Battery drain

[greenleafvolatile]

Hey,

I bought a Gear S3 last year. I use it mostly, but not exclusively, when I got running. It is running Tizen 3.0.0.1

Since the last update battery drain has gotten really bad. This morning for instance I went on a hour and a half run. When I left battery was at 100% and when I came back it was at 43%.

When I looked in the Gear app it showed 86% battery use by the Samsung Health app.

Does anybody know of a way to fix this? An hour and a half is a short run for me and I have even had it happen that the watch turned off before a run was over. Useless!

 

[vasekvi]

I'm having the same problem. After an update a few months ago, my battery drains super fast. I've tried everything to get it back to were it was.

 

[solotristan88]

mine won't charge all the way...omly goes to 84%.

 

[fkpalm]

I had the same problem did a factory reset and it corrected the battery problem

 

[jgreg02]

Be sure you don't have AOD, always on display, turned on.

 

[arunma]

Hey,

I bought a Gear S3 last year. I use it mostly, but not exclusively, when I got running. It is running Tizen 3.0.0.1

Since the last update battery drain has gotten really bad. This morning for instance I went on a hour and a half run. When I left battery was at 100% and when I came back it was at 43%.

When I looked in the Gear app it showed 86% battery use by the Samsung Health app.

Does anybody know of a way to fix this? An hour and a half is a short run for me and I have even had it happen that the watch turned off before a run was over. Useless!

You, sir, are far more of a badass than me. I go only on a 25 minute, 2 mile run. If I charge my watch to full before I leave, it's at 70% when I get back. Given that the battery discharge rate isn't exactly linear, it sounds like we're having similar difficulties.

From what I can tell there are two - possibly three - things causing battery drain. First, your watch is using its GPS to locate you. You could bring your phone when you run so that the watch gets its location from your phone's GPS, but that kind of defeats the purpose of having a smartwatch. Alternatively you could turn off auto-locate. Secondly, in running mode your watch will give you a continuous heart rate. That takes up a lot of power too. And finally, if you've got an LTE Gear S3 then this is a battery drainer too. You could turn it off, but again, if you did that then why are you paying for LTE?

I can't figure out how to turn off the heart rate monitoring. However, if you don't turn on exercise mode in Samsung Health, then after ten minutes of running your watch will auto-detect your run and give you statistics on calories and speed after the workout. However, it will not monitor your heart rate and it will only check your GPS location once (I think you may need to turn off auto-locate for this to work though). When I run on the treadmill instead of outside, I just use auto-detect, and the battery typically only drains from 100% to 92% after 20 minutes.

 

[arunma]

After replacing the battery, I see only marginal improvement. My watch used to drop from 100% to 82% after eight hours of sleep. Now it only drops to 85%. Still isn't nearly as good as the pre-Tizen 3.0 days, when it would go from 100%-95% overnight. Guess a lot of this can in fact be attributed to Tizen 3.0.