Gear S will not power back up or charge after battery went dead while wearing

Wow, all I can say is I've been a Gear user since the original. I skipped the Gear 2 and Neo because I felt they were too similar to the original Galaxy Gear. I got my Gear S recently, about a month ago off contract from ATT. In all, I have been very happy with my purchase. It is definitely an upgrade to say the least. Maybe I miss the camera a little bit. But anyway, I was wearing my watch, normal day nothing major. I noticed that the battery was going to be dead before I got home that day. So I tried the battery saver option that is on the watch. Needless to say, this didn't work very well, as the watch kept dropping battery like it was going out of style. Sidenote: I've been getting at least a full days use out of the watch no problem after the newness factor wore off. Well the battery went dead while I was at dinner with some co-workers. I was slightly disappointed because one of my co-workers asked about the watch. And I couldn't show it off to them. I had to tell them that it died, which was kind of stupid and really spoke to why wear a dead watch on your wrist. What's the point? But anyway. I got home to re-charge by watch battery. My charging cradle is not broken, all charging pins are fine. It clips onto the watch fine. No problems here. I could not get the watch to charge. Everytime I clipped the charger on the watch there was no response from the watch. But the charger LED would turn on, letting me know that a connection had been established. I played and toyed with all types of things, I tried plugging into a computer. I read somewhere that this might fix the problem. No Luck. Finally I called Samsung, to ship the watch back for repair.

I'm wondering if anyone has ever had this problem. Have you ever let your watch go completely dead and had any problems charging?

Overall the Gear S is a decent watch, I just wish that Samsung would take as much pride in their watches as they are starting to do with they're phones. Better materials, such as a metal casing for a watch of this caliber would have been a major win. Just seems like most manufacturers coming out with watches now are using nicer materials and concentrating more on style. I would like to have the style with all of the functionality the Tizen OS. Android wear seems to be too locked down right now. Just my two cents. What do you guys think?

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