery, also maybe the texting using the watch,I guess the longer the screen is on the faster battery drain

The longest time I've ever used is 2.5 days without connecting to a phone (I have no samsung phone, so only use the step count and HRM function)

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.

Battery life issues already

I'm having terrible standby time battery life. I have tons of apps "optimized" and the battery life is pretty good under use. I'm losing battery like crazy when the phone is just sitting here though. Battery use shows 'Android System' as the culprit which of course can be any number of 50 things. I know it isnt AOD because I turned that off but Android System is used nearly 600mah in 8 hours which is outrageous. Any ideas?

My phone too. A lot of android system drain. I don't know why. But still I'm having a solid day of battery

I would give it a couple of days. My phone's always have horrible battery the first couple of days then it starts to level off. That's when you really see what the battery is like.

Is probably background updates and stuff

Tekogremista said:
Is probably background updates and stuff
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This is what I am thinking it is... My phone is physically warm to the touch from load of doing all the background stuff right now. I have like 95 apps its downloading & installing & about 13k images via the photos app. Not to mention the very large restoration task of my SMS from my old device.

Only second cycle here but at 4hr21min sot at 21%
However android os is at the top
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dakalter said:
I would give it a couple of days. My phone's always have horrible battery the first couple of days then it starts to level off. That's when you really see what the battery is like.
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So far so good

I'm passed all the downloads and updates I believe. One of the embedded components must be misbehaving
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3:51 SOC. Still 27% to go but android system is the top of battery

The same thing is going on with my AT&T S6 Edge since I got it. Every night 25%-35% battery gone.
SUCKS BIG TIME
Note: VoLTE is turned off

My standby battery is dropping 3% every 8 hours

if you guys leave wifi on, that's why. every since lolipop, having wifi on for Samsung devices kills battery in standby. my tab s 8.4 on kk lasted days with wifi on idle. with lolipop, i'm lucky if it lasts 24 hours idle. I have to put it in airplane mode every night I'm done with it.
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So far my battery life has been really good. Took the phone off the charger at 10 am and now its 10:30 pm and right now I'm at 50%. My old Note 4 would have died hours ago. I would love to leave it uncharged tonight so see where's its at in the morning but I wont have time to charge it before I have to leave for work.

jayochs said:
if you guys leave wifi on, that's why. every since lolipop, having wifi on for Samsung devices kills battery in standby. my tab s 8.4 on kk lasted days with wifi on idle. with lolipop, i'm lucky if it lasts 24 hours idle. I have to put it in airplane mode every night I'm done with it.
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wifi off for me

YOu guys have the S7 already??

I disabled Google now and turned off the nearby device scanning. Will see how that goes tomorrow.
Yes we have s7. Nearly everyone who ordered on T-Mobile has them or has shipped.
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4 hours and 20 minutes of SOC but android system ate 850mah of the battery. Still trying to figure out what.

Mine is doing okay I reckon.

Did you guys do a factory reset? And disable all those useless apps that are running in the background (settings -> application manager -> running (disable those that are running that you don't use)).

Toss3 said:
Did you guys do a factory reset? And disable all those useless apps that are running in the background (settings -> application manager -> running (disable those that are running that you don't use)).
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Pretty much the only app that I disable from the start is Lookout Mobile Security. As soon as I can get to the settings in setup it gets disabled

Yea I haven't done a factory reset, the phone is brand new, why should we have to
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3/30/2017 Update causes severe battery drain

I updated my Gear3 yesterday (3/30/2017 update) and the battery drained to 15% overnight from 100%. Before the update, I would charge my Gear3 every 2 days. Did anyone else have the same problem?
Update: I found out that the battery drain only happens with airplane mode on (when I sleep). Update2: The battery drains super fast whenever the watch is not connected to my phone(while running, etc).

avatarx1 said:
I updated my Gear3 yesterday (3/30/2017 update) and the battery drained to 15% overnight from 100%. Before the update, I would charge my Gear3 every 2 days. Did anyone else have the same problem?
Update: I found out that the battery drain only happens with airplane mode on (when I sleep). Update2: The battery drains super fast whenever the watch is not connected to my phone(while running, etc).
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Did you update the gear itself or the gear manager app? I didn't get the recent firmware update for gear but got the gear manager update, didn't notice any difference with battery usage but seems bluetooth disconnects more often than before.

I noticed the first day it seemed like battery life took a hit after getting both manage and then firmware updates, but it was better, if not back to normal battery drain the second day.
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10urshin said:
Did you update the gear itself or the gear manager app? I didn't get the recent firmware update for gear but got the gear manager update, didn't notice any difference with battery usage but seems bluetooth disconnects more often than before.
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Both the firmware and the gear manager app got updated.

DaWeav said:
I noticed the first day it seemed like battery life took a hit after getting both manage and then firmware updates, but it was better, if not back to normal battery drain the second day.
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Can you try the airplane mode for 1 hour and see if the battery drained like 10%?

avatarx1 said:
Can you try the airplane mode for 1 hour and see if the battery if it drained like 10%?
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I have the same problem afer the firmware update.

trying now... at 78 at start...
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tommy281 said:
trying now... at 78 at start...
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Heading out and am still at 77% ..... about 45 min. and 1% loss ......

Both the watch and Gear Manager updated yesterday and the only drain I've seen was during the watch update. I charges it afterwards and battery life seems normal.
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Not had this issue but always do a reset
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obsydian said:
Not had this issue but always do a reset
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Does that mean restoring all apps afterward, or is it more like a soft reset?
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Mire appears to be draining faster after the watch update as well. I did reset my watch after the update to clean out cobwebs.
Going to turn it off and leave it on charger all night and then restart and see how things go tomorrow.
So far haven't seen any benefit from this update.
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I noticed minor drain after the update but a power cycle alleviated it.

Yes full wipe, but you can restore most setting if you have backup set up
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Battery drain still seems higher after the update.
Also lost the ability to get audible SMS notifications...watch is set to audio, volume is 100%, Gear settings are for notifications to be shown even when using phone (just in case) but I only get a vibrate on watch when texts arrive.
Using Textra, and audio text alerts worked before this update.
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I have a Frontier and got the update a few weeks ago. I didn't notice anything sinister initially but this week it's been really bad. I put my watch into flight mode every night and turn off the AOD, I usually get 5% drain over night. The other day i woke up and it was completely flat! It was at 78% before i went to bed! I've had a few other issues also. Around 11am today I got a low battery warning as the battery was down at 10% so I had to switch to low power mode, last night before bed it was around 60% and I did my usual flight mode/AOD switch overnight...
I can't quite see what this update has actually done apart from break something that was working well....

Same story, a few days after the update the battery started going down twice as fast as before. Yesterday the watch went crazy for a couple of minutes, opening random apps while I was doing a workout. I had to reboot it. This morning I found that it was impossible to install the update for HERE maps. I tried uninstalling it, but it didn't let me reinstall it afterwards. So finally I decided to give the hard reset a try. It devastated the rest of my day, it took me twenty or so trials to finish a restore (bluetooth disconnections, network failures, plugin which stopped working, you name it). When I finally got a full restore done I found that Gear Navigator Companion wasn't installed anymore. I tried to install it manually, but it gets downloaded and transferred to watch, but the installation fails every time. HERE maps, instead, installed successfully. Battery, however, seems like before, meaning every ten minutes I loose a 1% (6% per hour, less than 24 hours of autonomy).
So, right now I have the same issues, I got HERE back but lost Navigator (the only app that gives gpx tracks on a map on the watch!) and I lost a whole day to get here. Quite frustrated and wildly disappointed, I'm seriously considering to return the watch and try a Fenix 5s instead. I loved how the S3 worked before the update, though I liked the new way to calculate calories and HR zones. But I can't have a watch that doesn't last at least two days or that provides this kind of random issues after a hard reset and attempted restore...

I have the same issue. Went dead overnight. It was my alarm source so it was a good thing I woke up early and noticed. After the unintentional power cycle, it seems better, but still draining faster than pre-update. I also noticed a random voice app opening yesterday (the day of the big drain). My watch started talking to me during a meeting. Samsung needs to address this and push out another update to fix the update.

dino_Donis said:
I have a Frontier and got the update a few weeks ago. I didn't notice anything sinister initially but this week it's been really bad. I put my watch into flight mode every night and turn off the AOD, I usually get 5% drain over night. The other day i woke up and it was completely flat! It was at 78% before i went to bed! I've had a few other issues also. Around 11am today I got a low battery warning as the battery was down at 10% so I had to switch to low power mode, last night before bed it was around 60% and I did my usual flight mode/AOD switch overnight...
I can't quite see what this update has actually done apart from break something that was working well....
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Mine is inconsistent! Today was a good day, I'm at 87% from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Very little use today, I must admit. Who knows what tomorrow will be like.
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52% for me, sucks like yesterday did. Really unhappy. Going to call Samsung and raise some h-ll.
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Mine lost 23% in 2 hours this morning! I didn't even access it during this period. Wifi, Location Services are both turned off. Got awesome battery life before the update.

Sudden battery disaster

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.