Hi,
I have posted a similar question on the T-Mobile Note 3 page, but since the Gear S has similar problems, I figured I post here as well.
Ever since getting the Lollipop update on my unrooted T-Mobile Note 3, both the Note 3 and the Gear S have had battery life issues. I never had a problem before, the Gear S would last at least until 10pm every day, now it usually dies around 3 or 4 pm., without any change in behavior on my part.
The Gear S update failed the first time, but now I have the latest version installed on the Gear without changes in battery life.
On the Note 3 I can check battery usage for the phone and it appears that most days, bluetooth appears to be a top battery drain. I don't recall seeing that on top before the lollipop update, but could be wrong.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance...
I also found same battery drain issue on my Galaxy Note3 and Gear 1 connection.
Since I had updated to Lollipop, both Gear and Note3 never go to deep sleep mode and keep awake status, and they consume their battery much than before. It is quite obvious that there are some defects on their BT connection. If I disconnect them, Note3 can goes to deep sleep mode and battery life of note3 becomes similar with Kitkat.
So what did you do? Is there a solution? I am eligible for an upgrade, but was hoping to wait until the note 5 comes out....
My Note 2 (unlocked international v) is still on Kitkat, but something (I suspect the last Gear Mgr update) is draining my Gear S battery like crazy as well, and the Gear S gets unbearably hot. Remotely connected is causing the same.
At the moment, I only connect the Gear S to synch S Health data every few days, but use the Gear s in stand-alone mode for the time being.
With BT off, and Data and Location Services on at all times, it now lasts much longer than it ever did when BT connected to my Note.
I am only writing this in case it's not Lollipop but your Gear Mgr version itself.
I use both with T-mo sim cards, but the Hear S is the (unlocked) ATT version.
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Hello there. I have a Galaxy S2 i9100 for almost 2 years now, and it's been working properly since until yesterday.
As I just bought a Galaxy S4, I am now using the i9100 with a voice-only SIM card (from work), so data connection is disabled (I have Juice Defender managing its wi-fi, since I only use it at home at night). During the day, every connection stays disconnected, with the phone only being used for some work calls. That way, the phone generally ends the day with over 70% battery.
But yesterday, all of a sudden, in the beginning of the evening it "cried" about having 15% battery. I found it quite weird, as I had barely used the phone the whole day long. Barely an hour after, when I got home, it had only 1% when I went to plug it on the charger.
It spent the night charging, and now this morning, after barely 1h20 on the battery without any real usage the phone was already at 89%, while the S4 was still at 99%.
I took some screenshots of the Android built-in battery usage page (which I forgot to look at yesterday), and I see compared to the S4, Android System is draining quite a lot (24% on the i9100 x 2% on the i9505). The same happens to Android OS (25% on the i9100 x 13% on the i9505). On the other hand, the standby is smaller on the i9100 (9% x 25% on the i9505).
I did absolutely nothing different with the phone yesterday. In fact, as it's Sunday and I do not receive phone calls on Sundays, I barely used it the whole day long, so I cannot understand why all of a sudden it began draining battery like this.
Any help on narrowing down the possibilities would be welcome.
Thanks!!!
If you're using the original battery that came with the phone/one you bought around that time, I'd be buying a new one.
Indeed I am using the original battery (although I have a replacement one, which I'll test tomorrow).
And even though you might be right on acquiring a new one, it doesn't explain why all of a sudden it had such a huge drop on performance from one day to the other (and not something that happened day after day).
I wonder, if you experienced the same. I got the Gear Fit manager und Gear Fit firmware update 2 days ago. Since that, you can literary watch the battery life go down extremely fast. With a full loaded battery my Gear Fit works now hardly 2 days! That is really bad,
I already rebooted it 2x but no change. I also recognized, that it wakes up much more often since this update was installed. Has anyone off you the same experience?
Hello,
i have also the last firmware, but my battery is good , it last 4-5 days+. I use only message and call notification, music control, and no wake up option + black screen
Can you specifically say the firmware version?
My device is fine, charge every two days.
I don't have any problem with battery on NE5 (3-4 days).
The apk just got an update in Denmark. Nothing for the Gear S unfortunately. Here is the official changelog:
This update will include Gear S2 3G model -specific features additions, performance improvements and bug fixes.
Ever since the update my battery life on 3G remote connection has gone down the drain. I use to finish the whole day remote connected with 65% left. Now for the past few days it drops to about 10%. Anyone else note something similar? Also did a reset but nothing.
cydiamante said:
Ever since the update my battery life on 3G remote connection has gone down the drain. I use to finish the whole day remote connected with 65% left. Now for the past few days it drops to about 10%. Anyone else note something similar? Also did a reset but nothing.
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Sorry dood. Only use it with Bluetooth, so I cant help you with that issue ?
i dont have that problem im using its oft, and my battery holds max 3 day, the one thing what they can improve is the sleep mode
cydiamante said:
Ever since the update my battery life on 3G remote connection has gone down the drain. I use to finish the whole day remote connected with 65% left. Now for the past few days it drops to about 10%. Anyone else note something similar? Also did a reset but nothing.
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I'm on a Gear S on T-Mobile, and since the update my battery life is also plunged. I thought it was the GPS module, but even after I turned that off, after eight hours of very, very light usage I had gone from 100% to 28%. I don't know what Samsung did with this update, but it mauled the battery life. :crying:
I recently got one of these, and had a couple questions related to battery life.
My phone is a OnePlus One running the latest COS 13.0.1 build (S254) and better life on the phone is significantly degraded since installing the Gear Fit Manager and S Health apps. I have the band set to only sync with S Health manually, and had generally been keeping the band connected via Bluetooth. I have a feeling the always connected via BT is what's killing my phone battery, but was curious as to what others are doing? Do you keep you band connected via BT or do you just rely on the Remote Wi-Fi connectivity? It appears that it only syncs with S Health via BT, so does anyone just connect it via BT once or twice a day to sync and leave it on Wi-Fi the rest of the time?
Just curious for any tips to save the battery on my phone. Battery life on the Fit2 itself has been pretty good so far, lasting a couple of days per charge which certainly meets my needs.
Any thoughts or tips would be appreciated!
Depend what you want ?
I use like an activity tracker, so no wifi never, and BT just 1 hour by day to sync data and update weather and daily schedule. I open SHealth on phone when I want to sync health data. So 23H / 24H with BT disabled on Fit2.
If you want act like a smartwach for notification keep BT ON all the day and phone near. Wifi is just for special case, wifi drain much battery, so just if you really can not have your phone with you.
Anyone else running this combination? My battery life was amazing until I got this watch. I can be on my phone now and just watch the percentage drop. Any tips to slow the drain down?
I have a gear s3 also and noticed battery drain, mainly the phone will not enter deep sleep hardly at all when the gear is connected and gear apps installed as well. I had samsung health installed as well.
Recently uninstalled health and all gear related stuff and now phone deep sleeps again nicely.
Have you figured out any workaround yet?
I have not figured out a workaround. It's definitely the watch causing it though. I turned the watch off one night and battery life went back to normal. I also have the Samsung Health app running. Only solution I have found is I charge the phone much more often than I used to, while at work. I love the watch and not parting with it.
rx7boy22 said:
I have a gear s3 also and noticed battery drain, mainly the phone will not enter deep sleep hardly at all when the gear is connected and gear apps installed as well. I had samsung health installed as well.
Recently uninstalled health and all gear related stuff and now phone deep sleeps again nicely.
Have you figured out any workaround yet?
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interesting. I noticed the exact opposite. It seems my watch is now draining faster than before. the phone seems like it has the same capacity but the watch dies within 7 hrs with always on. I spent a few days messing with it but even shutting every connection off it hasn't changed. maybe the watch's battery just went bad? oh well. forward we go.. to the next trial.
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interesting. I noticed the exact opposite. It seems my watch is now draining faster than before. the phone seems like it has the same capacity but the watch dies within 7 hrs with always on. I spent a few days messing with it but even shutting every connection off it hasn't changed. maybe the watch's battery just went bad? oh well. forward we go.. to the next trial.
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I'd say that's your watch battery. My watch battery is amazing. After a full day, it's still in the 50s when I put it on charge around 10pm.. In fact, I have never seen the low battery warning since I've had it.
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I'd say that's your watch battery. My watch battery is amazing. After a full day, it's still in the 50s when I put it on charge around 10pm.. In fact, I have never seen the low battery warning since I've had it.
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perhaps. I thought of that as well in trying to eliminate the problem. I have a request to send to samsung to replace the battery under warranty so let's see if that fixes it. It's just the timing of having great battery a few weeks ago with the nexus 6p to crapping out with the v30 was a strange coincidence. and btw.. go boys... that's all I have to say.