Thanks darius18. Much appreciated. The auto software update feature on the watch is not picking up that a new version is available. Samsung told me I will need to go to one of their repair centres to get it manually installed.    Also noticed from another recent post that Gear S Plugin 2.2.03.18121461 is supposed to significantly improve battery life. Can someone verify whether this has worked for them? ... View more

Thanks Fred35 that explains it. I'm still sutck on R760xxu2crh1, also connecting to an iPhone 7+   Dear Santa, Please bring me version R760xxu2crk2 for Christmas and I promise I will get straight A's and eat my veggies...       ... View more

Hey Darius18,   3 days with BT turned ON is a huge improvement. Can you share:   1. Is it a Gear Frontier S3 watch? 2. What phone / model is it connecting to? 3. Tizen version? 4. Software version? 5. Knox version?     ... View more

Forgot to metion.... the 3.5 days is before this latest up-coming fix, which hasn't come through yet where I'm based. Hopefully it will improve it even further, especially after I upgrade to a Note 9 in 3 weeks' time. Will let you all know... cheers ... View more

Thanks sooby. Good to know.   I purchased my Gear S3 Frontier in April 2018. It connects to my iPhone 7+. I also have an old Note 4.   This is how I get 3.5 days: - Default digital watch face - I have heart rate, steps, date, and battery % in each small quadrant. - Remove altometer widget - S health workout notifications all set to OFF/disabled.   - Bluetooth and WiFi are OFF permanently. Turn BT ON once a day to synch and then turn it OFF immediately after. - I wear mine to bed for sleep tracking. Before going to bed, set it to Do not disturb, and power saving ON.   Noticed I got a significant improvement in battery life when connecting to the Note 4. Reading the article, it seems Samsung recognised there was an issue with certain phone types, and I would say the iPhone 7+ was one of those.      ... View more

Update since my last post: After several days of testing here are my results, which will hopefully be of some assistance to some. --> High battery usage was caused by a number of non-default Watch Faces. The animated ones were the worst. --> Deleting the non-default Watch faces did not make any difference to high battery usage. They seem to stay in RAM. --> Remediation steps: 1) Factory reset 2) Do not restore previous configs. Reconfigure it from scratch. 3) Only use the default watch faces - the B&W Digital clock face is the one I use. Tip: You'll need the Samsung phone Gear app to customise it if you want to change some of the indicators to things like 'Battery'. The iPhone Gear app doesn't let you change it. You're stuck with only being able to toggle between Steps/HR/Date/World Clock.   Once I did this, I got 2.5 days out of a full charge. This is because I have Bluetooth On all the time and I do a one hour workout everyday, so it could have been even better. Note: I do sleep tracking so before going to sleep I enable 'Do not disturb' and 'Power Save'. Another interesting find was that after enabling Wifi and Location On during the day, I still got 2 full days of battery charge. All in all I am really impressed with this watch and cannot wait to explore more of its features as time goes on. cheers.      ... View more

Same here. I'd be lucky to get more than 24 hrs out of it with everything turned off except Bluetooth. I am currently waiting for a 'highly trained technical expert' from Samsung to call me back with a response. :-) ... View more