Battery draining

[abbeybrown312]

This started the day I downloaded the update that shows my watch is fully charged on my phone. It's draining within hours of charging. It was 80% when I went to bed last night and I woke up to it being off because the battery drained to zero. What could be causing this?

 

[trucksmoveamerica#AC]

Usually it's something running in the background. I assume you have turned the watch off and back on, if not try that. Another option I can think of is reset the watch. If it keeps doing it, you probably have a app not playing nice with the watch.

Go to your Galaxy wear app, watch settings, and check the battery and see if there's anything taking a lot of battery.

 

[Seeker336]

Exactly same behavior on my Galaxy Watch4. I put it on the charger while watching TV last night. Took it off at around 11:00 pm with 100% charge. Woke up at 8:00 am today with watch turned off and 0% charge.

Place back on the charger this morning. After it got up to about 10%, I turned it back on, connected to my phone, and checked Battery status. Showed only four apps that consumed any battery since the last full charge -- the largest consumer was display at 0.4%. The other three together totaled 0.8%. So four apps consumed just over 1% of the battery power, yet it went form 100% to 0% in just over nine hours.

 

[trucksmoveamerica#AC]

I turn my watch off every night before putting it on the charger.

 

[doxidad]

I've seen this happen 2 times. Both times there was after a Android Security update and also a Wear program upgrade. Not sure if something gets out of sync or ?. Restarting watch or disconnecting from the phone and reconnecting fixed the problem.

 

[trucksmoveamerica#AC]

I've seen this happen 2 times. Both times there was after a Android Security update and also a Wear program upgrade. Not sure if something gets out of sync or ?. Restarting watch or disconnecting from the phone and reconnecting fixed the problem.

You know now that you say this, I do remember my watch being dead in the morning one time. I assumed I didn't get it on the charger quite right and moved on.

It was the one time I just put it in do not disturb mode and never turned it off. So I don't know if it was because of update back then or I didn't turn watch off, I turn it off every night since then.

 

[abbeybrown312]

Thanks. I've restarted it twice and checked the apps. It seems to have slowed down a bit.

 

[kikbxr1969]

Just like on your phone, clearing the cache after updates is a good practice. In many cases, this solves buggy issues after updates.

I had issues with Bluetooth dropping on and off (which caused major battery drain) and this seemed to fix that.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mvRvEsAPpE

 

[swebb]

Great info. Thanks for posting.

 

[abbeybrown312]

I cleared that and my watch is behaving so much better. Everything seems way more accurate. Thanks for the tip.

 

[notacoach]

Just like on your phone, clearing the cache after updates is a good practice. In many cases, this solves buggy issues after updates.

I had issues with Bluetooth dropping on and off (which caused major battery drain) and this seemed to fix that.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mvRvEsAPpE

So helpful! Thank you

 

[arunma]

So I had the same problem. I actually got a warranty replacement through T-Mobile, installed all of the updates right away, and my problem seems to be resolved.

This happened to me on an earlier Galaxy Watch, and clearing the cache partition didn't work. Glad to hear it worked for you guys though!

 

[parkschr]

Mine is draining quickly because of something called “Samsung Contact Sync”. Cannot figure out how to stop that. I will do a reset in the morning. It will be fine all day and no draining of battery from the above mentioned. The next day, it starts draining it again.

 

[Evilguppy]

Yay super helpful thanks