Just received an update for my Gear Fit 2 today. and the battery is about to die after less than 6 hours of usage other than overnight sleep. And by usage, I mean strapped to my wrist as I drove to work, walked up 2 flights of stairs, and sat at desk for a few hours. Typically I wear the device for about 14-16 hours a day, throw it on the charger for about an hour and a half before I go to bed to top it off (usually about 70% or so when I put it on the charger). It will have 100% charge when I go to bed, and in the morning will be around 97% or so, falling to around 70% by about 22:00.
Has anyone else received this update and had any battery issues? I realize the update process would have likely used a few %, but my Fit2 is literally at 8% and it's not even noon yet. I was shocked when I got the alert to turn on power saving. Hoping this is an isolated glitch and will be OK tomorrow after I charge this bad boy back up.
And just to followup, after being in power saving mode for roughly 30 minutes, it just died. From 8% to nothing, while in power saving mode, in a half hour.
This happened to me yesterday after I just installed the update, it went from 75% to 13% in just 4 hrs. (I must say I had debugging and Wi-Fi on during that time as I was testing some watchfaces) I just charged it this morning, and it seems to be fine, again.
Well, after charging the initial quick discharge, I charged it fully and all has been fine for a few days now, so must have been a weird fluke. Odd, but not the end of the world.
I found that my fit 2 can last 2 days max with wifi off after update
I got same battery issue too
I had the same issue, AND it started havingHorizontal lines across the face, three to be exact. I believe the watch itself has a display defect, as I have found dozens of similar reports. I returned mine to Target. Thank goodness for the Red Card return policy is all I have to say. I have some armorgear shields and a leather watch band if anyone needs them LOL Considering getting the old gear fit and using some of the alternative software.
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I recently exchanged a new 3vo after having some dust issues under the screen. This new one is pretty good with keeping dust out but there is a problem with draining the battery even when it's a sleep.
It's been off the charger for about 3 hours after hitting 100% and it's down to 92% after sending a few texts and sleeping throughout most of the 3 hours.
I'm getting worried there's something draining the battery, or if the unit itself is having issues going into sleep mode.
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I recently exchanged a new 3vo after having some dust issues under the screen. This new one is pretty good with keeping dust out but there is a problem with draining the battery even when it's a sleep.
It's been off the charger for about 3 hours after hitting 100% and it's down to 92% after sending a few texts and sleeping throughout most of the 3 hours.
I'm getting worried there's something draining the battery, or if the unit itself is having issues going into sleep mode.
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Did you check your uptime/awake time? I usually get 18+ hours of light to moderate use of my phone, I mean, there isnt much to do with the phone because I cant flash stuff yet. I have had two instances, which were odd. I put the phone on nightstand at 100% and after 6 hours my phone completely drained and shut down. Had this happen twice. Cant reproduce it, but I'm sure it'll happen again.
Yeah I checked my awake time and then let it sleep for about a minute. It took about 20-30 seconds to fully stop the awake time after the minute passed. There was an instance where it seemed to not sleep at all.
I don't know if it's supposed to do that.
That can't be right, surely? I know a lot of people swear by the initial eight hour or overnight charge cycle but I've never done it with any of my devices, and I've had quite a few. Anyway, picked up a Z2 this morning, used if for about an hour just to set up my Google account as install a few vital apps. Started charging it at 14% (from roughly 50% out of the box) and five hours later it was at 60% (with a further 2 hours to go until 100% according to the battery monitor).
The shop had closed I bought it from but I will bring it straight back in the morning. So, just in case I make a clown out of myself, the seven hour chrage has to mean something isn't right? My iPad Air didn't take that long, nor does my 17" Vaio.
The first few charging cycles will take longer than usual. It should sort itself out within a week. If it hasn't then I'd think about returning it.
Mine was the same when new.
Now I'm on 2h15 for a full charge.
If you look a bit more at the percentage, you'll notice that is is quite quick until about 85% and it slows down after, the last percent taking the longest.
Picked up a brand new replacement today. Started charging the battery after it had dropped to 4%
130 minutes untill 100% says the battery monitor app I've installed :highfive:
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I've owned the z2 for a year and a week. Unfortunately my warranty is up. The phone worked great this whole time except the past day I dropped it at work. Picked it up, no damage but the phone was off. I had to hold the power button and volume up to get it on. Since then the phone will discharge in about 3-4 hours with zero use where as the day before it would last over a day. After charging it for 2 hours, it maybe goes up 25%. It runs 58-65 degrees in safe mode. And idles around 48-53 degrees. So now after the drop, it runs hot, discharges quick and takes forever to charge. No updates were done so I can rule that out. I was thinking about opening it up and getting a new battery, not sure if that would be the problem. Any ideas?
In the past, my Gear S has given me amazing battery life. I was getting (with light-to-average use) around 1.5-2 days per charge, on really light use I got 2.5-3 days!
Now I struggle to get 1 long day...
Here was my Gear's Day:
got up at 9:15, took it off the charger
at 9:30 my SGN4's alarm went off so the Gear notified me and alarmed, I shut it off after a few seconds.
Morning: checked the time a few times (probably 5, max 10)
Lunch: set the alarm on my gear, alarm went off, I turned it off after probably 5-10 seconds
Afternoon: checked the time another 5-10 times.
Tonight: couple skype notifications (8 total) and 1 eBay notification
2am: 20% battery
17 hours of light useage to almost completely drain the battery.
Previously I would use my gear to remote-control the music on my phone or my PC, surf the net on it some, use the flashlight (screen to max brightness for upto a couple minutes) and make long calls (upto 2 hours) and still ahve a good 40% or more at night, sometimes as much as 80% (as I said it lasted roughly 1.5-3 days)
Anyone have any ideas what's going on? This has been happening for a couple days now. Suggestions? (and yes, I have done a soft-reset)
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In the past, my Gear S has given me amazing battery life. I was getting (with light-to-average use) around 1.5-2 days per charge, on really light use I got 2.5-3 days!
Now I struggle to get 1 long day...
Here was my Gear's Day:
got up at 9:15, took it off the charger
at 9:30 my SGN4's alarm went off so the Gear notified me and alarmed, I shut it off after a few seconds.
Morning: checked the time a few times (probably 5, max 10)
Lunch: set the alarm on my gear, alarm went off, I turned it off after probably 5-10 seconds
Afternoon: checked the time another 5-10 times.
Tonight: couple skype notifications (8 total) and 1 eBay notification
2am: 20% battery
17 hours of light useage to almost completely drain the battery.
Previously I would use my gear to remote-control the music on my phone or my PC, surf the net on it some, use the flashlight (screen to max brightness for upto a couple minutes) and make long calls (upto 2 hours) and still ahve a good 40% or more at night, sometimes as much as 80% (as I said it lasted roughly 1.5-3 days)
Anyone have any ideas what's going on? This has been happening for a couple days now. Suggestions? (and yes, I have done a soft-reset)
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Yeah, that sounds pretty bad. I had that problem once and a reset fixed it. If you already tried that then you might want to try a complete reset along with odin flashing the stock firmware.
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Ashton_Durkhun said:
In the past, my Gear S has given me amazing battery life. I was getting (with light-to-average use) around 1.5-2 days per charge, on really light use I got 2.5-3 days!
Now I struggle to get 1 long day...
Here was my Gear's Day:
got up at 9:15, took it off the charger
at 9:30 my SGN4's alarm went off so the Gear notified me and alarmed, I shut it off after a few seconds.
Morning: checked the time a few times (probably 5, max 10)
Lunch: set the alarm on my gear, alarm went off, I turned it off after probably 5-10 seconds
Afternoon: checked the time another 5-10 times.
Tonight: couple skype notifications (8 total) and 1 eBay notification
2am: 20% battery
17 hours of light useage to almost completely drain the battery.
Previously I would use my gear to remote-control the music on my phone or my PC, surf the net on it some, use the flashlight (screen to max brightness for upto a couple minutes) and make long calls (upto 2 hours) and still ahve a good 40% or more at night, sometimes as much as 80% (as I said it lasted roughly 1.5-3 days)
Anyone have any ideas what's going on? This has been happening for a couple days now. Suggestions? (and yes, I have done a soft-reset)
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Just curious, reading between the lines it looks like you leave it on charge all night. My experience with leaving things charging all night is not good, I know people can argue all day about the tech capabilities of modern day charging , but, no system is 100% perfect 100% of the time, and if anything is going to go a wry, it seems to bring it to a head and some times rather quickly, by all night charge or different/higher capacity chargers, and this watch doesn't take long to charge.
The software upgrade one time on my gs1, caused it to backwards drain immediately after full charge was reached, if it was still left on charge.
With your watch , you could try, draining it fully at the evening leaving it for an half hour, then charging it only till its full, with its own charger then pull it strait out. A couple of full drains/100% charge and disconnect cycles with its own charger might do it.
Forgive me if I've misread your words so nothing here would apply.
Ps I've been tempted to use my tab s rapid charge but the power of the watches unit is quite low so I'm stocking with its own power rating. Good luck
Wich watchface ?
Example : WatchStyler -> 5% by hour
Original Samsung Analog face with eco mode -> 2% by hour (and sometime 1.6%)
Keep an app in background, ex SportStopwatch -> 8% by hour....
Well, it works now. I'm still not sure what caused it though (especially since I'm careful to use the "close all apps" at night and whenever I think of it) However, I do have several somewhat-intensive programs loaded that could have been triggered like Zensou (sp?) Youtube player (though no video was loaded that I'm sure of) as well as Opera Mini. I also have Gear Remote (controls PC though a mated app on my phone) . Any could have triggered since they're all on my homescreen (using the Launcher Face in 8-button mode)
I've been charging using a cheep $10 eBay charger (bought two and one broke within a week so I opened it up and from the looks of it, it literally just turns traces direct from Power +/- and Data +/- on the USB to the Watch, absolutely nothing else in there. I've only used the charger that came with my gear (or my PC's data connection while loading up media)
Charging was overnight and sometimes longer, I'll try charging it less time next time I notice trouble again just in case (though so far not seen a difference in my experiences, usually both methods drop from 100% to ~97 percent in ~2 hours)
One other thing I noticed was I started getting a "SIM not Provisioned" error (apparently my H2O service expired and they didn't remind me) but my thoughts are that it would have no effect on the battery life since I'm in bluetooth mode 99% of the time
Thanks everyone!
What advantage do I have with a stockroom ?
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What advantage do I have with a stockroom ?
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Keep clothes in.
So, I'm not sure what is happening - my phone battery is all over the place.
It started about a week ago - I'd see my phone battery at let's say 51%. We go out - take perhaps 2-3 pics, and my battery is down to 2%. Mind you - I haven't used the phone until I took it out to take the pics. Data was turned on, but no GPS or Bluetooth, no phone calls, nothing. From 51% to 2% in a matter of about 3 minutes or so. Then it dies - I plug it into the charger and it shows 26%. It charges upto 28%, we get out of the car and I unplug and take the phone with me.
When we get back in the car, plug it back in and it shows 74%. Doesn't change from 74 for a good 15mins and then goes up to 76% by the time I get home about an hour later.
Restart the phone at the 76% and within the first 10minutes it's dropped to 38%.
This has been the pattern, give or take, the last week now. I have no idea what's going and why it's happening.
I have not installed any new apps in the last month, and the phone is not rooted (G925I).
I have also tried to let the phone charge to 100% once it's died and then within 3-4 hours, the battery is dead on minimal usage.
I am not using the charger that came with the phone - am on travel and have a smaller travel charger, but this has never been an issue with the same phone before.
Any and all help is very much appreciated.
Thank you in advance!
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So, I'm not sure what is happening - my phone battery is all over the place.
It started about a week ago - I'd see my phone battery at let's say 51%. We go out - take perhaps 2-3 pics, and my battery is down to 2%. Mind you - I haven't used the phone until I took it out to take the pics. Data was turned on, but no GPS or Bluetooth, no phone calls, nothing. From 51% to 2% in a matter of about 3 minutes or so. Then it dies - I plug it into the charger and it shows 26%. It charges upto 28%, we get out of the car and I unplug and take the phone with me.
When we get back in the car, plug it back in and it shows 74%. Doesn't change from 74 for a good 15mins and then goes up to 76% by the time I get home about an hour later.
Restart the phone at the 76% and within the first 10minutes it's dropped to 38%.
This has been the pattern, give or take, the last week now. I have no idea what's going and why it's happening.
I have not installed any new apps in the last month, and the phone is not rooted (G925I).
I have also tried to let the phone charge to 100% once it's died and then within 3-4 hours, the battery is dead on minimal usage.
I am not using the charger that came with the phone - am on travel and have a smaller travel charger, but this has never been an issue with the same phone before.
Any and all help is very much appreciated.
Thank you in advance!
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You should probably use the samsung warranty because that is not normal
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Same thing happened to me yesterday. I used tap tap shortcut to launch camera and shot few pics, videos. And then after maybe an hour without using my phone (no data, no gps) i looked at my phone and it had 1% battery left then it shut off. When i got home i plugged charger and after 10 minutes battery was 65%.
As for my situation I guess it's related with camera. I didn't exit camera app, just locked my phone using power button while camera was open and this happened. It's the first time that i'm encountering this, so it's hard to tell. Btw i'm using xtrestolilte 2.4.
I got the same kind of issues. My battery is crazy, I let it with Wi-Fi only, no Sync, no download and it lose 7% in an hour.
Sometimes I may just be on twitter and it looses about 2% every 5 minutes which is CRAZY !
Also, last time it turned off because I had 0%. I tried rebooting and it was at 10% xD.
Samsung did a terrible job with the S6, I don't know what it is exactly but it's weird.