My friend, upgraded his S3 for Nexus 5, leaving me with his mpj extended battery. I do have the S3 but have tucked in drawer for months and ran out of battery. Pop in the new and it turn on but jump right into safe mode. I rebooted the phone and it worked perfectly so far except I lost all login details and customizations. Wandering what may cause this?
The battery should be fine but can't understand the apps as if it had done a reset...
Hi, i have a Gear 1 and a Note 2... Gear Manager got updated on my phone 3 days ago (to v1.7.041404, precedent version was v1.6.132701).
After this change, I noticed my battery was going down much faster: at the end of the day 30 to 40% of the total consumption was due to "SAproviders" service...
After having a look with Better Battery Stats, I saw that this was essentially due to a partial wakelock from "SASVoiceProvider". Not good.
I don't know much but I know this was not happening with v1.6.132701, so I tried to reinstall v1.6.132701 SASVoiceProvider.apk on the phone (and not the full Gear Manager).
I got it from this link :
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/e7h23e12rzesi/Gear_Manager#73uzc5f0mgzxr
(-->go into "1.6.132701/Extracted" directory)
from the xda thread :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2573200
(thanks by the way :laugh
The result: no more wakelock, no more battery drain... and normal behavior for the rest.
Have you guys seen this new Gear Manager causing heavy battery drain, or not ?
I installed this same version of gear manager and had a "saproviders has stopped" message during alarms. Had to freeze this app in Titanium backup but I am not sure what service this app provides to the gear and if I will miss something without it. I will try your solution, installing the previous version of this app. If I solve the problem with that, I will let you know updating this post. Thanks anyway.
What happened: the gear manager asked for a new update and it goes to 2.014041404. I have a Galaxy Gear, not the Gear 2. Everything now is working OK. Good battery life also.
Hi, new to Gear. Are you talking about battery drain on the phone or the Gear?
On Null 23, I am lost 16% on 10 hours idle over night without use.
Okay so I've put Tizen on, via Kies. It works great but wtf is going on with the battery life?
It claims to give more days, and mine is draining like you wouldn't believe.
I unplugged off a full charge this morning, at 11am. It's now 8.30 pm (9½ hours) and the battery is at 54%. All that's installed is the default apps plus 2 additional watches.
Please someone help me, this has effectively made my watch completely lame if I have to charge it every day
jonboyuk said:
Okay so I've put Tizen on, via Kies. It works great but wtf is going on with the battery life?
It claims to give more days, and mine is draining like you wouldn't believe.
I unplugged off a full charge this morning, at 11am. It's now 8.30 pm (9½ hours) and the battery is at 54%. All that's installed is the default apps plus 2 additional watches.
Please someone help me, this has effectively made my watch completely lame if I have to charge it every day
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Mine was a bit wonky right after I updated. Do a hard reset via recovery. When you reconnect it to Gear Manager don't check restore. You'll have to rebuild it but it should fix your battery issues.
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Mine was a bit wonky right after I updated. Do a hard reset via recovery. When you reconnect it to Gear Manager don't check restore. You'll have to rebuild it but it should fix your battery issues.
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That's a good suggestion, thank you. I'll give it a go.
That's done it. 2 hours of use this morning and it's still reporting 100%, not 73%! Ha.
Cheers
Same problem here. Had i to uninstall Gear Manager too from the smartphone?
Or is it enough to hard reset the watch?
thanks
Is that with motion detection on or off?
I upgraded to Tizen and motion detection seems to be a bigger drain than on Null 23. Even when the watch is not on my wrist and sitting motionless on the desk.
motion detection is off
Same problem here. First updated via Kies and gear lasted for about 12 hours only. Resets and reinstall of GM didn't help. Decided to flash the gear with the new NF1, reseted after install, reinstall the GM again and first change lasted only about 13 hours. I will give it another day or two and then going to ask for replacement, this is crap.
WatchStyler & Motion on (Actually either/or) are both battery killers still as per Android - same with Tizen.
no motion, no watchStyle. Yesterday i did a hard reset, without restore flag, same problem.
20% in 5h
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 ?
Regards,
Darknessiv
Thanks. It's seems to work great for me
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bzh_info said:
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.
replacement battery
Hello,
were where you able to order a replacement battery. I have been unable to find one. Any help please and thank you.
JasW said:
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.
Thanks Thanks Thanks
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 )
Galaxy Gear S battery drain
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.
jdenver130 said:
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.
hurdlejade said:
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
Galaxy Gear Live Incorrect Time
My Gear Live will not sync the proper time from my Galaxy S6. It worked fine for the first couple of weeks I owned it, but the battery ran out on me yesterday, and this morning, after charging, I noticed the watch was 5 minutes slow compared to the time on the phone, internet, etc. I tried manually adjusting the time on my phone, but the 5 minutes off continued. I could change the time zone on my phone and the watch would change to the correct hour, but the minutes continued to remain 5 minutes off. It's driving me nuts. I did a factory reset on the watch but the 5 minutes off still remains. I've tried numerous watch faces and pushed them out to the watch, but no luck. It's updated to the newest versions of Google Play Services 7.8.99 and Android OS 5.1.1.
Any ideas?