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Perhaps this will help someone else who has the same problem as me...I can not claim to have solved the problem myself. I got some wonderful information from this thread in the Gear 2 forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2758364
So, if you're experiencing battery drain in excess of 15-20% per hour, that would pretty much make your device completely unusable as you'd drain the battery in about 5 hours as mine was doing. I tried everything, including even replacing my battery thinking it was a bad battery. To see if you're having the same issue, try disabling your Bluetooth connection on the Gear. If you notice you're battery doesn't drain nearly as quickly, you might have the same problem that I had. Here's how I fixed it...
I saw that according to the thread linked above, the problem is most likely the "goproviders" app. I tried clearing cache and clearing data through the "Application Manager" in settings on the Gear. That didn't help. I also investigated the "saproviders" app. Tried clearing cache and data in Application Manager as well. Nothing there either.
I went back into application manager and compeltely uninstalled both goproviders as well as saproviders. I did nothing else. The Gear Manager application notices that these applications are missing and will automatically re-download and re-install them. I'm guessing my original download must have somehow been corrupted. Once these new versions were downloaded and reinstalled, I rebooted my Gear and then re-enabled Bluetooth. Now, my mattery drain using the Tizen Mod 3.0 ROM is roughly 2% every 1.5 hours with bluetooth on, brightness set to 2, and motion enabled.
Just as an FYI, I know the linked thread addresses non-Samsung phones but this fixed my Gear's connectivity to my Note 2 using the SkyNoteAir G2 ROM.
I hope someone else finds this useful.
Galaxy Gear V700 + Samsung S4 i9505
I suffer from the same problem as you. Have you fixed it ?
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Darknessiv
Thanks. It's seems to work great for me
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Thanks. It's seems to work great for me
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I thought that fixed it for me at first, but it rather quickly went back to an 8% (or sometimes more) per hour battery drain. I tried all the other recommended fixes -- older versions of Gear Manager, wiping from Recovery, and various combinations, with no joy. Finally, after a few days of not using my Gear, I noticed several hours after turning it on one morning that it had never connected to my Note 4. Yet its battery life was still draining at 8% or so per hour. So, at least in my case, it doesn't appear to have anything to do with Gear Manager -- its either Tizen itself or (more likely) some preinstalled app that is sucking up the battery. I'm probably going to end up rooting Tizen and uninstalling a few things unless someone has a better idea. I can't imagine the stock Tizen install on a disconnected Gear would drain the battery like that, and not do it on everyone's, disconnected or no.
nobody has a battery monitoring application for Tizen? it would be a good thing ... I also tried everything and my gear starts to lose 9-10% per hour after a little while ... For info : I'm with a note 2 on DN4, it's was the same on 4.4.2...
I rooted and tried uninstalling a couple of things -- S Health, the pedometer. Same high rate of drain, and I can't think of any other app that might diminish battery life to this extent. I've now flashed the TizenMod 3.0 ROM, but I still have the same rate of drain (even though that ROM has a battery saving script built in).
So if it's not Gear Manager, and it's (apparently) not an app, it's probably something deeper because the only constant is the NF1 FW (the TizenMod ROM is based on that). I see from the samsung-updates.com firmware archive that there are a couple of newer FW versions -- NK1, released in November, and OA2, released last month. The available OA2 versions, however, are for Kazakhstan, Hungary, Germany, and Slovakia (plus the mysterious "SIO" region). Although I'm in the US, there's an NK1 version for the UK, so I'm going to try loading that and see what happens.
EDIT: updating to the NK1 version for the UK (which otherwise works fine) still results in high battery drain. At this point I'm wondering if Occam's Razor applies here -- maybe, at least in my case, it's just the battery itself.
FURTHER EDIT 2 days later: It's got to be the battery. I noticed that even when turned off, the battery is still draining. It comes off the charger at 100%, I don't turn it on, and less than an hour later it's at 91% -- without ever having been turned on.
YET FURTHER EDIT: It indeed was the battery. Replacing it brought new life to my Gear. Yay. Unfortunately, the battery cost $40 shipped (and required slightly more effort than, say, removing the back cover on a Note 4), but what are you going to do.
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Hello,
were where you able to order a replacement battery. I have been unable to find one. Any help please and thank you.
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I rooted and tried uninstalling a couple of things -- S Health, the pedometer. Same high rate of drain, and I can't think of any other app that might diminish battery life to this extent. I've now flashed the TizenMod 3.0 ROM, but I still have the same rate of drain (even though that ROM has a battery saving script built in).
So if it's not Gear Manager, and it's (apparently) not an app, it's probably something deeper because the only constant is the NF1 FW (the TizenMod ROM is based on that). I see from the samsung-updates.com firmware archive that there are a couple of newer FW versions -- NK1, released in November, and OA2, released last month. The available OA2 versions, however, are for Kazakhstan, Hungary, Germany, and Slovakia (plus the mysterious "SIO" region). Although I'm in the US, there's an NK1 version for the UK, so I'm going to try loading that and see what happens.
EDIT: updating to the NK1 version for the UK (which otherwise works fine) still results in high battery drain. At this point I'm wondering if Occam's Razor applies here -- maybe, at least in my case, it's just the battery itself.
FURTHER EDIT 2 days later: It's got to be the battery. I noticed that even when turned off, the battery is still draining. It comes off the charger at 100%, I don't turn it on, and less than an hour later it's at 91% -- without ever having been turned on.
YET FURTHER EDIT: It indeed was the battery. Replacing it brought new life to my Gear. Yay. Unfortunately, the battery cost $40 shipped (and required slightly more effort than, say, removing the back cover on a Note 4), but what are you going to do.[/QUOTE
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Guys, I went to Vodafone store (they have Samsung service) and I complained there about battery life. They sent my watch for repair. 5 days later I got it with motherboard and battery replaced! No need to do it yourself. Watch has 2 years warranty.
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Same issue, same thing - it was the battery. Unfortunately, my battery had swollen up causing the watch to turn off every time i put it on my wrist. Opened it up to see if it was a bad connection, and found my battery had swolen up to nearly twice it's normal size. At least I got warning before it decided to vent with fire onto my wrist.
Found the battery via ebay, should be here in a few days. (here's the ebay item if anyone needs it: http://www.ebay.com/itm/331347265389 )
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I was loosing 15% per hour on my Galaxy Gear S and for the life of couldn't figure it out. All the literature said it would last for 2 days. I even asked the tech guys at Best Buy. They couldn't help me. However, I think I have stumbled upon the answer. I typically dont have the GPS locator service on my samsung note 3 phone turned on. When its on, it drains my phone battery faster than usual. However, when I turn it on, my Galaxy Gear S Smart Watch battery improves dramatically. The phone battery went from losing 15% per hour to about 3 to 4 percent per hour.
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I was loosing 15% per hour on my Galaxy Gear S and for the life of couldn't figure it out. All the literature said it would last for 2 days. I even asked the tech guys at Best Buy. They couldn't help me. However, I think I have stumbled upon the answer. I typically dont have the GPS locator service on my samsung note 3 phone turned on. When its on, it drains my phone battery faster than usual. However, when I turn it on, my Galaxy Gear S Smart Watch battery improves dramatically. The phone battery went from losing 15% per hour to about 3 to 4 percent per hour.
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Was having similar issues. Noticed that my screen was separating from the metal bezel and decided to open it up. The battery was swolen, good thing it didn't catch fire on my arm.
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Guys, I went to Vodafone store (they have Samsung service) and I complained there about battery life. They sent my watch for repair. 5 days later I got it with motherboard and battery replaced! No need to do it yourself. Watch has 2 years warranty.
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I went to Sonera (Finnish carrier) store few months ago when the battery life of my Gear dropped to around 17 hours even when turned off and they said that the warranty for the battery is 6 months so I would have to pay to have it changed. Preordered Gear S2 the same day but I'm still waiting for it
Anybody else have crazy battery drain after all the updates and the sync process? I thought the both the round LG watches were supposed to have relatively killer battery life compared to the 360, but day 1, I was at 13% after only 8 hours off the charger (screen = always on). I've just done a full reset and resync, so we'll see how day 2 goes.
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Anybody else have crazy battery drain after all the updates and the sync process? I thought the both the round LG watches were supposed to have relatively killer battery life compared to the 360, but day 1, I was at 13% after only 8 hours off the charger (screen = always on). I've just done a full reset and resync, so we'll see how day 2 goes.
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Try to lower your brightness level. It should help.
What is your current setting?
At brightness level 2 aftet a full day I was at 44% on day 3...
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At brightness level 2 aftet a full day I was at 44% on day 3...
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Yeah... something's definitely not right. I'm at 11% after about 8 hours of use. And that's with screen off and brightness set to 2.
Can you tell what your other settings are? Did you turn off WiFI or leave it on "Auto'? What apps have you installed?
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Yeah... something's definitely not right. I'm at 11% after about 8 hours of use. And that's with screen off and brightness set to 2.
Can you tell what your other settings are? Did you turn off WiFI or leave it on "Auto'? What apps have you installed?
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I have been off the chargers since 6:45am and am at 51% right now ((4:01pm). Brightness at 2, wifi on, watchface maker, and slumber for android. I have not done anything else special. Maybe try a factory reset and see if that helps
Good Luck,
Aaron
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Yeah... something's definitely not right. I'm at 11% after about 8 hours of use. And that's with screen off and brightness set to 2.
Can you tell what your other settings are? Did you turn off WiFI or leave it on "Auto'? What apps have you installed?
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Any news Leo? Is it better?
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It is indeed! It took a 2nd factory reset, but it seems to be performing as reasonable levels now. After about 14 hours of charger, Always On screen, WiFi on Auto and pretty heavy notification day (about 200 emails and IMs), I'm just now at 49% battery. That's more like it.
I'm pretty much convinced that a system process or two can get "stuck" when doing a version upgrade in many cases. Doing a factory reset post update seems to always fix the issue.
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It is indeed! It took a 2nd factory reset, but it seems to be performing as reasonable levels now. After about 14 hours of charger, Always On screen, WiFi on Auto and pretty heavy notification day (about 200 emails and IMs), I'm just now at 49% battery. That's more like it.
I'm pretty much convinced that a system process or two can get "stuck" when doing a version upgrade in many cases. Doing a factory reset post update seems to always fix the issue.
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I'm having similar results as your first run. Was below 15% before I left work. I'm going to try to reset as well.
I had the same exact issue. The first full day I had the watch the battery completely drained in about 8 hours. All my friends at work laughed their asses off on my new watch
Well I went home charged the watch and did a full reset. Today I had the watch from 8am to about 9pm and the battery had 58% left... so definitely reset after all the updates are completed.
The reset itself took almost 30 minutes... is that normal?
Its amazing how quickly the watch charges... in about 15-20 min I had a full charge... I gather its a small battery but still nice to see that.
Yep. It took about 30 minutes for the full reset, including the time it took for all the apps to resync. It's been rock solid for the last 3 days since.
Does anyone know if the navigation battery drain has been fixed in 5.1.1? In 5.0.2 most or all of us are seeing the watch go dead after about a three hour drive.
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Does anyone know if the navigation battery drain has been fixed in 5.1.1? In 5.0.2 most or all of us are seeing the watch go dead after about a three hour drive.
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Never noticed that. Mine pretty much for the 5.1.1 update immediately after I first got it connected. You didn't get prompted?
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Never noticed that. Mine pretty much for the 5.1.1 update immediately after I first got it connected. You didn't get prompted?
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I still have a Moto 360 on 5.0.2. The navigation battery drain issue is just one more reason I'm thinking of getting the Urbane.
Ah! Sorry... Missed that part. Sounds like 5.1.1 will probably drop before or during Google I/O, so it may be worth sticking it out to see if it helps.
Just a data point. I purchased at the opening gun which isn't long but does add some concern to fact that I've had two random battery drain events during the period. Both times were after the update and I simply recharged and the phone was back to normal battery without any reset. That is with zero apps or market faces installed or used which implies that there is something hanging the watch in the stock firmware.
At the end of the day ( 7am to 10pm) my battery gets down to about 10-15% and thats with the screen off, wifi off and brightness at level 1
I tried a factory reset and now with the same settings i get to around 35%, still an improvement but not the greatest! Any ideas on why this happening / any fixes or settings to turn off? Im thinking of doing a second factory reset as someone said above helped.
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At the end of the day ( 7am to 10pm) my battery gets down to about 10-15% and thats with the screen off, wifi off and brightness at level 1
I tried a factory reset and now with the same settings i get to around 35%, still an improvement but not the greatest! Any ideas on why this happening / any fixes or settings to turn off? Im thinking of doing a second factory reset as someone said above helped.
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Honestly I think that's within the range of acceptability. I can be anywhere from 30-50% after a normal day, depending on usage. I'm convinced that the folks that get 2 full days or more on a single charge basically turn everything off and use mostly stock apps and watchfaces.
Last night, I went from about 7 AM - 1 AM and had about 25% left (always on, brightness 1, wifi auto, step tracking on, etc.). Put it theater mode for sleep tracking app to work, and by 6:45 AM I was at 21%. That's about what I'd expect from these watches at this point.
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Honestly I think that's within the range of acceptability. I can be anywhere from 30-50% after a normal day, depending on usage. I'm convinced that the folks that get 2 full days or more on a single charge basically turn everything off and use mostly stock apps and watchfaces.
Last night, I went from about 7 AM - 1 AM and had about 25% left (always on, brightness 1, wifi auto, step tracking on, etc.). Put it theater mode for sleep tracking app to work, and by 6:45 AM I was at 21%. That's about what I'd expect from these watches at this point.
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Yeah I also agree with that, its just that loads of people are saying there getting at least 2 days of use. Was wondering if there was something i was missing!
I didn't get it yet but interested to see what everyone is getting? Better? Worse than 1.5?
About the same for me this far. Time will tell
So far.....isn't looking to promising. I'll have to give it a full day to test it out. I got the update late this afternoon, so tomorrow should be a full day of using the new OS. We'll see.
Exactly the same here. For sure not worse.
Hmmm, you have a lot more things running then I do. All I have in that list are: Android OS and Android System.
My watch is pretty much idle so maybe that's why.
Well, depends the watch face, and surely how you use it.
For me it's really only a notifications center, with a quite dark face, so I think I don't use it so actively no matter what. Just my finding is that it's same as before at the least, so you should also see the same kind of battery usage as you did before.
No difference after settle. It's just that right after the update watch is doing a lot of stuff in the background thus draining battery fast.
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No difference after settle. It's just that right after the update watch is doing a lot of stuff in the background thus draining battery fast.
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Same here.
So far so good, 3 days with 2.0
I've had the update for a few weeks and have seen consistently worse battery life with seemingly the same settings. I used to get a day and a half without charging if I didn't work (the motions of working light the face up more often), but now I can barely make it a day, and can barely make it til dark if I work.
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I've had the update for a few weeks and have seen consistently worse battery life with seemingly the same settings. I used to get a day and a half without charging if I didn't work (the motions of working light the face up more often), but now I can barely make it a day, and can barely make it til dark if I work.
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I totally agree. With the exact same settings and the same watch face, I get less than half the battery life I got with 1.5.
just got mine last night. initially, the battery drained fairly quick. then, I took the 2.0 update. after 7 hours, down to 74% (~3%/hour) with moderate use.
WiFi on
Tilt to wake on
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i also uninstalled ebay wear, stubhub, and zillow from the watch.
As an experiment, I froze ZenWatch Manager on my phone (using TBu) and battery life was so good I thought the meter had just stopped reporting for a while. The only problem was, the weather and phone battery complications on my watch face stopped updating. Sacrificing core functionality for more battery life isn't acceptable, though, so I defrosted the app. Drain came back kinda bad after that. But the takeaway is that the issue may be on the phone. Sometime this weekend, I'm going to not only factory reset the watch, but clear data for Android Wear, Wear data in Google Play Services, and data for ZenWatch Manager, then uninstall Wear and ZenWatch Manager, before reinstalling and pairing the watch back to the phone. I'm hoping this helps, but I suspect it won't help as much as factory resetting the phone along with the watch (I'm waiting for an Oreo build of my ROM to do that, though.).
Having over a month AW2.0 battery life is defiantly worst than was at 1.5.
Before i could get 1.5 day and now not getting more than 1 day.
The standby consumption is the worst.
Even last month i have disable always on completely and still worst than with 1.5 that had it on.
Really bad bad result.
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As an experiment, I froze ZenWatch Manager on my phone (using TBu) and battery life was so good I thought the meter had just stopped reporting for a while. The only problem was, the weather and phone battery complications on my watch face stopped updating. Sacrificing core functionality for more battery life isn't acceptable, though, so I defrosted the app. Drain came back kinda bad after that. But the takeaway is that the issue may be on the phone. Sometime this weekend, I'm going to not only factory reset the watch, but clear data for Android Wear, Wear data in Google Play Services, and data for ZenWatch Manager, then uninstall Wear and ZenWatch Manager, before reinstalling and pairing the watch back to the phone. I'm hoping this helps, but I suspect it won't help as much as factory resetting the phone along with the watch (I'm waiting for an Oreo build of my ROM to do that, though.).
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So I tried this and there seems to be no improvement.
All,
Title says it all. I have noticed that since I went from Oreo beta to OTA, the watch will just shut off after about 5-6 hours of usage and will not come back on until it is put on the charger for a few minutes. Usually the watch battery is % is variable. I have never had issues with this watch before. It is the unlocked (W280A) version. I have not tried factory reset yet, but that is the next step. I wear this watch infrequently (wear my Gear S3 and rotate other AW watches), so it's not a show stopper. When trying to reboot into recovery to wipe cache, sometimes I would get a menu, but no choices to wipe cache, and other times, the dead Android with the triangle coming out of his chest. WTF?!!!
Anybody!? I am on OWR1.170919.018, AW2.7.0.178645119, Google Play Services 11.9.51 (530-177350961) Security Patch October 1, 2017.
This is driving me insane!!!
Wich batt % ? this watch have a high drain often > 8% by hour and worse on Wear 8.0.0
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Wich batt % ? this watch have a high drain often > 8% by hour and worse on Wear 8.0.0
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Battery % is variable. It has even done this at 100%.
LG has issued me a RMA and instructions to return the watch for repair since it is still under manufacturer's warranty. Mod -- you may close this thread.
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All,
Title says it all. I have noticed that since I went from Oreo beta to OTA, the watch will just shut off after about 5-6 hours of usage and will not come back on until it is put on the charger for a few minutes. Usually the watch battery is % is variable. I have never had issues with this watch before. It is the unlocked (W280A) version. I have not tried factory reset yet, but that is the next step. I wear this watch infrequently (wear my Gear S3 and rotate other AW watches), so it's not a show stopper. When trying to reboot into recovery to wipe cache, sometimes I would get a menu, but no choices to wipe cache, and other times, the dead Android with the triangle coming out of his chest. WTF?!!!
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I know this is old, but maybe it will help someone else. In order to get to the option to wipe the cache you will need to hold down the center button on the side and tap the top button when the "dead Android with the triangle coming out of his chest" comes up. This will put you in recovery mode. From here you can do a factory wipe or clear cache.
Unfortunately, I am getting this as well. Exact same symptoms.
Sometimes it will shut down at over 50% battery...other times it'll run down to about 10-15%, and shut down when I wake the screen.
No amount of clear-cache or factory resets seem to resolve this issue. It seems like time and wear/tear is finally catching up with these watches.
I also have these same problems from time to time.
I have worn my watch everyday for the last 16 months.
As I use my watch as my personal phone with SIM card, when it happens, very annoying!
There is nothing new on the market with LTE functionality to update it though, that I am aware of.
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I also have these same problems from time to time.
I have worn my watch everyday for the last 16 months.
As I use my watch as my personal phone with SIM card, when it happens, very annoying!
There is nothing new on the market with LTE functionality to update it though, that I am aware of.
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Charge cycle for Lithium battery are about 300 (from 0% to 100% : ex 600 cycles from 50% to 100%) so in 16 months I think you reached the max charge cycle and battery is dead ?
Battery not dead, still get a full day, just sometimes it shuts down as described above.
Following the same issue on reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/lgwatchsport/comments/90qv8a/watch_dies_and_wont_boot_unless_its_on_the_charger/
I am having the same issue with my Watch. I love this watch and it is completely frustrating that this is happening. Doesn't seem like it will get fixed either since this devices is coming close to EOL. If anyone has a fix let me know!
Mine did it again today, shut down wouldn't complete boot-up.
When home put it on the charger was at 21% battery.
Becoming unreliable, really want an alternative with LTE.
I understand the new Galaxy smartwatch LTE is being sold by EE in the UK when available, just don't want Tizen or EE!
....yet again, answered a call on LTE, 2 seconds later watch immediately shuts down and won't complete reboot. Put on charger, battery at 29%.
But yesterday the watch did 8am till 11pm with LTE switched on.
Presently it is totally unreliable.
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....yet again, answered a call on LTE, 2 seconds later watch immediately shuts down and won't complete reboot. Put on charger, battery at 29%.
But yesterday the watch did 8am till 11pm with LTE switched on.
Presently it is totally unreliable.
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This still been a problem I've put the watch into boot mode and ran the watch down until it has turned off with no reserve to even attempt to turn back on, then fully charged her back up to 100%.
See if this makes any difference.
Out of interest I measure the current draw while charging from 0 to 100%, 650 mah.
The battery is not that big but I guess there will quite a loss in transfer from the charger to the watch through induction charging.
How to fix this issue ?? i ran out of warranty already
There is no way around for this. The only thing I found a bit worked was to remove the Auto Brightness and disconnect Wifi, NFC and other connectivity except Bluetooth. That has helped me from draining the battery within 3 hours to 8 hours. Regarding the sudden power off and not switching on till you put on the charger, It has been happening me for the past 5 months (And I am out of warranty) and latest I had this problem was today morning and the battery was at 96%.
Edit: Contacted Google Support and LG Support and the solution they gave me was spend about 65-85$ plus 19.95$ for assessing plus shipping charges to get it repaired from LG.
same here. i suspect it is the always on screen. since disabling hasn't happened
I'll give the always on screen 'off' a try, I'm not hopeful.
Still had the problem with the latest wear update too.
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I'll give the always on screen 'off' a try, I'm not hopeful.
Still had the problem with the latest wear update too.
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Hope, just received a call on my watch, after 2 minutes talking watch suddenly shuts down and will not reboot.
Put on charger, 46% battery charge.
Love the watch, love the latest wear update, totally unreliable at the moment with this major issue.
My Gear S2 operates as normal as it should, however even at idle, the battery drains rapidly. Once the unit is completely dead, I then dock it and it will say 60% charge, which I know is wrong given that the unit will not power on undocked, meaning the battery had been completely depleted. Unit charges normally but I think a bug is preventing it from reaching actual 100% since it believes 0% to be 60%. Is there a way I can fix this without tearing apart the unit or replacing the battery?
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I'm having the exact same issue, did a factory reset today updated all apps still same. I use a basic watch face, turn brightness to 2, everything off except Bluetooth and can get about a day of use . Is anyone else having this issue and has a solution?
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So update on this issue, (on the Gear App on the phones most updated version) I went to the basic watch face in gray scale, then turned off all notifications, under gear connection, I unchecked sync wi-fi profiles, and under about gear I unchecked marketing information. I'm not sure which of those if any made the difference but at the end of day one 16 hours of use I was at 70%. So on the second day I tried a colorful watch face with animations, and 16 hours in I was at 63%. So one of those changes I made may have fixed my issue.
I did uninstall and reinstall the app on the phone, as well as reset the watch itself, neither seemed to work until I did the above changes. Hopefully that will help someone, or at least help to find out what is causing the massive battery drain.
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So update on this issue, (on the Gear App on the phones most updated version) I went to the basic watch face in gray scale, then turned off all notifications, under gear connection, I unchecked sync wi-fi profiles, and under about gear I unchecked marketing information. I'm not sure which of those if any made the difference but at the end of day one 16 hours of use I was at 70%. So on the second day I tried a colorful watch face with animations, and 16 hours in I was at 63%. So one of those changes I made may have fixed my issue.
I did uninstall and reinstall the app on the phone, as well as reset the watch itself, neither seemed to work until I did the above changes. Hopefully that will help someone, or at least help to find out what is causing the massive battery drain.
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With all that I have done with my gear, most I was able to get was about 10 hours. Though today it did to something odd. It died completely like it normally does, (it dies anywhere between 3-10% ish, and when it does die, its completely dead) so I placed it on the dock. Two minutes later I check and it reports 34%, "thats odd" I think to myself so I undock it and power it up thinking I would get no more than 5 minutes battery life on it since it couldnt possibly have that much charge in two minutes. I also expected it to report a low percentage but it didnt. I placed it back on my wrist and it continues to run about 10 minutes later down to 25% and still going! I find it odd. My current leakage issue I think remains and might be why the watch doesnt last as long. I might end up getting a new battery and see. My top battery user: watch faces at ~45%, even if the face hardly came on, and I am using one with a custom background that is mostly pure black.
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That does sound pretty weird. I had a custom watch face installed "Mr Time" and started with a brand new install and I'm slowly adding things back in.
I would suggest a fresh install of the phone app, and the watch, using the classic face black and white. If you can get similar results to what I have then one by one start customizing it. I tried a lot of things to get it to work, over several days and that's what worked for me. I even uninstalled all of the watch faces I want using from the app"i felt that Mr time was still running in the background, even though it probably wasn't.
Good Luck