yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Gear S2] diamondjon:
Maybe in Korea "light activity" means "couch potato"?

Yea, we'll see what happens with future updates. One of the big draws to this watch (aside from all the other enticing factors) was the battery life... I guess time will tell.
[Samsung Gear S2] Dhern:
Use close all apps feature on gear s2 3g to save battery life
[Samsung Gear S2] Ayodeji13:
How does one get to this 'close all apps' feature?
[Samsung Gear S2] martin.salat:
Go to Apps and select blue circle. I think, it is last opened apps. There You can select Close all.

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[Samsung Gear S2] primus123:
Was also curious about everyones setup.

First 2 days i didnt take into account battery because i was playing with it alot.

Today, booted watch at 7am, booted, got on, checked in 15 minutes, and was from 100-69%

Current setup,

display at 3%

about 10 apps that alert,

S Health

3G/4G is at auto

GPS-off

NFC-off

WiFi-off

i did have a Power Ranger face(which i loved) but it had alot livewallpaper action, blinking lights, and pieces that moved etc, changed to the default one with the stars in background with digial.

i am currently at 33% from 7 1/2 hours of usage

no music, have not taken any calls, havent responded to any messages, literally looked and swiped away.

Would a rooted Sam N4 have any effect on the performance of the watch?

I was on stock, but was horrible after the lolipop update.

Still on stock ROM, just rooted and bloatware removed, nothing special.
[Samsung Gear S2] MarkP80nj:
Ok, good thing there is a thread on this already.

So first day I didn't take battery into consideration, because you always fiddle with it too much. Then I had to work for two days, and my job is heavy construction, so I don't bring my watch, I left it on the charger for two days straight. I put it on Friday night, and didn't charge it till Saturday night. Today (Sunday) I was at 15% by about 12pm, and I took it out of the charger by 9am. This doesn't seem right. Did leaving it on the charger for too long mess up my battery? What is going on here?
[Samsung Gear S2] AmyMejlak:
Were you on just 3g...instead of bt? My battery life has improved with turning a lot of the options (wifi, nfc, heartrate monitoring) off. If I'm on 3g it is a whole different story....accidentally left my phone home the other night and was remotely connected between watch and phone....dropped down 40% in less than two hours. Has anyone else had a similar issue?
[Samsung Gear S2] MarkP80nj:
I don't have the 3g model, I have the classic. Yesterday it was good for the whole day, but to be honest I didn't check the battery when I took it off the charger this morning. I went to bed at 2am,so maybe between 2 am and 9 am it didn't have time to fully charge?
[Samsung Gear S2] _INSPIREed:
I think the variant of the 3g gear s2 and your network is key for battery life.

I have a tmobile carrier gear s2 and the battery life for the first two days was at about 18 hours off the charger each day and ending up with 15% at the end of each day before charging.

Mind you this is with 3 email accounts getting maybe 10 emails per hour, Answering texts and even taking a call or two on the watch, and also controlling my spotify for my note.

The tmobile watch has auto on/off 3g for when you disconnect from bluetooth or WiFi to your phone. I've heard that not all gear s2's have the auto on/off 3g feature?

Overall highly satisfied. But just turn off what you don't need when you don't use it has always been the name of the game when it comes to any mobile battery life. Nfc doesn't need to be on if you don't use samsung pay consistently. Neither does WiFi. Bluetooth and or 3g should be all anyone really every needs for true daily usage imo
[Samsung Gear S2] wyll643:
I agree. I have had the 3g version since 2 days after its launch on T-Mobile. I had a white one and returned it b/c I was convinced something was wrong with the watch. I got a second one (black one) two weeks later and have the same issue. If I turn off all of the functions I wanted the watch for -- i.e., 3g, Wifi, NFC -- I can get a day of use. This is really disappointing b/c I have the classic as well, and it lasts twice as long with the same amount of activity. I hope Samsung does not something to extend the battery life on the 3g version.
[Samsung Gear S2] dornier:
I also have the Tmobile Gear S2 and on the first full day, I only got about 10 hours of battery life with very little use using all of the watch defaults. On day 2, I opted to turn off wifi and the cell radio and now I have great battery life. In excess of 17 hours if not more. On day 3 I decided to turn on wifi and bluetooth only. Battery life is still fantastic, once again in excess of 17 hours if not more. Next test will be all three radios on again, then just the cell radio only.

Hope this helps,

GP
[Samsung Gear S2] dcmtnbkr:
What are you guys doing with your watches that you need 3g and wifi on all the time? I have mine setup with bluetooth on and 3g auto with wifi, gps, and NFC turned off. I also have the heart rate monitor turned on and set to take my heart rate as often as it will. I have screen on all day and display is at 3. I can make it a full day (630a - 10p) and still have about 40% left. I basically use mine while at work to check notifications so I'm not constantly picking up my phone just to clear a twitter notification. I know they made it so that you can use these for content consumption, but I don't think it was ever meant to be it's primary function, that's what the $700 cell phone in my pocket or the 400 tablet in my backpack is for. That being said, if you wanted to use it for a run and listen to music, do it. Just know that you may need to throw it on the charger later on when you are relaxing on the couch. To me, a full days use on any device is fair, but that's just my 2c.
[Samsung Gear S2] Chasmodai:
With pretty much the same configuration as the previous post I've been getting 16-20 hour days with plenty of power left. 14 apps set up to notify, 3 email accounts that generate about 150 messages a day, but other than email and text messages, I don't use other apps at this point. Brightness set at 4, auto -on anything that takes that setting.

I do, however, "close all" after I use any other apps to make sure there aren't background apps killing the battery.

This being said, my wife decided she wanted one, and she's been only seeing about 10 hours of battery life daily. She's on a business trip at the moment but as soon as I can I'll do a point by point comparison between the two devices in terms of setting and configuration.
[Samsung Gear S2] Happypeaceful:
Same thing is happening to me. Very very frustrated. I thought it was the hardware so I exchanged it for a brand new one in 2 days. 2 BRAND NEW GEAR S2 3G watches in 2 Days!!!!! My battery doesn't last more than 4 HOURS!!!! Everything is either turned off or on the least setting possible. Called Samsung and Verizon and no one has a clue what's going on. I'm wondering if it's the software on my Galaxy Note 4? It's only a few months old though...HELP!

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Yes. Me too. Same problem here. I think it drops so fast bc it's on 3G. I don't know why it does this when its supposed to be made to be a stand alone watch. Very very frustrated and upset. I'm about to switch to the Apple Watch.
[Samsung Gear S2] AmyMejlak:
I read a post where the person was getting 3-4 days on an at&t 4g. And another where the person could get an 18 hour day (2 of those hours on 3g) and still have 40% left. I'm seeing nothing even remotely close to that.
[Samsung Gear S2] diamondjon:
I think i've hit my stride with the watch... basically not adding apps like crazy as I would in the first couple days with it... and just normal usage.

I have experimented a little with the accessibility->vision->negative colors when I use a watch face that is white.

I try to stick to a black watch (I have a black verizon 3g) face and I think that the ones that come with the watch are much less buggy and work better for battery life. I definitely see different battery life depending on which watch face I choose. I have the 3g/bt on auto, and of course I do not need NFC on at all times (especially without samsung pay availabe yet), nor do I need wifi at all times. on a regular day I can use the watch from morning to night and have 30% left. I get notifications from 6 apps (gmail comes through quite regularly, the rest are not popping up more than every so often). I am not making calls from my watch unless necessary, so only once every couple days.

Overall the watch has a bigger battery than the BT versions, so it should be getting longer battery life if the same options are selected as a BT version.

hope this helps.
[Samsung Gear S2] sinichi21:
Just one question do have your watch connected to your phone bluetooth all the time? Did you activate the remote connection on your gear app?
[Samsung Gear S2] socos:
Have had my S2 (T-Mobile variant) for a little over 2 days now. This is not my first smartwatch so I know what it's like to get a days worth (Androidwear) or a weeks worth (Pebble). I'm getting an average drain of 4.5%-5% an hour which is on par with my AndroidWear watches (Moto 360 and LG Watch R). I have Display always on, Mobile on auto, NFC off, WiFi off, Bluetooth on, wrist gesture on. It's connect via Bluetooth most of the time so I'm sure that helps.

I'm tempted to go a day without my phone just to see what it's like.
[Samsung Gear S2] primus123:
So I have changed setting on it, I got rid of the ranger face watch face, and have a live digital watch now, I get just about 14 hours, usually turn off to charge with about 25% left. So I'm guessing it was the face, I have it at autoconnect, autoforward, there are 22 notifications on alert, so all in all pretty good, take a few calls on it, do a couple messages.
[Samsung Gear S2] dcmtnbkr:
Yes and Yes.
[Samsung Gear S2] javy_tech:
Gear S2 3G on ATT

Hi all. Had the watch for a couple of weeks. I can make it through my workday no problem on bluetooth. I know that I have forgotten to charge it over night after a full day (6am-10pm) and I still have some battery the next morning.

Normal operation:

On

Mobile Network (Auto)

Mobile Data on

Display on Wake up gesture (brightness 5)

Bluetooth on

Location on

Off

WIFI

NFC

I am currently in the process of gathering data in a more scientific way and hope to post it sometime in the near future but here are some tibits:

-I have played with the display always on instead of wake up on gesture and made it through the day using the setup above. It did use more power but I was surprised that it was less than expected.

-I used Here maps with the phone over 3g and this appeared to go through the battery extremely fast. The watch also got just beyond the warm to the hot side.

-Using my phone over ATT 4G network today (bluetooth off, number sync on, everything else the same as above) I think I averaged about 7% loss per hour (from 7:30am-2:30pm). I probably talked on it for 20 mins max volume, had 5-10 texts, and was messing with it trying to figure out if I could get emails w/o bluetooth (so far answer is no). Main contributor to the battery loss IMO is due to signal strength. I have 2-3 bars on 4G which ends up being below -100dbm. More on this some other time though.
[Samsung Gear S2] thejdoe:
Gear S2 3G standalone on Verizon

I stumbled on this thread and thought I would give my 2 cents, since I have a unique setup that probably no one else shares. I have the dark gray 3G version on Verizon, and I carry an iPhone (work-provided). So I use this watch as a STANDALONE device. I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 with a bad sim tray at the house (so it's basically a small tablet) that I paired the watch with to use the Gear app to setup the watch/apps. I leave the S4 at home (powered on and connected to wifi), so my watch is always on 3G and remotely connected to the S4 through my Samsung account. This allows me to receive and reply to notifications from gmail, hangouts, etc. right on the watch. I obviously have a different setup than most, since the watch is not compatible with the phone I carry around. But I got this to be a $5 a month personal phone. Can't beat it.

Battery life has so far been good. I receive notifications from 11 apps, receive/send text messages, and make a few calls every day. So for those wondering how the battery can handle leaving your phone (or connected device) at home and carrying the watch remotely, battery is good.

My setup is below:

iPhone in pocket (no connection to watch, although I have paired the watch with iPhone)

busted S4 at the house

dark watch face (factory provided Modern Utility face)

3G always on

BT off during the workday, on in the evening when I'm at home

NFC, GPS off

Display is not always on, only comes on with wrist motion

Brightness set to 3

As another post said, I close all apps fairly frequently so nothing runs in the background too much. I have the double clicking action of the home button set to bring up recent apps, which allows me to quickly close all apps.

I'm 4 hours off the charger and have only used 20% of the battery. And that includes a little bit of me playing with it, since I've only had it a few days. I have sent and received texts today, and made 4 phone calls. So far with what I consider to be heavy usage, I'm very pleased with the battery. If I tone down the amount of texts/calls, battery lasts longer of course.
[Samsung Gear S2] javy_tech:
Curious. How are you able to recieve and reply to Gmail and hangouts? Are you using a 3rd party app? Over 3/4G using the native Tizen apps developed by Samsung, I cannot recieve emails from the email app even if my phone (Note 5) is "Remotely Connected" over the ATT network. Also can't reply to hangouts in general, just notifications.
[Samsung Gear S2] Chasmodai:
I have no problems replying to Gmail messages. I just select "reply" from the notification screen and dictate a response.
[Samsung Gear S2] javy_tech:
I can recieve email notifications over bluetooth via samsung email app which is connected to my gmail. If I am "Remotely Connected" to my phone over 3g though I no longer recieve email notifications via samsung's email app. I have stopped the notifications from the Gmail app since this would mean I get them twice (Samsung Email and Gmail) over bluetooth. Since I can't see my message via a "Gmail" app on my watch I only am doing the Samsung app. If you get notifications over 3g from gmail though then I could switch the notifications from Samsung email and gmail. Hope that's not confusing :p
[Samsung Gear S2] thejdoe:
Yep same here, I just click reply at the bottom when I get the hangout notification. You may have to scroll down to see the Reply button.
[Samsung Gear S2] javy_tech:
Hangout Replies

I installed Andriod Wear on my Note 5 and now have the option to reply to hangouts on my watch. I did not do anything with the Andriod Wear app just installed it and now I can reply. Got the hint from the Gear S forums :)

Now if I could get these notifications over 3g when my phone is 'Remotely Connected' for email and hangouts that would be great. I could actually try leaving my phone at home.
[Samsung Gear S2] javy_tech:
Got it to work. Going to put the answer over in Connection modes post.
[Samsung Gear S2] ofeliciano0418:
My experience with the Gear S2 3g battery

Throwing out my experience with this device, I got it on Saturday the 2nd of January and right out the box I was at 70% with all the features on. I did a lot of playing around with it and in less than 5 hours I was already below 10%. Charged it all night the first night and the second day configured it as follows, Bluetooth: on, 3g connection: auto, call forwarding: on, wifi: off, gps: off, nfc: off, screen brightness at 5, vibration on strong, receiving notifications from 25 apps, heart rate sensor: on and stock watchfaces. With those settings I would turn on at 7am, receive a few notifications per the hour, make some calls, respond to texts through the watch and it lasted me until 10:30pm with 20% left on watch. Next day battery seemed to improve with same features on starting at 7am until 10:30pm but now I had 30% left at the end of the day. Next day, 7am start and received the update from Tmobile and installed around 12 noon and an increase in battery life, just under 40% by 10:30pm. Its been pretty consistent now with it having 30-40% life left by 10:30-11pm. Today 7am start and I decided to turn on the wifi option, it has been a busier than usual day for the watch, its now 5pm and I am currently at 60%. Safe to say that with those settings I am getting a little over 24hrs on an average day. Hope this helps.
[Samsung Gear S2] snowwy66:
The battery is relatively small and fairly weak. It's NOT going to last very long.

I'm a trucker. this week is my first week out since buying the watch and phone last week. Since i don't have a spare charger for the truck yet. I left the watch home and turned off. Left Monday morning and got back home Friday evening. the watch was at 2 percent when thrown back on teh charger. It was OFF the whole 5 days i was gone.
[Samsung Gear S2] socos:
Yeah I'm getting about a 4-5%/hour battery drain rate on average. On par with my other Android Wear watches. It is on Bluetooth 99.9% of the time. Thinking of killing off the data plan. I really do like being able to answer calls on it since it has a speaker.
[Samsung Gear S2] ofeliciano0418:
I love the speaker, didnt see any sense in getting bluetooth version. Though it has the rotating bezel the bluetooth version in my opinion should have never happened.
[Samsung Gear S2] 45Wheelgun:
My daughter lost her watch privileges Wednesday night. I took the opportunity to see how long hers would run in a minimalist configuration. At 7am Thursday morning I rebooted a full charged watch and set it on the "penalty plate" on the kitchen table.

She runs her watch pretty clean. Uses the watch for texting and social media. She has several of the games loaded but they haven't been played as she isn't allowed to touch it until next Wednesday. She has three notifications running and it has been remotely connected to her phone the entire time. Bluetooth when she was home and in range, WIFI when she wasn't. Gear network set to auto, mobile data and NFC turned off. Location set to Wireless only.

I configured the watch with always on=off, brightness set to three. Wakeup gesture=off and HR monitor off. (I run mine with these settings )

The watch has received a pile of texts and notifications since then.

64 hours later it is at 19%. I'm pretty sure it will last until 7am tomorrow for a complete 72 hour run.

I'm not sure what, if any this proves but it has been an interesting exercise. We both run Verizon S2 3Gs.
[Samsung Gear S2] Greg Uyanto:
I also have the same problem but today I found out that when I turn off the bluetooth it helps a lot and the battery life still has 47% after 12 hours....this might be a bug that need to be solve by OS developer....
[Samsung Gear S2] Hobson318:
I love my watch but I am seriously disappointed in battery life. Went for a run this morning and turned on s-health to track it. 37 minutes later, the watch is at 48%. I think that is a crazy amount of battery drain for such a short workout. At that rate there is no way it would last a half marathon or full. I had it in airplane mode and it was not playing music. Just tracking the run with steps and GPS plus heart rate. Drain 52% in 3.5 miles. Not good. Might have to look at something else.
[AT&T LG G3] buggs1a:
My lg G3 updated to lollipop without my consent. How do I go back to kit kat the way my phone was when I bought it?

Thanks.
[AT&T LG G3] hyelton:
You can follow my LG G3 back to stock method.
[AT&T LG G3] buggs1a:
Thanks but where?

Also if it tells you to do something with com it doesn't work as there's no such thing in Windows 7-10.
[AT&T LG G3] buggs1a:
Ok found it but as I said it does not work. I've already tried. Issues are

Drivers won't install no matter what. Says not successful. First, p,if phone in to pic and works fine without installing drivers. Tried installing drivers anyway.

Second. It says to go port and com. This does not exist in windows vista - Windows 10. I've tried. There is no such thing.
[AT&T LG G3] buggs1a:
Hello?????
[AT&T LG G3] buggs1a:
Someone please?
[AT&T LG G3] ZeroSwiper:
Hey,

Its pretty easy actually, I have done this exact thing about 4 times.

Follow this video to go back to factory LG G3:

youtube.com/watch?v=1WgXuxDbmbc

You will lose all info on your phone, SD Card included, so back that up on the PC.

You will then be super stock, with the factory recovery too. So you will need to Root, and install TWRP again.
[AT&T LG G3] buggs1a:
Thanks. I can't tap on that link on my mobile device so could you please put in full address or what would I search for in the you tube app?
[AT&T LG G3] ZeroSwiper:
No, sorry.

Since I am a new user, it wont let me post a full link, the video is called How to Unroot/Unbrick LG G3! I searched using the term LG G3 back to stock.

The video was posted by the user Max Lee, and the Thumbnail is a blue screen with the number 3 on it.
[AT&T LG G3] nunjabusiness:
Here you are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WgXuxDbmbc

By the way, COM ports do exist, even up to and including Windows 10. Go to Device Manager and expand Ports and you will see it.
[AT&T LG G3] buggs1a:
Thanks. I figured it out finally. However I'm bummed. I forgot the lg G3 uses a white ui in kit kat. I don't like white. I prefer dark like the galaxy s 5 kit kat. Or was that dark I forget. I haven't had it for long time. But I have a boost mobile zte kit kat phone with totally black ui white text. Settings screen black etc. it's the default kit kat.

How can I get this on my G3?
[AT&T LG G3] ZeroSwiper:
I am pretty sure that DarkWulf Beta uses a Dark UI. It is based on stock KK, but I don't think it is being worked on any longer; the download is still available if you want to give it a go.
[AT&T LG G3] buggs1a:
No thanks. I'm a newb so I'd prefer current and stable.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeduck:
Hi all,

Since I tried to update my phone, I'm stuck at boot after updating apps.

Screen displays 'Launching apps' but the phone seams stuck.

I already triedd to wipe cache and dalvik cache.

I also wipe several partitions (including cache, dalvik cache, system, data) and then try again to install and boot the ROM but same result.

Finally I wiped all the partitions (cache, dalvik cache, system, data, internal data) and install ROM again but I'm still facing the problem :(

Then I found this thread : http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-nexus/help/stuck-android-upgrading-starting-apps-t2825113

So I tried to use 'Fix permissions' option without any success.

After that, I also connected to the device with adb and execute fix_permissions.sh script provided in the thread by it doesn't work better.

Do you have any idea how to fix that?

Thanks by advance.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ariesgodofwar:
Have you tried sideloading another ROM and flashing to see if the issue still persists? I assume you get this after it optimizes all the Apps?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeduck:
I forgot that I have no more access neither to adb nor fastboot...

I read that my last chance is LGNPST.

Do you have any recent pointers to a process to recover my phone, please?

Thanks
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] nottoosmart:
I get audio but no video from mp4 or 3gp files. This is when i am cooking. Anyone able to help me out?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] seth66:
I have a similar problem i'm trying to cook the official M$ rom it's a problem regarding camera after recording something when i press "Play in windoze media" phone crashes.And when i try to open the file in WMP says source decoder not found or something like that...i think it's something about missing reg keys because i'v added so many dll's (codecs).

How do i register emuzed codecs?

Sorry for my disturbing english :(