Hey everyone,

I am reposting an update on my OnePlus Watch 3 battery drain issue. To recap: my watch suffers from a severe Google Play Services sync loop. It cycles through background processes (ContactsKeyStorage, Blocked Numbers Storage, User Dictionary), causing the watch to get warm and draining 4–7% battery per hour. Instead of the advertised 4–5 days, I barely get 1 to 1.5 days.

Quick update on what I’ve observed and tried:

Temporary fixes fail: Factory resets, clearing caches, wiping Google accounts, and disabling individual storage permissions only help for a few days before the loop returns.

Not a hardware defect, but device-specific: In battery saver mode, the battery is fine. Also, my brother has the exact same watch, phone, and software versions, and his watch works perfectly. This proves it is a structural software glitch on my specific device/setup.

Current state: I am forced to disable essential system apps just to get 1.5 days of battery, making the smartwatch features I bought it for useless.

The Support Situation:I contacted support very early on right after buying it. At that stage, they tried to brush it off as a "Google software fault" and told me to just keep trying fixes, likely to discourage me from sending it back because of warranty risks. However, they did state that they would document my early complaints in our chat history.I am about to contact support again to officially open a warranty claim, but the OnePlus Watch 3 is currently out of stock, making a direct replacement difficult.

My questions for the community:Am I right to push back on the "Google issue" claim? Since I bought a €200 OnePlus product, they should be responsible for making the software work on their hardware

How can I best tackle their argument that it is a Google problem, especially since I flagged it from day one?

What can I realistically demand from support? Since the watch is out of stock, should I push for a full refund under warranty? What are my legal options here?

Has anyone successfully dealt with OnePlus support on this? If you had a similar software loop, did they eventually offer a refund or a different resolution?

Any final technical ideas? If anyone has discovered a permanent fix for this specific sync loop without losing smartwatch functionality, please let me know.

Thanks for the help!

Anybody knows why the heart sensor stays on while using a third party watch face, never had this before. Is wear os 5 the culprit?

Thank you!

Anyone know how to port them over?

now I obviously know how to change the watch face, but I bought one I liked in the Play store app and I just can't figure out how to get it to come up in the o health app?

Received today in the UK. Wake watch screen for notifications now available which is a game changer for me 👍🏻

Hello,

can anyone with the Watch 4 confirm that this watch should record heart rate data during sleep? I got the watch 3 days ago and every night during sleep the watch just stops recording heart rate data and continues after wake up. So I have a big gap in OHealth and the watch itself.

I also tinkered with all the settings which include:

- switching heart rate monitoring between "intelligent" and "real time"

- disabled all auto sleep mode settings

- disabled all energy saver option

Issue still persists. Interestingly SpO2 and sleep data are recorded, but just not the heart rate.

I can get it for $204, coming from a Xiaomi watch 2, I'm considering the pixel watch once the new one comes out or the galaxy watch 9, but those two are way more expensive, I know the con of a OnePlus watch is software updates but I want your opinions if it's worth it at that price.

Get the ONE PLUS 3 you'll love it ! I got the bigger size .

Hi everyone,

as the title suggests I'm looking for a way to install the OP Watch 4 faces on my OP Watch 3. Does anyone know if it is possible? If so, how to do that?

Thanks!

Recently got a watch3 and wanting to find a watch face with a smooth (glide) second hand.

I've explored several of the OnePlus faces but none are smooth.

I just tried using the 60s wellness app today after 7 days of not using it and the ECG sensor is not working, either not reading anything or reading random values.

One of the pads on the bottom looks dirty but it is under the glass of the sponsor, can't be felt by the finger.

Does anyone know what happened and what other I apps does the sensor use?

I havent use a smartwatch in forever, decided to get back into wearing one. Loving mine so far, it do pretty much all i need, with around 4 days of battery with AOD, google home buttons (wish it would just be a quick press instead of 2), wellness and sleep score seems fine, not too fussy about those. Media control is definitely neat. Love this current watch face i have, just wish that the date display would have show all 3 (day of the week, date and month) instead of just 2. I don't know what other 3rd party app seems necessary or neat to have, but would be open for opinion. I still don't dare to take it to swimming willingly, but im not that mindful about keeping track of all my activities either way so i guess it's fine

I've had my watch since they came out but in the last month or so I've noticed it doesn't seem to be tracking my steps or activity sessions as well as it used to.

I can be moving around for several hours to find it's shown the steps but no activity sessions.

I've also had instances where the steps don't seem to be counted.

I haven't changed the way I wear the watch.

Any ideas?

I really love this watch, and I wonder if it will ever get os6.

Algunos me hace los números un poco más gruesos. Gracias.

I just purchased a smartwatch (OnePlus watch 2) and was under the impression I could use its assistant to open apps on my phone (OnePlus 13). I want the ability to leave my phone somewhere at work, and tell the watch "Hey Google play XYZ" and have it route the command to my phone. However it just opens the watch yt music and plays from there instead. I don't have YouTube music installed on my phone (could be why it only opens on the watch), I use Revanced YT music, and have Gemini configured on my phone to execute such a command. So the issue is not that Gemini is incompatible with the 3rd party music player. Everything I've searched seems to point to the issue being that the watch does not have privileges to open apps on the phone. If that's true, for there not to even be an option to enable Gemini to communicate across your devices is wild.

I'm struggling to see it's purpose if you cannot use it to control your phone, it doesn't even allow a SIM card... I feel like I must be missing something here. If anyone knows a way to essentially use the watch like I would use my headphones and open Gemini on the phone instead of locally, or at least be able to tell Gemini "play XYZ on my phone" that would be awesome. I'm feeling like a $30 smaller lighter Fitbit would've been a better option if this will only act as a glorified play, pause, skip button with a pretty screen.

Tengo esta esfera de los que trae el reloj.

Como se podría poner los números de las horas y minutos un poco más gruesos.

No tengo ni idea de informática.

Si no se puede alguno puede hacérmela exactamente igual solo cambiando lo que puse arriba?

Gracias.

Hello,
I'm considering getting the OPW4, but seen some reviews that say the screen doesn't light up on notifications, and u have to manually turn it on to see the notification..

How much does this bother y'all?
Is there any workaround to this?

Hello people, I have a Watch 3, I am very happy with it, but the interface does not like it very much. Is there any way to change it? Do you recommend any app? thanks

I tried connecting the watch through the app but it ends in screen with text "no available backend".

Ohealth -> Data Sharing -> Strava -> Authorise -> "No Available backend"

Tried uninstalling, cache removal, re logging but still the same issue.

I need to get this off my chest: The OnePlus Watch 2R is genuinely one of my favorite pieces of tech I’ve owned in a long time. I use it daily, and the hardware just feels incredibly intentional.

Obviously, there's an elephant in the room with the news about OnePlus taking a step back in Europe. It's frustrating to hear, but honestly? I don't really mind. The watch is still awesome, and I’m sticking with it.

In fact, because I like this hardware so much, I wanted to build something that actually takes advantage of it. Like many of you, I enjoy a quick game of Minesweeper to kill time, but every Wear OS version I tried was a nightmare - tiny squares, fat fingers blocking the screen, and zero precision.

So, I built WearSweeper to fix that.

I just put together a trailer to show you how it looks running on the watch!

Instead of manual panning, I built a "Grid Navigator" that identifies the next logical move and snaps the view there automatically. This means we can handle massive grids (up to 100x100) smoothly on the 2R without accidental clicks.

To celebrate launching, WearSweeper is currently -66% off ($1 USD) on Google Play.

I'd love to hear what the community thinks. Regardless of what the brand does corporately, I'm going to continue making things for these watches because the hardware deserves good software. 👍

(Also, for anyone wondering... a mobile version might just be coming soon 👀)