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
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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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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?
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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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I decided to document battery usage on my gear2 after initially running into some trouble with the battery. I bought 2 brand new gear2's and when they arrived, I connected one to my note 3, which has a custom rom, and the other to a s5, with a stock rom. I noticed right away that the gear connected to the note 3 was draning battery much faster. This is what I set out to troubleshoot.
First of all let me explain the issues I had between the note 3 and the gear2 that was causing the battery drain; these are likely due to my rom being custom. When I first attempted to pair the gear to the phone, it would say device not supported. To even get the gear paired I had to use titanium back to remove anything that was related to the gear manager or gear in general. I then reinstalled the latest gear manager apk from the samsung store. This did not go smoothly and I had to find some missing apks as well because the app kept crashing. I didn't document exactly how I got it working because I was just trying any and everything to get it working. I know for sure that I was missing samsungservice apk and that was causing the app to crash at one point.
Once I got it paired up, I noticed when I would boot the phone "sensor service stopped" would show up. Also, when I would open s health multiple "health service" and related services would say that they stopped. I had to remove each one of those services with titaniuim backup and then reinstall the latest s health and let s health reinstall the services I removed. Sounds complicated and most likely no one will even run into these issues, but I posted this just in case. Also, I left "sensor service" uninstalled and it doesn't appear that s health reinstalled it and everything is functioning without it as of right now.
As long as gear manager is functioning correctly and there are no error messages from s health and everything is updated, there should be no abnormal battery drain. The following are some scenarios that I documented to show what normal battery drain should look like.
First thing I did was charge the gear up to 100% and let it sit overnight, for 8 hours while I slept. I disabled bluetooth so it wasn't connected to the phone, I also went to recent apps and made sure all programs were closed and that all sensors were disabled; sleep, pedometer etc.. After 8 hours of this I lost a grand total of: 1%. I woke up with 99% battery after 8 hours.
Next night I charged to 100%, connected to the phone via bluetooth, and closed all apps again and made sure no sensors were active and turned of notifications. After 8 hours of sleeping I had lost 4%. I woke up at 96% battery remaining. So the idle drain of just the gear by itself while connectd to the phone via bluetooth is half a percent an hour. Not bad at all.
Next I wanted to test how Tizen behaved with its apps. I read that some were getting better battery life by closing all apps down when not in use. I wanted to test this. So I did the same exact thing from the previous night except I opened every possible app as well. So bluetooth connected, no sensors active, no notications, but I opened every possbile app to load them up in the recent apps (memory). My findings were exactly the same as when I closed all apps the night prior. I lost 4% after 8 hours. So don't close out any apps, it does nothing on Tizen.
I next wanted to test the heart rate monitor as it was the single reason I bought the watch to begin with. Results were impressive. I turned the continual heart rate monitor on, running mode under exercise, and monitored my heart rate for 30 minutes (the amount of time I usually run in the gym). I lost 2% in 30 minutes. Not bad at all!
Next I tested one of the newer features of the gear 2 which was its ability to store its own music and play it back via bluetooth. I hooked up some bluetooth headphones and played continual music for 30 minutes straight. I lost 6% in 30 minutes. Thats 12% an hour. A little more than I'm comfortable with and it doesn't even sync with google music. It works very well, but just drains battery too much. Much better to use the media controller and have the phone play all the music.
For the final test I wanted to do a day of what normal usage might be like. I had bluetooth connected all day, notifications enabled, motion enabled (wrist motion to turn screen on), brightness at 2, I sent/responded to 10 text messages, received 25 or more notifications, 4 short phone calls, didnt use any monitors at all (heart rate, sleep, pedometer). I didn't play any music either. Ended up with 72% battery at the end of the day. At that rate I could have gone for 3 and a half days without charging. NOT BAD AT ALL! My gear 1 would come nowhere near that number.
Anyway I hope this may be beneficial to people struggling with battery life or considering a gear2 purchase because Of battery life. I know for me personally, battery life is the reason I returned the gear 1.
Nice testing and information but I don't see any conclusions about why the one connected to your Note 3 had worse battery life other than its custom ROM. Did you try swapping watches to the other phone and running the same tests? Did you restore the Note 3 to stock and get those results?
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Nice testing and information but I don't see any conclusions about why the one connected to your Note 3 had worse battery life other than its custom ROM. Did you try swapping watches to the other phone and running the same tests? Did you restore the Note 3 to stock and get those results?
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Sorry I wasn't clear. I was getting drain when I first was able to get the gear connected to the note 3. The gear manager app and s health were both showing different errors and crashing though, so that was the reason for the drain. Once I fixed s health and gear manager the drain was on par with the other gear. If those 2 apps are screwed up and crashing or showing errors it will keep sending/requesting info from the gear or something which kills battery.
thanks a lot for your info
i really hope we gonna have a good app to see what is eating our battery...
really strange that in tizen they don't have it ...
I downloaded the recent upgrade on my gear 2 and the battery life significantly reduced from 3 days to <24 hours! I switched off bluetooth and somehow it improved to 1.5 days. Something with the latest is caused my Note 2 to constantly ping the gear2 watch.
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dreamur said:
I downloaded the recent upgrade on my gear 2 and the battery life significantly reduced from 3 days to <24 hours! I switched off bluetooth and somehow it improved to 1.5 days. Something with the latest is caused my Note 2 to constantly ping the gear2 watch.
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Which software version are you talking about exactly?
2.0.14042803 to be exact. Thanks.
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2.0.14042803 to be exact. Thanks.
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Just read me what it says in "about gear" on the watch itself. What it says for software version.
R380XXU0BNDD and I have just upgraded gear manager to 2.1.14. Thanks in advance!
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R380XXU0BNDD and I have just upgraded gear manager to 2.1.14. Thanks in advance!
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I have the same gear manager but I am still on the stock ND8 and am not having any issues. Maybe try to flash back to ND8 if possible. There may be an imcompatibility somewhere. NDD is made for devices of other countries, so who knows.
I am based in the Philippines. Just today I got another upgrade on my gear 2 to BNE5 and still the unusual draining continues. Must be the GM app?
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I am based in the Philippines. Just today I got another upgrade on my gear 2 to BNE5 and still the unusual draining continues. Must be the GM app?
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Clear data on the manager app and start from scratch. If that doesn't work we may have to uninstall the app completely and start over. That's what I had to do.
Guys, have a look at this thread. Could be applicable to Samsung devices as well...
Thank's
lightdelegate said:
thanks a lot for your info
i really hope we gonna have a good app to see what is eating our battery...
really strange that in tizen they don't have it ...
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I also appreciate the info
Uninstalled GM app from phone and reset gear 2 and reinstall with just stock apps. Battery is still draining and worse, S health cannot retrieve profile from samsung server.
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Fixed! Deleted and reinstalled google account somehow cleaned my phone book! Now battery is draining 1% per hour!
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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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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.
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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%?
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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.
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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....
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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.
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.
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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)
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
Can someone let me know some good settings for battery life on LTE watch? My battery don't even make it threw the day? Please?
I'm new to the watch (classic), so I'm running relatively stick settings.
I did set it to only turn on WiFi when Bluetooth connection lost. Screen timeout fifteen seconds. Location services off (figure if I'm driving and need it I'd rather use phone services).
I'm getting 48 hours between charges and dropping to around thirty percent.
Do you have a watch face that's running tons of stuff? Or basic one?
Talking on it a lot, or running music through it?
Basic watch face.
Check os version, update to tizen 3.0 has a lot of comments on battery issues. May just be you updated and are stuck with crap battery until they fix...
sliiight said:
Check os version, update to tizen 3.0 has a lot of comments on battery issues. May just be you updated and are stuck with crap battery until they fix...
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So basically 3.0 sucks? I just reset my gear whats the best settings shutting things off etc for LTE? I where my watch to work 100% charges when I leave and it runs out by noon if not sooner? Any help would be appreciated
Rayg1022 said:
So basically 3.0 sucks? I just reset my gear whats the best settings shutting things off etc for LTE? I where my watch to work 100% charges when I leave and it runs out by noon if not sooner? Any help would be appreciated
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I just look at my software version and it says 2.3.2.3 see attached
Something else obviously tapping your watch battery.
First thing I'd do is set a plain basic face. Then test for a day, if battery issue fixed then you just had a poorly designed face. Some take heart rate every minute... Steps, weather update. Stuff you may not realize is even happening.
If that doesn't do it, check your notifications. Do tons on apps send notifications often? Maybe drop down to a min amount, then test for a day.
I'd definitely set lte "mobile networks" to auto, then WiFi completely off or only on when Bluetooth disconnects. WiFi isn't much benefit when you have lte, because there's not much you can do with the watch to eat up any data cap you might have, so could leave it off.
Heart rate check every hour, nothing shorter.
Screen time out fifteen seconds
Hopefully that sorts it.
Another consideration is you could have a lemon. How long have you had it? Might have an overheating issue, which could eat the battery. I've heard of a few, but pretty rare I think.
Good luck,
Ooo
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Something else obviously tapping your watch battery.
First thing I'd do is set a plain basic face. Then test for a day, if battery issue fixed then you just had a poorly designed face. Some take heart rate every minute... Steps, weather update. Stuff you may not realize is even happening.
If that doesn't do it, check your notifications. Do tons on apps send notifications often? Maybe drop down to a min amount, then test for a day.
I'd definitely set lte "mobile networks" to auto, then WiFi completely off or only on when Bluetooth disconnects. WiFi isn't much benefit when you have lte, because there's not much you can do with the watch to eat up any data cap you might have, so could leave it off.
Heart rate check every hour, nothing shorter.
Screen time out fifteen seconds
Hopefully that sorts it.
Another consideration is you could have a lemon. How long have you had it? Might have an overheating issue, which could eat the battery. I've heard of a few, but pretty rare I think.
Good luck,
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I just turned on my watch this morning and my battery is already in the 80's It's only been 1/2 hour now see attached is this normal. I have all exercise off 15 sec on display and Bluetooth and wifi off? I'm still under warranty but don't want a refurbished watch or someone else's mess? Any ideas? Maybe 1 to 2 text messages and voicemail and email is off
Rayg1022 said:
I just turned on my watch this morning and my battery is already in the 80's It's only been 1/2 hour now see attached is this normal. I have all exercise off 15 sec on display and Bluetooth and wifi off? I'm still under warranty but don't want a refurbished watch or someone else's mess? Any ideas?
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This is my watch face which I feel is basic?
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This is my watch face which I feel is basic?
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Hello, suggest resetting it. Use Blue Stealth watch face as it had very little white light which uses a lot of power.
Also. When it is disconnected from bluetooth and the LTE radio is on this will use much more battery. Keep all other settings as you have them. Samsung Health "nudges" also use battery so if you dont need them, turn those off too.
See if this helps too extend the battery life. If not then you truly may have a lemon.
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Set up is everything. I use a black and white face with color only for a second hand. I turn off stuff I don't need like NFC and BT and wifi (don't need if LTE). I turned off Location because it doesn't seem to effect GPS when I'm walking. Not sure why yet. I dont use alot of wizz bang apps like a map, news alerts, or fancy running app. Just SHealth and there are things that the phone is just better for, like news. I get about 36-48 hours depending on if I text alot OR IF I'M OUT OF CELL RANGE. You'll burn alot of battery if the watch is looking for a tower. I'm working on how to manage that better. Hope that helps.
maddie01 said:
Hello, suggest resetting it. Use Blue Stealth watch face as it had very little white light which uses a lot of power.
Also. When it is disconnected from bluetooth and the LTE radio is on this will use much more battery. Keep all other settings as you have them. Samsung Health "nudges" also use battery so if you dont need them, turn those off too.
See if this helps too extend the battery life. If not then you truly may have a lemon.
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Thanks, what or where do I get the blue stealth faces at?
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Thanks, what or where do I get the blue stealth faces at?
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Also would it be a good Idea to run the battery out and then recharge it?
Also is there a DIY for replacing the bezel? Mine is a little scuffed
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Thanks, what or where do I get the blue stealth faces at?
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So I started my phone on LTE @ 4am and just now got off work at 3:40pm and I'm at 48% battery could someone tell me if that seems about right or good?
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So I started my phone on LTE @ 4am and just now got off work at 3:40pm and I'm at 48% battery could someone tell me if that seems about right or good?
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That is very good for it being connect to LTE almost all day!
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Thanks, what or where do I get the blue stealth faces at?
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You can search in the Gear Apps and get it ...
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***Update*** I have everything off and using blue stealth. Turned on my gear 100% charge the percentage dropped to 33% From 4am to 5am I reset my gear and now the battery is climbing and it's now at 8:51am at 47%? Wtf? I'm going to try to run the battery down until it shuts off today and recharge for tomorrow if same thing then it's off to Samsung she goes..
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***Update*** I have everything off and using blue stealth. Turned on my gear 100% charge the percentage dropped to 33% From 4am to 5am I reset my gear and now the battery is climbing and it's now at 8:51am at 47%? Wtf? I'm going to try to run the battery down until it shuts off today and recharge for tomorrow if same thing then it's off to Samsung she goes..
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Hey, yeah that sounds really bad.. I have the Gear S2, Gear S3 Classic (Both LTE) and I get a full day on the 2 and a little more that that on the 3...sounds like th you may have a bad battery ...good luck with getting it swapped out
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Rayg1022 said:
***Update*** I have everything off and using blue stealth. Turned on my gear 100% charge the percentage dropped to 33% From 4am to 5am I reset my gear and now the battery is climbing and it's now at 8:51am at 47%? Wtf? I'm going to try to run the battery down until it shuts off today and recharge for tomorrow if same thing then it's off to Samsung she goes..
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I had the exact same problem with my watch, and I was never able to figure it out. I tried factory resetting it, booting it up in recovery mode, uninstalling all 3rd party apps, letting it drain completely and recharging it, etc., but nothing seemed to affect the battery drain. The weird thing is the watch would last 3 days on a charge even though it would drain quickly at first. It would go down to 55% within the first couple of hours, rise back up to 60-70%, and then drain slowly for the next 2 days. The fact that the battery lasted 3 days was great, but the initial drain bugged me so much that I sold the watch.
I read a post on the official Samsung forum where a guy said he narrowed his battery drain problem down to a bug in the Weather app. He claims the GPS antenna continuously searches for the location, even when Location Services are turned off. His solution is to never update the Weather app. Since I don't have the watch anymore, I have no way to verify it.
https://us.community.samsung.com/t5...board-id/wearabletech/thread-id/10096/page/28
FYI,
Latest Galaxy Watch 4 update improves Samsung Health, brings March security patch
Samsung has started rolling out a new software update to the Galaxy Watch 4. The update carries build number R870XXU1FVC8.
www.xda-developers.com
I just downloaded it, but have not seen anything obviously different.
I got it yesterday. ECG seemed to work for me, but I also could just not have done it right when I first got the watch. Otherwise, no obvious change.
And installed, and it doesn't fix the major AOD issues. It goes into ambient mode and no longer adjusts brightness until it is awakened and then adjusts. It IS updating the time in ambient, but I have only just begun monitoring it. In the past, it seems to be OK for a while after rebooting, then starts not updating the time and taking forever to respond to waking it up. Will follow up when I know more.
Ensure you do not have power save mode turned on. Otherwise it sounds like you have an app that maybe is causing you an issue.
Battery life is way better. It was already great, but definitely improved. I put it on last night around 11, turned on sleep for android while I slept. Used it to record a workout at the gym for about 50 minutes, and now it's 6 and it's at 55%.
Nice. Have not paid attention to my battery usage since the update. The watch has been fine so far.
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And installed, and it doesn't fix the major AOD issues. It goes into ambient mode and no longer adjusts brightness until it is awakened and then adjusts. It IS updating the time in ambient, but I have only just begun monitoring it. In the past, it seems to be OK for a while after rebooting, then starts not updating the time and taking forever to respond to waking it up. Will follow up when I know more.
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Hmm, well, the watch updated time in ambient mode and exited ambient mode immediately (correctly) all day today. Looks promising, even though it will take more than a day to convince me that two of the three AOD problems are actually fixed...
The only difference I have seen is that when I swipe down to see the battery life, it now puts the date there for 3-4 seconds before it shows the battery life. I don't know who thought this was a good idea, but they must be a total idiot. I already have the date on most watch faces anyway. it is just a waste of time and an irritation. I hope Samsung fixes this bug.
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Hmm, well, the watch updated time in ambient mode and exited ambient mode immediately (correctly) all day today. Looks promising, even though it will take more than a day to convince me that two of the three AOD problems are actually fixed...
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Well, another day of several hours of use where ambient mode is still exiting instantly when wanted and also updating time. I really think maybe they did slip in some fixes? If so, why not take credit for them and tell us in the release/update notes??
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The only difference I have seen is that when I swipe down to see the battery life, it now puts the date there for 3-4 seconds before it shows the battery life. I don't know who thought this was a good idea, but they must be a total idiot. I already have the date on most watch faces anyway. it is just a waste of time and an irritation. I hope Samsung fixes this bug.
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Yeah, it doesn't seem pretty stupid and pointless. Maybe they thought some watch faces don't have the date??
gettinwicked said:
Battery life is way better. It was already great, but definitely improved. I put it on last night around 11, turned on sleep for android while I slept. Used it to record a workout at the gym for about 50 minutes, and now it's 6 and it's at 55%.
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Exactly the opposite for me. Since the update I get only about 1.5 days of use max now where before I could get a solid 2. The update is killing battery life that was already pretty mediocre on this watch. I miss the 4+ days with the GW...
storm81456 said:
Exactly the opposite for me. Since the update I get only about 1.5 days of use max now where before I could get a solid 2. The update is killing battery life that was already pretty mediocre on this watch. I miss the 4+ days with the GW...
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I can't tell much difference in battery life. For my use, it seems lower than before this update. Not a LOT lower, though.
storm81456 said:
Exactly the opposite for me. Since the update I get only about 1.5 days of use max now where before I could get a solid 2. The update is killing battery life that was already pretty mediocre on this watch. I miss the 4+ days with the GW...
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I agree with you. Latest update is a piece of sh!7 regarding battery life.
I own a 40mm bt watch. When i used it offline with the previous update (flight mode and battery saver mode, measurements every 10 minutes and blood o2 during sleep) i achieved up to 60hrs.
Now its just a freaking day. No more. What a big mess.
Now when i connect the watch via bt to my phone i loose 6% per hr even if i dont do anything with it. I'm very very disappointed and hate the fact that I'm not able to downgrade.
I wish they would fix the Google pay issue where it doesn't come up as an option and only forces Samsung pay.
Auto cycling recognition?
Hope i post this in the correct place.
Can you guys answer Whatsup calls thru the Watch? Mine says on screen to answer thru the phone so i don't know if it is a permission thing or it is supposed to work like that.
Thanks in advance.