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Battery is dying at fast rate

For the past 3 days my battery is dropping at an incredibly fast rate. Even if its idle it will drop about 20 % every half hour with little to no use. I rooted my phone and am now running fresh with kings kernel but no change. I an even dropping in airplane mode. What can it be? I left it at 90% connected to wifi with the sync off and when I woke up 6 hours later it was at 20%. Any solutions?

Sounds like mine, just turning on the screen drops the batter 1-2%.

Hit menu and click on settings. From there, go to About Phone and then to Battery. Note the awake time and turn the screen off for thirty seconds or so. Turn the screen back on and check the awake time again. If it's not within five to ten seconds of the time you noted before you turned the screen off, something is keeping your phone awake, which does a number on the battery.

square parts or system panel might give a better idea of what specifically is draining your battery, or preventing it from sleeping correctly.

It seems fine, about 15 seconds difference. The weird thing is this only started happening about 3 days ago, I rooted yesterday, and its still doing it.

Go for what Fachadick said. Download and install Spare Parts from the Android Market. Go to Battery History and click on the dropdown box where it says "other usage" and click on "partial wake usage". If anything is taking up one of those bars, that's your problem.
If there's nothing notable there, it could be damn near any of your applications. When you root, you lose settings for you apps (depending on how you rooted), so your autosyncs could be going crazy. Might wanna check those.

TheMagicalSock said:
Go for what Fachadick said. Download and install Spare Parts from the Android Market. Go to Battery History and click on the dropdown box where it says "other usage" and click on "partial wake usage". If anything is taking up one of those bars, that's your problem.
If there's nothing notable there, it could be damn near any of your applications. When you root, you lose settings for you apps (depending on how you rooted), so your autosyncs could be going crazy. Might wanna check those.
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What he said Rooting won't fix battery issues. Rooting and installing a new ROM is just like reinstalling your OS. It can fix things or not depending on how it is configured. Likewise it won't fix your phone if hardware is bad.
does it drop steadily or just the first 5-10% or so? There is a well documented issue where the trickle charge stops at 100% and then shuts off so the phone actually drains a bit before it kicks in again. When you first unplug it, the reading may drop quickly until it reaches the real level.
Likewise depending on what you have installed and how it is set up, there may be something keeping your phone from sleeping. Check for partial wake use like the previous poster said and that will tell you what process/application is keeping your phone awake and draining battery.

i had this same problem about the battery before i rooted my phone. after i rooted it i got overclock widget and i get through the day with so much more battery left. i make sure my battery is full right before i go to bed, i put it on airplane mode and go to bed wake up around 7 a.m.(my battery is always at 98 when i get up in the morning so 2% in about 8 hrs) and i get home around 8:30 and my battery is at 48%. and no i dont leave it lying around with the screen off. i constantly go on, text, internet etc.
hope it works for you too!
your friend.
Ninja25

I am having this same problem and it started about 2 days ago. I downloaded Spare parts and looked up the partial usage (screenshots attached). I'm not sure what I'm suppose to determine from this. Mail is showing with more fill-in than any other program, when I click on it, I get the details. Can someone help?
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trhonda2000 said:
I am having this same problem and it started about 2 days ago. I downloaded Spare parts and looked up the partial usage (screenshots attached). I'm not sure what I'm suppose to determine from this. Mail is showing with more fill-in than any other program, when I click on it, I get the details. Can someone help?
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It doesn't appear (to me anyway) that you're having any issues with partial wake time. You may have a runaway app draining your battery and cpu - system panel is invaluable for hunting those down. It will show you each running process with exacly how much cpu it's used. It gets even better and gives evenmore detail if you let it monitor your system over time.

turn off latitude

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turn off latitude
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How did you get that from his screens? Not doubting you, but where do you see that?
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Thanks for the help fachadick, where would I get "System Panel" from? Couldn't find in the market.
P.S. - I'm a lady LOL

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Thanks for the help fachadick, where would I get "System Panel" from? Couldn't find in the market.
P.S. - I'm a lady LOL
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There I go, letting my prejudices get ahead of me again, sorry about that. I think in the market it’s called systempanel – one word.

So will the free version pinpoint the problem, or would I need to do the paid version?

trhonda2000 said:
So will the free version pinpoint the problem, or would I need to do the paid version?
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to be honest, I'm not sure - I don't remember what kind of detail it gives you in the free version, but the app is so useful to monitor cpu and battery, as well as for hunting down rougue apps, I would recommend the paid version as a "required" app for all rooters.
when you load it up, the default screen is essentially a taskkiller - but more importantly, you can go into settings and have it show ALL processes, and if you select one of the apps or processes from that main screen, it tells you when it was started, how much cpu it used, how much memory its used, and at least in the paid version, a historical graph of cpu usage - so you can see exactly when it used the cpu over the past 2 hours, 8 hours, 1 day, 3 days, or over the past week.

Me Too - "Android System" extremely high - Stock 2.2
This is also happening to me from 4 days ago. I haven't installed any new apps in the last 15 days or so, and for good measure, i uninstalled the last 10 apps i installed before that. When i check battery usage, the "Android System" takes up between 60 and 70 percent. When i open it, it lists like this:
HTC Checkin Service
Settings
Upgrade Setup
Rosie Utility
Android System
Setup
Accounts & Sync
HTC Widget Download Manager
VPN Services
Network Location
com.android.qxdmlog
BrcmBluetoothServices
Settings Storage
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Bluetooth is off, 4g is off (when's cincinnati going live already!??! Just the heart of downtown and the mall)
Wifi is off, and I've been turning off gps now, but i always used to leave it on and made it through the day.
"Cell Standby" is next with 8%, everything else below that.
I kill everything with task manager now and it doesn't seem to help at all.
It is not possible to exaggerate how fast the battery is being drained. It drops by 1-2% each 45 seconds or so. I've done the Charge-for-8-hours-turn-off-charge-trickle-charge-unplug-trickle-charge-unplug-etc thing last night and no help. This is with no widgets installed, no live wallpaper, no music, when for months i can make it through the day with a little pandora, bluetooth while driving, a game or two, internet, maps, and several other apps throughout the day. I've stopped everything but messaging and phone calls and it still drains just as fast.
PLEASE HELP!

I don't know if this applies to anyone in this thread, but after installing a new rom sometimes I forget that the Gtalk/Gchat app resets itself to automatically sign in, and drains the battery while running in the background.
Changing it to not run automatically helps out for me, although I feel that I may have gotten slightly better battery life out of the rooted stock rom than running the King kernel I'm using right now. At least in terms of percentage drop. I never really reset my battery stats or recalibrate after installing a new rom, don't know how much that has an effect on the readings.

This is turning into a deal breaker
Its not latitude, off. Not ANYTHING as it still happens with everything off and all apps killed in task manager.
No background, no live wallpaper (even though i used to have one all day). No music (even though i used to have pandora on a couple hours a day). screen brightness is always low (even though i used to leave it above medium, and would turn it up to high to watch video or a game, and still made it most of the day before).
The phone's battery use thing swears its "Android System" thats taking by far the most, not even cell standby got larger when i unplugged it in the basement where there's no service.
i've turned off everything i could think of, no apps 'auto update' and i've put all syncing and updating and stuff to manual or off that i could find.
I don't think its a faulty battery because it is ridiculously noticeable that something has changed in that ANDROID SYSTEM is now a power hog. Why and what do to?????

wlpywd said:
Its not latitude, off. Not ANYTHING as it still happens with everything off and all apps killed in task manager.
No background, no live wallpaper (even though i used to have one all day). No music (even though i used to have pandora on a couple hours a day). screen brightness is always low (even though i used to leave it above medium, and would turn it up to high to watch video or a game, and still made it most of the day before).
The phone's battery use thing swears its "Android System" thats taking by far the most, not even cell standby got larger when i unplugged it in the basement where there's no service.
i've turned off everything i could think of, no apps 'auto update' and i've put all syncing and updating and stuff to manual or off that i could find.
I don't think its a faulty battery because it is ridiculously noticeable that something has changed in that ANDROID SYSTEM is now a power hog. Why and what do to?????
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Have you pulled the battery lately? Give that a shot.

[Q] Automatic wake up when connecting power or USB

I'm running Nova and CWM9 and whenever I connect the phone to USB or a charger the phone wakes up automatically forcing me to push the power button evey time I connect it to turn off the screen.
Anyone know if it's possible to disable this "feature"?
Thanks!

I believe stock does that too. That would be an interesting tweak if it's not already around! In terms of disabling, I'm not sure there is an option to do so.
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Confirm stock does it as does Apex; presumably it's set somewhere basic in ICS

Its in developer options. Untick 'stay awake' (if I understand the question!)
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And this is a problem why? Its just indicating to you that its plugged in properly and charging... the screen will time out and turn off a few seconds later.

Thanks for checking!
It is interesting that Google would assume everytime you plug the phone in (and unplug the phone) you would want it to wake up. Considering the short battery life these phones have, lots of charging would be commonplace and therefore lots of connecting/disconnecting without the intent to actually use the phone.
I could see giving people the option to have the phone do that - but for me the unplug wakeup is especially annoying because I have to turn it off everytime I go to put it in my pocket.

cyberfreak95 said:
Thanks for checking!
It is interesting that Google would assume everytime you plug the phone in (and unplug the phone) you would want it to wake up. Considering the short battery life these phones have, lots of charging would be commonplace and therefore lots of connecting/disconnecting without the intent to actually use the phone.
I could see giving people the option to have the phone do that - but for me the unplug wakeup is especially annoying because I have to turn it off everytime I go to put it in my pocket.
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Well considering by stock there's no charging LED indicator, turning the screen on momentarily to indicate a charging state is a smart idea.
Also, if you're plugging it in, why are you worried about the battery drained by keeping the screen on for 10 seconds? 10 seconds.

martonikaj said:
And this is a problem why? Its just indicating to you that its plugged in properly and charging... the screen will time out and turn off a few seconds later.
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Well that's that I thought too, but sometimes it doesn't go back to sleep like it should and I'll notice my pocket getting quite warm pull it out and it's still on.
It could be a bug in the ROM I'm running (not going to sleep correctly all the time) but I don't remember my DINC doing that so I figured it was something that just needed to be disabled.

killyouridols said:
Its in developer options. Untick 'stay awake' (if I understand the question!)
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Hmm, I did have this option enabled - mainly because when I connect it to the charger I do like it to stay on -prime example using Slacker Radio in my car when plugged into the dock.
Maybe I'll try a different ROM since it seems the problem isn't so much that I need to disable to wakeup on connect/disconnect but instead I need the sleep function to be more reliable so I don't have a mini oven on my pocket.
Thanks!

A great option for your car dock needs would be to introduce something like the app Tasker. Then you could leave the screen off but have tasker set it to constant on and load slacker when the Bluetooth connection to your car happens.
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bam_dmux_wakelock - What is it? How do we stop it?

How to check: Install BetterBatteryStats and then check Kernel Wakelocks.
It seems bam_dmux_wakelock has something to do with mobile data. It's sort of the equivalent of the wlan_rx wakelock which is for keeping the WiFi signal active when the screen is off. I've tested and verified that if you turn on wi-fi and use that, bam_dmux_wakelock stops happening (since now wlan_rx wakelock is there) but the moment you turn off wi-fi the bam_dmux_wakelock starts going.
What's odd is I've had my phone off the charger for 6 hours but yet the bam_dmux_wakelock has only been running for about an hour...the only thing that seems to coincide with this is using Bluetooth to stream audio (although I did that earlier without issue too!).
I'll post a screenshot below as an example but I'm hoping by finding others with this problem we can find root cause and fix it!
Thanks.
What is known:
- It is related to 3G/LTE radio and not wifi
- Turning the phone's airplane mode on stops bam_dmux_wakelock from occurring. Turning Airplane mode off and when data connects, bam_dmux_wakelock starts again.
- Turning Wifi on stops bam_dmux_wakelock from occurring
- Rebooting the phone DOES NOT STOP bam_dmux_wakelock from occurring without uninstalling any apps or changing anything. So this is present at boot-up.

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I have noticed this also. It have tied it to Bluetooth in my car. When I paired my S3 with my car it asked me if I wanted to let the car download my address book. I said yes but did not check the "Remember this choice". So the next time I got in and it asked I told it no and then checked the remember box. From what I can tell this was causing my car to keep asking my phone for the address book over and over. I have since redid the paring and allow the address book to sync each time I get in the car and this as stopped this wake lock for me so far. It has helped my batt also. When I was in the car the battery was dropping fast. Now it does not. Next time it happens try tuning off BT and see if it stops.

mikeruoc said:
I have noticed this also. It have tied it to Bluetooth in my car. When I paired my S3 with my car it asked me if I wanted to let the car download my address book. I said yes but did not check the "Remember this choice". So the next time I got in and it asked I told it no and then checked the remember box. From what I can tell this was causing my car to keep asking my phone for the address book over and over. I have since redid the paring and allow the address book to sync each time I get in the car and this as stopped this wake lock for me so far. It has helped my batt also. When I was in the car the battery was dropping fast. Now it does not. Next time it happens try tuning off BT and see if it stops.
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Thought it was Bluetooth too but turning it off has no impact on this.
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I think BAM is Bluetooth something. So I think it is tied to BT. But as I think about it that does follow mine also. Once it started which was each time I got in my car it would not stop the battery drain unless I rebooted. Even if I did not use the car. So the way I see it once you trip it there is no stopping it unless you reboot. But that be different than what you are seeing.

mikeruoc said:
I think BAM is Bluetooth something. So I think it is tied to BT. But as I think about it that does follow mine also. Once it started which was each time I got in my car it would not stop the battery drain unless I rebooted. Even if I did not use the car. So the way I see it once you trip it there is no stopping it unless you reboot. But that be different than what you are seeing.
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See the problem with that is even after a reboot it starts and runs a little although not constantly without even connecting BT. If we at least knew what it stood for it would make it easier to troubleshoot. Also if it's Bluetooth it doesn't make sense for it to stop when you switch to wifi. It has to do with the mobile radio and mobile data for sure
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Ok so doing some more playing and my latest guess is the firmware update. So I went in and tried to check for an update date just for the heck of it. Right after that I started to notice the phone being just a bit warm. Then an hour or so later I could see the battery was dropping. Bam waitlock was there also. I did 2 things and one of them stopped it. I flipped air plane mode on and off and the turned mobile data off and on. The mobile data one I read in another thread that stopped it. Once I did that phone cooled and battery decline stopped. Now when I do a check for an update I get an error that it can not reach the server and it will try again in 48 hours. That seems strange to me. Every other android phone I have owned will say something along the lines like " your software is up to date" or something like that. So I am wondering if this starts when the phone tries to check for an update and can not reach the server and keeps trying or something that keeps the radio alive. See if you can recreate it. I will be watching mine.

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Ok so doing some more playing and my latest guess is the firmware update. So I went in and tried to check for an update date just for the heck of it. Right after that I started to notice the phone being just a bit warm. Then an hour or so later I could see the battery was dropping. Bam waitlock was there also. I did 2 things and one of them stopped it. I flipped air plane mode on and off and the turned mobile data off and on. The mobile data one I read in another thread that stopped it. Once I did that phone cooled and battery decline stopped. Now when I do a check for an update I get an error that it can not reach the server and it will try again in 48 hours. That seems strange to me. Every other android phone I have owned will say something along the lines like " your software is up to date" or something like that. So I am wondering if this starts when the phone tries to check for an update and can not reach the server and keeps trying or something that keeps the radio alive. See if you can recreate it. I will be watching mine.
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Yeah definitely not Bluetooth - haven't used Bluetooth (has been off) and I've been getting bam_dmux wakelock. I think it has to do with keeping the mobile radio active so the phone can send/receive data. Have you tried turning off autosync and seeing if that makes it stop? I have a feeling similar to keeping Wifi awake, this wakelock keeps the radio awake so the phone can receive data. I bet the less stuff you have running that's waiting for updates the better!

My guess is we will need a firmware update to fix this. It is either something deep in the radio or internal processes since we can not really see it in any tool.

I know it's a bit of an old thread, but has there been any progress made discovering what this is? I've been trying to tackle my battery usage issues and this is one of my big sleep wake offenders.

ChrisG683 said:
I know it's a bit of an old thread, but has there been any progress made discovering what this is? I've been trying to tackle my battery usage issues and this is one of my big sleep wake offenders.
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I'd also like to know this...

Add me to the list of people who cant figure out what is causing this wakelock. There is very little info about it on the internet.

I just made a discovery - I had recently installed Google Tracks and played with it a bit. Shortly after that is when I started noticing the bam_dmux_wakelock. It finally clicked today that Tracks could be the culprit. So I saved the tracks I had created, uninstalled, and no more bam_dmux_wakelock! Well, that's not entirely true - it's still there, but instead of being *hours* of usage it's down to seconds.
Does anyone else who has noticed this have Tracks installed? If so, will you try uninstalling it to see if you have the same results I did?

I think you are on to something. I noticed my Google maps had its location settings turned on for Latitude. So my phone was tracking me and uploading my location. I turned this off and of course battery was much better but all most no bam_wakelock. Check and see if this is turned on by going to maps then Location Settings. Turn them all off. Unless you want your friends to be able to track you.
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mikeruoc said:
I think you are on to something. I noticed my Google maps had its location settings turned on for Latitude. So my phone was tracking me and uploading my location. I turned this off and of course battery was much better but all most no bam_wakelock. Check and see if this is turned on by going to maps then Location Settings. Turn them all off. Unless you want your friends to be able to track you.
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BAM dmux is for mobile data so anything that keeps mobile data connection open it will show up. Stands for broadband access multiplier demultiplier. It's normal.
Just means something is keeping data connection alive. I did more research.
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mobilehavoc said:
BAM dmux is for mobile data so anything that keeps mobile data connection open it will show up. Stands for broadband access multiplier demultiplier. It's normal.
Just means something is keeping data connection alive. I did more research.
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Thanx for the explanation. I'm gonna try to find the culprit then.

A combination of uninstalling Tracks and disabling the Google auto-backup solved my battery drain problem. Took a reboot after turning off backup before I really saw a difference, though.
My bam_dmux_wakelock is still there, but nowhere near the level it was before. And after reading the above explanation that makes sense.
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For me disabling the auto starts from Google Maps and using tasker to schedule Google sync instead of using auto sync has made a world of difference.

Phuturist said:
For me disabling the auto starts from Google Maps and using tasker to schedule Google sync instead of using auto sync has made a world of difference.
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What did you use to disable the auto starts for maps? I've heard of people doing that but haven't researched it myself.
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gcamp0730 said:
What did you use to disable the auto starts for maps? I've heard of people doing that but haven't researched it myself.
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I use an app called Autostarts ... :thumbup:
You can find a tutorial in the thread from betterbatterystats.

[Q] why do checked options disappear on reboot?

Weird deal - so I checked screen stay awake under dev options to keep my screen on while charging at work.
However, every time I reboot it disappears. As do any other checked options.
Why? How can I get it to stay!!

Its just the way it is as of now, so you'll have to re-check them.

thanks for the information, at least I know it is not something wrong with my device.
What was Samsung thinking?!?!?

They probably did that in case people forgot it's checked. So that their screens won't stay on indefinitely......

Stay awake while charging
Any updates on this, it is very annoying. Every time I reboot I have to recheck the "stay awake while charging". With all the stuff that we can do after rooting I find it hard to believe that this can not be fixed.

Use Tasker. You can use it to keep your screen on indefinitely while on AC or USB and then set it back to normal when you unplug.
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[FIX] Moto 360 Set Up Problem (Charging)

I've heard that many people have had some issues setting their new 360 up. This should help.
From what I've heard, the best way to fix this is to:
1. Reset the device
2. Leave it at the Select Language screen after the reset is complete.
3. Charge it with the device powered on.
4. Set up the watch with your phone and download the new update (it seems like 60%-80% works)
NOTE: To be able to reset the watch, it seems like a minimum of 13% charge is needed.

zNiiC said:
I've heard that many people have had some issues setting their new 360 up. This should help.
From what I've heard, the best way to fix this is to:
1. Reset the device
2. Leave it at the Select Language screen after the reset is complete.
3. Charge it with the device powered on.
4. Set up the watch with your phone and download the new update (it seems like 60%-80% works)
NOTE: To be able to reset the watch, it seems like a minimum of 13% charge is needed.
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If you have to leave it at the Language Select screen, how do you know when it's charged?

majikfox said:
If you have to leave it at the Language Select screen, how do you know when it's charged?
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The watch will switch to the charging screen when you put it in the cradle, showing percentage.

spinedoc said:
The watch will switch to the charging screen when you put it in the cradle, showing percentage.
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No it won't.
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Edit: It never showed the charging indicator, but it eventually charged up enough to finish the update after several hours.

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The watch will switch to the charging screen when you put it in the cradle, showing percentage.
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It won't show the percentage prior to you setting up the device. And apparently you can't set up the device until the charge gets to 80%.
So I'm wondering how are you supposed to know if you hit 80% or not? If you try to set it up prior to that, it'll get stuck in the "Just a minute" / "Can't connect to the internet" loop.

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It won't show the percentage prior to you setting up the device. And apparently you can't set up the device until the charge gets to 80%.
So I'm wondering how are you supposed to know if you hit 80% or not? If you try to set it up prior to that, it'll get stuck in the "Just a minute" / "Can't connect to the internet" loop.
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There's no way to tell, you have to just wait about 3 hours and try. Then if it's not finished charging you have to wait another hour and try again.

DanPLC said:
It won't show the percentage prior to you setting up the device. And apparently you can't set up the device until the charge gets to 80%.
So I'm wondering how are you supposed to know if you hit 80% or not? If you try to set it up prior to that, it'll get stuck in the "Just a minute" / "Can't connect to the internet" loop.
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Mine showed the percentage before the update was complete. It wouldn't complete the initial setup, it would get to the end and then just time out and tell me to charge the battery. Finally I left it on the charger until it was fully charged and it installed the update and finished the initial setup. But while I had it on the cradle it showed me the percentage of battery. Maybe it's because I already started setup? Not sure why.

Mine is charging right now, did the update but will not let me get past the charge battery screen.
Bout to reset it and see if that works. battery is at 75% or close to 80%

If you're at the language selection screen, I believe that if you hold down the power button it'll show the settings menu. Once you go down to "about" you'll see the charge.

mine never updated... and it keeps saying up to date but its on the old firmware.

tsy87 said:
mine never updated... and it keeps saying up to date but its on the old firmware.
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Seeing the same thing here. On the flip side, I did figure out how to get into the stock recovery and the bootloader via bluetooth debugging. . . too bad I couldn't do anything once in there.

goober0311 said:
Mine is charging right now, did the update but will not let me get past the charge battery screen.
Bout to reset it and see if that works. battery is at 75% or close to 80%
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If it says Charge Battery you haven't completed the update.
You've downloaded the update but the update has not been applied.
The Charge Battery screen is where the device waits for you to finish charging it before it will apply the update.
You have to do a factory reset, go to the Language Select screen and no further, then let your device sit on the charger for about 4 hours to charge up to 80%, then continue with the setup.

Hold a power button. Go to about. Activate development secret menu. Disable screen ON when charging.
And it will help you to charge faster

Connects but won't do anything
avetny said:
Hold a power button. Go to about. Activate development secret menu. Disable screen ON when charging.
And it will help you to charge faster
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I have some similar issues, and no lucking getting the Moto 360 to do anything.
First, the watch wouldn't charge well. I'd keep the watch off and start charging, but it would turn itself on and let the battery drain. Eventually I found ways to get it to charge 100%. Then I did a factory reset and tried pairing with my phone. The phone is up-to-date with Android wear. It also connected to a Galaxy Gear Live already.
According to the phone, Wear is "connected" to the watch. I get the watch to display "just a minute...", and after a few minutes, it says "Can't connect to the internet". I've tried over a dozen times to pair successfully, with wifi enabled an connected to reliable sources, or just connected to 4g (confirming that the connection is strong). No luck after numerous attempts. Any ideas would be very much appreciated!

jinvites7 said:
I have some similar issues, and no lucking getting the Moto 360 to do anything.
First, the watch wouldn't charge well. I'd keep the watch off and start charging, but it would turn itself on and let the battery drain. Eventually I found ways to get it to charge 100%. Then I did a factory reset and tried pairing with my phone. The phone is up-to-date with Android wear. It also connected to a Galaxy Gear Live already.
According to the phone, Wear is "connected" to the watch. I get the watch to display "just a minute...", and after a few minutes, it says "Can't connect to the internet". I've tried over a dozen times to pair successfully, with wifi enabled an connected to reliable sources, or just connected to 4g (confirming that the connection is strong). No luck after numerous attempts. Any ideas would be very much appreciated!
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Follow all of the instructions in the order presented.
Even the instructions that seem silly to you.

Still not working
majikfox said:
Follow all of the instructions in the order presented.
Even the instructions that seem silly to you.
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Thanks. The instructions were followed exactly. Full charge, factory reset, put watch in the right more (select language prompt), no luck.
I called Motorola and they acknowledged that many devices turned out to be defective. That can explain the issue for many who are still not getting this to work. But any other thoughts would be appreciated.

jinvites7 said:
I have some similar issues, and no lucking getting the Moto 360 to do anything.
First, the watch wouldn't charge well. I'd keep the watch off and start charging, but it would turn itself on and let the battery drain. Eventually I found ways to get it to charge 100%. Then I did a factory reset and tried pairing with my phone. The phone is up-to-date with Android wear. It also connected to a Galaxy Gear Live already.
According to the phone, Wear is "connected" to the watch. I get the watch to display "just a minute...", and after a few minutes, it says "Can't connect to the internet". I've tried over a dozen times to pair successfully, with wifi enabled an connected to reliable sources, or just connected to 4g (confirming that the connection is strong). No luck after numerous attempts. Any ideas would be very much appreciated!
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Can you tell if the software version is the "latest"? meaning 4.4W.1?
I think there was a trick to get it to force update but I don't recall it. I want to say to long press the check mark?

So I'm having the issues as well. It'll start charging, get to 10% and start draining itself and not charge again. And it gets super hot while doing that. Anyone have any suggestions for resetting it if you can't get it to turn on at all? Or just leave it over night on the charger and try later?

avetny said:
Hold a power button. Go to about. Activate development secret menu. Disable screen ON when charging.
And it will help you to charge faster
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Nice tip, you have to tap on the "build number" 7 times to activate developer options (in case anyone is wondering)
And although we do have a setting called "Stay awake when charging" setting it to enabled or disabled makes no difference on my 360...
I have the thin bar charging circle, does anyone know if the thick bar charging circle is possible?

I have the same issue. I enabled developer options and it was already set to disable screen on. I still recheck and unchecked but no luck.
I was able to do screen off by using phone to turn ambient on and off while watch was charging but since I reset the watch, I can't anymore.
I just put it on charge around 7am now and it's done by the time I leave for work right around 8am.
Edit: after doing the hidden menu thing, it was sitting at charger and I did ambient mode on and then off from the phone app and that turned the screen off
Will keep an eye in it to see if it behaves now.
Edit again:
It was somehow a bug or a fluke. My son just touched the watch and woke it up. And now now matter what I do, I can't turn screen off while charging.
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