Battery After Update

[rchapman80]

Anyone notice that when your Gear updates the battery goes to crap for a few days? It always seems to normalize after that but I barely get through a day after an update when I can usually get through almost 2 days.

In fact when I updated my gear yesterday, it drained the the battery while updating.

 

[Rukbat]

Any phone or watch, when it updates, starts downloading a lot having to do with the update. That uses a lot of battery. It's normal.

 

[gottria]

Any phone or watch, when it updates, starts downloading a lot having to do with the update. That uses a lot of battery. It's normal.

How long have you had the watch? I had the same issue when it went to tizen 3002 and I could never recover battery. Ready to send it to Samsung but out of warranty. Ordered a new battery and now I'm back to 3 days of battery life. I couldn't make it past 8 hours and it was dead.

 

[colecoyates]

How long have you had the watch? I had the same issue when it went to tizen 3002 and I could never recover battery. Ready to send it to Samsung but out of warranty. Ordered a new battery and now I'm back to 3 days of battery life. I couldn't make it past 8 hours and it was dead.

Where did you get the battery from if you don't mind me asking.. and is it good the the frontier

 

[touchthatpad106]

I am also curious where you got your new battery, how much you paid for it, and how you got it replaced and how much did that cost? Thanks!

 

[BicycleDave]

I've tried everything I could think of and it still only lasts about 12 hours. I've worn this thing for eleven months but I'm going back to my old Timex. This Gear S3 is just too annoying in too many ways.

 

[11B1P]

I've tried everything I could think of and it still only lasts about 12 hours. I've worn this thing for eleven months but I'm going back to my old Timex. This Gear S3 is just too annoying in too many ways.

Not saying this is your particular issue, but watch faces from Facer seem to eat the battery worse than the ones from the Galaxy store.

 

[boufa]

Ok, I had terrible battery, and I too was blaming it on the updates. However, I changed the battery yesterday, and WOW... like a new unit. Sure many have not owned it too long, but smaller batteries fail more noticably, and you don't know how long it was in a box at the store before you bought it.

Instructions are on youtube, and I got the battery from Rounded.com. Including the small screwdriver set I had to buy, it ran about $45 and took about 15 minutes to change the battery.

The old battery was buldging (a clear sign of age/death of a battery). Everyone will be differnt, but I was getting about 6 hours out of the old battery, and now I am losing less than 1% an hour.

 

[11B1P]

Ok, I had terrible battery, and I too was blaming it on the updates. However, I changed the battery yesterday, and WOW... like a new unit. Sure many have not owned it too long, but smaller batteries fail more noticably, and you don't know how long it was in a box at the store before you bought it.

Instructions are on youtube, and I got the battery from Rounded.com. Including the small screwdriver set I had to buy, it ran about $45 and took about 15 minutes to change the battery.

The old battery was buldging (a clear sign of age/death of a battery). Everyone will be differnt, but I was getting about 6 hours out of the old battery, and now I am losing less than 1% an hour.

Thanks for the update. You make some good points, especially about how long the watch sat on the shelf.

 

[classicrockr]

I thought that my watch was doing the same thing after I updated, but today the gear program on my phone said that "Settings" had used 43% of the battery as of 10:00 am. I didn't realize that "Settings" acted like an app; if you leave apps running in the background on your phone, it eats battery. Looks like the same for the watch. From now on, I'm going to make sure to "close all" apps periodically - this will greatly preserve battery life!