Beta Software Battery Drain

[rderb001]

The only issue with the beta software is battery life. In the past I would use 15-20% of my battery in a single day. With the beta software doing the same things I use 100% battery twice a day. If there is not a fix soon I will need to drop out of beta.

[userZNnTdcqwZP]

Have you tried clearing cache partition? It might help with the battery draining issue and if the issue still occurs after wiping cache partition, then send report to dev.

[Jayman007]

How do you send dev report?  I too am having horrible battery drain issues with the beta on my galaxy watch 4.  Also, I lost connectivity to the Galaxy weat watch 4 manager and have uninstalled and reinstalled.  I can't get my watch registered in it.  The process gets to between 80-90% and stalls out and eventually I get an error.  I have tried all the troubleshooting steps but still no luck.  Last thing to try is full factory reset but I'm afraid I will lose my backups.  Where are the backups?  The watch is registered to both my google and samsung accounts but I can't find the backups in the cloud.

[Jayman007]

I just factory reset my 4 series and it has burned 20% in 2 hours of being on.  And this is with no special config on it.  Nearly every function is turned off.  I hate this.  All my backups are corrupted.  I have to config from scratch and with such HIGH battery usage, what's the point.  The watch is now garbage.  So I have to visit a service center to have it downgraded.

[Jayman007]

WARNING

Stay away from this beta on your galaxy watch 4.  The battery life is horrible and burns to empty within a few hours of taking it off the charger.  Samsung told me to take it to a service center to downgrade the software back to production but the local service center told me they don't have the adapter and to send it to Samsung.  Samsung said my 1 year warranty ended 2 months ago and that this is not a free service.

So before you think you want to try the beta, think 2x.  There are NO new features that make this a worthy risk and backing out will be a major PITA and could end up costing you.

BOOOOOO SAMSUNG!!!

[USBetaModerator2]

Hello ,
Thank you for your feedback.

Please submit an error report  through the Samsung Members or Galaxy Wearable app on your device:

- To provide feedback or to report bugs or errors in the Beta software, select "Contact us > Error reports" in the Galaxy Wearable app.

Note: To ensure relevant log information is included in the error report, submit the report within 3 minutes of encountering the bug or error, and do not terminate (swipe away) the Samsung Members application until you are notified that the report has been sent. This can take up to 5 minutes.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your contribution to the beta program.

Regards,
One UI Beta Team

[ppal1981]

Latest ZWF4 beta 2 is HORRIBLE. Battery drains in what feels like minutes. I did this beta stuff with Apple devices, and regretted it many times, and tried this time. Watch is basically useless now.

[Lexa83]

I do agree that the battery life is worse on this second update, just powering up my watch took 10% this morning, for transparency my Galaxy watch 4 is an LTE model so I know that always takes a little more power but still.... Even though I've rebooted it three times today because it doesn't show an active cellular connection for some reason I'm still at 34%, so it will probably just barely last until I take it off my wrist at 10:00 p.m..... such is the life of a beta tester I suppose, I always go into them hoping for just great new features in little bugs but I guess you have to kind of expect it

[userPgfstOFP5J]

Yesterday I went from 65% to dead in 12 hours. Today it seems to be back to normal.

[wnakia]

My biggest issue outside of the resetting a few times to get it to connect to my phone is battery drain. My watch would not need to be recharged before the day is out, I could be at 20-30% at 12-1 am. Now I'm at that by mid afternoon, almost dead by evening.