My S3 Frontier was a problem child when I first got it a year ago. It would never stay connected to my phone, and all I did was tinker with it and reset it over and over again for months. I was ready to Ebay it when the Tizen 3 update was pushed. Since that time, this watch has worked great, up until now. About a month ago I got new iPhone. I had a LG V10 Android phone and was a little concerned that the iPhone would mess up the watch. The Samsung app on IOS was a bit limited, but it still worked fine. About 2 days ago, the watch all of a sudden started eating up the battery. It went from 100% to 31% in about 3 hours Tuesday morn. I charged it over night, and yesterday it was fine. Today it was OK up until an hour or so ago. It went from 71% to 17% in just over an hour. I was not even using the watch. I have wifi on auto, the display always off, brightness on 6, heart rate monitor off, and no 3rd party apps installed. All I use the watch for is to keep me alerted when I get incoming texts, weather alerts, and it tells me to get up off my arse sometimes and move! I do not use it to make or answer calls, GPS and location is off. Up until now, when I would put the watch on the charger when I went to bed, the battery would be at 70-75%. I have about 20 or so watch faces all from the Samsung store and have uninstalled Facer and Watchmaker. I do not see how the watch faces could be causing this when the screen is off, but I do not know all the technical details on how this thing operates. The Samsung app on my phone does not show anything out of the ordinary running on the watch. Does anybody have any ideas before I rest this thing, or worse yet, chuck it and just go back to using my $10.00 Walmart watches!!? :laugh:
Won't hurt to try another factory reset before you retire it.
Same thing for mine was great then all the sudden drains battery like crazy.
I just did ANOTHER reset from the watch, and also removed and reinstalled the Gear app on my phone. Afterwards, did not install anything on the watch. It is still draining way too fast. This morn at 6 it was at 100%, after not using it at all, it is at 82. It is still setup as in my original post. The only thing I can think of that may have caused this was a small update that got pushed on it a few weeks go. Either way, I am tired of fighting it! I may have to contact Samsung, but I think it is out of warranty. If this thing gets the Tizen 4 update, I will give it another shot.
I just thought of something. Is there a way to reinstall Tizen 3.0.0.2 again manually without hacking the watch or sending it back to Samsung? Maybe resetting it is not enough and it needs to to be wiped , then have the OS reinstalled.
I just started experiencing the rapid drain as well? Noticed it yesterday. Put the watch on at 7am and by 11am had the warning pop up that battery was at 15%
If you Google this, there are lot of folks having the same problem with this watch. I was just on a Samsung forum where several people were reporting this issue after the 3.0.0.2 update. The thing is, my watch ran great after the 3.0.02 update! Better than it did on version 2. My problem started after no updates. My best guess is another patch or the Tizen 4 update (assuming this watch will get it) may hopefully fix this. I am found no resolution so far.
I would say try a couple things. Turn Wi-Fi off completely. Mine gets hammered when I have it on in any way, and you COULD be seeing it poll like crazy in Auto. After testing that, I'd also try turning the BT off too (Just to test)
Mine started doing this two days ago and I made no changes (I always have Wifi off, heart rate once every ten minutes, AOD off, , no GPS, non-LTE watch). I usually get up to three days and now if I fully charge it by 9pm is't dead in less than 11 hours.
I have this problem as well, started yesterday. Looking through the apps, seems like s health is the one to blame! Before once charge was getting the phone still at 77% by the end of the day....
Same here, since a couple of days ago, Samsung Health draining the battery. Can´t be a coincidence.
I guess it is possible the battery is going bad, but rechargeable batteries normally do not start losing capacity at one year of age, and it is normally a gradual process. I tried turning off wifi, and that did not help. Between 6 this morn and now (8.00 am) it went from 100 to 88% and all it did was show a few text messages from my wife. To add to my misery, the Samsung app just updated on my iPhone and now the program crashes whenever I open it and to go the Gear apps and faces. I can try reinstalling it, but it will reset the watch AGAIN, and I will have to start all over. If I was Bruce Banner I would be turning into The Hulk right now!!
son of a b!tch... i was hoping that it was a fixable thing, seems like its a widespread issue. Im having the exact same problem. started 2 days ago. Factory reset the watch and didnt even install any apps on it, just configured the watchface to diable the AOD and bezel wake. Its been fine for about 10 months and boom... utter failure. guess ill start a claim with samsung
Yes mine has worked great for over a year then all of a sudden 2 days ago it started going from 100% to dead in 3 hours or less.
sooooooo, i submitted my claim info on samsungs site and no more than 30 min following, my gear started turning its watchface on while on the charger very randomly. Did it about 6 times. Stupid coincidence? poltergeist? or are they digging into the device?
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factory resetting it via recovery, wish me luck
ok, reset via recovery, fully charged, lets see how this goes
sparky1337 said:
Yes mine has worked great for over a year then all of a sudden 2 days ago it started going from 100% to dead in 3 hours or less.
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Same with my device. It started 2 days ago after a factory reset, goes from 100% to dead within the first 3-4 hours of the day.
youdoofus said:
ok, reset via recovery, fully charged, lets see how this goes
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I did not think of that! I am going to try that also!!
same here started 2 days ago, haven't changed anything ... they want us to get frustrated and buy the new galaxy watch!lol
I did a reset and a master reset then restored the backup, was good for the rest of the day after that.
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Not sure if this is the right forum or page for this thread but here goes. I have a Galaxy S2 Skyrocket that has worked flawlessly for me. A couple of weekends ago I went out to eat with some friends and forgot my phone at home. When I got home I found my phone sitting on top of my shop vac where I left it. I noticed that the battery indicator showed the phone almost dead which was odd. I put it on the charger over night as I always do. The next day I noticed the phone losing about 10% battery every hour. I assume the magnet in the motor on the shop vac has done something to my phone. I tried 2 other batteries and got the same result. I reset the phone and also forced a reflash and still the same problem. Is there anything I can do to fix this??????
Just to be clear, the phone can usually go 2 days before it would go totally dead and literally changed that day.
Xlr8torZ28 said:
Just to be clear, the phone can usually go 2 days before it would go totally dead and literally changed that day.
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Install betterbatterystats (search on xda) - that thread has many details to debug the batter issues. Anything could have changed, there were lot of updates to google related apps in the past few days any of which could have changed the setting started draining the battery. It could as well be a coincidence.
Several days ago my phone starting dropping battery much faster than usual. While I am at work I barely touch my phone and some days I will only use 15% over an 8 hour period. This suddenly increased to about 40-50% a few days ago. I tracked it down to the bluetooth being enabled or not. My bluetooth has been always-on for the last several months without an issue. Now I can see the battery discharge rate increase immediately when the bluetooth is turned on. I've attached a screenshot showing the problem. I had the bluetooth off in the morning and you can see the slow discharge. I turned it on for several hours and you see the steep discharge until I turned it off again and the discharge levels out. It was not connected to anything during the entire day. Does anyone have any idea why this would suddenly happen? I am going to have to turn off my bluetooth when not in use until I figure this out.
Ugggh, the more I have this phone, the more I'm starting to dislike it. I'm having the same exact issue as you! I actually wiped the phone and it's been good for about 3 days, but just today I'm back again with BT killing my battery. Plus, now there's a new OTA today, but I don't know if I wanna take it since it may cripple the phone even more and maybe kill my chances of rooting one day (if OG5 is ever rooted). Tempted to sell this damn thing and go back to an S5.
Not sure if you're still having this issue, but I wiped the phone 3 separate times and each time it resolved the issue for a few days, but then randomly would start acting up again. I wear a Pebble, so disabling BT isn't really an option. Got tired of resetting, so I went to Verizon and a replacement is being shipped to me this week. Still not sure what the cause of the issue is/was since it was flawless for 6 months....
Phone is an AT&T Samsung Galaxy S1 (technically a Captivate something or other, 897 or somesuch?) which has one of those PacROM sets for android 4.4 on it. (I will post exact specifics if needed in followup but the battery is dead AGAIN thanks to this)
For several months now the phone has started turning itself on at varying times. Sometimes its the same time every night, then maybe it will change to a different time later. I've seen it happen (having been sitting awake late at night to see it bling on in the charger surprising me) and can't figure out how - nothing is changed vs when it wasn't doing this before. I know it's doing it all the time now because my battery keeps ending up DEAD when I shut the phone off fully charged for when I later need it, only to find all the sudden it's on zero yet again.
There are no set alarms of any kind waking it up, i'm not aware of any PacROM feature and didn't set or change ANYTHING. The phone worked fine the first 9 months before starting to act wierd. I've installed next to nothing on the phone since then either.
When the phone powers up it doesn't do anything at all - just sits at the main menu and drains battery until it has no battery left. It doesn't act like it's loading anything, or doing virus stuff or that. If I catch it in the middle of a powerup and take the battery out, it wont retry that night though.
How do I narrow down what is happening or causing this to occur??
Guys i have this watch since 1-2 Weeks and i get barely 8 hours i saw reviews that said 3-4 days. I had tizen 3.0.0.2 so i read about the software was the problem so i downgraded to 2.2.2.3 or so still the same i resetted the Watch couple of times nothing helps. I place it with 50% on the charge and its finished in 20mins which cant be true i start it and in 5mins from 95% to 78%.Guys should i update to Tizen 3 again? because someone said it fixed that for him. I use the original cable and Charger and even tried another cable ..nothing helps can anyone help me?
Need to know if anyone else has ran into this.... Among my family we own 5 HTC U11s (yep we really like it). Two of these were bought when it was first introduced so they are well over a year old. The rest have been bought over the last year. Recently ran into a problem with the very first one I bought, it ended up being my son's.
About a month ago his battery started draining very rapidly, lasting only about 15 hours; we normally would get a day+ without issues and still do on all other HTC U11s. We would charge it to full and without doing anything it would go straight down, in the battery info screen the graph would be a diagonal line down. We did a factory reset, still happened; cleared the system cache, still happen; did another factory reset and added no apps back, still happened.
Most recently we had the battery replaced (took it to CPR and they did it) and now the phone is back and it is still doing it. Right now it has no SIMM card, no SD CARD, and Factory Android on it without it logged in to any Google account so that it does not get any updates, and it is still discharging in about 15 hours.
Anyone else run into this, and know of a solution? I am a little nervous that the other phones out there will start having this same issue, so I am hoping there is a fix or something I am overlooking here.
The problem is the batteries and its historical. The more you use it the worse it gets and the replacement batteries have sat on a shelf for years only partly charged.
Time for a new phone.
Probably wakelock issue from Oreo update.
Try restarting your phone after you disconnect from charger; it works for me. YMMV