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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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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 bought my Gear s2 a couple of days ago and although it's working fine and giving me excellent battery life, my phone's battery life has become terrible. I used to get to the end of the day with 70% left but since I've installed the gear app, that's become 20% or less.
Nothing else has been installed in this time. I don't want to return my watch so can anyone please help?
Same here lots of resets and refreshes decided to just get a rapid car and desk charger for work !!!
Do you have location enabled (in the gear app) ? I would imagine that could do it. I have a oneplus one and don't notice a huge effect on mine.
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I didn't notice any difference at all with my battery life on my S6 Edge (Verizon) which was surprising because before I never turned on bluetooth - and not it is on 100% of the time.
After the latest VZW update to the phone, battery life has been crap (for my son's too, and he doesn't have a smartwatch/use bluetooth).
Espn app was killing my battery.
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Do you have location enabled (in the gear app) ? I would imagine that could do it. I have a oneplus one and don't notice a huge effect on mine.
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Cant find a GPS setting on the Gear app!
Any idea where its supposed to be?
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Cant find a GPS setting on the Gear app!
Any idea where its supposed to be?
Thx!
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Settings, individual app settings, weather, use location (is it enabled? Or refreshing too often?)
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Thx!
It was turned on. Hopefully that will make a difference!
After 7 hours of being off, it's made no difference to the phone's battery life. Google play services and Android system seem to consuming a fair chunk of battery (7% each approx), but that's about it.
Guess I'll have to factory reset the phone and start re-installing each app to see if something else is responsible..
I was having the opposite: my waych battery was getting killed. The fix was to uninstall the gear app in my phone and to a reset on the phone. After reinstalling everything now all is working fine and my battery life is great
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Yup, I can confirm that this works! Battery life much better now on the phone!
Some apps are poorly coded and misbehave with Bluetooth always on. My phone battery was draining quickly too after I got the watch cause now Bluetooth is always on. In the battery stats Gasbuddy never showed up but I could see that the phone was always awake and never went to sleep. After some googling I found out that gasbuddy can misbehave. I uninstalled gasbuddy app and it's back to normal.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Little button on back of watch?
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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.
So I got the s8+ two days ago and I gotta say, I'm not that impressed with the battery, my nexus 6p was more reliable.. Just got home from work and had ~17% left with 3.5h sot. This means that when I get home from work I'll have to charge my phone for half an hour atleast before I can go out and enjoy my spare time, I can't just go out straight from work
Anyone have any pointers?
Some key notes, no wifi at work (working within the government in Sweden is retarded)
And the 4g is pretty weak.
Brightness is around 50% and I have disabled bixby and 100 other services (package disabler)
Played games for like 1h
Some browsing, no video watching
Nobody called me during the say because I'm an asshole
That's pretty much it
Two days isn't really a good test to see what the battery life will be like. Especially since you are installing apps and setting up the phone.
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I suggest use a black theme to save battery, as AMOLED screens doesn't need much power producing black color.
Also in the bottom of Battery settings, there's "always sleeping apps". Add all apps here that you don't need running in the background.
Also disable mobile internet if not needed, or at least turn on data saver.
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Katt50 said:
Two days isn't really a good test to see what the battery life will be like. Especially since you are installing apps and setting up the phone.
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BratPAQ said:
I suggest use a black theme to save battery, as AMOLED screens doesn't need much power producing black color.
Also in the bottom of Battery settings, there's "always sleeping apps". Add all apps here that you don't need running in the background.
Also disable mobile internet if not needed, or at least turn on data saver.
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Yeah im happy both of you responded to me, I do realize that 2 days is way too soon to judge the battery, and I am not going to do so, you are both right and I did follow the advice you posted, got all the apps I don't need running in the background etc! Thanks guys, let's see if I end up with more %tomorrow after work
WOW! I wonder what's draining you so quickly? I'm getting right at 7hrs SOT with no WiFi and marginal cell service at work!
You must've disabled an app that keeps pinging the system. Try to enable all apps and go from there. You shouldn't have to disable anything. Just watch for resource hungry apps like Facebook or Snapchat
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WOW! I wonder what's draining you so quickly? I'm getting right at 7hrs SOT with no WiFi and marginal cell service at work!
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You must've disabled an app that keeps pinging the system. Try to enable all apps and go from there. You shouldn't have to disable anything. Just watch for resource hungry apps like Facebook or Snapchat
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Yeah im not enjoying this.. it's been 3 hours, barely used the phone and im down to 80% already (30 min sot)
I renabled everything in package disabler again, won't be using it untill people get more comfortable and researched in the subject of matter.
4g signal is pretty bad at work though, and these idiots dont have wifi lol. (getting like 1-2 bars)
Maybe it was package disabler causing the problem, if you disable something which something else relies on it might constantly try and connect to the disabled package causing battery draining
if you do continue to have a poor experience i definitely suggest using a pure black theme, This will boost your SOT buy a few hours minimum
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Maybe it was package disabler causing the problem, if you disable something which something else relies on it might constantly try and connect to the disabled package causing battery draining
if you do continue to have a poor experience i definitely suggest using a pure black theme, This will boost your SOT buy a few hours minimum
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I did re-enable all apps within package disabler again in the morning, im at 65% now thats 5h battery usage and 1.5h SOT.
How are people getting 8-9 hours SOT... HOW
also I am using a black theme atm, it's the "high contrast" on samsung theme store
I appreciate the help
You may have a dud. I'm coming from a 6p too and I usually have about 30% batter at the end of the day when I was shutting down right before leaving. I run a dark substratum theme with brightness at 35%. I get 6hrs but I stream video and game off and on.Give it a few days and if things don't improve try a new one.
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I did re-enable all apps within package disabler again in the morning, im at 65% now thats 5h battery usage and 1.5h SOT.
How are people getting 8-9 hours SOT... HOW
also I am using a black theme atm, it's the "high contrast" on samsung theme store
I appreciate the help
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Hey man. I had this same issue when i bought my phone. Apparently my phone wasn't going into deep sleep mode. Install an app called CPU spy and you'll be able to see if you're phone isn't going into deep sleep due to an app. If your phone is going into deep sleep but you still have battery drain like that. It could be a defective device. Btw the issue I had was facebook app. I disabled it and now I'm getting at least 8:30 hours sot.
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You may have a dud. I'm coming from a 6p too and I usually have about 30% batter at the end of the day when I was shutting down right before leaving. I run a dark substratum theme with brightness at 35%. I get 6hrs but I stream video and game off and on.Give it a few days and if things don't improve try a new one.
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Hey man. I had this same issue when i bought my phone. Apparently my phone wasn't going into deep sleep mode. Install an app called CPU spy and you'll be able to see if you're phone isn't going into deep sleep due to an app. If your phone is going into deep sleep but you still have battery drain like that. It could be a defective device. Btw the issue I had was facebook app. I disabled it and now I'm getting at least 8:30 hours sot.
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I'll look into that theme, thank you for the tip Vermicious!
I am going to install cpu spy, I do use facebook, i dont know why tbh, might actually disable it and might just use the messenger app whitch is the app i pretty much only use anyways (for social media)
I have verified that I can return the phone unlike my note 3 that I bought a couple of years ago (battery laster 4 hours first charge, wanted to return it but since i had peeled the plastic off they rejekted it lol, such dicks xD)
Other than the battery being a big off the device is absolutely incredible, I am happy I gave samsung another chance, (I had sworn to never use a samsung device again after the note3)
again, many thanks for taking your time to look into my issue!
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?
Governa said:
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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