26-05-2019 11:45 AM
Hi Folks,
My Gear S3 battery is draining like CRAZY since the One UI update! I took it off the power at 08.00hrs this morning and it went down to 20% by 12.00hrs (noon)!!! That's with the wifi OFF, with the gps OFF, with hardly any usage and with no apps running in the background! I am extremely disappointed with Samsung! Its ridiculous that this is still happening after all those complaints from thousands of users who faced similar issues following previous updates over the last few years! You would have thought they would have fixed it by now. But no. When I had this problem during an earlier update I found that installing an older version (from a third party website) of the Gear S plugin fixed the problem. It seems this new update has gotten rid of that earlier plugin and the new plugin is killing it. I tried re-installing the old plugin but it failed this time, so I suppose they've blocked it. I completely reset my watch now but I think nothing will change. If I have any improvement I will post it on here.
Anybody else facing the same problem? Any solutions???
11-06-2019 10:47 PM
I already did following:
Tried a reset - no improvement, tried turning on touch to wake - no improvement, tried turning AOD off and back on again - no improvements.
Has made no significant difference - battery still draining rapidly.
12-06-2019 01:26 AM
Enable what activation?
What is "via touch of the watch"?
12-06-2019 01:31 AM
12-06-2019 06:56 AM - last edited 12-06-2019 07:00 AM
Go to SETTINGS on the watch then choose ADVANCED then choose TOUCH WAKE-UP and turn it to on.
12-06-2019 12:31 PM
Als my Gear S3 battery is draining like CRAZY since the One UI update! It cannot hold even 12 hours. What happened after resetting to factory defaults? Is tehere any impovement? As you see the e-mail program is the biggest reason !
12-06-2019 12:39 PM
12-06-2019 04:36 PM
Once you do as say above the watch is back to normal.
12-06-2019 04:59 PM
13-06-2019 11:21 AM
13-06-2019 05:40 PM - last edited 13-06-2019 05:42 PM
@Aceselect - Your fix has not worked for me.