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I wake up at 6AM and take my phone off the charger. I use my laptop do do my email, G+ etc etc as to not disturb the phone. As soon as I take it off the charger it drops 2%. I had it off for like 4 - 5 hours charging yesterday. When I turned it back on - it dropped to 97% instantly. Which, is probably just a bug in the OS. Right now it's at 71%. I noticed that it charges really fast... so could the battery be jacked?
I'm running a GSM Galaxy Nexus on T-Mobile. Using Manhattan Mod 4.0.3 with Franco Kernel - no OC and stock voltages. I use it for music when I'm going to work, and I'll respond to emails and G+ notifications.
This is crazy though. I had a G2 before this phone and it got crappy battery life. It appears that if I don't use the device, it'll last for a long time. But who wants to not use their phone eh? Any ideas or kernels I can try? Even with everything stock it didn't give me "Wow" battery life.
What is that battery drain app you're using?
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What is that battery drain app you're using?
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a couple of threads down is someone talking about amazing battery life... read their setup and get ideas.
but you might have everything on sync every 15 minutes or your email set to push. and this phone only gets roughly 2-3 hours of screen on time regardless of what u do
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What is that battery drain app you're using?
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Oups I thanked you for nothing lol!
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wayneb02 said:
a couple of threads down is someone talking about amazing battery life... read their setup and get ideas.
but you might have everything on sync every 15 minutes or your email set to push. and this phone only gets roughly 2-3 hours of screen on time regardless of what u do
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I have both Emails (Gmail and Corp) as push because I use them both for work. And yeah I heard it only gets 2-3hrs of screen life. But it's odd... I used to be able to leave it sitting there and it wouldn't die, the other day I left it in my jeans when I passed out drunk, I woke up and my phone was dead. I had like 40% life left on it and I only sleep like 6 hours. Generally speaking the battery usage will stay flat if left like that.
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I'm not seeing this in the Android Market. Where did you get it from?
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I'm not seeing this in the Android Market. Where did you get it from?
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https://market.android.com/details?...mNvbS5XYXphQmUuYW5kcm9pZC5CYXR0ZXJ5RHJhaW4iXQ..
Here's a screenshot from today. I didn't use it in the morning. I leave the house at 7:40AM, and wake up at 6:00AM. From 6-7:40 my phone sits there off the charger. I answer everything via my laptop during that time period. No phone calls or texts to be had.
I walk to the train - takes like... 20 minutes, maybe 15. By the time I got to the train I was at 88%. I'm listening to music, and answered two emails. By the time I got to my stop I was at 71%. I walked from my stop to my job, and here are the results.
This doesn't make any sense. I'm not overclocking, I'm not doing anything extra. Running Manhattan Elegant ROM and changed the kernel from Franco to FuguMod. My brightness is set to Auto because I wear sunglasses and it's insanely bright outside in Oakland right now. GPS is off, WiFi is off, BT is off, Sync is on and NFC is on.
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Here's a screenshot from today. I didn't use it in the morning. I leave the house at 7:40AM, and wake up at 6:00AM. From 6-7:40 my phone sits there off the charger. I answer everything via my laptop during that time period. No phone calls or texts to be had.
I walk to the train - takes like... 20 minutes, maybe 15. By the time I got to the train I was at 88%. I'm listening to music, and answered two emails. By the time I got to my stop I was at 71%. I walked from my stop to my job, and here are the results.
This doesn't make any sense. I'm not overclocking, I'm not doing anything extra. Running Manhattan Elegant ROM and changed the kernel from Franco to FuguMod. My brightness is set to Auto because I wear sunglasses and it's insanely bright outside in Oakland right now. GPS is off, WiFi is off, BT is off, Sync is on and NFC is on.
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How good or bad is your signal? If you have bad signal it well search harder thus wasting more battery
I am using stock rom with falcon kernel. I was at 65% after 18 hours with 1 hour of screen time
There is an app killing your battery.. that is all.
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Your android OS % is through the roof!
Its sitting at 50% which is way too high and thats why your phone is dying.
shut down the phone and remove the battery for 5 minutes. replace the battery and charge the phone back to full and keep an eye on your android OS %.
Your Os% SHOULD be much lower after that.
Keep an eye on it over the next few days.
The battery life on the watch seems to be much better than my Urbane so far. I used it all day yesterday and I still had at least another day of use left. I still charged jt last night but I might try to see how long it will last before it dies.
Here it is with ambient mlde always on, WiFi on, and brightness set at 4.
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The battery life on the watch seems to be much better than my Urbane so far. I used it all day yesterday and I still had at least another day of use left. I still charged jt last night but I might try to see how long it will last before it dies.
Here it is with ambient mlde always on, WiFi on, and brightness set at 4.
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WOW! Better than the urbane? I had the urbane, and was satisfied with batt life. My one concern with the huawei was the smaller batt.
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WOW! Better than the urbane? I had the urbane, and was satisfied with batt life. My one concern with the huawei was the smaller batt.
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The above should speak for itself. My Urbane was good but it was inconsistent some day I would end with 30% others I would have 60% doing this exact same thing. I'm only really on my full second day now but it still seems better overall. I've also noticed its a little faster which it shouldn't be because they are identical hardware wise. I'll report back later this week after I use it at school. I usually really 3-6 miles depending on the day which could kill the battery faster since it's counting my steps. Yesterday I only walked 2 miles which isn't a lot so we will see.
Mine doesn't make it through the day
I've had it 2 1/2 days, maybe it will get better. But it's dead by late evening - maybe 8p, with an 8a start.
Here's today's:
I'm using the same set up as I listed in the OP. Let's see how it does tomorrow now
I used it on the first day full charge. With everything on except google fit and brightness at level 4. I was getting 2.81% decrease/hr. I measured from 7 am to 4 pm; a 9 hr day with at least 30 emails and other notifications from tapatalk and such. 1 phone call and a few texts in that 9hr period. However today in my 2 hr venture to the grocery store, I used up about 5.41%/hr. And I did change up the watchface to a sweeping seconds one. That was the only diff to account for the increased battery. BUT even with that, the battery meter still said it would last another 2 days.
Like many others have said, this is my second full day with it. I assume it will just get stable and get an accurate reading in another day or so.
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I used it on the first day full charge. With everything on except google fit and brightness at level 4. I was getting 2.81% decrease/hr. I measured from 7 am to 4 pm; a 9 hr day with at least 30 emails and other notifications from tapatalk and such. 1 phone call and a few texts in that 9hr period. However today in my 2 hr venture to the grocery store, I used up about 5.41%/hr. And I did change up the watchface to a sweeping seconds one. That was the only diff to account for the increased battery. BUT even with that, the battery meter still said it would last another 2 days.
Like many others have said, this is my second full day with it. I assume it will just get stable and get an accurate reading in another day or so.
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Yeah it seems to get good better life from my initial impressions. I would say with heavier usage it would get 1.25-1.5days but that depends on how you use it.
So far mixed review on battery life. Yesterday, it didn't last the whole day. But I think the wifi might have been on when I wasn't near a wifi. Did a 90 minute bike ride today and was connected to my phone vis RunGPS application which should have been using the watch HRM. Went from 95% to 45% in those 90 minutes. Don't know the impact, but when I got back, found the HR was stuck at 125 for half the ride, and 72 for the other half of the ride. Just frozen. I charged it fully at 12:00, now at almost 11PM, it has 73% remaining. I have the display set with "always on" turned off.
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So far mixed review on battery life. Yesterday, it didn't last the whole day. But I think the wifi might have been on when I wasn't near a wifi. Did a 90 minute bike ride today and was connected to my phone vis RunGPS application which should have been using the watch HRM. Went from 95% to 45% in those 90 minutes. Don't know the impact, but when I got back, found the HR was stuck at 125 for half the ride, and 72 for the other half of the ride. Just frozen. I charged it fully at 12:00, now at almost 11PM, it has 73% remaining. I have the display set with "always on" turned off.
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I never use the HRM because I know it kills the battery based on experience with AW and my old Samsung Gear Fit. I'm not surprised that it died that fast because its not made to primarily be a fitness watch despite having a HRM and fitness apps. I know that sounds dumb but a fitbit would do a better job because that's is sole purpose. I don't expect the HRM to be accurate on any smart watch; I tested mine yesterday at the gym while on the treadmill. The treadmill say my HR was 165 while the watch said it was 100 so there's a big difference and I trust the treadmill over the watch in this case. I have my display always on still and get good battery life. I don't expect the watch to last forever if I'm cranking the brightness and using the HRM. I'm not defending the watch by any means but rather stating that no AW/smart watch would handke this kind of thing well yet. I enjoy the look of Huawei and convenience it provides with alerts, notes etc... but I'm glad it lasts a day for my type of usage. I wonder if Marshmallow will improve the battery life at all.
Here's today's battery life. I knocked the watch of my night stand last night so I had to finish charging it when I got campus in case anyone was wondering about the activity tracking and watch on time difference from today. Nevertheless here's today's battery stats. Overall the battery life wasn't impacted that much by walking ~12k steps and over 5 miles which is surprising. I use the standard blue watch face it comes with because it's my favorite one so far and ambient mlde is always on as mentioned above.
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Good battery backup for a smartwatch
Had it fully charged when I went to bed last night, it was down to 30% when I got up this morning. I have no idea why it went down so fast. I put it in theater mode when I go to bed. I slept through the alarms, I'm wondering if maybe they were going off repeatedly and wore the battery down. -cjr-
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Here's today's battery life. I knocked the watch of my night stand last night so I had to finish charging it when I got campus in case anyone was wondering about the activity tracking and watch on time difference from today. Nevertheless here's today's battery stats. Overall the battery life wasn't impacted that much by walking ~12k steps and over 5 miles which is surprising. I use the standard blue watch face it comes with because it's my favorite one so far and ambient mlde is always on as mentioned above.
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Had it fully charged when I went to bed last night, it was down to 30% when I got up this morning. I have no idea why it went down so fast. I put it in theater mode when I go to bed. I slept through the alarms, I'm wondering if maybe they were going off repeatedly and wore the battery down. -cjr-
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I'd imagine if your anything like me and ignore your alarm for an hour because I'm a heavy sleeper then the vibration motor would certainly bring it down fast. I think that's really odd to drain that much but if it's consistently doing that I would be concerned.
Yeah, I tried using Sports Gear Tracker today to track my workout... didn't work eiter. I thought it was tracking and I checked a few times. The HR appeared frozen again, but the timer was running. But, when I got home, it has no record of the workout. Don't know what happened. Google fit does have the workout. But the Heart rate record is just flat. I'm going to try a hard reset and see if that fixes the Heart rate problem. Would sure like to know if anyone else is having any success with HRM, I'm thinking at this point to send it back as defective and try a different one. Seems odd that it would perform that badly. -cjr-
I'm still not getting through the day - 12 hours tops before it dies. Am wondering about settings - I have everything set as it came out of the box: haven't touched WiFi, so assume it's on; have ambient display always on.; default brightness setting of 4.
I'm not using the HRM at all, and not even really checking the watch constantly.
Any suggestions? (thanks in advance)
I have wifi off. I had it on and I think it really drained the battery.. try turning it off..
Urbane definitely had better batt life. While the huawei is acceptable, its definitely not as good, which I did expect with the battery being 25% smaller.
Thanks, will give that a try.
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Urbane definitely had better batt life. While the huawei is acceptable, its definitely not as good, which I did expect with the battery being 25% smaller.
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I'm having the opposite experience here. My Urbane was very inconsistent with battery life but when it had a good day it was around what the Huawei is. Its dependent on your usage but for me its great.
So I got my moto 360 about 6 days ago... I don't use any pre-installed apps too much.. I just use the watch to look at my time. The 3rd party apps I use are- Wear mini launcher and Wear Audio recorder... I just use them about 3 times a day and my battery life lasts around 7 hrs MAX! If I use my 3rd party apps, then its even worse. Yesterday I took my watch off the charger at 8:30 am and it barely made till 2 pm without 3rd party apps used. I tried factory resetting the watch twice. But with no luck. Saviours of XDA, please save me! I love this watch but this is a serious problem
P.S, I am running android 5.1.1 with android wear 1.3 and build number LCA44B.
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As you can see, my battery lasted from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. It was on 95% because it was charging when i took the screenshot... but you probably know that from the graph.
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So I got my moto 360 about 6 days ago... I don't use any pre-installed apps too much.. I just use the watch to look at my time. The 3rd party apps I use are- Wear mini launcher and Wear Audio recorder... I just use them about 3 times a day and my battery life lasts around 7 hrs MAX! If I use my 3rd party apps, then its even worse. Yesterday I took my watch off the charger at 8:30 am and it barely made till 2 pm without 3rd party apps used. I tried factory resetting the watch twice. But with no luck. Saviours of XDA, please save me! I love this watch but this is a serious problem
P.S, I am running android 5.1.1 with android wear 1.3 and build number LCA44B.
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As you can see, my battery lasted from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. It was on 95% because it was charging when i took the screenshot... but you probably know that from the graph.
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If you have any of the location settings turned on (on your phone settings>>location set to off), turn those off. If your not using Google card preview turn that off too. If your not using Fit disable that too. I took mine off the charger @ 9PM last night, it is now 3:45 PM and I still have 69%. I have all notifications going to the watch, email from 2 accounts, sms, calendar.
Basically, turn off anything you are not using. You always have the option of turning it back on. Ambient display is another battery killer as well as wrist gestures... I just tap to display.
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If you have any of the location settings turned on (on your phone settings>>location set to off), turn those off. If your not using Google card preview turn that off too. If your not using Fit disable that too. I took mine off the charger @ 9PM last night, it is now 3:45 PM and I still have 69%. I have all notifications going to the watch, email from 2 accounts, sms, calendar.
Basically, turn off anything you are not using. You always have the option of turning it back on. Ambient display is another battery killer as well as wrist gestures... I just tap to display.
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Noob question, where can i disable those stuff you said
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If you have any of the location settings turned on (on your phone settings>>location set to off), turn those off. If your not using Google card preview turn that off too. If your not using Fit disable that too. I took mine off the charger @ 9PM last night, it is now 3:45 PM and I still have 69%. I have all notifications going to the watch, email from 2 accounts, sms, calendar.
Basically, turn off anything you are not using. You always have the option of turning it back on. Ambient display is another battery killer as well as wrist gestures... I just tap to display.
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Everything you said is already turned off for me. I go to school at 8:30 am and get back home at 3.00 pm. Today I took the watch off the charger at 8:25 am and at 3:00 pm, I had 54% left. So its better but definitely not as good as you. Since I can't take my phone to school, I switched on airplane mode.
I'm getting worried. Some people say that the battery life gets better magically about 2 weeks later. And yesterday I saw this video on youtube where a guy replaced his 6 hour moto 360 to get a new one which gave him more that 24 hours battery backup. The last date that I can replace my 360 from where I ordered it is 14th of October. Should I wait for 2 weeks or replace my watch? What happed with you? Did your watch perform poorly at the start too? Or did you have this amazing battery life from the start?
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Everything you said is already turned off for me. I go to school at 8:30 am and get back home at 3.00 pm. Today I took the watch off the charger at 8:25 am and at 3:00 pm, I had 54% left. So its better but definitely not as good as you. Since I can't take my phone to school, I switched on airplane mode.
I'm getting worried. Some people say that the battery life gets better magically about 2 weeks later. And yesterday I saw this video on youtube where a guy replaced his 6 hour moto 360 to get a new one which gave him more that 24 hours battery backup. The last date that I can replace my 360 from where I ordered it is 14th of October. Should I wait for 2 weeks or replace my watch? What happed with you? Did your watch perform poorly at the start too? Or did you have this amazing battery life from the start?
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My battery life got better over time, but if you are concerned, replace it while you can. Nothing worse than wondering what if I would have gotten a new one....
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My battery life got better over time, but if you are concerned, replace it while you can. Nothing worse than wondering what if I would have gotten a new one....
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As I said, I got home at 3:00 pm. I have received notifications since then and used the watch more than I do at school. Its 8:45 pm and I still have 6% left. So I think I will keep it. Its definitely getting better. Today it went a little more than 12 hours. So yeah, its nice. Thank you for all your help by the way... I look forward for battery life like yours. Will post an update tomorrow.
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Noob question, where can i disable those stuff you said
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Disable location settings on phone, not watch... You can disable card previews in the android wear app.
Also, you can disable ambient mode from both android wear app and the watch itself.
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Disable location settings on phone, not watch... You can disable card previews in the android wear app.
Also, you can disable ambient mode from both android wear app and the watch itself.
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Which one is the ambient mode on the watch?
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Which one is the ambient mode on the watch?
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Go to settings on the watch, scroll down to ambient mode and turn it off. Search Google for more details.
I've done this and I cannot get CLOSE to the battery life you guys get. I lose about 10% an hour if it's connected to my phone. I can get better than that if it's in airplane mode, but it's not by much. Maybe 5%. I have Google Fit turned off, I let the battery drain to 0, reset SEVERAL times, reset PHONE several times.
I did the tips above, but I don't know if it will help. When I described my issue with Motorola, they said that it sounded like there might be a battery issue.
But, I can't tell. Is there something else I am missing?
I want to use Moto Body, have a Watchmaker Premium Watch Face, use "Ok Google", use a Pedometer, and have the watch connected to the phone with notifications. I've read arguments for both Moto Body and Google Fit, and how each is better than the other with regards to battery life, but I can't tell. I just want this watch to work!
FYI, I bought it a week ago and I wonder if the fact that the watch was sitting there for 6 months on shelf contributed to the bad battery life.
Your thoughts?
First off. Don't have a lot to spend so can't go getting a newer Moto 360, but I found one on CL for $80 great condition with screen protector. I used to have a 1st gen pebble a couple years ago and loved the notifications and alarms on it. I know that battery isn't great on android wear but if I can get through 10 hours working to read important notifications. Occasionally set an alarm. Etc, that would be good.
However, if in my position, would you still consider this first Gen Moto 360?
best buy
I bought mine at best buy the other day for $199
I have one, and honestly I would wait until Google sorts out the Wear app update issue that is going on right now.
The newest version of Wear breaks the 1st gen 360. Connection issues, battery drain, unstable as all hell. Wait until the latest reviews predominately say it works with the 360 1st gen.
Hi guys
One question?
The 360 1st gen will receive the 1.4 upadate marshmallow ?
Tks
I just bought a new 1st gen a few days ago to replace the one that I broke. $150 on Amazon with free prime shipping. I didn't even consider any other smart watch. The other $300+ watches have no significant upgrades, in my opinion, compared to this one. They're slightly prettier (that Huawei watch is especially nice), but that's not worth at least doubling the price (more than that in the case of Huawei). Get this one, and get it soon. It won't be around much longer.
As for battery life, as long as you disable the fitness stuff, I easily get a full day's use out of it. Sometimes I'll go to bed with it at 25% battery. That's with ambient screen on, gestures on, and the screen permanently set to full brightness. Oh, and I also commonly use watchfaces that include animations, which is supposed to further drain the battery. No issues.
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I just bought a new 1st gen a few days ago to replace the one that I broke. $150 on Amazon with free prime shipping. I didn't even consider any other smart watch. The other $300+ watches have no significant upgrades, in my opinion, compared to this one. They're slightly prettier (that Huawei watch is especially nice), but that's not worth at least doubling the price (more than that in the case of Huawei). Get this one, and get it soon. It won't be around much longer.
As for battery life, as long as you disable the fitness stuff, I easily get a full day's use out of it. Sometimes I'll go to bed with it at 25% battery. That's with ambient screen on, gestures on, and the screen permanently set to full brightness. Oh, and I also commonly use watchfaces that include animations, which is supposed to further drain the battery. No issues.
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How in the world you get a full days worth, unless you talking through your ass... I have the fitness disabled and even all the minimums on the watch and by 4pm I'm at 15%. So there no way what you saying is truthful.
Now as should you buy the 1st gen sure... the 2gen is more or less the same except for the battery. Still worth the price you pay for it and I havent had any issues with the watch.
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How in the world you get a full days worth, unless you talking through your ass... I have the fitness disabled and even all the minimums on the watch and by 4pm I'm at 15%. So there no way what you saying is truthful.
Now as should you buy the 1st gen sure... the 2gen is more or less the same except for the battery. Still worth the price you pay for it and I havent had any issues with the watch.
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Depends what he considers a full day. 12-18 hours may be? I've everything on on my watch like gestures, fitness stuff etc and I get 18-20 hours of battery. With light use, I get through couple of days on a single charge.
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Depends what he considers a full day. 12-18 hours may be? I've everything on on my watch like gestures, fitness stuff etc and I get 18-20 hours of battery. With light use, I get through couple of days on a single charge.
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sorry but i find that very hard to believe. I've had my 360 for three days now and each day from 7am - 3pm and then have to charge. Using min on the setting and barely use it
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How in the world you get a full days worth, unless you talking through your ass... I have the fitness disabled and even all the minimums on the watch and by 4pm I'm at 15%. So there no way what you saying is truthful.
Now as should you buy the 1st gen sure... the 2gen is more or less the same except for the battery. Still worth the price you pay for it and I havent had any issues with the watch.
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I take it off the charger around 10 AM, and I put it back on between 10 and 11 PM. So I suppose it's not technically 24 hours, but it is a full period of daylight. Maybe I spend less time staring at my watch than you do.
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I take it off the charger around 10 AM, and I put it back on between 10 and 11 PM. So I suppose it's not technically 24 hours, but it is a full period of daylight. Maybe I spend less time staring at my watch than you do.
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still i can not see how you could possibly last that long, I take mine off the charger at 7am and by 2:30pm I'm already at 25%. I've trying doing a factory reset and even reinstalled wear as some posts have suggusted cause they claim to have days worth of battery time. well thats all BS. still have pretty bad battery life. Think it's just normal
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still i can not see how you could possibly last that long, I take mine off the charger at 7am and by 2:30pm I'm already at 25%. I've trying doing a factory reset and even reinstalled wear as some posts have suggusted cause they claim to have days worth of battery time. well thats all BS. still have pretty bad battery life. Think it's just normal
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I don't know what to tell you. Maybe my previous 360 was just awesome. I just got my replacement today, so I'll report back on whether or not I get the same results.
thinking of email Motorola and checking with them, maybe I just got a fault battery
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I don't know what to tell you. Maybe my previous 360 was just awesome. I just got my replacement today, so I'll report back on whether or not I get the same results.
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I got a second hand moto 360 (for $100 but everything still new 10/10 condition), everything running minimum, no fitness stuff disabled, lowest brightness yet still bright enough for my liking, disabled WiFi, gesture on, ambient mode off, I usually take off the charger at 8AM and by end of the day when I get home around 8/9PM with moderate or light use I'd still have around 20-30% left. Been using that for about a week now and seems consistent. On latest 5.1.1 update too.
tygerchylde said:
I have one, and honestly I would wait until Google sorts out the Wear app update issue that is going on right now.
The newest version of Wear breaks the 1st gen 360. Connection issues, battery drain, unstable as all hell. Wait until the latest reviews predominately say it works with the 360 1st gen.
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I have the 360 1st Gen and have none of those issues with the latest wear.
I take it off charger at 7am then let it drop a couple of percent then charge it back until 8 am ( if I don't I'm 10% less at the end of the day) fitness enabled, ambient and tilt to wake on and I'm at 25% to 30% at 10pm.
Admittedly I'm not playing about with it all day.
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sorry but i find that very hard to believe. I've had my 360 for three days now and each day from 7am - 3pm and then have to charge. Using min on the setting and barely use it
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Check if you have some app draining the battery. Battery used to last only 10-12 hours maximum when I first got it back in July '15. Eversince I updated it to 5.1.1, battery life has doubled and it's been like this for the past few months.
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I have the 360 1st Gen and have none of those issues with the latest wear.
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I have every one of these issues right now. I am on my second unit and will be sending this one back to Motorola. I'll be checking back in when I receive my replacement unit.
As to battery life, before all the issues started I could get 3-4 days out of my watch with moderate use. I had gestures and ambient screen off and I use one of the stock watch faces. I also don't wear my watch at night and would shut it off at about 11 pm. I used the fitness stuff (pedometer and rarely heart rate) and use the voice texting to respond to texts.
This is why I am so disappointed in the latest wear version.
I will go from 5:30am until I get home from work around 4pm with well over 50% left. I have all the fitness stuff running, the "tilt to wake" feature on, and a somewhat animated face. Generally I'll charge it for an hour in the evening, wear it to bed (in theater mode) so I can use it as a silent alarm, and then charge it for an hour or so before work to get it close to 100%. This morning I didn't charge it.
Ok so funny thing, I don't know what I did last night, cause I browse a few of the pages on this site and they stated about resetting you watch to factory setting and reinstalling wear. and for some reason now. now I seem to have enough juice for a day and a half. Weird so I guess. Either way 360 worth its money.
Apparently the issues are not as widespread as I thought.
The 360 1st Gen is a great smart watch, even with the issues, and you won't find one that does as much as cheaply. I love my watch. It allows me to control my phone without taking it out of my pocket.
It appears that something has been updated to improve battery life. I got a full 7 days last time I charged my watch. At 6 1/2 days I was at 10% battery and I switched to battery save mode (I did not have charger with me). When I charged watch after 7 full days I was at 5% battery. I changed nothing in my normal routine or in my settings. I have wifi off and bluetooth on and connected to watch at all times. AOD is off. Still getting notifications, etc. It does not appear to be a fluke. I'm at 75% battery currently after 2 days and 4 hours.
I bought this watch when it came out and I was getting 4 - 5 days (less when actively using GPS). Usually it was closer to 4 days. The first charge I did which lasted 7 days was on 10/29 so if there was some kind of update it would have been probably 10/24 - 10/29.
Anyone else seeing battery life improvements lately?
I just got my watch yesterday did an up date and not changing anything I'm still at 93% after coming off the charger at 0615hrs. My S2 or S3 never managed that. Lol
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Is step tracker better or?
vojopd said:
Is step tracker better or?
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Step tracker and all the same fitness tracking that I had on before. Not sure what you mean by "step tracker better". Is this a setting or different app?
fliptwister said:
It appears that something has been updated to improve battery life. I got a full 7 days last time I charged my watch. At 6 1/2 days I was at 10% battery and I switched to battery save mode (I did not have charger with me). When I charged watch after 7 full days I was at 5% battery. I changed nothing in my normal routine or in my settings. I have wifi off and bluetooth on and connected to watch at all times. AOD is off. Still getting notifications, etc. It does not appear to be a fluke. I'm at 75% battery currently after 2 days and 4 hours.
I bought this watch when it came out and I was getting 4 - 5 days (less when actively using GPS). Usually it was closer to 4 days. The first charge I did which lasted 7 days was on 10/29 so if there was some kind of update it would have been probably 10/24 - 10/29.
Anyone else seeing battery life improvements lately?
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Well, it depends. To be able to compare one need to specify model (46mm(472mAh)/42mm(270mAh))(1.75:1 or 1:0.57).
I get roughly 3+ days (42mm) (AOD-no, BT + Wi-Fi(auto), light(2 -auto) and notifications)
That is close to your observation if your watch is a 46mm - that is.
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Step tracker and all the same fitness tracking that I had on before. Not sure what you mean by "step tracker better". Is this a setting or different app?
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There are problems with step counter and HR monitor... Take a look at US and EU Samsung forums. 90% of watches have these problems.
vojopd said:
There are problems with step counter and HR monitor... Take a look at US and EU Samsung forums. 90% of watches have these problems.
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My step counter and HR monitor are working great.
Just out of curiosity I went out to Samsung's US forum (Samsung Community>Get Help>Wearable Tech>Wearable Tech) and I'm not seeing a significant amount of posts about issues with the Galaxy Watch step counter or HR monitor. Are you referring to another forum? Please post link. Even if there were a lot of posts how did you determine 90% of watches have these problems?
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There are problems with step counter and HR monitor... Take a look at US and EU Samsung forums. 90% of watches have these problems.
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That's complete BS, here is no way you could know that. Maybe 90% of the people posting problems and that 90% is probably a tiny amount of the watches sold.
I only got my watch a couple of days ago but i can tell you that I am into my 3rd day with this watch and i am currently on 65% battery with the 46mm bluetooth only version.
My setting are...
AOD off
Wifi off
Bluetooth always connected 24/7
Heart rate monitor on request only
Screen brightness on 7
Very impressed with this so far after coming from the huawei watch original which had to be charged every single day.
pkylle said:
Well, it depends. To be able to compare one need to specify model (46mm(472mAh)/42mm(270mAh))(1.75:1 or 1:0.57).
I get roughly 3+ days (42mm) (AOD-no, BT + Wi-Fi(auto), light(2 -auto) and notifications)
That is close to your observation if your watch is a 46mm - that is.
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My watch is 46mm version. My last charge (the second in a row that has lasted 7+ hours) lasted 7 days 6 hours. This was without turning on battery saving mode. I was at 1% when I charged.
The battery time has improved significantly for me. Not sure what it is but I'm liking it. Display at 7 brightness, AOD off, Auto Low Brightness on, screen timeout 15 seconds, HR set at frequent, step tracker on, wifi off, BT always on, notifications from phone on.
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That's complete BS, here is no way you could know that. Maybe 90% of the people posting problems and that 90% is probably a tiny amount of the watches sold.
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I agree. By looking at posts on Samsung US forum I would say the percent of posts with problems relating to this is much lower than that and probably less than 20%.
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My watch is 46mm version. My last charge (the second in a row that has lasted 7+ hours) lasted 7 days 6 hours. This was without turning on battery saving mode. I was at 1% when I charged.
The battery time has improved significantly for me. Not sure what it is but I'm liking it. Display at 7 brightness, AOD off, Auto Low Brightness on, screen timeout 15 seconds, HR set at frequent, step tracker on, wifi off, BT always on, notifications from phone on.
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How do you turn Step tracker Off?
I Couldn't find any info or Setting...
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I agree. By looking at posts on Samsung US forum I would say the percent of posts with problems relating to this is much lower than that and probably less than 20%.
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Actually the longest threads are about these problems with thousands of comments already and no solution. I also returned my watch because of the hr sensor not working reliably. I guess a lot of people just don't use the always on hr, because this is how you see that it doesn't work properly. It gets stuck sometimes leaving gaps on your charts and stays stuck for quite some time if you don't manually release it by some workarounds.