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Gear S3 Frontier battery drain on Tizen 3.0.0.2

(Topic created on: 18-10-2018 10:16 PM)
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cephalon
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Hi

 

I have recently updated my Gear S3 Frontier to Tizen 3.0.0.2
On Tizen 3.0.0.1, I had a battery life of approx 3 days - after updating to Tizen 3.0.0.2, I have a battery life of max 1,5 day.
1. Do other users experience the same?
2. Does anyone have an idea of what could suddenly drain my battery so quickly?

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Uzzi
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I reset my frontier s3 to factory and still the same problem,  battery drain really fast,  1 day max..

Paulgallen
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I called in to tech support and was told I need to send it in for.service, only 6 days old!

flausbert
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I had the exact same issue on a 6 months old watch!

 

My battery life was around 2 days as with most say with a moderate use of occasional GPS, few sports apps beside full time connection. 

 

then came one dreadful morning I woke up to a dead battery. Not suspecting much of it, I recharged again only to realize after 5-7 hours that battery evaporates (15-18% per hour). Unlike you, I had no update, did not change no setting, nothing - problem came out of nowhere.

 

The weird thing was that It did not matter If I turned on Power Saving mode or reset n number of times. All the same, battery gone in a few hours. Seeing that and similar issues online, I realized this is not something can be resolved. 

 

I was really pissed such a silly fault product can make its way to market with no way of knowing before hand. I have a ton of Samsung products from household items to gear 360 I was very happy with, but this was a real deal breaker. 

 

I took the watch to service, obviously under warranty and was very surprised the quality of service provided. They took the watch beg it, took my phone number and 3 days later issue was fixed. I see that they had to replace motherboard and battery which tells me something was fundamentally went wrong with the watch. 

 

It looks ok now but I must tell you that when almost brand new product that you really like suddenly becomes useless is quite a trust shaker. I will continue to opt for Samsung however I hope they clear such out of content issues promptly.

UrsusKnut
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@Paulgallen wrote:

I called in to tech support and was told I need to send it in for.service, only 6 days old!


Jesus Christ.... Thats serious BS!!!

REO1
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Just sent.mine back for 3rd time.  All they do is change battery.  NO fix.  

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ECE1974
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Turning off everything suggested in the forum has not helped me either, the battery is discharging at about 4 to 5 percent per hour after the first hour. I did not have a single issue with this watch until just a few ago.  I use the sleep monitor and step count only, I went to bed with the watch at 87% battery, and when I woke up (6.5 hours later) was given the warning of low battery.  Thought nothing of it,  figured I must have hit something to have the display on or something while I was sleeping. Since that point,  have done everything in the forum,  and the problem persists.  There is a problem with one of the last updates,  not sure which one,  but I have now turned off the auto update feature.  This is horrible. 

Rajivpaudel
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Ridiculous. Just bought the watch yesterday . Configured and was loving it .slept wearing it to see the sleep tracking. Now in the morning I find watch is dead. It was 100 % just 6 hts earlier. Guess have to return this back. Really disappointed

Dr-Kuldip
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No not possible to go back on old version 

Dr-Kuldip
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No any solution, just rate them 1 star on play store then they will take care of your issue. 

Dr-Kuldip
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Just give 1 star on play store for this gear app