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[Samsung Gear S3] deepfresh:
Fast Battery drain !

Hi All users,

I bought the watch in October 2017. Model RM-760. The charge was going very badly for the last one month. The charge of my watch was only going for half a day. I took it to an authorized service center (in Istanbul/TURKIYE). They changed the battery. They didn't get paid. Changed battery by warranty. But the problem continues. I turn on the watch at 6:00 am while it on full charge. Battery charge ends in the afternoon at 17:00 . Software version 3.0.0.2. The charge decreases by 10% - 15% within one hour.

Very bad situation.

I'm researching other brand watch to buy.
[Samsung Gear S3] mpappas87:
I turned off all detection on S Health and heart rate sensor and it seems to have helped the battery a little bit not much though. Is anyone else having their storage space get used up without doing anything? I haven't installed anything and my available space is decreasing almost as fast as the battery drains. I did a reset yesterday and it is already down to only about 800MB available.
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
I just got off an online chat with Samsung support. The person I was chatting with said they were going to release a patch over the next few weeks to resolve the battery drain issue. He also said he was not aware of a Tizen 4 update in the works. Here is part of the chat:

TRANSCRIPT OF YOUR RECENT CHAT SESSION ON 10/28/2018

Connecting you to a Care Pro now.

Titus K (Samsung Agent)(10-28-2018 02:02:25 PM)

Thank you for reaching out to US technical support team. I'll quickly go through the conversation.

Titus K (Samsung Agent)(10-28-2018 02:02:55 PM)

Michael, please go ahead with the issue. We'll work on it.

User (10-28-2018 02:03:27 PM)

I am having a problem with battery drain on my Gear S3 Frontier watch

User (10-28-2018 02:03:37 PM)

Started about 3 weeks ago

User (10-28-2018 02:04:24 PM)

I was wondering if there was going to be some update patch or an update to Tizen 4 for this device

Titus K (Samsung Agent)(10-28-2018 02:04:40 PM)

We are aware of a limited number of reports about our Gear S3 watches experiencing shortened battery life and will be releasing an update in the coming weeks to address this issue.

User (10-28-2018 02:05:13 PM)

It does not seem to be a hardware problem, but there is a lot of reports about it on yours and other internet forums

User (10-28-2018 02:05:36 PM)

OK. Will this watch get the Tizen 4 update?

Titus K (Samsung Agent)(10-28-2018 02:06:10 PM)

I'll take this as a feedback and forward this to our team so that our team will look up this at the earliest.

User (10-28-2018 02:06:23 PM)

Or is this patch \ update something else?

User (10-28-2018 02:06:42 PM)

Can you answer my question?

Titus K (Samsung Agent)(10-28-2018 02:07:00 PM)

As of now, there is not an update. However, when there is an update release, it will be notified in the watch to update.

User (10-28-2018 02:07:39 PM)

OK, so right now, this device should at least get an update to fix the battery issue in the next few weeks?

Titus K (Samsung Agent)(10-28-2018 02:08:25 PM)

Yes you got it correct. Our team is on it and I'll also forward this to our team on your behalf.

Titus K (Samsung Agent)(10-28-2018 02:09:00 PM)

As soon as the update is released, this will resolve the issue and helps in performing better.

User (10-28-2018 02:09:07 PM)

Thank you. I have stopped wearing the watch, but will power it up every now and then to check for an update. Thank you.

Titus K (Samsung Agent)(10-28-2018 02:09:35 PM)

Sure, that will help in updating the watch.

Titus K (Samsung Agent)(10-28-2018 02:09:40 PM)

You're welcome. Is there anything else I can assist you with?

User (10-28-2018 02:09:54 PM)

Not right now

Titus K (Samsung Agent)(10-28-2018 02:10:10 PM)

I am hoping this is correct and just thought I would forward this to everybody who has read this thread.
[Samsung Gear S3] naturaldisasta:
Everytime I have issues with the watch filling up the storage - sometimes within 2-3 days after a full watch reset, using only stock apps!

Each time, it seems to always point to contacts being the culprit. Along with the massive battery drain for both watch and phone while its keeps trying send sync zips of contacts info.

How I have tackled this:

Reset watch completely. Leave it disconnected and charging for now

Remove all of the gear apps, including galaxy wearable. Typically the supporting apps will request removal as well automatically

Use an app like ES File Explorer and navigate to storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.samsung.accessory.contacts folder

You will see a "send" folder in here - typically this will either be filled with hundreds of JSON zip files (The first time I checked this folder - there were 40,000+ files consuming 2GB!!!) which appear to be contact sync packages being sent to your watch. Something is obviously broken with the app because either they accumulate, or you can see the packages being created constantly and then being deleted. Both behaviors consume massive amounts of battery and fill up your watch storage. Delete the send folder at this stage

Reboot the phone, and then connect the watch to your phone.. it will download the apps you need again automatically (at least they did on my galaxy s8)

Watch as contacts goes crazy all over again. I normally let it go for a while. Like an hour or two. Leave the watch on the charger still

Turn off bluetooth on your phone and delete the "send" folder

create an empty blank file called "send" (case sensitive) in the com.samsung.accessory.contacts folder. Now turn bluetooth back on.

After I go thru this process - it appears that the "send" file stops the folder being recreated, and the contacts stops using all of your battery, and your watch storage stays happy. What is the long term issue here? Obviously you dont have a synced copy of your contacts after a period of time. What I do is a manual process to resync - delete the send file from the folder, reboot phone and watch. The send folder will be created again, and you can see the watch going thru the contact sync process by the JSON files being created in its vicious cycle all over again. Once you are happy that enough time has gone by that surely.. surely the sync has achieved something, then turn bluetooth off again, delete the send folder, and create the send file for the "hack" to work again.

My plan is to check after each contact app update or Tizen update to see if the problem exists. In this respect ES File Explorer and its "logger" function is very handy to see what files are being created on your phone which is how I identified the issue for myself.

Hope this helps - long term it may cause other problems - its entirely up to you to take the risk and try for yourself and see if it helps.
[Samsung Gear S3] mpappas87:
Hmmm, I suspect it has to be a sync issue something like you're describing however when i check the send folder it is empty. Could be they get deleted on their own after a time it has been several days since I even tried using my watch since it only last a couple of hours. I will connect it when I get home and see what happens hope it works.
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
I just turned mine on after a week, and after setting it up again, it showed there was an update to it. When I told it to download, nothing happened, then when I rechecked for updates, it told me it already was up to date. Have any of you received any kind of update over the past week?
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
Woke up this morning and the watch is still draining, so I guess no update was installed. Have no idea why that even popped up. However, my phones battery drained all the way down overnight. The battery utility showed the Samsung Galaxy Watch app took up 97% of it. Under Galaxy Watch, it says "audio". Unless I was sleep walking, I never used the watch for anything audio related.
[Samsung Gear S3] naturaldisasta:
If Contacts is listed as a high battery consumption watch app - delete the send folder, replace with the send file.. In my case, 95% of battery use was contacts. You won't always catch the sync JSON files appearing in the send folder - just refresh the view every second and wait and see there is always some JSON files being created.

"Watch" as your watch lasts for 2 days. Contacts moved from 95-99% overall consumption, to 1%.

Today, with heavy watch use, 14 hrs, 8m, 39s so far @68% with estimated 1 day, 16 hours to go still.
[Samsung Gear S3] mpappas87:
Contacts shows 1% my biggest battery percent is Samsung Health at 25% I have everything I can think of disabled. I can see with ES Explorer where it keeps creating those JSON files on my phone. I may just have to break down and send the damned thing in for warranty repair. I should have known better than to buy it, everything I buy Samsung except for tablets has always been junk.
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
Well, apparently Samsung just told me a bunch of crap and there is no update for this watch. Just like Android devices, after they are a year old and the next model comes out, all support is dropped for them. This will be the last Samsung product I purchase.
[Samsung Gear S3] fitwright:
Drain Seems to be Android 8.0

So all of my battery drain problems started when I connected my Gear S3 Frontier to my new LG V30 Plus running Android 8.0. Went through all the suggestions to try and get it to drain less but to no avail. I decided to reboot in Recovery mode and reset everything from there. After it was back on I paired and connected it to my older LG V20 (rooted) running Android 7.0. Since then it's only lost 2% charge in just over 1 hour. All other settings, etc.. are identical to when it was connected to the LG V30/Android 8.0.

So it would appear to me its Android 8.0 but not sure what it is about it.
[Samsung Gear S3] oski_58:
Guys.i have drain problem. İ send my watch service. They say Mother board have problem. They changed the motherboard. And my drain problem fixed.
[Samsung Gear S3] artur.r:
Today, Samsung Gear S3 Frontier users in the USA started to receive a software update that promises to fix an Issue with sudden battery drain. This problem seems to happen when the wearable device was paired to certain mobile models. The firmware version is R760XXU2CRK2/R760OXA2CRK2 :

- Fixed an issue of sudden battery drain when connected to certain smartphone models.

- Improved reliability of downloading app from the Galaxy App Store.

https://www.iotgadgets.com/2018/11/...-the-usa-to-fix-sudden-battery-drain-problem/
[Samsung Gear S3] spike371:
In Germany too.

I did not have problems with the "older" Version, my S3 lasted 2-3 days as always. But an update is an update, will give it a try.
[Samsung Gear S3] mpappas87:
That's awesome. Now I just wait 6 more months for Verizon to roll out their version.
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
I installed this update earlier this morning. So far, after three hours, the battery is at 98% so I may be fixed!! :highfive: If so, I will take back all of the bad things I have been thinking about Samsung the last few weeks!! :D
[Samsung Gear S3] mpappas87:
Still no update on the watch for me however I installed an update on my S9 and it seems to be much better so far.

Edit: Seems I spoke too soon. Was good for about 36 hours then started losing about 20% per hour and storage is slowly filling up again.
[Samsung Gear S3] Waldir Arruda:
Me too! #samsungneveragain Very disapointed.

Me too! #samsungneveragain Very disapointed. Total disrespect!
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
Mine has been working great since I downloaded the patch on the 16th of this month. The battery is actually lasting longer than it did before I started having issues. I just hope it stays like this! Now the big question is if this watch gets the Tizen 4 update, do I dare install it?? :confused::eek:
[Samsung Gear S3] mpappas87:
So mine seems to have settled down. Storage dropped down to 906.4MB and battery goes down about 2% per hour. I don't use it much but it was going completely dead in about 4 hours and storage was completely disappearing in less than 2 days.
[Samsung Gear S3] cristianleguiz:
I bought recently an s3 it came with tizen 2.0 did you recommend update to 3.0. It's better or worse? Or I have to wait until maybe 4.0 and skip this?

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[Samsung Gear S3] mpappas87:
I'd avoid it. If your watch is doing everything you want it to do and performing well with good battery life don't chance it.
[Samsung Gear S3] Monopoli:
Try this

Battery calibration dial ×#0228# in gear and celebrate it

Give me thanks if it works.
[Samsung Gear S3] pacherecords:
That dial only shows battery stats
[Samsung Gear S3] B1gD1ckJohnsson:
I had the same problem with my 3 week old S3 frontier. All good until 4 days ago. I tried resetting the gear, unninstal app on my phone (for now i have an iphone), but nothing happened. I read somewhere (in this thread I guess, I really don't remember where) that one guy just shut down his gear for some time and it worked for him. I tried the same thing, fully charged, BT an Wifi off, I swiched off the gear and let it that way about 25 hours. Saturday (15 dec. at 1 pm) I switch it on with 100% battery (I didn't connected the gear to my phone at all), now (monday 17 dec. 5 pm) I have 78%. I don't know what was that but I think somehow it worked.
[Samsung Gear S3] paggps:
Battery Drain here too

Hello,

I am having the same issues described in this thread about battery drain on my Gear S3 Frontier.

At the beginning, I got 2 days of use (AOD, WiFi automatic), which was very acceptable.

Now I am getting only 1 day of battery, same apps, same kind of use.

I have tested all the recipes I have found (changing Gear Plugin, factory reset, etc, etc).

The problem I think is on Samsung Health:

Checking with the "battery" option on the Wearable App, Samsung Health it is the top battery drainer with 30%, followed by "Watch Faces" with just 14%.

Anyone has found a working solution to this problem ?

By the way, my Gear S3 is with firmware R760XXU2CRH1. I don´t know why I am not receiving the "new" R760XXU2CRK2 which supposedly addresses the battery issue...

Thanks.
[Samsung Gear S3] mikekoz:
A patch was pushed to the S3 Gear several weeks ago that resolved this, at least for me (I was using an iPhone at the time). They said it was caused by synchronization with some phones, but did not go into specifics. I just turned on wifi on the watch and had it check for an update. Only took about 5 minutes to download and install. I did a hard reset of the watch after that and it worked great!
[Samsung Gear S3] non.verbal:
hey guys i actually have exact same problem. and the thing is i had 2 watches already. i bought first one about one and a half year ago. i installed every update on it and never had a problem. got to sell it after i ran into some financial problems. later on i get second one like 1 month ago and now im experiencing batt drain issue like you guys. after a day of same kind of usage as i did with first watch my battery was empty in less than a day
[Samsung Gear S3] DaWeav:
I had the same issue a few months ago. Below in my post about replacing the S3 battery. it sure seems to me after reading through these forums that the battery only last an average of a year and a half.

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=77416644
[Samsung Gear S3] nascar48:
I think this is close to the LG class action suit regarding the bootloop issues at this point. Anyone know if there's a case here?

I mean my gear S3 cost $350 and only worked until tizen 3.0 when Samsung intentionally brinked it.

It's certainly a software issue not battery issue because so many temporary fixes work but then stop working after a week.
[Samsung Gear S3] weerahul:
I think I have solution!!!

Hello Everyone, I have been facing similar issue with my Gear 3 which I bought about 3 months back. Post the update, my battery wouldn't last 3hours while it used to easily see me through 2 days before the update. After following earlier advise of reset, turning off HRM, Bezel wake etc. my issue was still not resolved.

So finally(and really frustrated), I put my watch on Power Save Mode. For the first two hour, there was no change to battery drain and i lost about 45% of battery while being on Power Save Mode. However once i reached 50% mark while still on Power Save Mode, I lost only 1% in next 2 hours. I continued to keep the watch on Power Save Mode for another 2 hours and didnt lose a single %.

Then I turned the watch to regular mode with all applications running, to my surprise my battery was back to old self!!! I tested my watch for the next two days before posting this and I am getting little more than 2 days of battery life. I am not sure what fixed this, cos my watch is still using the most updated version but I am glad it did.

Sharing it with you to check and let me know if this works!!!
[Samsung Gear S3] nascar48:
Yep this is a possible solution. However it will revert back to having problems again for you in a week or two unless tizen 4 fixed the Samsung health battery drain causing the issue in the first place...
[Samsung Gear S3] Illusive Man:
I spent a lot of time reading and trying different solutions and nothing works. I even contemplated sending the watch back into Samsung for repair but read a few posts on various forums about getting the watch back and having the same issues. In the end, I believe that Samsung used a cheap battery that goes bad quickly. I finally caved in and ordered a replacement battery from Amazon for $23.99. It even came with the screwdrivers needed to do the repair. The watch case is a little hard to get open (the guys in the videos make it seem easy, but don't believe it). In the end, doing this put my woes to rest and now I'm enjoying my watch again. I actually get more battery life out of it now (a little over 2 days) than I did when it was new.
[Samsung Gear S3] p51d007:
I found a great way to save the battery. Most won't like it, since it requires TWO HANDS to operate the watch.

I work in the electronic service field. Daily, I have to use a screwdriver, and, I am LEFT HANDED. After a typical day, I've

used anywhere from 45-60% of the battery. After turning off the wake up gesture, I'm on my 3rd day and still have

45% left. Yes, it means using my right hand to wake up the watch, but, that's not a big deal since the time isn't something

I worry about, but notifications are, which wake up the watch anyway.
[Samsung Gear S3] tperki:
I agree totally with Illusive Man... my S3 battery was shot. I couldn't even boot the watch - it just shut right down. I got over a years use before it started having problems, so I agree, the batteries are cheap. Mine was bulging, a sure sign of a bad battery. It explains why the charger kept flashing red, never went green to indicate a good charge.

So I too bought the $23 battery kit (mine from eBay), which came with the special Y screwdriver. I had to grind down the tip of the screwdriver to get it to fit right. You have to push down quite hard to get the screwdriver to "bite", but in the end I got it done. The new battery is great! I am getting an 8 hour day on 10-12% battery drain. Over 87% left. The procedure is not for the faint of heart, the guts on this are teeny (screws and flat cables). But I was rewarded with a working watch!!!
[Samsung Gear S3] p51d007:
Update on turning OFF the "flick the wrist to wake up". Charged watch Sunday night, runs 24/7. At the end of the day

Thursday, still had 14% battery left. That's even with the tons of phone calls, text message notifications, calendar

notifications etc.
[Samsung Gear S3] alekhkhanna:
Gonna try this and see. Though the Wear app says Contacts is using 60% of the battery. :confused:
[Samsung Gear S3] dnkeyhnter:
mine did the same thing yesterday.
[Samsung Gear S3] alekhkhanna:
So what I noticed is if you take even a single call via the watch, Contact keeps on running and ****s up your battery.

Either restart the watch after every call or don't take calls on the watch. That seems the only way.
[Samsung Gear S3] ghaassaan1:
3 month after bad update

Samsung no response

I have 6 device from Samsung

I'll destroy them all

By by Samsung

Transfer to apple
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] TiltedAz:
It's been a while since I purchased an android phone.

If I want to continue using Project Fi initially but also be able to switch between carriers later, am I better off purchasing the Unlocked or the Project Fi phone? It's not clear if the project Fi phone is locked to the google network.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] Mech8:
fi is the unlocked version of the phone but you usually get better incentives for buying through fi because you agree to use the service for soo long.. but no worry. as long as you use fi as one of the carriers you can dual sim also.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] bsg411:
Google doesn't ha e thier own network... the project file bounces between TMobile Sprint and Verizon networks I believe.... So the phone has to be unlock to do that. The unlocked and fi version I believe are the same phone. But we will may e someone else can come firm whether the fi version will have the OEM unlocking ability.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] TiltedAz:
Yes, Project Fi is a mobile virtual network. I've been on it since the beginning invitation period. I'm still rolling a Nexus 6 so it's been a while since I shopped a google phone and was surprised to see 3 different phone options: Unlocked (works on all major carriers), VZ (includes sim), and Project Fi.

I requested a Project Fi phone support callback but no response after almost 2 hours now. I suspect they are swamped with new product sales and are putting low priority on questions.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] radionerd:
It's the same unlocked phone, and same price for fi or unlocked purchase.

I don't see any difference in price between buying unlocked or Fi phones. They are both unlocked. Just setup Fi on your eSIM, and then you can add a second carrier without any changes.

Edit: I looked again, there is a discount if you buy two Pixel3's and sign up a new user:

Get $799 Fi credit when you buy two and add a new Fi user to your plan. Terms apply

I've had Fi for Wife, kid, and me for over a year. Last months bill was $59.43 for three devices.

I have fi on my eSIM, and have a Verizon SIM that I use as my primary network. 99% of the time I'm on Verizon, but when I need it I use FiSwitch app "COOL APP! by an XDA developer" to swap sims. It's a one button press to switch from SIM to eSIM, takes about 10 seconds to switch. Normally my unused gig of data is used by the Kid and Wife.

I bought a Pixel3 "not Pink" for wifey, and a Pixel3 128 XL black for me. The Kid will get Wife's old Pixel, and Grandpa will get my old Pixel2 XL. I will put Pops on my Fi account and save him a boat load of money from the evil AT&T elder abusing up-sellers.
[General Questions and Answers] MasinMancy:
I checked a few of the "read before posting" bulletins and I have ended up here for this.

Rather than doing what I've done in the past and trying to ise google kingroot and youtube to root phones, I've decided to actually surf these forums to learn and understand. I'm actually gonna be using these forums as reading material in addition to asking this question.

So here it is-

A while back I attempted to root my LG Stylo 2+ and institute the blackberry globe plan. I wish I could share the source material; not only have I forgotten how to reach the information, i dont even remember why I stopped.

There was some interesting stuff. After successfully rooting the phone, I believe there were steps involving communication with a tower. Idk, i am not an expert, just sounded like really cool stuff.

Any information on how I can achieve the ability to call and text for free would be really cool. And honestly if theres anything better than the globe plan ill take it, lol but if not ill take what I can get.

Very grateful for your help gentlemen. Like what ya'll are about here.