Lots of issues with at&t gear s

[mountainbikermark]

Re: Lots of issues with at&t gear s

This is what I normally do. with the fact that I cannot use Bluetooth at work and that I do use a Bluetooth headset at home any other version other than keeping the remote connection going without Bluetooth makes things quite inconvenient. I'd have to either turn bluetooth on to use my headset or turn it off to go to work and turn it on when I got back home.

Prior to the upgrade that came through a few weeks ago I thought I had decent battery life because it would last me a full day on my watch. Now I find that many days even with the same average use my battery is shot after 8 to 12 hours and I have to plug my watch in. The upgrade really screwed with my battery life. On my watch. I have great battery life on my note 3.

Additionally before the upgrade I was getting all my notifications. Post upgrade I get some but not all. I've also found that my watch is disconnecting from my phone too often.

Have you tried uninstall/install the Gear app? Latest reviews on it state many are having problems that are solved by starting from scratch on the app. I would also think, just like phones, a factory reset after a firmware update is not a bad thing to do if you're having issues.

 

[ShaggyKids]

Yes many times since I got it. No device should have to be uninstalled and reinstalled this often. One if the few things that really bugs me about the watch.

 

[Joseph Ingenito]

just exchange it sounds like you have a defective piece, I have my ATT Gear S on from 8am to 5pm all day at work pulling weather,text,email and come home to the battery in the 70s' at worst 60's percentage

 

[dorrien12]

just exchange it sounds like you have a defective piece, I have my ATT Gear S on from 8am to 5pm all day at work pulling weather,text,email and come home to the battery in the 70s' at worst 60's percentage

Do you have it remotely connected or by Bluetooth?

 

[kieso]

Do you have it remotely connected or by Bluetooth?

I'm wondering the same. My watch is in auto and there's times throughout the day that I'm away from my phone and at the end of my work day I'm usually at 20%. I leave gps off am wifi off

 

[xendula]

What's your battery life like when completely disconnected from your phone?

I am asking because all was well until I installed an update to to my Gear Mgr (I bought a Gear 1 and the Gear MGr app forced me to update when I tried to connect it to my Note). Ever since then, when I try to connect my Gear S to my Note it literally drains the battery about 1% per minute or even faster. It does not matter whether over BT or remotely, so I have to shut the Gear S BT off and make sure phone and watch are not connected.

Stand-alone with data on and GPS on, my battery life is better than ever before.

My Gear S is ATT, but I use it with a T-mo sim. My Note is on T-mo as well.

 

[ShaggyKids]

My battery life went to heck after the upgrade as well. It's very unpredictable, sometimes dead at 10 hours other times it makes it through the day or anywhere in between. VZW Note, watch and service.

 

[xendula]

My battery life went to heck after the upgrade as well. It's very unpredictable, sometimes dead at 10 hours other times it makes it through the day or anywhere in between. VZW Note, watch and service.

Deb, could you test battery life when completely in stand-alone mode? I'd be curious to know if it's indeed Gear Mgr.

 

[ShaggyKids]

Not sure what you mean by test but I run it in remote 100% of the time.

 

[xendula]

Not sure what you mean by test but I run it in remote 100% of the time.

I meant not remote but stand-alone (completely disconnected from your phone). You'd have to select "disconnect" on your phone in Gear Manager.

 

[ShaggyKids]

Why would I want to do this? I don't use stand alone so the results wouldn't matter. Sorry but I'm confused.

 

[mountainbikermark]

Well battery issue is solved. I took the gear off the charger around 7:30am. Left it on remote connection at home until 5:00pm. It still had 75%. I had been texting throughout the day so it was seeing some action i guess. But it is way better than before. Now that i got the gwatch r i cant decide lol. I like both for different reasons. Help me make up my mind guys. Ive been researching all day.

What did you decide?
The next generation of Android Wear is going to blow away anything Samsung brings out as long as Samsung sticks to its need for a Samsung host device but for now the S is head and shoulders above AW offerings due to its standalone capability and mammoth screen.
Once my S wears out I'll probably switch to AW (maybe even HTC Webos?) if Samsung is still stuck in its walled garden mentality unless there's nothing close to the screen size of my S.

 

[foxbat121]

The next version of AW adds WiFi support. Big deal

Neither can blow anyone out of existence in their current form. They both are very limited in functionality, IMO.

 

[mountainbikermark]

Re: Lots of issues with at&t gear s

The next version of AW adds WiFi support. Big deal

Neither can blow anyone out of existence in their current form. They both are very limited in functionality, IMO.

Ummm Google Voice voip? The Bluetooth stack for earpiece protocol is already onboard the LG G and others That's for current models. What I'm stating is the way they are moving into way of doing things could very easily lead to the next generation of devices all having total standalone capability, a reason many choose the S over others. Carriers in the U.S. would love that because the user would have to purchase a separate line for their watch, like the S here now, bringing yet another possible cash cow. Unless the requirement of a separate number per SIM card or device here changes that'll be the biggest hindrance to watches getting more like the rest of the world is already used to seeing.

 

[foxbat121]

Re: Lots of issues with at&t gear s

Ummm Google Voice voip?

What for? Until AW supports its own radio like Gear S does today, it is totally useless. You still have to use the phone.

I'm sure when AW moves forward, Samsung will move ahead with S2 and S3 as well. I'm just LOLed when Google releases the news about WiFi support being the biggest feature in the next release.

 

[xendula]

Re: Lots of issues with at&t gear s

I'm just LOLed when Google releases the news about WiFi support being the biggest feature in the next release.

Same here. What Samsung should have done right then was point to the Gear S' capabilities. What the Samsung marketing department did instead was snooze. As always.

 

[Chad Bankston]

I went with the lg gwatch r. When i had both and kept going with the lg. I did like the standalone capability of the s but all the stuff i wanted to use such as gps and music zapped the battery so fast that it wasnt practical for me. Lg has the urbane lte comming out that looks like a gwatch r with standalone capability.

 

[DonShock]

Re: Lots of issues with at&t gear s

... What Samsung should have done right then was point to the Gear S' capabilities....

Exactly! The only commercial that came close was that Christmas one with the two actors, but you only would have known what it was showing is if you already knew about the Gear S. What they really need is a commercial where you see someone leave their phone at home or office, then a screenshot of the lost Bluetooth/connecting remotely message (without owner action), then the owner getting a critical call or message via the remote connection. Plenty of opportunity to show the more normal uses around that, but make the focus the unique ability of the Gear S.

 

[xendula]

Re: Lots of issues with at&t gear s

Exactly! The only commercial that came close was that Christmas one with the two actors, but you only would have known what it was showing is if you already knew about the Gear S. What they really need is a commercial where you see someone leave their phone at home or office, then a screenshot of the lost Bluetooth/connecting remotely message (without owner action), then the owner getting a critical call or message via the remote connection. Plenty of opportunity to show the more normal uses around that, but make the focus the unique ability of the Gear S.

They also need a commercial of a runner sans additional phone. When Apple introduced the watch, they showed a runner (forgot her name) with her ugly fanny pack training for a marathon. To build on that, and show someone leaving the phone behind as they go for a run, would have been so easy for Samsung!

I'll never understand their marketing strategy.

 

[InfamousUnknown]

Re: Lots of issues with at&t gear s

They also need a commercial of a runner sans additional phone. When Apple introduced the watch, they showed a runner (forgot her name) with her ugly fanny pack training for a marathon. To build on that, and show someone leaving the phone behind as they go for a run, would have been so easy for Samsung!

I'll never understand their marketing strategy.

They have like 5 watches on the market. Including an Android Wear version, and several without a cell connection.

They are essentially playing the field and seeing what sticks.

The Adds like that would help the S, but kind of insult there other offerings.