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My watch is fully charged at the beginning of the day, 5:00 am, and 12 hours later it is down to 39%. I checked my notifications and did use the internal music player when working out for 30 minutes today. So was just wondering what everyone is experiencing with battery life.
Think I can get 24 hours with the screen always on and wake up gesture set on. 2 days with wake up gesture on and always on screen set off.
70%@24 hours with wake-up gesture, moderate heart rate monitoring, NFC and Wifi turned off, and lots of notifications.
Wonder why my battery is draining so fast...
I'm at 70% after an 8 hour work day. Wake up gesture on, wifi, bluetooth on.
After a day I get home with 33%. By bed time I am closer to 28-29%. No way could I get 2 days. This is with brightness low, although ambient still working. Gesture on, wifi & bluetooth on. This is the biggest disappointment about the phone.
Can I get through a day? yes. Can I get the claimed battery life? no. I do not get many notifications (maybe 15 emails and 10 texts a day on it).
Currently at 65%. Last plugged in was yesterday morning at 6am. WiFi off since its always near my phone. Wake up gesture on. Brightness at 6. I get a good amount of notifications too. This can easily last me 2 work days.
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Currently at 65%. Last plugged in was yesterday morning at 6am. WiFi off since its always near my phone. Wake up gesture on. Brightness at 6. I get a good amount of notifications too. This can easily last me 2 work days.
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Mine was at 62% last night so two days won't be a problem. Since it's new I'm still playing around with it and using more battery than is necessary. Put my wife's photo on the watch face just to see if I could. I did shut off WiFi since my phone is always nearby and NFC since that doesn't really work yet and I'm not sure I would use it anyway. I also turned off the turn on with notifications. Accidentally put it in a waterfall pond this morning doing some maintenance and am glad I don't have to worry about that aspect of it.
What phone are you using your Gear S2 with?
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What phone are you using your Gear S2 with?
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S6
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What phone are you using your Gear S2 with?
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Galaxy SIII
With brightness at 7, all connections on (WiFi, BT, NFC), screen always on, and receiving notifications, I finished yesterday with about 20%. The watch was taken off the charger at 6:45am and put down around midnight.
Today, I made one change and turned off WiFi. Watch off from the cradle at 6:45am and right now at 10:36pm, I have 31% left.
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Last night I was at 33% again (10:00 pm). I turned off the functions wifi/bluetooth/nfc and this morning I was at 20%. I am running it down today to see if that will help condition the battery (100-0 then full charge) and if it adjusts how the percent remaining is displayed.
I seem to remember that batteries should be usually kept between 20% and 80% with an occasional full cycle to help keep them conditioned. I'm no expert though so this may or may not be true.
29 hrs and it shut down. Light use of the device.
-30 email/text notifications.
-15 hrm tests.
-screen brightness of 5.
-22hrs with wifi/bluetooth/nfc on,
-8hrs with it off (during sleep).
61% left last night. 60% left seems to be my average. NFC off, WiFi off, watch on with notifications off, heart rate frequent. Basic watch-face with white background and date. Notifications from ESPN and texts.
Ending 18 hour days with about 35% in the six days I've had it. Brightness @3. BT and wifi on. Nfc off. Always on screen on. Tilt to wake, and heart rate off.
Decided to try the always on feature today and ended the day at 31% instead of my usual 60% so this feature uses a lot of battery. Going back to not always on.
With the s2 classic, im at 38% with light usage, a few notifications, wifi off, nfc off, wake up gesture on and 50hrs and 22 mins off the charger.
Edit: brightness on 7.
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Varies a bit from what I can see. I took it off charging dock at 6:30am. At 3:10pm, I have 82% left. Always On screen disabled, brightness at 6, WiFi, BT, NFC on. First day, it was worse.
That is extremely weird. Just bought mine. Charged it fully through night.
- Picked it up at 06:15 @ 100%
- Wifi on, NFC, on, HRM Frequent.
- Brightness 7
- Screen always on
- Wake up on notification
- Wake up gesture on
Battery at 14:00 = 5%....
is this normal ??
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.
I got this watch in November 3+ years ago and still wear it daily. My battery life when I got it was an impressive 2+ days with the systems battery prediction also considered. After 3+ years, the battery seems to have got even better than it was when it was new. The last two charge cycles gave actual usage at 2 days, 16 hours with 19 hours remaining on non-battery saver mode estimation. I have screenshots going back to when i got it and even posted them on fb from time to time to chronicle them. I havent toned town my usage either, i still make calls on it on speakerphone as frequently as i ever had, still check as many messages, yada yada, and the battery life still persists. What is everyone else's experience?
I've had mine almost 3 years. I have the rotate your wrist & double tap to wakt up disabled, but BT is on all the time, along with heart rate check every 10 minutes. I usually get 3+ days battery life, and, I wear mine to bed to track sleep. The only time it is off, is between 5pm when I get home, and 10 pm when I go to bed.
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
Hello there,
This is my 1st post, and I'd like to contribute by posting this small sheet that I've been making, basically tracking battery life, what was it used that time, when it was charged and etc...
Would like to know if you guys had similar, better or worse experience with it, and your thoughts about it too.
Cheers.
Link to spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19z0IfP1fsEgGIFE5ygbfQuWps7HrlbdNd8uXyIZKefg/edit#gid=0
I use the GW4 classic 46mm. To improve battery life, I have wifi off, bluetooth on all the time, rotate wrist to wake up off, tap to wake off. I wear my watch to bed, and it isn't turned off until I get home from work, typically around 5:30 pm to 6:00pm, then back on around 10-11 pm for bed.
I'm getting 3 1/2 to 4 days of battery life, using it like that.
I was getting around 1-2 days at most until I turned tap to wake and rotate wrist to wake off.
I'm in a repair business, turning a screwdriver all the time, which was hampering battery life.
p51d007 said:
I use the GW4 classic 46mm. To improve battery life, I have wifi off, bluetooth on all the time, rotate wrist to wake up off, tap to wake off. I wear my watch to bed, and it isn't turned off until I get home from work, typically around 5:30 pm to 6:00pm, then back on around 10-11 pm for bed.
I'm getting 3 1/2 to 4 days of battery life, using it like that.
I was getting around 1-2 days at most until I turned tap to wake and rotate wrist to wake off.
I'm in a repair business, turning a screwdriver all the time, which was hampering battery life.
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So what I'm gathering you aren't using sleep tracking, how about some HB measurement and stress?
and btw, will try to disable rotate wrist and wifi, and will write down the results in same sheet
I use GW4 classic 42mm LTE version. I turn wifi off, bluetooth on, esim auto switch on when phone is not connected, in SS Health I set HR every 10min, stress set to manual. For the watch to wake I turn on every option (wrist, tap and rotate bezel). After work at around 6pm I turn on airplane mode, and I don't wear it while sleeping.
With all of that my GW4 lasted for around 1.5 to 2 days
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So what I'm gathering you aren't using sleep tracking, how about some HB measurement and stress?
and btw, will try to disable rotate wrist and wifi, and will write down the results in same sheet
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I use the heart rate monitor and sleep tracking. I had the gear watch frontier and I started tracking my sleep & heart rate at night. I noticed my heart rate was spiking 2-3 times at night in the 90bpm range. On a yearly check up with my doctor, I mentioned it. Had a sleep study done. Mild to moderate sleep apnea. Been on a CPAP for 3 years. Now, my sleep heart rate stays in the low 50 to upper 50 range, and I sleep through the night if I don't have too much liquid in the evening.
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I use the heart rate monitor and sleep tracking. I had the gear watch frontier and I started tracking my sleep & heart rate at night. I noticed my heart rate was spiking 2-3 times at night in the 90bpm range. On a yearly check up with my doctor, I mentioned it. Had a sleep study done. Mild to moderate sleep apnea. Been on a CPAP for 3 years. Now, my sleep heart rate stays in the low 50 to upper 50 range, and I sleep through the night if I don't have too much liquid in the evening.
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Really nice to hear that these gadgets actually benefit you