my auto HR is doubling my actual hr and its completely broken, rendering the fit absolutely useless. i literally see it climb last night while I was asleep from in the 40s up to 98 and stay at 98 to 100 until around 5am when I woke up and noticed it.. so when I woke up I went to the heart rate settings, I set to off, and then did a manual, and it came up as 47. so manually, it can measure my actual heart rate.. and the second I set it back to always on, it jumped right back to 100 and hovered around 105. I don't understand wtf is wrong. I've wiped it numerous times, nothing fixes it. I reboot and it works for a bit, but it's completely messing up my overnight heart rate readings now while I sleep which is exactly why I bought it! anyone have this issue?? I'm past the return period, and it sucks bc i have a gear s3 frontier that I use during the day, and i use this pos over night, and the battery even barely lasts overnight. I don't want to go fit bit bc i already have the s3 and I like Samsung health, and nothing else puts heart rate into that app so I'm kind of screwed.
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So today i went out and bought a lg urbane smart watch.
Initially when i unpacked it, the battery showed 100%, dropping to 94% after I've been playing around with it for an hour maybe.
Then all of a sudden, the screen went black and i couldn't get it to power on.
I then put it in the charger, an after 1 hour and 20 minutes, it got to 2% :S
i figured it might be confused, due to not having run a full battery cycle yet, so i took the watch from the charger, and went to the movies.
Now the watch have been going for 4 hours on 2% battery (still going), so i thought i would do a factory reset to fix the problem.
But now the real problem appeared! The watch still thinks it got 2% power, which means i cannot pair it to my phone (less than 20%) and charging makes no difference at all :S
Will i have to bring the watch back, or is there a fix?
Edit: sorry i accidentally made this in the wrong section
Fixed it
I fixed the problem.
The symptoms:
Out of the box, the watch showed 100%, but before the battery dropped below 90% the watch went out.
After charging with the included charger for about an hour and a half, the watch showed 2%.
I unplugged the watch, and it lasted for hours, still showing 2%.
Steps i did to fix.
1. I factory reset the watch, resulting in a "brick" still showing 2% battery, and it wouldnt let me pair the watch as it was beow 2%.
2. I left the watch in a 2amp charger for about an hour.
3. The watch showed 100%, and is now working as expected, dropping maybe 4% an hour with full brightness and always on (and me playing with it abit ).
My conclusion was, that once the watch actually reached a 100%, the charger might have sent a "charging done" signal to the watch, telling it that the battery is at 100%.
Hope this helps someone else!
Probably this thread would be way more interesting if it would have been posted in the correct forum area...
Yea, i posted it here by accident :silly:
Maybe someone can help me move it?
Hi,
I have the s2 classic and I love it. I have read on CNET that they were able to get nearly 3 days of battery life before charging. I can't get 24hrs of usage before charging. I have changed the brightness to 5 (the screen does shut off and is not on the always on mode), I shut off wifi and NFC . I am not using it all that much, what is everyone else getting on average? I just want to know if I might have a lemon.
Thanks
APT_ART
Hey @APT-ART , You can't try to turn off the automatic heart sensor for longer work on battery. Also the black background (pure black, so pixel are not lighted at all for that part of the face) will help to improve it.
For me it depends on how many notifications there are during the day, what applications I am using and how I charged it last time (I recommend to clean both the back part of the watch and the wireless charger as well). Also for some faces the brightness level of 2 or 3 should be enough to use it as a normal watch WiFi on but NFC off, also the automatic heart sensor turned on but less regular setting.
The battery stands for me for about 30 - 40 hours. But for the first two times I've got only about 16-18. Just let it discharged to 0%, then charge it to 100% without turning on. Good luck!
I keep my brightness at 3, keep always on watch face turned on, tilt to wake off, heart rate off, wifi on, nfc off, S voice watch face listening off, get probably 50 notifications per day and after a 16 to 18 hour day have about 40 to 50% battery left.
I think S Voice watch face listening, higher brightness, and tilt to wake (especially at a higher brightness) does the most damage to battery life.
KubixRevan said:
Hey @APT-ART , You can't try to turn off the automatic heart sensor for longer work on battery. Also the black background (pure black, so pixel are not lighted at all for that part of the face) will help to improve it.
For me it depends on how many notifications there are during the day, what applications I am using and how I charged it last time (I recommend to clean both the back part of the watch and the wireless charger as well). Also for some faces the brightness level of 2 or 3 should be enough to use it as a normal watch WiFi on but NFC off, also the automatic heart sensor turned on but less regular setting.
The battery stands for me for about 30 - 40 hours. But for the first two times I've got only about 16-18. Just let it discharged to 0%, then charge it to 100% without turning on. Good luck!
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Really good tip, I am going to let the watch discharge to 0% and see what happens. thanks! :good:
With very light usage I can easily get 3+ days. I turned off nfc and WiFi. I left on the heart rate scanning. I use it as a stand alone watch at work since I can't use my phone. I have the brightness at 3 and ambient display off / tilt to wake on. Not ideal usage for some, but it's a good setup for me.
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I'm assuming everyone here has the non 4g version and that's why you guys are getting pretty good battery life. Got my S2 yesterday with 4g and fully charged overnight. Took off charger and about 8 hours later the S2 is at 38%. Not happy but going to try that discharge tip. To see if it helps. Also may have to tweak some other settings. I had the Gear S 4g and it didn't drain that much. I can usually get a days worth out of it.
you need several cycles to really know what kind of battery life you can expect; one days worth wont tell you a thing
How do you change the heart sensor setting?
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How do you change the heart sensor setting?
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You can change it by going into the s health settings on the watch. Options for auto heart rate are frequent, moderate, or off. These settings are separate from if you actually go in and start and exercise. I have my auto turned off (to conserve battery) but when I go in and actually start an exercise session on the watch, it will monitor heart rate. The auto heartrate is just for random monitoring throughout the day....having it set to off will not impact monitoring when you start an exercise.
Hi there.
I am posting this because I have absolutely no idea what happened to my phone last night.
I watched a couple of YouTube videos before going to sleep. I restarted my phone before I plugged it in - no particular reason, kinda happened by accident. I plugged it in after the phone booted up tho.
For some reason the CPU was working hard all night. It looks like the phone stopped charging once it reached 45 degrees Celsius (or is that a coincidence?). At some point it started charging again, and stopped at around 86%. Why? I am so confused. I really hope a night of battery temperatures between 40 and 50(!) degrees didn't kill my battery life in general now.
I just want to understand what happened lol. Btw couldn't find a process/app that had any significant Stay Awake time! (maybe it reset?)
Cheers
PS I'm on 930W8, PG1, no root or nothing like that, stock rom
Edit: it is also weird that the graphs show WiFi to be active all night. I have it set so that the phone sleeps WiFi when not in use, to save battery in standby. Well I guess it was not in standby lol
Almost a month since purchasing (Amazon return window coming up fast). Here's my experience given that I walked right into this battery-gate issue.
Disclaimer: I'm a heavy user. I get A LOT of email notifications, WhatsApp and keep the screen fairly bright (never less than 7 out of 10). It has Verizon LTE service. Verizon said this would not affect my battery life....
Week one. On a full charge I could only get about 5 hours. Off the charger 9 am and by 2pm it was back on the charger for a one hour re-charge that got me home until it was back on the charger for the night.
I had to purchase a second charger for my desk during the day. I picked up a third for $8 just to keep in my bag for when on the go.
Week 2. Same 20% drain per hour.
Week 3. I switched off diagnostic notifications, and switched from vibrate alerts to sound alerts. Big improvement. I went from 5 hours to about 9 hours. Battery drain is now 11% per hour.
Zero Lemon needs to make an S3 case...
And it needs a fast charging port. A Battery this small would charge quickly with a cord. 2 hours for 0% to 90% is pretty ridiculous in this era. My Note 3 charged to 100% in an hour 4 years ago.. And yes I know it's for waterproofing but other makers like Garmin and Polar use charging ports with waterproof gaskets.
I was getting about 2 to 3 percent per hour until a few days ago when the battery drain bug hit. At that time, it was almost 12% per hour.
I did a factory reset and I'm sitting at about 1.6 to 2 percent per hour.
I get about 1-2% but I don't need the fitness tracking stuff so i usually have Samsung health disabled and AOD off but location on and wake gestures on. I also have the diagnostic option off since the day I got it. I read somewhere the current battery bug can be averted by turning the diagnostic option off. I get 20+ emails a day and about 30+ texts and WhatsApp each. So I generally use my watch for texts, WhatsApp, emails, weather and Samsung Pay
With AOD ON and use for many things : cheklist, note, memo, notification, alarm, timer, stopwatch.... I have average drain of 3.5% at 4.5% by hour. I'm happy when I have 3.5% but it grow quicly to 4%-4.5% if I use a little. Just but can live with this.
For those who have serious battery drain on v3.0.0.2 (and even have broken sensors such as heart rate detection like me) can go for repair, if still covered by warranty.
I have recently the same behavior as described by many after upgraded to v3.0.0.2, battery drain 20%/hr and it become worse when I found out wake up gesture is not working at all, so is the heart rate sensor as well as steps tracker.
I hesitated whether to send it back to repair, but in the end so glad I did, it only took 1 day and they informed me they have changed the motherboard and replace with new battery (as I told them about bad battery drain issue as well). And guess what, I got back my gear s3 frontier with everything working but on old enough firmware 2.3.2.3 (which is working pretty good, just that battery usage around 5%/hr not that great).
After that I decided to take the risk to upgrade my firmware to 3.0.0.2 again, and whoa, everything still works perfect and battery drain has gone! Battery usage is now around 1%/hour which is acceptable I think.
So far I have had no battery problems on my Galaxy Watch 4 BT.
Heart rate monitor continuously, display activated when the arm is moved, sleep mode from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m., medium-dark watchface from WatchMaker.
The battery is charged to 100% in the morning. During the day the battery is at 55-65% in the late evening. Then charging again briefly (to 75-80%) for a few minutes, until i go to bed.
Then sleep tracking takes place.
At the morning after getting up, I charged the watch again to 100%.
That was my routine at the last weeks.
On Sunday morning I had not much time, so I set the watch at 88%.
When i went to sleep at 11:00 PM, the watch still had 50%.
And here's the Problem:
The sleep tracking ends at 2:51 AM - the watch has gone off: the battery is empty.
Last weeks my Watch shows 2 d 14 h at 100%.
Today: 1 d 15 h.
This battery lost 1 day!
At this moment the battery is at 65 %...
WTF... Why?
What happened?
Everything was as always ...
Has someone an idea?
Something similar is hapening with me, I have watch 4 classic. I was able to push one day out of it, with an hour or so of exercise tracking at around 6PM and now all of a sudden from the past 3-4 days, I get battery low warning by the time I am done with my exercies, so basically I have to charge it for 10-15 minutes to get thru the rest of the evening and night. Forget sleep tracking, the battery is going down so fast it almost feels like if i glanced it at 1pm its at 70% and when I glance it at 1:05PM its at 65%. Extremely strange I hope there was not some background firmware update that happened.
My current endurance of Galaxy Watch 4 44mm is around 60-65h! Absolutely sufficient. Lots of notifications, step measurement ....
I turn on the display by tapping the screen.
PS: Before that I had a Fossil Sport, but after a year and a half the battery went down a lot and in time even though it was still 35% of the battery so the watch does resetovary.
Same problem here. I will try:
- Uninstall 2 apps (alberto's google assistant related)
- Disable location
- Restarted the watch
Reviewed battery drain app but no information about wich one is producing the draining. I detected most of the drain at night,next workaround will be try to disable some sleep monitoring function.
Last try, fabric restore...
I will tell tou about progress