Took my watch off today at 62% and just let it sit in my locker at work. Came back 6 hours later and it was dead dead. Turned on then turned right back off and said 0%. My GW3 was left not charging for days and it would be fine like it just kinda went to sleep. This thing died in hours. Anyone have similar experience or solutions?
When placed in locker (especially a steel locker), switch watch off or put in Airplane mode. The watch may have exhausted itself by constantly trying to connect. Especially if it is a LTE version.
Yes use Airplane mode, the constant trying to get a signal lock is one of the biggest battery drains on any device not just the watch.
I get all that, but it's just a BT version... And the thing doesn't die that fast wearing it.... Wouldn't it always be searching for signals? And why the difference between the 3 and 5? Tizen vs wear?
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Ok I have searched and not found anything like this yet so I am going to ask. I know the phone has battery problems all around for a lot of people. Mine seems to be fine when it is on. It can sit and idle powered on all day locked and stay at full charge. It runs about 10 hours with minimal use and maybe 8 hours with some data use and a few calls and texts. Now I am experiencing a wired problem. When I go to work we cannot have cell phones. I leave my phone in my locker and power it off. After my 12 hour shift is up at work I come back to the phone with a dead battery? What could be causing this? And has anyone else noticed this issue?
defective battery? pull the battery and see if it still does it. If it does, gotta be a defective battery.. if it doesn't do it when pulled, you're not shutting off the phone maybe?
Yesterday I tried leaving the battery out. I took the battery out and let it sit 12 hours and it still had full charge when I put it back in. When I go to work I long press on the power/lock button and choose Power off then I watch it shut down and it just dies before I come back. I wish I could watch it the whole time. Today I left the phone off for around 6 hours and came back and it was fine though. Maybe it gets turned on some how at work. I have no idea. Or when I go to power it on it is just the issue where the phone isn't reading battery % correctly and it just says 0%
Seems like a battery driver issue or a defective battery? definitely call t-mobile and check if it's the battery. I've had some issues as well, but not that bad.
Weird.
So the phone powers off after you turn the screen on and it won't come back on? Try putting the phone in airplane mode.
Also, I'm assuming you are running the stock roms?
Might also want to check into a battery monitor to see if any 1 thing is pulling it down.
I think it might just be the battery driver. Sounds like the phone is in suspend so it doesn't power off properly until the screen is turned on and is revived, updating the battery % status, seeing 0%, and turning off.
CM7 fixed the wonky battery issue a few nights ago. Right now, I think a current CM based rom is the best bet as it has most of the drivers fixed. I'ved used mine pretty heavily today, unplugged at 8am and I just got a 15% battery warning at 11:30pm. It will usually last until I go to bed at midnight but I might want to play with it some more.
My Z3 is fairly new to me, just got it on Friday. So far love the phone. Only problem is with charging... and battery life.
So far I'm not getting anywhere close to advertised battery life. I hardly used it at all yesterday and took it off charge around 11:00am from 100% and when I put it on charge at 1:00am it was at 23%. I had no phone calls, played a game for about 20 minutes, and did some facebook messaging in the afternoon for a little bit. Didn't watch no movies, didn't stream any media... very odd. It was paired with my Moto 360 all day however... could that kill the battery that fast? Stamina mode was not activated.
The biggest issue however has been charging. I turned the phone OFF when I put it on charge at 1:00am and this morning when I turned it on it still read 23%. When I plugged the charger in before I went down for bed the phone lit up saying it was connected and receiving power and the light turned orange. Same thing happened Friday night when I put it on charge, except for the phone was ON, and it dropped from 30% to 20% overnight while in airplane mode.
I used two different chargers both nights.
During the day the charger I used Friday night seemed to work fine as it charged it up from 8:00am till 11:00am Saturday morning. It's a Blackberry Playbook charger, so it puts out a lot more juice (don't have it next to me so don't know the spec), and it charged up my tablet just fine. The cable I used to charge it overnight last night is currently charging it as I type this. So why won't it charge overnight?
I had the same issue on my old Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo, but I resolved switching charger and plug.
Did you try changing plug?
Yes I've used three different cables
Might be a long shot, but check that your WiFi isn't on all the time, either when screen off and sleep mode, or always scanning and sending...WiFi advanced settings...that can cause rapid drain..also Sony products are very particular in charge mode, and will only charge fully and properly if using Sony chargers...best fit is to use charger supplied...had same issue with my S4, and Nexus 7..hope this helps
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My Z3 is fairly new to me, just got it on Friday. So far love the phone. Only problem is with charging... and battery life.
So far I'm not getting anywhere close to advertised battery life. I hardly used it at all yesterday and took it off charge around 11:00am from 100% and when I put it on charge at 1:00am it was at 23%. I had no phone calls, played a game for about 20 minutes, and did some facebook messaging in the afternoon for a little bit. Didn't watch no movies, didn't stream any media... very odd. It was paired with my Moto 360 all day however... could that kill the battery that fast? Stamina mode was not activated.
The biggest issue however has been charging. I turned the phone OFF when I put it on charge at 1:00am and this morning when I turned it on it still read 23%. When I plugged the charger in before I went down for bed the phone lit up saying it was connected and receiving power and the light turned orange. Same thing happened Friday night when I put it on charge, except for the phone was ON, and it dropped from 30% to 20% overnight while in airplane mode.
I used two different chargers both nights.
During the day the charger I used Friday night seemed to work fine as it charged it up from 8:00am till 11:00am Saturday morning. It's a Blackberry Playbook charger, so it puts out a lot more juice (don't have it next to me so don't know the spec), and it charged up my tablet just fine. The cable I used to charge it overnight last night is currently charging it as I type this. So why won't it charge overnight?
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Hey buddy, I have had the EXACT same problem.
I have watched tons of reviews for this phone on YouTube and users feedback on how great battery life is, and I have owned this phone for a week but I was struggling to make it to 4 1/2 hours of on screen time and the phone would take forever to charge. But just tonight, like literally a couple of hours ago, I noticed my phone charging was odd. Phone was charging till 99% then it would drop to 97% while still charging then go up to 98% then back down to 97% then back up to a 100% in all taking about 30 min. Now, I can tell, battery life seems to be much better. Not sure if the phone was calibrating itself but I have been using the phone heavily since I took it off charge nearly 3 hours ago and I have more than an hour of screen time with 86% left. Before I would be around 73% probably. So give it some time, try using the phone till it dies completely then recharge it and repeat the process 3-4 times, I think the battery will calibrate itself.
Edit: Also, I went to settings, power management and app power consumption and noticed that a couple of apps that I barely use are the ones using the most background data so I uninstalled them as well. But give it time, the phone will eventually go to normal and give you that insane battery life. Also use the oem USB cable and wall plug, I have been using a cheap 3rd party one.
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Why don't you try without pairing with the Moto 360. Check the battery life without pairing to your smartwatch for a day. We can at least exclude the culprit. IF its the phone, then get a replacement done.
yes, I'm going all day today without having the Moto 360 paired up. already after two hours off charge and hardly any on screen time and it's down to 85%. Not even my iphone 5s drained that fast and usually I was out of power by lunch on that thing (one of the reasons I grabbed the Z3)
I charged it off the factory charger last night and with the phone off and that seemed to work, it charged up nicely this morning.
We will see what happens.... seems like Lifelog draws a lot of power according to the battery stat meter, gonna uninstall that and see if that helps.
so the phone died off at 8:30 or so last night to 0%. from about 3:30-7:00 the phone was untouched, not paired to my watch, and wifi/bluetooth were turned off. It dropped from about 50% to 30% during that time. From about 8:00-8:30 I played a game to just kill it, when I started playing battery was at 21%
I had stamina mode on from 9:00am till 7:00pm yesterday too. This seems very strange to kill that fast.
Even this morning, took it off the charger, confirmed 100% charge, did my morning routine (without touching the phone) and even after 30min it dropped to 90% already.
There has to be something robbing power...
Lifelog is off. BBM is on. stamina mode only allows BBM and push email through. I made sure BeWeather is setup to only refresh on screen unlock.
the good news is... charging is working!
Just to make sure it isn't BBM i would suggest you don't allow it for stamina mode. What other apps have you installed? They might be draining too..
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Just to make sure it isn't BBM i would suggest you don't allow it for stamina mode. What other apps have you installed? They might be draining too..
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I'll shut BBM off for today and see what happens.
EDIT: you also asked what other apps I have installed...
allcast
adobe reader
android wear
angry birds transfomers
Rogers wireless bloatware
google calendar
beweather pro
cam scanner
google camera
chromecast
cinplex odeon
dopbox
edmonton journal
edmonton public library
facer
feedly
facebook
facebook messenger
google hangouts
kijiji
instagram
flickr
google fit
fuel buddy
golden hour
indigo books an dmusic
google maps
passwallet
adobe photoshop
edmonton oilers
quadrant standard
shazam
sleep like adroid
snapseed
snapchat
guitar tabs
ultimate guitar tools
swiftkey
tapatalk
bank app
scoremobile
xbox one smartglass
various games
Yesterday, 2.5hr screen on time, had the screen dimness at aprox 20% all day, no phone calls, no gaming, no bluetooth aside from from my 20min commute to and from work, wifi at home from 6:00-7:30. got from 6:50am till 8:30pm until the phone died. Was on stamina mode.
Took it off the charger this morning and in 20 minutes lost 10%.
I'm ordering a replacement phone as this seems very high.
I'm seeing people use their phone pretty close to max settings without stamina mode in the battery thread I was reading yesterday (and I will probably take this conversation there), and they are getting much longer life it seems than I am.
I've been having issues on my Bell Canada Z3 as well (I've had it for 3 weeks). Battery Stats was blaming it on GMail (25%). I wiped GMail's data and cache today, so I'm hoping that will help. I also noticed a couple of times this week that my phone was running very slow and starting to get hot. In that scenario /usr/sdcard seemed to be the culprit. Got out of that by unmounting and remounting the sdcard. Seems really unstable in general, I hope Lollipop fixes things.
So I just got Mine today and after I charged it I set it up and went on my way to work when after about 2 hours every seemed fine was getting notifications and calls added some music it from my phone. And then it vibrated and I lookd down and it was off. And now will not power on. I cant believe that the battery could have drained that fast in a little over 2 hours. I dont have the charger with me at work to make sure. But is there anyway you guys think it could have drained that fast. Is there away to maybe try and reset it.
I had an incident with the watch. Went on swiming pool and barbecue all day long. The water lock mode was on.
After some hours the watch turned off.
Then I started to charge it and for some reason it was dead. (red light blinking). I was able to see micro particles of water inside the back of the watch.
I placed it on rice and next day it turned on. But all sensors were dead.
Reset and nothing.
Then I left it turned off at the charger for like 12 hours and I can back to life.
In the middle of the process the update came along. I tried to install it hoping to get sensors back.
After everything the battery last about 10 or 12 hours.
Even when in "battery save mode" it wont last longer.
When I charge it, when it hits 100% instead of green light, sometimes it keep charging for a while.
I 'm not sure if the battery needs calibration or if it is something else.
I tried to *#0228# at dial and I can see battery information. But I dont have parameter to compare
What to do?
Sending to samsung is not an option. I bought it in another country and they don't offer services.
Have you fix it?
I am totally in love with my GW4 (Classic 46mm Model) as it's my first smartwatch but there is still one thing that bothers me, the unreasonable battery drain overnight. I charged up my watch last night, put the watch on my desk, came back in the morning and saw about 10% battery drain in 8 hours! That's insane considering the fact that I've disabled everything and even enabled battery saver, I thought after all these years I can finally get a full fledged Wear OS smartwatch and be happy with the battery but Wear OS is still the same OS as it was.
I've got the same issue. I thought it was the sleep tracking but I was wrong
And the funny fact is that the battery life is reasonably good when you actually using the watch, but as soon as you put it away it starts to drink juice weirdly, looks like there is no deep sleep kicking in no matter what, even disabling everything and enabling airplane mode.
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I am totally in love with my GW4 as it's my first smartwatch but there is still one thing that bothers me, the unreasonable battery drain overnight. I charged up my watch last night, put the watch on my desk, came back in the morning and saw about 10% battery drain in 8 hours! That's insane considering the fact that I've disabled everything and even enabled battery saver, I thought after all these years I can finally get a full fledged Wear OS smartwatch and be happy with the battery but Wear OS is still the same OS as it was.
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Which version/size do you have? How many times have you fully charged the watch? I have Classic 46mm. My battery drains 4 -6 % during the night. I have watch on my wrist when I sleep. I always put watch into bedtime mode before I go to bed. I don't disable anything or put on power saving mode. I think the bedtime mode simply turns off notifications and stops watch face from automatically turning on.
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Which version/size do you have? How many times have you fully charged the watch? I have Classic 46mm. My battery drains 4 -6 % during the night. I have watch on my wrist when I sleep. I always put watch into bedtime mode before I go to bed. I don't disable anything or put on power saving mode. I think the bedtime mode simply turns off notifications and stops watch face from automatically turning on.
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Oh sorry for not mentioning it, It's the same as yours classic 46mm. I have the watch for almost 1 week now but I always charge it whenever it gets to 50% so it's a half cycle charge. Do you think I should let it fully discharged and recharge it for a full cycle?
I have the non classic 44mm LTE and I have always used bedtime mode and I've tried nothing all the way to disabling everything and enabling battery saver and still lose quite a bit at night
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Oh sorry for not mentioning it, It's the same as yours classic 46mm. I have the watch for almost 1 week now but I always charge it whenever it gets to 50% so it's a half cycle charge. Do you think I should let it fully discharged and recharge it for a full cycle?
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It seems to me that the battery lasted longer after doing some full cycle charges but I could be wrong. I definitely have seen improvement in battery life since the first few days I had watch. Not sure what it is.
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I've got the same issue. I thought it was the sleep tracking but I was wrong
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How do you know it was not sleep tracking?
For me, I went to bed yesterday with almost 100% battery. The overnight drain was 15%, flight mode enabled, good night mode enabled and spO2 while sleeping on.
My watch is 40mm, BT modell.
Tonight I will try only the automatic good night mode.
What about Bluetooth when my phone is in airplane mode? Will it consume more battery searching for the device? My wifi will also be disabled in the night...
I am seeing this same thing
13% drain with airplane mode, good night mode, and battery saver modes on.
13-14% drain with battery saver mode and good night mode on.
This is for an 8 hour window.
Using the watch during the day, the battery does seem to last longer and I don't see the drain, even when using it to track workouts and such.
Last night my battery used 11%. I'm not sure what the difference is. I know I have been in the 4-6% range in the past but I always do not pay attention. Possibly related to how fully charged the watch is. Why do we think 10% is bad? I did a search on-line and I have to say that 10% seems very good compared to some other watches. The reality for me as that I'm typically getting 2 days plus on a charge unless I'm heavy on GPS. Currently I'm at 50% and I charged the watch 1 day and 9 hours ago. I came from a GW1 which had significantly more battery time but I'm still very happy with the GW4.
My drain is 20% overnight - despite watch being in bedtime mode.
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I am totally in love with my GW4 (Classic 46mm Model) as it's my first smartwatch but there is still one thing that bothers me, the unreasonable battery drain overnight. I charged up my watch last night, put the watch on my desk, came back in the morning and saw about 10% battery drain in 8 hours! That's insane considering the fact that I've disabled everything and even enabled battery saver, I thought after all these years I can finally get a full fledged Wear OS smartwatch and be happy with the battery but Wear OS is still the same OS as it was.
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If your watch is on your desk and turned on, it's constantly searching for your wrist. If you are not wearing it, turn it off.
I have the same issue about battery drain.
I lose between 15-20% each night with everything off (no SpO2, no snoring, etc)
I have the LTE 46 classic model
But based on people and comments I'm guessing the issue comes because I'm not using a Samsung phone and bed time is not synced with the watch and is still "online" all the night
Geez I thought my 3-5 percent drain was horrible. I have the 44mm Bluetooth only model. The first night it drained horrible but I had every sensor on. I noticed I got much better battery after disabling location. I've had mine paired since 7am this morning (it's now 3pm) responding to texts, wifi on and using Spotify on it at 75 percent brightness and it's at 79 percent now. Maybe I got lucky or something? The only sensors I have are the step counter as well as heart rate when resting more than 10 minutes and I never like to use battery saver mode on mine
Second night and I got about 20% drain overnight with everything turned on. I got a similar battery consumption like adj998. Spotify on first place.
I will try do disable GPS tonight and see if anything changes, but I guess it's a normal behaviour. One thing I could try is to turn the spO2 sensor off.
Read somewhere that unlocked ADB is the culprit. So I have unlocked it.
Let me watch how it helps my 20% overnight drain.
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Read somewhere that unlocked ADB is the culprit. So I have unlocked it.
Let me watch how it helps my 20% overnight drain.
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Interesting. I'm betting that this drain is related to certain apps as well. When I did my post yesterday about the 11% drain the previous night I noticed the Altimeter app was listed at 4.5%. I immediately uninstalled this app. I had used it once the previous day and apparently it was still using battery. Results: much battery time last night. I would say 3%. In fact, when I looked earlier this morning I still had 41% battery. Yesterday morning I was at 50%. 25 hours and 9% battery used. I have not been very active these last couple days (long days at work). Still putting in about 5,000 steps a day. I have notifications on (gmail, texts, meesenger), use bedtime mode, spO2 sensor off, and do not have watch always on.
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Interesting. I'm betting that this drain is related to certain apps as well. When I did my post yesterday about the 11% drain the previous night I noticed the Altimeter app was listed at 4.5%. I immediately uninstalled this app. I had used it once the previous day and apparently it was still using battery. Results: much battery time last night. I would say 3%. In fact, when I looked earlier this morning I still had 41% battery. Yesterday morning I was at 50%. 25 hours and 9% battery used. I have not been very active these last couple days (long days at work). Still putting in about 5,000 steps a day. I have notifications on (gmail, texts, meesenger), use bedtime mode, spO2 sensor off, and do not have watch always on. View attachment 5405809
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Read on Reddit that altimeter drain was a known issue, in earlier models as well.
With people that are having excessive battery drain on their watch: are there any apps which are listed in Wear app -> Watch settings -> Battery that seem like a high percent of battery usage?
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With people that are having excessive battery drain on their watch: are there any apps which are listed in Wear app -> Watch settings -> Battery that seem like a high percent of battery usage?
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Actually yeah, for me it's Spotify. I installed it and connected it to my account but did not use it...