New frontier owner

[joe_fresh]

I have had my watch for less than a day. I charged it fully before setting it up. I don't wear it to bed so at night I put it on the charger. From a full charge at 0630 this morning until around 1030 am it dropped to 39% . I looked at the battery stats and seems notifications were killing the battery life. Should I reboot the device or give it more time and cut out some of my notifications that I really don't even use?

 

[Scott Currence]

Brand new or new to you?

 

[joe_fresh]

Brand new, but seems to have let up after changing the watch face layout. Although my phone said it was notifications killing the battery.

 

[Scott Currence]

I bought mine two years ago and just replaced my battery to get back to full capacity. Make sure also that it is fully charged when you take it off the charger in the morning. Mine sometimes wouldn't be. If it gives you more trouble, I've had to do a reset and it helped. Hope you get it worked out.

 

[joe_fresh]

Well in 5 hours it has only dropped 7% so that is a plus. Let me see how tomorrow is.

 

[joe_fresh]

Today was better, seems the notifications are what my issues were. at 75% after almost 12 hours. Today's killer is the stock watch face.

 

[pappy35]

There is a new, ongoing, battery longevity issue affecting the Sport and Gear lines. I started a thread to document it. It's not your battery but if I were you I'd return the watch ASAP because Samsung has acknowledged there's an issue but will not provide an estimate of when they will correct it.

Samsung Support Community Pages

 

[pappy35]

I find it curious that this doesn't seem to be affecting the new Galaxy Watch.

 

[bwilliamsky]

I find it curious that this doesn't seem to be affecting the new Galaxy Watch.

almost like an 'encouraged' upgrade, huh....

 

[bbgpsuser]

Just posted this to the battery threads:

I had same issue crop up suddenly. During the day it would just gobble the battery. A couple of nights ago, while I was sleeping and wearing the watch in DND, the battery went from 100% to 23%.

Following the leads out on the internet, I confirmed that in Settings -> Apps -> "Samsung Accessory Service" was using A LOT of battery.
1. I went into the storage tab for "Samsung Accessory Service" and cleared the cache.
2. I deleted the "Galaxy Wearable" app.
3. I restarted my Gear S3.
4. I reinstalled the "Galaxy Wearable" app. It walked through reconnecting and resetting the Gear S3.

After that my Gear S3 battery use has been very low. It has been a day or two now and it seems that the problem is solved for me.

 

[11B1P]

I find it curious that this doesn't seem to be affecting the new Galaxy Watch.

Or my S3...