LTE edition battery sucks?

[bckrupps]

I'm at 90% now at 10 hours so even without LTE i'm surprised others are much worse. I'm paired with a Nexus 6P which i would think would be worse than a true Samsung device. It impossible to always blame the watch because any app could be constantly polling the watch if programmed wrong. I did remove facebook and use the browser or metal app. solved half of all my android issues lol

 

[creekwater1482]

i've got a 6P as well. Seems to be handling it ok. Would like the Gear Manager to update so I can try Samsung Pay out.

 

[buzzy3970]

Mine is pretty much to be expected. Figured two days with moderate use

 

[QuantamPulse]

Mine is pretty much to be expected. Figured two days with moderate use ������View attachment 246672

Wow thank you for posting that screenshot ! It never crossed my mind that i could pull the info up in the app to see what was causing my battery drain. Tried it and found the culprit ! I loaded that Vampire game that came on the watch and even though I only played it once for about 30 seconds it has continued to drain away at my battery pretty heavily ever since

 

[creekwater1482]

Wow thank you for posting that screenshot ! It never crossed my mind that i could pull the info up in the app to see what was causing my battery drain. Tried it and found the culprit ! I loaded that Vampire game that came on the watch and even though I only played it once for about 30 seconds it has continued to drain away at my battery pretty heavily ever since

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How'd you like the game? lol. Also, saw on Samsung Pay twitter that Spotify should be coming by end of Nov. They responded to someone who asked about Spotify. Trying to post a pic but Snapseed sucks, or is too complicated for me, and edit my screen shot.

 

[buzzy3970]

Wow thank you for posting that screenshot ! It never crossed my mind that i could pull the info up in the app to see what was causing my battery drain. Tried it and found the culprit ! I loaded that Vampire game that came on the watch and even though I only played it once for about 30 seconds it has continued to drain away at my battery pretty heavily ever since

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Yea I deleted that non sense when I seen it was on my watch lol...

 

[bckrupps]

Here is a screen shot of mine. Battery life is lower than my average because i'm using the watchface knight blade. it has a live background but wow is it awesome and i charge every night anyway. I continue to be amazed by how much more optimized and useful Tizen is over android wear and i had almost all of them

 

[BOSSY TEXAS CHICK]

.... continue to be amazed by how much more optimized and useful Tizen is over android wear and i had almost all of them

i am with YOU... Not to mention, "how smooth & fluid" it is... On ALL my Android watches the experience was slow, choppy, with force closes several times a day (and i barely load ANY apps) i avoided, "Tizen" at all costs, thought it would be "half baked" AT BEST... Even tho going in i knew their business model for their watches was, "less is more and they didn't want ppl trying to load it up with crap like a phone" i am NOW glad that they have gone that route....

And i ESPECIALLY love my LTE version as well, was undecided if i needed "standalone functionality" but now, having it, don't think i could do without it : )

BTC

 

[11B1P]

i avoided, "Tizen" at all costs, thought it would be "half baked" AT BEST... Even tho going in i knew their business model for their watches was, "less is more and they didn't want ppl trying to load it up with crap like a phone" i am NOW glad that they have gone that route....

I think you meant Android Wear?

 

[BOSSY TEXAS CHICK]

I think you meant Android Wear?

No i REALLY did mean Tizen..

Even tho i am a Samsung die hard fangirl, i never ONCE even "considered" buying a watch that wasn't running, "Android" because i couldn't fathom it being any good... i fhought i would "constantly feel my watch couldn't do this or that with such a limited O/S", but as it has turned out, Tizen (to me) with its "lack of force closes, buttery smooth animations, instant response action time etc" is 100 times the experience i had with ANY of my Android Wear watch...Who'd of thunk it?! As much as i love Sammy products, i just didn't think Sammy had it in them to design such a thorough, intuitive & buttery smooth lag free experience. And Samsung Pay WITH MST Technology? OMG, don't even get me started on how impressed i am with their implementation of THAT...

Every product i have ever owned from Samsung has ALWAYS in some aspect forced a compromise, but for ONCE i can truly say they have completely & truly delivered ON ALL FRONTS with the LTE Gear S3 : ) Design, build quality, battery life, price AND software, its all there...

Makes me a little sad they have FINALLY delivered a perfect product smack dab in the middle of their worst time in their history- Prolly take 10 more products AS GOOD AS the LTE Gear S3 to get them back to being the Electronics leader they once were, IF they could even get back : (

BTC

P.S. and to stay on topic...yes i did state "battery life" as a pro to this watch. Mine (in the week i've used it) i judge a devices battery by how much % it loses overnight. If i leave it at 60 -65% overnight and wake up with it only having drained 4-5 % and it can get me thru DAY TWO w/o a charge, to me, that's "really good" PLUS, the little charger is very small & portable if need be, and not expensive either, charges ::::fast:::::, wouldn't be an issue to bring it with me or buy a second one and leave at work, so to me battery life is a plus as well : )

 

[QuantamPulse]

Well I thought I had figured out what was causing the drain on my battery but I am continuing to get worse and worse battery life each charge now. It now barely makes it 24 hours with AOD only on about half of the time and GPS off.

I also have an issues where the estimated charge time is way off. If its on the charger and says there is around an hour left. I will go back in an hour and it will say around 45 minutes left. To charge from 15% to 100% took over 4 hours last night.

When I finally took the watch off after the light turned green, it said the watch had to go into cooling mode before it could be used. Had to cool off for about 2 minutes before it would function again.

As much as I love it and love having Samsung Pay back after losing my Note 7, I think I am about ready to give up on this one.

 

[bckrupps]

So many people are raving about the battery life and i am seeing the same. based on what you are seeing and the watch overheating and such i think you just got a bad one. i would certainly exchange it but i wouldn't give up on it. LTE is tricky also because depending on signal which changes constantly it's impossible to compare one user to the next.

 

[creekwater1482]

Starting to sound like you got a bad one. I went without AOD today. So far with 10 hrs since last charge I'm at 75% left. Aside from taking the dog for a walk I've been pretty useless today but I have been getting notifications like crazy. Made my first successful Samsung pay on the watch too. Went smooth like butter.
Sorry to hear your battery hasn't been so good. First I've heard of the overheating warning too. Time to swap for a new one I think.

 

[11B1P]

Well I thought I had figured out what was causing the drain on my battery but I am continuing to get worse and worse battery life each charge now. It now barely makes it 24 hours with AOD only on about half of the time and GPS off.

I also have an issues where the estimated charge time is way off. If its on the charger and says there is around an hour left. I will go back in an hour and it will say around 45 minutes left. To charge from 15% to 100% took over 4 hours last night.

When I finally took the watch off after the light turned green, it said the watch had to go into cooling mode before it could be used. Had to cool off for about 2 minutes before it would function again.

As much as I love it and love having Samsung Pay back after losing my Note 7, I think I am about ready to give up on this one.

I would echo the comments as to saying you have a bad S3. But before you return/exchange it, have you tried factory resetting it and starting fresh? There be a file that didn't load right the first time.

 

[jlczl]

2 days easy on my T-Mobile LTE watch. AOD, everything on, pretty much straight out of the box. I'm liking this Tizen watch though I also very much like my LG Urbane ver.2 LTE android wear watch.

 

[ehosey2]

I think the battery is pretty decent with everything it can do and with the numerous notifications I receive all day long. I have the AT&T version connected to LTE service.

 

[arunma]

I've been monitoring my battery usage rate pretty closely since I got the gear S3. On average, I get a discharge rate of about 1.5-2% per hour with AOD turned off, and 2.5-3% per hour with AOD on. Assuming this rate is more or less linear throughout the discharge, this would mean 50 hours of usage with AOD off, and 33 with it on. If I take my watch off the charger at 7 AM, I usually end up at 75-80% power when I come home at 5 pm. For those who are having terrible battery life, I'd recommend checking two things, based on my experiences with the S3 and the S2:

1. Is your watch in constant bluetooth range of your phone? If you step away and hover around the boundary of this range (usually 30 feet or so), your watch will constantly disconnect, attempt to connect to LTE, and reconnect. This causes a severe drain on the battery. Last year my Gear S2 would barely make it 6 hours. Turned out the bluetooth radio on my Note 5 was shot, and the disconnect/reconnect would happen if I were even a couple of feet away from my phone. Exchanging my phone fixed the battery life on my watch.

2. Did you turn LTE to always on? This isn't as severe a drain as the above scenario, since maintaining an LTE connection takes less power than establishing one in the first place. But if your watch is connected to the cell network at all times, then the 2-4 day battery life estimate isn't realistic.

 

[TomOfTx]

I've been monitoring my battery usage rate pretty closely since I got the gear S3. On average, I get a discharge rate of about 1.5-2% per hour with AOD turned off, and 2.5-3% per hour with AOD on. Assuming this rate is more or less linear throughout the discharge, this would mean 50 hours of usage with AOD off, and 33 with it on. If I take my watch off the charger at 7 AM, I usually end up at 75-80% power when I come home at 5 pm. For those who are having terrible battery life, I'd recommend checking two things, based on my experiences with the S3 and the S2:

1. Is your watch in constant bluetooth range of your phone? If you step away and hover around the boundary of this range (usually 30 feet or so), your watch will constantly disconnect, attempt to connect to LTE, and reconnect. This causes a severe drain on the battery. Last year my Gear S2 would barely make it 6 hours. Turned out the bluetooth radio on my Note 5 was shot, and the disconnect/reconnect would happen if I were even a couple of feet away from my phone. Exchanging my phone fixed the battery life on my watch.

2. Did you turn LTE to always on? This isn't as severe a drain as the above scenario, since maintaining an LTE connection takes less power than establishing one in the first place. But if your watch is connected to the cell network at all times, then the 2-4 day battery life estimate isn't realistic.

I have experienced similar battery discharge rates. On bluetooth only and the LTE set to auto and AOD off, I am getting a discharge rate of 1-1.5% per hour. With bluetooth and AOD both on, it has been 2-2.5%. With bluetooth off and LTE on and operating in stand alone mode, it has been discharging at 2.5-4%, depending on the number of notifications received. Turning on the AOD in addition to LTE in stand alone mode has been adding an extra 1-1.5% discharge per hour. I am not leaving the AOD turned on very often considering how much more power it is consuming.

The above is very similar to the results from my Gear S2 Classic which discharges at about 1% per hour for bluetooth and 3% for stand alone mode.

Also, I am running AT&T NumberSync on both my Gear S2 Classic and Gear S3 Frontier. It has not been showing any change in battery discharge rates. The attached image showing battery usage was with the watch on bluetooth only and AOD turned off. NFC, WiFi, and GPS all set to off.

 

[mvsmith]

Really weird. When I first got this watch I charged it fully before turning it on. At first I was getting bad battery life like some people on here said. I have the T-Mobile version LTE. At first s health was draining most of the battery and I turned the reminders that off it helped a lot. I downloaded a bunch of watch faces the other day.

This afternoon when I grabbed my watch it was fully charge. I left the house about 1 PM and close to midnight when I got home battery was at 5%. I noticed that the speedometer app by Samsung absolutely killed my battery. I used it on the way to work because my tire pressure was low and it wouldn't show me MPH while that was there (I got air and gas on my break) and it was working.

I didn't realize until my first break an hour and a half into work that my speedometer app was still on and it asked me to close. I was using flash animated watch face today (it's awesome) it might use up battery but I have AOD off. I have NFC on though because of Samsung pay. I'll try it again tomorrow with everything off but Bluetooth and see if it's better.