[Q] Battery life w/ Auto Brightness On vs. Off - Moto 360

I have Ambient Mode set to off which has been stated to save battery life. I was also wondering if anyone has noticed a difference in battery life while having auto brightness turned on vs off?

ericdmiller said:
I have Ambient Mode set to off which has been stated to save battery life. I was also wondering if anyone has noticed a difference in battery life while having auto brightness turned on vs off?
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I am going with both ambient screen on and ambient mode on today. Yesterday I had both off and had ~6.3% per hour decrease using it. Today with both on, 10hrs into my day it's ~7.2% per hour discharge. I got about as much calls and texts and emails and disconnects when I walk up front or other side of the building in my office.
So far ~.9% difference with both ambient screen and ambient mode on. I'll test with ambient screen on and ambient mode on the watch to level 1 to see if there's any difference tomorrow.

kpjimmy said:
I am going with both ambient screen on and ambient mode on today. Yesterday I had both off and had ~6.3% per hour decrease using it. Today with both on, 10hrs into my day it's ~7.2% per hour discharge. I got about as much calls and texts and emails and disconnects when I walk up front or other side of the building in my office.
So far ~.9% difference with both ambient screen and ambient mode on. I'll test with ambient screen on and ambient mode on the watch to level 1 to see if there's any difference tomorrow.
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What's the difference between ambient mode and auto brightness mode? Ambient mode just keeps the display on most of the time?

ericdmiller said:
What's the difference between ambient mode and auto brightness mode? Ambient mode just keeps the display on most of the time?
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Ambient mode is what I refer to is the setting on the watch for auto brightness. When the watch is awake, the watch determines on how bright the display should be according to the light sensor on the watch. I normally turn my brightness to level one on my g watch and I lasted 14 hrs easy.

kpjimmy said:
Ambient mode is what I refer to is the setting on the watch for auto brightness. When the watch is awake, the watch determines on how bright the display should be according to the light sensor on the watch. I normally turn my brightness to level one on my g watch and I lasted 14 hrs easy.
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Are you aware there's an Auto Brightness setting as well? Trying to determine what the difference is between the two.

ericdmiller said:
Are you aware there's an Auto Brightness setting as well? Trying to determine what the difference is between the two.
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The term "ambient setting" on the phone? That's pretty much the same as the "screen on" setting when I had the g watch. Actually it was actually the same setting on the Moto prior to updating to 4.4w.1.
The "auto brightness" is the where the light sensor on the watch is used. The difference is that the autobrightness will use the sensor where if you choose one of the other levels, from my understanding, will then not use the light sensor and the "Ambient" setting is just another fancy way of saying dimmed rather than off.

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Auto brightnes too dimm

First thing i've noticed on my new xz1c is dimm display in auto-brightnes mode? When i turn auto-brightness off display is OK.
Is it only me or You see the same?
Any sugestions?
pesho00 said:
First thing i've noticed on my new xz1c is dimm display in auto-brightnes mode? When i turn auto-brightness off display is OK.
Is it only me or You see the same?
Any sugestions?
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Set brightness to max then engage auto brightness
Darkimmortal said:
Set brightness to max then engage auto brightness
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Done it several times, whenever auto is engaged displays darken
I use Lux Auto Brightness as it allows to dim below zero at night so that the display doesn't blind you. You can also configure the desired display brightness for any lux value of the ambient light sensor. Works quite well for me.

display shuts off in ambient mode

It is my understanding that the display is supposed to dim, but never shutoff when ambient mode is selected. Is this true? if so, since mine does shutoff, could the fact that I have a screen protector be impacting this?
wethead4 said:
It is my understanding that the display is supposed to dim, but never shutoff when ambient mode is selected. Is this true? if so, since mine does shutoff, could the fact that I have a screen protector be impacting this?
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No it will still shut off after a certain amount of time. It's normal from what I heard.
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wethead4 said:
It is my understanding that the display is supposed to dim, but never shutoff when ambient mode is selected. Is this true? if so, since mine does shutoff, could the fact that I have a screen protector be impacting this?
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Also, if you want to turn it off....
There is an Ambient setting in the Android Wear application on your phone/tablet.
If you wait for the watch to dim, and then uncheck the Ambient setting box the screen will turn off.
Good luck!
It has to do with orientation and motion. It dims most of the time but is able to turn off if not in use or held down at your side.
SilentAce07 said:
It has to do with orientation and motion. It dims most of the time but is able to turn off if not in use or held down at your side.
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Thanks all. All the reviews online indicate that when ambient screen is enabled,the face would never shutoff, but enter a dimmed state. This clears it up. so the only difference between ambient and ambient mode off is that it would shutoff immedietely instead of entering a dimmed state prior to fully shutting off?
wethead4 said:
Thanks all. All the reviews online indicate that when ambient screen is enabled,the face would never shutoff, but enter a dimmed state. This clears it up. so the only difference between ambient and ambient mode off is that it would shutoff immedietely instead of entering a dimmed state prior to fully shutting off?
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Basically. Ambient mode is on and dimmed quite a bit. Not always. Just a lot.
Ambient mode off basically dims the screen briefly before turning it off completely.
While ambient mode off seems like it would be bad, it's not. The gesture to turn it on is pretty sensitive and responsive. Also, you can just touch the screen or the button to turn it on as well.
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Anyone know if you can turn off the gesture motion and only turn it on by pushing button. I believe this would save a ton of battery.
Just driving into work this morning the screen turned on 20+ times on a 45min commute.
SilentAce07 said:
Basically. Ambient mode is on and dimmed quite a bit. Not always. Just a lot.
Ambient mode off basically dims the screen briefly before turning it off completely.
While ambient mode off seems like it would be bad, it's not. The gesture to turn it on is pretty sensitive and responsive. Also, you can just touch the screen or the button to turn it on as well.
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OrionNE said:
Anyone know if you can turn off the gesture motion and only turn it on by pushing button. I believe this would save a ton of battery.
Just driving into work this morning the screen turned on 20+ times on a 45min commute.
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Yeah just about everyone wants that feature so I would expect it to be included in a future update sometime, it's mentioned on basically every page of this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-360/general/battery-life-discussion-t2806528

Auto brightness is useless!

In a 100% dark area (movie theater, etc.), when I flick my wrist to turn on the watch, it turned on with full brightness on. It stay there indefinitely... sometimes it'll go away by itself, other time I have to do something, like swiping cards before the screen will go dim.
In a semi (50% dark), the screen will not turn on to its full brightness, but at... dim. WTH?!
Stick watch face?
I've noticed this as well (when driving at night). Since it turns on all the time (I steer with the same hand I wear my watch on), I've noticed lots of strange behavior. Sometimes it turns on very bright, and then goes back to sleep. Sometimes it turns on bright and then dims to the minimal brightness that it should be. Sometimes it turns on with the appropriate, minimum brightness. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it. I'm running a stock watch face, and have very few apps installed.
As someone offered up 'muting' the watch while driving in another thread as a possible solution, it doesn't help me. Whether or not the watch is muted, it still wakes up all the time, and varying brightness levels.
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Stick watch face?
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Emm...you mean stock watch face? If yes, I am using the classic one.
Auto brightness works well for me with ambient mode ON, I think I remember it being buggy with ambient mode OFF, what is yours set to?
v3ngence said:
Auto brightness works well for me with ambient mode ON, I think I remember it being buggy with ambient mode OFF, what is yours set to?
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I have ambient mode OFF to save battery. Will turning it on fix the issue? I use Sleep as Android for sleep tracking and turn Ambient off and it lights up here and there at night.
Cut it out guys. ..or this thread will be locked
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Cut it out guys. ..or this thread will be locked
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^^This...well probably not locked
I did a little thread cleaning to remove the off topic arguments about using a device (phone or watch) in a movie theatre. There were a lot of people who quoted these posts, and unfortunately I had to remove these posts as well...sorry for that.
Here is the thing, this thread is about the buggy behavior of the watch waking up at full brightness. It doesn't matter if it is in a theatre, whilst driving the car, or you just woke up in the middle of the night and want to check the time. More that one person has reported the issue and there has been a proposed fix...please keep the thread focused on finding the root causes, fixes, work arounds, etc. No matter what, please knock off the name calling, that will only get you into trouble!
Thanks!:good:
lanwarrior said:
I have ambient mode OFF to save battery. Will turning it on fix the issue? I use Sleep as Android for sleep tracking and turn Ambient off and it lights up here and there at night.
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Try turning ambient mode ON during the day,
I just tested and with it off the screen does occasionally come on at full brightness even in the dark. With ambient on it only comes on bright the first time, quickly dims, and stays dim until taken into daylight :good:
v3ngence said:
Try turning ambient mode ON during the day,
I just tested and with it off the screen does occasionally come on at full brightness even in the dark. With ambient on it only comes on bright the first time, quickly dims, and stays dim until taken into daylight :good:
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Interesting. So with ambient ON, it still turn on at full brightness but momentarily. I'll test this and will report back.
Well, I'm having the opposite problem following the last update.
it frequently (at work right now, for example) comes up EXTREMELY dim, I'd guess maybe 5x dimmer than brightness setting '1'.
I'm setting it to '1' as a workaround for now.
- Frank
Wait for the next 5.0 update. .there's options like theater mode. ..and other brightness modes coming to wear
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Smart Brightness for Moto 360
Try the application "smart brightness for moto 360" from the Google play. With this application you can set a minimum brightness and better view in low light environments.
With the minimum set to 20% and auto brightness on you will get better battery life and better experience in dark situation.
[email protected] said:
Try the application "smart brightness for moto 360" from the Google play. With this application you can set a minimum brightness and better view in low light environments.
With the minimum set to 20% and auto brightness on you will get better battery life and better experience in dark situation.
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Instant buy. Thanks allot, that makes in combination with the 5.0 update, Watchmaker and Bubble Cloud Launcher my watch perfect.
[email protected] said:
Try the application "smart brightness for moto 360" from the Google play. With this application you can set a minimum brightness and better view in low light environments.
With the minimum set to 20% and auto brightness on you will get better battery life and better experience in dark situation.
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Sadly, the auto brightness doesn't seem to work...yeah, just realized that after using it for a week.
Smart Brightness for Moto 360
TheGoD said:
Sadly, the auto brightness doesn't seem to work...yeah, just realized that after using it for a week.
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The application really works. If you want see how works, do the followings steps:
1. open Smart Brightness App
2. Turn on the application
3. Set the minimum brightness to 20%
4. Turn on the auto brightness.
5. Go to a dark room and wait until Moto360 to turn off the screen.
6. Touch the screen to wakeup the screen. (This is necessary because the Smart Brightness application start when the screen is on and stop when the screen is off).
You will see a clear image after this steps. Now go to the smart brightness app and turn it off (Using the on/off switch located at the top of the screen). Repeat the steps 5 and 6. Now the screen will look dark, because it is the factory auto brightness.
I recommend to use the 7 days trial. After 7 days after using it you will notice the difference.
I'm using this app over a month and works fine. Please let me know any other concern about the application.
For me its not the low light the problem as this works, is outside doens't go bright enough in direct sunlight
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no problems
i have always used it, never experienced any problems
Moto 360 on the second generation does not work
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Does everyone's screen auto dim?

I have auto dimness unchecked, and whenever the brightness is set to over 55%, after unlocking the phone it always auto dims byitself.
Is this normal? no other phone does this. Can this be bypassed somehow? It's jarring when you unlock and see a bright vibrant screen and all of a sudden it dims like 10% or so after 5 seconds.
Phone auto dims when it starts to heat up regardless of your settings.
Otherwise it shouldn't as long as it's not set to auto brightness.
nadram said:
Phone auto dims when it starts to heat up regardless of your settings.
Otherwise it shouldn't as long as it's not set to auto brightness.
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Ok, but when the phone hasn't been used in 30 minutes, and not "hot" at all, this still happens. This also happened with the G3 as well.
Is there a way to turn this off? This post has over 100 views, can everyone please comment if their screen does the same thing? Are there any solutions?
What carrier/model do you have?
I just tried this on mine, Verizon, 611A software.
With Auto Brightness disabled, set to 40%, I powered off, turned it on, then unlocked. The brightness did not change. Then set it to 100% brightness (Auto still disabled), and did the same thing. Again, the brightness did not change.
I have, however, seen the screen brightness reduced when I'm using Auto Brightness. If I turned it off in a bright area, then unlock it in a dim area, the screen will be bright for a moment, then will turn itself down, presumably based on evaluating the current ambient brightness.
RedOCtobyr said:
What carrier/model do you have?
I just tried this on mine, Verizon, 611A software.
With Auto Brightness disabled, set to 40%, I powered off, turned it on, then unlocked. The brightness did not change. Then set it to 100% brightness (Auto still disabled), and did the same thing. Again, the brightness did not change.
I have, however, seen the screen brightness reduced when I'm using Auto Brightness. If I turned it off in a bright area, then unlock it in a dim area, the screen will be bright for a moment, then will turn itself down, presumably based on evaluating the current ambient brightness.
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auto brightness is always off. It's the AT&T non rooted stock version. I just tuned brightness to 70%, powered off, powered on, and after unlocking and opening chrome it auto dimmed within 5 seconds.
Does it do it if you don't open Chrome?
I've seen apps make their own brightness adjustments (like a camera app that maxes out the screen brightness when it starts up). I want to say that Chrome (on my last phone) is one of them. Alternately, turn it on, unlock, wait 15 seconds, THEN start Chrome. If it still happens right after Chrome loads, then it's a Chrome phenomenon, not a just-turned-on phenomenon., and at least you can isolate what to chase down.
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Does it do it if you don't open Chrome?
I've seen apps make their own brightness adjustments (like a camera app that maxes out the screen brightness when it starts up). I want to say that Chrome (on my last phone) is one of them. Alternately, turn it on, unlock, wait 15 seconds, THEN start Chrome. If it still happens right after Chrome loads, then it's a Chrome phenomenon, not a just-turned-on phenomenon., and at least you can isolate what to chase down.
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Yes it dims even if I don't use chrome. No matter whats on the screen it dims a little after 5 seconds.
TheNamelessMan said:
I have auto dimness unchecked, and whenever the brightness is set to over 55%, after unlocking the phone it always auto dims byitself.
Is this normal? no other phone does this. Can this be bypassed somehow? It's jarring when you unlock and see a bright vibrant screen and all of a sudden it dims like 10% or so after 5 seconds.
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Download LUX (couple of bucks) set it to manual, 100% brightness on all LUX setting areas and it will bypass LG's lame attempt to hide the fact that they can't make a phone that doesn't suffer severe battery drain and overheating.
Your problem is called High Tempurate Thermal Mitigation (throttling). I depise it but with LUX, I tell the phone what is acceptable to me, not the other way around.
If I wanted to be dictated to like a submissive I'd just get an iphone.
I don't doubt that excess temps can cause the phone to adjust its behavior. But that quickly after turning the screen on? That seems really fast for something to go over-temperature, and for a sensor to also detect it that quickly. You may be 100% right, it's just not something I'd expect to happen that quickly.
This is a serious suggestion, despite how it may sound What if you put the phone in the fridge for 15 minutes or so, then do the same test? Does the screen still dim after 5 seconds? Depending on the humidity level, the phone could start to condense after coming out of a cold environment, so use your best judgement.
For a "safer" test, hold it in front of an air conditioner for a few minutes, with the screen off. Then, still at the A/C, turn the screen on, and see if it immediately dims.
If it suddenly runs for a while before dimming, then I'd agree it's likely temperature-related. If it still behaves the same way, then perhaps it's a different cause.
Either way, Lux sounds like a nice addition to these phones, from everything I've read. I've just been too cheap to try it yet But the rather coarse auto-brightness from LG has me curious.
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Ok, but when the phone hasn't been used in 30 minutes, and not "hot" at all, this still happens. This also happened with the G3 as well.
Is there a way to turn this off? This post has over 100 views, can everyone please comment if their screen does the same thing? Are there any solutions?
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Have you tried the cool-down suggestions (fridge, A/C,) ?
Try installing ThermoCF to monitor the battery temperature. I find that when used for GPS (mounted on windshield) the screen will dim with direct sunlight. The temperature is in excess of 120 °F when this happens.
I just left the G4 screen on 50% brightness for about 5 minutes and the temperature remained 98 °F (this is on a wireless charger, next to a warm laptop fan exhaust). I switched to 100% brightness and the battery temperature increased to 100 °F over the next five minutes but no dimming has occurred. After a few more minutes the temperature dropped to 99 °F with the screen remaining at 100% brightness.
Different from your problem but: I turned on the developer options and set the screen to "always-on when charging" and have noticed that the screen dims after some amount of time (I haven't timed, maybe 15 minutes or so). I ended up here because I was looking for a way to change that time and may download the LUX app to do it.
Nice to know I am not the only one having this problem. I use my phone to play Ingress and sucks the battery dry faster than anything. The screen kept going dim as I was charging.
I also have this same issue on my G5. I've tried the Lux, free version, and it still dimmed on its own. I wonder if the paid version will help out my situation?
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I like the auto-dim, and my phone seems to accept manual "guidance" as to how I prefer the auto-dim to work.
What I mean is that I can manually bump up the brightness slider (while auto-dim is checked/enabled), and the phone will auto-dim using the brighter setting. Or, I can bump the brightness slider down, and auto-dim will remember that and adjust the brightness.
So it's like you can control the baseline setting for auto-dim by using the brightness slider with auto-dim enabled, and then the phone will auto adjust from that baseline. I play ingress and during the day I bump up the slider, but during the night play I'll decrease the slider and still enjoy auto dim both ways, and preserve the most battery that way.
Aint looked to see if g4 has got it. I know g3 you go into hidden menu. And turn the thermal mitigations on and it stopped the throttle down. Lg has an insanley low throttle down temp.
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Aint looked to see if g4 has got it. I know g3 you go into hidden menu. And turn the thermal mitigations on and it stopped the throttle down. Lg has an insanley low throttle down temp.
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Under what setting is it on the G3 so I can check the G5?
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Under what setting is it on the G3 so I can check the G5?
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On the g3 and g4 its under main hiden menu. I use shortcutmaster to get to them all. But the g4 the options not there. Im not sure i dont know anything about the g5. Im not interested in it at all. I am selling my g4. So i can get another g3.
Now i know theres an app 3ctoolbox. And in cpu settings you can modify the unclock temps i dont know if it does the screen.
So, the hidden menu in Marshmallow, here it is folks. Where would I be able to find the option to turn off screen dim do to thermal mitigation? Anyone have any ideas?
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Mine also started to auto dim with auto brightness off. I have the H812 from Bell . I'm sure that on mine it's the proximity light sensor that is faulty or in the software. Because when i turn on the phone while blocking completely the proximity sensor it doesn't dim anymore. (knock knock doesn't work while sensor is blocked) but problem comes back if i wake up the phone without blocking the sensor. I have tried it many times and it's the same thing over and over.
Calibration in the hidden menu doesn't fix it, Lux and many other brightness apps iv'e tried don't fix the problem lol
I also use lux with cf.lumen
Lux will manage the auto brightness as per your preferences because i found the stock LG screen was about 15% lower than id like in all environments.
Cf.lumen actually changes the colour of the display rather than applying a dumb screen filter on top for night viewing.
The only thing Lux does for me is dim the screen twice since the phone already dims by itself 3-4 seconds after the screen is turned on. I can guaranty it's not an overheating problem, even after 30 minutes in the fridge it does it. I'm tempted to have the proximity sensor changed but will most likely wait for LG to release 6.0.1 to see if it will fix it.
Nougat 7.0 is days away and still no 6.0.1 MM for the G4. Pardon my language but LG really sucks . This is my first and last LG phone

True "always-on" ambient mode available on Moto 360 with the new LCA44B update

True "always-on" ambient mode available on Moto 360 with the new LCA44B update
Try this:
- Enable Ambient Mode on the watch
- Disable "Tilt to wake screen" setting in the Android Wear app
The screen will now stay on indefinitely, just like a regular watch. Until now, the Ambient Mode would always turn the screen off after a few seconds and there was no true "always-on" mode available.
PS: Battery drain seems to be the same as before.
Interesting battery life claim. did you get to verify it for more then 1 day?
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Cst79 said:
Try this:
- Enable Ambient Mode on the watch
- Disable "Tilt to wake screen" setting in the Android Wear app
The screen will now stay on indefinitely, just like a regular watch. Until now, the Ambient Mode would always turn the screen off after a few seconds and there was no true "always-on" mode available.
PS: Battery drain seems to be the same as before.
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Almost just like a regular watch.. Screen stays on but gets dimmed after a few seconds. At least: mine does.
So it stays on even with the watch down by your side? Pretty sure ambient mode kept the screen on before any time the watch was nearly level (like when looking at it).
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So it stays on even with the watch down by your side? Pretty sure ambient mode kept the screen on before any time the watch was nearly level (like when looking at it).
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Yes, the watch always stays on in all positions.
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Yes, the watch always stays on in all positions.
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... but dimmed after 10 seconds..
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... but dimmed after 10 seconds..
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I don't understand this. Of course the screen will be dimmed when always on, this is what happens for all smartwatches and even all the laptops by default when not actively in use. This is a sane thing to do. I wouldn't want my watch to glow in the dark when I'm walking.
Plus, are you able to tell the time when looking at your regular watch in the dark ? No. You have to press a light button (if present; if not, you are out of luck). With the Moto 360 you are able to see the information without pressing any button, even in the dark.
The purpose of the always-on mode is to have access to information with no delay at all times, and that's what it does.
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I don't understand this. Of course the screen will be dimmed when always on, this is what happens for all smartwatches and even all the laptops by default when not actively in use. This is a sane thing to do. I wouldn't want my watch to glow in the dark when I'm walking.
Plus, are you able to tell the time when looking at your regular watch in the dark ? No. You have to press a light button (if present; if not, you are out of luck). With the Moto 360 you are able to see the information without pressing any button, even in the dark.
The purpose of the always-on mode is to have access to information with no delay at all times, and that's what it does.
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I was referring to your comment "like a regular watch". A regular watch always has a clear display, has it?.
I monitored my battery usage. From 6Am till 2pm my usase was 33%, so about 4% per hour. After switching to ambient mode from 2pm till 7pm my usage was 54% so about 11% per hour. Now 9pm my watch is empty. Normally by this time my battery still is at 40%.
Could be coincidence (?)
But still thanks for your tip.
pietrucci said:
I monitored my battery usage. From 6Am till 2pm my usase was 33%, so about 4% per hour. After switching to ambient mode from 2pm till 7pm my usage was 54% so about 11% per hour. Now 9pm my watch is empty. Normally by this time my battery still is at 40%. Could be coincidence (?)
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Of course it's not coincidence. Ambient mode drains battery faster, everyone knows this, the watch also tells you this when turning on the ambient mode. When I said the battery drain seems to be the same, I referred to the drain with the new "always-on" ambient mode versus the drain with the "old" ambient mode from before the update, when the screen still turned off after a few seconds but was more sensitive to movements than the regular mode.
i don't think i'll be using ambient mode with the moto360... so this new "feature" is useless to me (or those who need their watch to last a FULL DAY)
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i don't think i'll be using ambient mode with the moto360... so this new "feature" is useless to me (or those who need their watch to last a FULL DAY)
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If you consider a full day a working day, it lasts a full day without any problem. Mine lasts 16 hours with Ambient Mode on and I get many email and chat notifications. It doesn't last 24 hours but anything between 16 and 36 is useless because the watch would die on you the next day in case you miss a night's charge.
With WatchMaker, you can control how the screen looks while dimmed, including keeping it on full brightness (maybe just removing the second hand so it doesn't have to refresh so much), but I agree this would not be a great option for the 360...
All Android Wear devices have always done with it seems this update does for the 360.
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All Android Wear devices have always done with it seems this update does for the 360.
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But none looked so good in the process
I'm considering using ambient mode but I'm not so sure. I'm using tilt to wake the device up. I heard battery life is similar to tilt to wake anyway when comparing tilt to wake and ambient mode together.
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Has anyone confirmed ambient mode does noticeably have more of a battery impact?
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MisterCoolBeans said:
Has anyone confirmed ambient mode does noticeably have more of a battery impact?
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After testing the Ambient ON + Tilt OFF (true always-on) mode for about 3-4 days with varius settings, I came to the conclusion that this mode drains battery significantly more than Ambient ON + Tilt ON,
Ambient ON + Tilt OFF lasts around 12 hours.
Ambient ON + Tilt ON lasts around 16 hours.
Ambient OFF + Tilt ON can last around 22-24 hours.
However, the always-on mode improves the functionality and experience so much that I wouldn't consider switching back, I prefer to just live with the shorter battery life.
I feel that there can be so many improvements that could be made regarding the screen, for energy saving purposes, but Google and Motorola just don't think of them. For example, notifications wake up the screen but there could be an option to disable this and only wake up the screen when tapping or pressing the button.
Cst79 said:
After testing the Ambient ON + Tilt OFF (true always-on) mode for about 3-4 days with varius settings, I came to the conclusion that this mode drains battery significantly more than Ambient ON + Tilt ON,
Ambient ON + Tilt OFF lasts around 12 hours.
Ambient ON + Tilt ON lasts around 16 hours.
Ambient OFF + Tilt ON can last around 22-24 hours.
However, the always-on mode improves the functionality and experience so much that I wouldn't consider switching back, I prefer to just live with the shorter battery life.
I feel that there can be so many improvements that could be made regarding the screen, for energy saving purposes, but Google and Motorola just don't think of them. For example, notifications wake up the screen but there could be an option to disable this and only wake up the screen when tapping or pressing the button.
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That's strange why do you think Ambient ON + Tilt ON gives out more battery life than with Tilt OFF?
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MisterCoolBeans said:
That's strange why do you think Ambient ON + Tilt ON gives out more battery life than with Tilt OFF?
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It's normal, the Ambient ON + Tilt OFF keeps the screen on all the time, while Ambient ON + Tilt ON behaves like the old ambient mode, switching off the screen most of the time, just being more sensitive when you move your hand.
just so im using this right..
if i have ambient on and tilt OFF then the only way to WAKE the watch is to tap the screen?
the watch is dim and its great but to wake it, i have to tap the screen..
so is that how this setup works (ambient on tilt OFF)?
marctronixx said:
just so im using this right..
if i have ambient on and tilt OFF then the only way to WAKE the watch is to tap the screen?
the watch is dim and its great but to wake it, i have to tap the screen..
so is that how this setup works (ambient on tilt OFF)?
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Yes.

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