yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Gear S3] ficalheiro:
I have this problem as well, started yesterday. Looking through the apps, seems like s health is the one to blame! Before once charge was getting the phone still at 77% by the end of the day....
[Samsung Gear S3] pgamaleri:
Same here, since a couple of days ago, Samsung Health draining the battery. Can´t be a coincidence.
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
I guess it is possible the battery is going bad, but rechargeable batteries normally do not start losing capacity at one year of age, and it is normally a gradual process. I tried turning off wifi, and that did not help. Between 6 this morn and now (8.00 am) it went from 100 to 88% and all it did was show a few text messages from my wife. To add to my misery, the Samsung app just updated on my iPhone and now the program crashes whenever I open it and to go the Gear apps and faces. I can try reinstalling it, but it will reset the watch AGAIN, and I will have to start all over. If I was Bruce Banner I would be turning into The Hulk right now!! :D:mad:
[Samsung Gear S3] Youdoofus:
son of a b!tch... i was hoping that it was a fixable thing, seems like its a widespread issue. Im having the exact same problem. started 2 days ago. Factory reset the watch and didnt even install any apps on it, just configured the watchface to diable the AOD and bezel wake. Its been fine for about 10 months and boom... utter failure. guess ill start a claim with samsung
[Samsung Gear S3] sparky1337:
Yes mine has worked great for over a year then all of a sudden 2 days ago it started going from 100% to dead in 3 hours or less.
[Samsung Gear S3] Youdoofus:
sooooooo, i submitted my claim info on samsungs site and no more than 30 min following, my gear started turning its watchface on while on the charger very randomly. Did it about 6 times. Stupid coincidence? poltergeist? or are they digging into the device?

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factory resetting it via recovery, wish me luck
[Samsung Gear S3] Youdoofus:
ok, reset via recovery, fully charged, lets see how this goes
[Samsung Gear S3] ericelfcu:
Same with my device. It started 2 days ago after a factory reset, goes from 100% to dead within the first 3-4 hours of the day.
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
I did not think of that! I am going to try that also!! :D
[Samsung Gear S3] jaime3344:
same here started 2 days ago, haven't changed anything ... they want us to get frustrated and buy the new galaxy watch!lol
[Samsung Gear S3] sparky1337:
I did a reset and a master reset then restored the backup, was good for the rest of the day after that.
[Samsung Gear S3] daggebauer:
I got same problem, but besides watch draining (60% in 3 hours) Galaxy Wearable app is draining my phone too.

It all started without changing anything on phone or on watch.

I uninstalled all samsung apps on phone and cleared cache and did factory reset of watch.

After that it was ok for about half a day and than it started draining again.
[Samsung Gear S3] jas2090:
I just bought this watch 4 days ago. Day 1 it worked very smooth but post some update that came on Day 1 it started doing above mentioned behavior.

I did a factory reset yesterday and for whole day drain was fine. After that at night put on nightstand and after 100% put it back on wrist and went to sleep. It drained overnight 60% and again i recharged for 1 hour but recharge was also slow and 50 % died in 7 hours.

Now in office with dead watch.

I had

*AOD off

*Wifi off.

*Auto-HR off.

I really do not want to return this as i got a very nice deal. But this battery thing seems like a total bummer :(:(:(

Please guide if anybody found a concrete solution.
[Samsung Gear S3] bobodel:
Same here...fast drain.
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
I just looked at when I bought mine. It went out of warranty 3 days ago!! :mad::(:crying:
[Samsung Gear S3] zune70:
Same here having fast battery drain out of nowhere.
[Samsung Gear S3] daggebauer:
Anybody got idea what could cause something like this to happen?

It seems like nobody installed something new or changed any settings.

Samsung activated something remotely?
[Samsung Gear S3] ChadH42:
Same here. All of a sudden I'm having fast battery drain out of nowhere.
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
I am pretty sure it is a software problem, and I doubt if Samsung did something remotely. That would be the conspiracy theorists make on this! :p. I just did a hard full reset on mine from the watch's recovery menu and am going to see how it does. I tried resetting it several times, but only from within the watch's menu. In theory, this should clear out all data and old cached file from it and put it back to the state it was in when it was taken out of the box. I will post the results here later on today. This is what I did for all who are interested:

Back up data on the internal memory.

Turn the Gear S3 off.

Press and hold the Power key until REBOOTING displays at the bottom of the screen.

Press the Power key repeatedly until the Select REBOOT MODE screen displays.

Press the Power key to highlight ' Recovery'.

Press the Home key to select.

Press and hold holding the Power key until the Gear S3 begins rebooting.
[Samsung Gear S3] daggebauer:
I didn't mean that in conspiracy theory way :)))

I just thought that since it seems that nobody changed/installed anything they maybe activated some new feature or way for syncing or something like that, not that they are draining our watches on purpose.

As I said I factory reseted my watch and uninstalled all samsung apps, cleared cache and installed everything again and after about half a day drain is back.

Now I am going to put my tin foil hat back on :))))
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
I did not see an option to clear cache. I just thought it would do that automatically. I may have to do it again unless it works OK as it is now!
[Samsung Gear S3] Jenoin:
Last couple days, mine won't hold a charge anymore. Frontier. Only thing new is that I charged it on my spouses Galaxy watch 42mm charging dock. The dock is slightly different but it seem to charge just fine. I don't imagine it's related unless the rest of you did the same thing. Hopefully it can be fixed with a software update. Less than 10 hour battery life is really worthless, especially when it takes near 2 hours to charge.
[Samsung Gear S3] jaime3344:
that's strange to me... I usually always use the same charger, but just a few days ago, when this started happening, I forgot to charge it one night, so I used a different charger that I have at work..after that is when I noticed the drain, it could just be coincidental, hmmm..
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
Does your spouses charger use a 5V AC adapter like the S3? I would imagine it would, but you never know! If it is putting out more than that, that could be a problem! :eek:
[Samsung Gear S3] lowery23:
I am also having this issue and it started 2 or 3 days ago. Previously, my watch would have around 60% battery left when I put it on the charger in the evening after about 16 hours of use. The last couple of days it won't make it through the day and today it was dead within 7 hours. I checked with a coworker that also has the watch and he said the same thing started with his a couple of days ago. He previously got 3 days of use before having to charge his watch.
[Samsung Gear S3] Jenoin:
It is a 5VDC adapter just like every USB device/charger for the last 10+ years. The difference is that there are two little nubs inside the cradle that shift the centerline of the watch up a few mm to account for the difference in diameter.
[Samsung Gear S3] dmolavi:
Is it possible to roll back to a preview firmware version on this watch (S3 Frontier here).
[Samsung Gear S3] Mjdrakkon:
Adding my voice to the masses. Started about a week ago for me and my Frontier. It was really sudden, which rules out natural battery degradation over time. I was getting 4+ days now I'm lucky if I get 12 hours from full to empty.

Wifi off

NFC off

GPS off

Bezel wake/gesture wake off

Etc etc. I have tried a factory reset and that has not helped at all. Going to swing by a Samsung store in a couple of days and see if they've had many instances of this.
[Samsung Gear S3] trannhattan:
Mine has the same problem since a couple of days ago. The battery only lasts for 10-12 hours w/o AOD :(
[Samsung Gear S3] edwardob:
the solution seems to be to turn off report diagnostics.... go to the link about gear.... report diagnostic.. turn off....
[Samsung Gear S3] sunsetraving:
Same here. Since a couple of days my watch starts draining my battery, and also my Phone battery starts draining in this time. In the app it shows that the "notification" app is consuming a lot. I did two factory resets and one new installation of the Gear app on my Samsung phone, but no look. What i figured out, the drain is not constant. After a reboot, the watch is holding the battery fine. Then it starts randomly sucking the **** out of my battery. Yesterday, after a factory reset in the morning, everything was fine. I was also running in the evening, synchronizing it to my phone, all was great. Had nearly 80%.... and this morning my watch was off. Battery at 0%. Now, after chargeing to 50%, it´s stable... but how long? I deactivated now nearly every notification. Will see what hapen..

But, as many of you have the same problem, it seems that some sort of update was issuing this problem.

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OK, i´ll giv it a try. Thanks for the tip!
[Samsung Gear S3] JimKnopf13:
absolute same behavior here.

Started 2 Days ago. Draining Gear and Phone.

Gear 7:00 - 12:00 empty (before 7:00 - 23:00 30%)

Phone 7:00 - 22:00 12% (before 7:00 - 23:00 50%)

Two Times Reset and deinstall and install app!

Will Try turn off report diagnostics
[Samsung Gear S3] MersauX:
I'm having the same issue here. Started a couple of days ago. I saw that a lot of people have the same issue on the Samsung community as well. I tried various things, nothing worked so far. The battery is fine until I go to bed, then it drains like crazy. Maybe something with the sleep tracking. I turned off diagnostic reporting this morning, let's see if it helps.
[Samsung Gear S3] daggebauer:
A little update on my case.

Yesterday watch was draining like crazy, I turned it off after it drained to 30% in few hours because I wanted to have some battery left to log bike ride home.

When I turned it on it showed 40% battery left (as I said it was 30% when I turned it off).

I put it on charger when I got home, charged to 100% and it is working great since then, dropped to 83% in 11 hours (AOD off).

I didn't do apsolutly anything it just stoped draining battery by itself.

Fingers crossed that it will not start to drain again.
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
This may be be good news if it is true......https://www.phonearena.com/news/samsung-gear-s3-battery-drain-update_id110136. This problem is being reported all over the Samsung forums and maybe somebody from the company is paying attention to it. I really hope they push out this update soon. I am out of options and am tired of messing with the watch any more.
[Samsung Gear S3] rammitt:
I remember my Note 4 having this issue.....and 7 of my colleagues all had Note 4's....that were just about to run out of contract....All 7 of these phones went into "brick mode", and were unrecoverable. I ended up getting a new phone, as did my friends. This could not have been a coincidence. Perhaps Samsung did an OTA "fix" as we were all due to renew /change contracts.... I really would not put it past them....after all their new wearable is being punted now.....go figure!!
[Samsung Gear S3] sunsetraving:
This isn´t a good idea for Samsung. I still have one and a half year warrenty left ;)
[Samsung Gear S3] jaime3344:
under "about gear" is it the marketing info you are turning off? I don't see a report diagnostic there, am I in the wrong place?

edit: found it, on watch!! hope it works..
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
I wish that was so! Mine is off and has always been off. I am still having the problem. I turned that setting on then off this morn just for the heck of it. On the Samsung forums there is a lot of talk about this issue and it is apparently pretty widespread. A few people have passed along information from support people at Samsung that they have contacted that Samsung is aware of the problem are are working on a a patch. This problem was mentioned on Phonearena.com and I posted the link a few posts up. I hope it is true, but would rather see communication from Samsung themselves. I also wonder if this watch will get Tizen 4. That in itself may resolve the problem!
[Samsung Gear S3] edwardob:
my was resolved that way..... back to normal now
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
You got the Tizen 4 update?? :D
[Samsung Gear S3] Youdoofus:
mine has been fine after doing a factory reset via recovery. weird that everyone has had the same issue all at the same time. That being said, after the factory reset and setting it back up, the screen turned on randomly several times about 3 hours after submitting my claim while it was charging. Didnt have a chance to test it whilst not charging, but its been fine since. Havent charged it since that charge with the random screen-ons, and its still at 55%
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
Reset did not help mine. Where did you go to submit a claim? Do you have a link? Thanks for any help you can provide! :cyclops:
[Samsung Gear S3] gpmg762:
Trying a fix posted at https://www.iotgadgets.com/2018/10/samsung-gear-s3-and-gear-sport-battery-drain-problem-heres-a-fix/

A new version of gear s plugin from 2.2.21.18080361 to 2.2.03.18101561, will report result after 24 hrs.

Update: no more battery drain while i sleep. 65% after 24hrs.
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
Will not work for me. I have an iPhone. Went from being an Android phone user for years to my first iPhone. While I do not hate the iPhone, I have regretted it!
[Samsung Gear S3] Youdoofus:
samsung.com, you have to register your product (i always register all of mine just in case) then you go into the registered item and there are links that are pretty easy to follow from there.

i would try resetting it a few more times, it took 3 times before it actually reset via recovery. Try try agin is my advice

i am at 2d 1h 19m and 49% remains after the reset
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
Thanks. I have a habit of pretty much never registering things I buy. I will do that this eve, but my watch is out of warranty, so I may be out of luck.
[Samsung Gear S3] Youdoofus:
try the multiple reset via recovery thing. i cant image your battery is toast
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
I have already reset it from recovery twice, and about 3-4 times from the watch menu. I am going to register it this eve and see what happens. This is not a problem I caused and I am hoping I can get some sort of patch pushed to it to fix it. I am guessing that is what they did for you. If they will not, I will just put it in its box and see if Tizen 4 will get pushed to it one day.
[Samsung Gear S3] Aintree Porsche:
I got my Frontier a few weeks ago with Verizon service. I get a lot of notifications because work send me emails every 5 minutes or so. I also get at least a few WhatsApps per hour. I keep screen time out at max 5 minutes. Yet the screen is always off when I turn my wrist! But No way do I make it 8 hours on a full charge. I had to buy an extra charger to keep on my desk.

Today I turned off the diagnostics setting. It was at 100% at 9 am. By 2pm it was at 45%. So figure 10% battery per hour. Still pretty horrible. Somebody should sell a zero lemon to go under the watch while you wear it so it can charge on the go.
[Samsung Gear S3] MersauX:
I disabled diagnostic reporting and health notifications and it seems to have worked. I'm not sure which one of the two though. But after almost 24 hours I still have 75% battery life left.
[Samsung Gear S3] bobodel:
reset,no update for samsung health, and evriting it"s ok.
[Samsung Gear S3] Tonesav:
Hi all same issue here last 4 days my s3 has only worked for 7 to 8 hours it was working for 3 days at a time it was working great until some app updates so far i have removed altimeter and tried to adjust Samsung Health settings.

Last night it ran for only 7 hours 39 minutes and shows mostly used by notifications so today's attempt is to turn off all notifications to see if it makes any difference.
[Samsung Gear S3] Tonesav:
Forgot to mention already reset my frontier s3
[Samsung Gear S3] Tonesav:
Used 4 percent in 3 hours so I guess that's working so now I'll need to think about turning on the notifications one by one till I find the culprit.

At least I know it's not my custom watch face ?
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
Mine is still having the problem after about 4 resets from the recovery menu, and maybe 3 from the watch itself. Before this started, I had the sensor on because I did not want to press a button to see the time, wifi was on auto, and all other watch settings were on their defaults. Even after turning off the sensor, diagnostics, heart rate sensor, svoice, and wifi I see no change. I also do not have any other watch faces on the device even though I do not see how that could be causing this. Most of the time my display is off, and only once face is active at a time. At least it stopped the rapid drain I was getting initially. Today I am going to box it up and put it away as I have wasted enough time on it. I may start using it again if I hear of a patch or Tizen 4 being pushed to it. Thanks to everybody who tried to help!
[Samsung Gear S3] MersauX:
It's now 2.5 days since the last charge and I'm still at 49%. Whatever was wrong seems to have gone away. I disabled diagnostic reporting and health notifications.
[Samsung Gear S3] Tonesav:
Turned on the first 16 notifications ie the ones above the line and seems OK so I guess a broken app further down the list that I have ignored
[Samsung Gear S3] edwardob:
what do you mean those above the line? what line?.... thanks
[Samsung Gear S3] Tonesav:
On mine there is a bolder line under WhatsApp all above are now on and all below are currently turned off I will check through the list later to see if there is any thing else I want notification wise
[Samsung Gear S3] edwardob:
s health update today...... m mmmm will it fix the problem...... we'll see
[Samsung Gear S3] Tonesav:
I got 31 percent used after 24 hours so looks like I'm fixed some rogue notification was killing my battery

The only thing I could see below the line that I might want was an alternative messenger ?
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
Well, just for the heck of it I just turned off pretty much everything on my watch and removed the Samsung app from my phone. Right now it is on Airplane mode, and I also manually turned off bluetooth, wifi, notifications, diagnostics, etc. I know, airplane mode should take care of most of those things anyway, but I want to be thorough. For some reason, I just could not put this thing back in its box just yet!! I am going to see where the battery is at the end of today and will report back. I pretty much am wearing just a standard watch right now, so I will see how this goes!
[Samsung Gear S3] Youdoofus:
dont give up on it just yet. this is the second time its done this since ive got it and im also betting that its a rogue notif from something thats just not showing up in the battery usage monitor.
[Samsung Gear S3] Youdoofus:
battery use since resetting

this is what my gear is at currently. back to being happy with it
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
That is pretty good! I hope I could get mine working that way!! :o
[Samsung Gear S3] Youdoofus:
i was very happy that the multiple resets got it back where it needed to be. Could havalso been a push from sammy like you said. Either way, im glad the outcome was a good one. dont give up hope yet bro
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
My experiment is already a failure. It was 100% at 8:30. It is 2:00 now and it is down to 83%. I may actually have a bad battery!
[Samsung Gear S3] edwardob:
new s health app update seems to do something.... drain is much less
[Samsung Gear S3] Tonesav:
Day 3 and 44 percent battery left mine is now working as expected with the notifications set that I actually want so definatly a rogue app in notifications for me ?
[Samsung Gear S3] Tonesav:
Forgot to add a screen shot
[Samsung Gear S3] edwardob:
9hrs later.... everything on..... except aod....5%loss only 9hrs...
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
From 6 this morn to now, 8am, my watch went from 100 to 93 percent battery. On the phone it shows Samsung Health as using 100% of the battery. How do I remove or disable this app? I already turned off the heart rate monitor. Maybe this is what is causing the problem. Edit: Just checked again, and now it shows watch faces as taking up 48%. I am just using the stock watch face "Minimal". It is also showing Gallery, Contacts, and Music Player taking up 1% each, and I never opened them.
[Samsung Gear S3] Tonesav:
My watch face was using alot so I recompiled and uploaded it to the watch and removed all other watch faces and this seemed to solve it. You might need to wait on a watch face update or just try a standard one for the time being.
[Samsung Gear S3] Tel864:
If that doesn't help, which it should, there is an updated Gear Plugin on Apkmirror that also has proven to help.
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
The only watch faces I have right now are the ones that come on it, which cannot be removed. I am pretty much out of options. I also reset it three more times last night, once from the watch menus, and twice from recovery. I either have a failing battery, or my watch needs some sort of update or patch. If these devices are supported in any way like Android devices, I doubt if I will see that. I searched for a way of reinstalling Tizen 3..0.0.2, and found a way of pushing a rom to it, but could not find clear instructions or a 3.0.0.2 image file.
[Samsung Gear S3] Tonesav:
Mines on 3.0.0.2 in the uk running software version R760XXU2CRH1 I did start looking at downgrading but had the same issue a lack of information and those that had resulted in OTA upgrade not long after.
[Samsung Gear S3] Tonesav:
Looks like I'm back up to almost 3 days per charge again, much better than the 7 hours I had but not as good as the 3.5 days per charge I had in my standard usage so I guess might be a bit more to find but I will await the next Samsung Health update and see what it brings ?
[Samsung Gear S3] MersauX:
Everything is back to normal. I think I even have better battery life than before.View attachment 4625788
[Samsung Gear S3] mattman86:
Same here... Averaging about 1.4% per hour now. Previously, I was getting about 2.3% per hour.
[Samsung Gear S3] jaime3344:
so strange alot of different issues draining battery for everyone. I didn't find anything draining my battery, but it seems to have slowed down a little over the past few days, I can get about 36hrs now vs 10hrs a few days ago without changing or updating anything..
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
I agree. Apparently if I still used my Android phone, an updated Gear plugin would help. No such thing on my iPhone. The Samsung Watch app is limited on IOS. I have found several IOS apps limited compared to their Android counterparts. I am out of options for my watch as nothing I have done has made any improvement.
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
Sadly, I am done with mine. It went from 100% to 30% in three hours this morning. I installed a few watch faces on it, and the battery usage shows that that is taking up 45% of the battery. I had this same face on it before and had no problems. It also shows Samsung Health taking up about 28%, and I have everything I could disable in that app disabled. Mine is being retired until Samsung releases a patch or an update to this watch. I will not be holding my breath on that however! :(:mad:
[Samsung Gear S3] edwardob:
it's fixed....... updated gear app..... and anything else... s health
[Samsung Gear S3] Alejuan2005:
Hi, what update?