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Does the moto 360 come with its own app or any way to continuously monitor heart rate? Or does it just give you a single reading which is entirely useless?
Haven't quite figured out how it polls, but it has a tracker for minutes of activity that seems to register if I do something strenuous. Not sure about heart rate...
I think it measures heart rate every 5 minutes or so. There is another app mentioned on android police that constantly monitors it but I haven't tried it.
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I've been using it often because I think I am experiencing the early stages of high blood pressure so I'm keeping track of my heart rate. It appears to monitor it when you run it but it seems to poll every 5-10 seconds until you close the app.
johnomaz said:
I've been using it often because I think I am experiencing the early stages of high blood pressure so I'm keeping track of my heart rate. It appears to monitor it when you run it but it seems to poll every 5-10 seconds until you close the app.
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Is there a way to keep the watch on when monitoring HR. I know it will kill the battery but its just for my workout, and when the screen times out you have to restart the HR app.
Also anyone find an app to see HR on the phone that's measured on the watch? its nice to have the phone sitting on the magazine rack of the treadmill.
Now that BB is starting to have some stock:
Has anyone returned their 360 and gotten another one with better battery life? Reading all these batt life reports, the devices seem to either struggle to get 12hrs or easily make it double that. That sounds like an inconsistency in hardware to me.
I'm in the "barely 12 hr" camp, despite resetting, calibrating, screen off, brightness at 1, correct firmware etc.
I exchanged mine for cash. Will try again next year.
what phone are you pairing with the 360? I wonder if not having a bluetooth LE capable phone affect the battery usage. That's the one thing I haven't heard many people mention.
I think a lot depends what you do each day. Yesterday I had great battery life. But went to a couple of meetings and received some texts and emails.
Today I've been installing done light switches and using a screwdriver which is killing my battery life due to the wrist morons always triggering the watch face to turn on
I am performing this experiment now. Just exchanged the one I got last Monday for one that just arrived at my local BB today. Will post my results.
I'm using a Moto X, btw, and I got 12 hrs of batt with the barest of use. I was sitting at my desk at work all day barely using it at all. I def understand variance in results depending on use, but this was bad battery life with almost no usage.
Not the end of the day, but: the new 360 has been off the charger for 4hrs now and it's down 15%. That's a massive improvement.
I should note that the only thing I did differently over my standard use for the previous one was to switch the heart rate app to "Fit" in the Wear app.
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I should note that the only thing I did differently over my standard use for the previous one was to switch the heart rate app to "Fit" in the Wear app.
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Does that prevent the periodic heart-rate cards from appearing? I turned off the annoying step card, but I haven't yet found a good way to completely prevent the heart-rate cards. Whoever at Motorola thought fitness apps should be included as mandatory should be... well... maybe strapped to a running treadmill for a week or so. I'll bet then they'd see the logic in making them optional as they should be.
I am actually not sure, but I saw it suggested in several "make the battery not suck" threads.
I am pro fitness apps (one of the reasons I bought it was that I wanted a step counter and it was't that much more than a fitbit) but man they missed the boat on the UI of the fitness apps. All the apps with the same purpose, no real ability to control what's being logged and how often, no way to export data, no way to have just steps counted etc. It's a big enough of a mess than it should have been shipped with the fitness stuff turned off, particularly if that ends up being the source of the battery problems.
I finally put my replacement 360 in the cradle at 10pm last night, 16 hrs after I took it out. It had 22% battery left, and that was obviously the first charge cycle, so it'll get better. The longest my first one lasted was just over 12 hours, and that was after at least 5 charge cycles. I'm pretty sure there was something different and/or wrong with the first one.
Looking to get an Android Wear smartwatch.
The Moto has the better water resistance, bigger circular screen but the Asus has better battery, P-OLED screen and faster CPU.
Some Moto 360 users are reporting problems like screen burn in, and battery drain, should I be worried about this?
I need the battery to last from 7 AM to 10 PM.
In for feedback also.
I just got the Moto 360 yesterday and so far it is very nice, but honestly think I prefer my Pebble Time more. Would love to hear other users input.
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Looking to get an Android Wear smartwatch.
The Moto has the better water resistance, bigger circular screen but the Asus has better battery, P-OLED screen and faster CPU.
Some Moto 360 users are reporting problems like screen burn in, and battery drain, should I be worried about this?
I need the battery to last from 7 AM to 10 PM.
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I have had my watch since February, no screen burn in at all. I charge it all night so the screen is on all night as well.
I usually take mine off the charger at 5:30 am and don't put it back on until 10:30 pm and I am normally in the 30's at that point. I have a lot of notifications that come through during the day, I would say 5 to 10 an hour on average. On days I run and use runkeeper it will take about 10% off the battery life every 45 min. So my average days I have no issues making it through a full day. I have found that I need to restart the watch about once a week to maintain this, if not I can have a day where the battery life tanks for no reason.
If you plan to use GPS (Maps) a lot or use the watch to play music via bluetooth from the watch those both will kill the battery faster.
I have had my moto360 for about 2 weeks... But here's the catch (now this obviously may vary from person to person)
When the Moto360 first came out, I was sold on it, I wanted one... But I waited. So now that I bought one I had to go through 2 exchanges because, the first one had a severe battery drain problem and the 2nd one, once it died, wouldn't turn on, even after a day of being on the charger. Now that I have a 3rd (which was my final exchange, and would have requested a refund after) it seems to be working great! I love the build. Of course I wish many things about it were better, but because I like it so much I was willing to get one that works. Just like you're phone, if you use it smart you can get great battery life out of it. When I'm home I have it disconnected from my Bluetooth connection because I don't use it. I can get to the end of the night with 20% or so left. Easily lasting from 7am to midnight. At the price it's set at now, I believe it's worth it. At least until v2 comes out.
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Looking to get an Android Wear smartwatch.
The Moto has the better water resistance, bigger circular screen but the Asus has better battery, P-OLED screen and faster CPU.
Some Moto 360 users are reporting problems like screen burn in, and battery drain, should I be worried about this?
I need the battery to last from 7 AM to 10 PM.
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I don't think screen burn in is possible on moto 360 since it doesn't have oled.
Mine on full charge lasts day and a half and I'm using it as a pedometer and I've got a watchface which takes my heart rate everytime I turn the screen on.
Big battery savings: Ambient screen (doh), Tilt to wake screen OFF! Just tilt to wake off at least doubles my battery life.
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I don't think screen burn in is possible on moto 360 since it doesn't have oled.
Mine on full charge lasts day and a half and I'm using it as a pedometer and I've got a watchface which takes my heart rate everytime I turn the screen on.
Big battery savings: Ambient screen (doh), Tilt to wake screen OFF! Just tilt to wake off at least doubles my battery life.
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Which watchface is that? I'd love to see more frequent HR data.
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Which watchface is that? I'd love to see more frequent HR data.
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An one I made myself. After I downloaded tons of free watchfaces and even wasted money purchasing watchfaces I used for a few hours before realizing they won't work for me. I realized that if I want something tailored EXACTLY for my needs, I'll have to make it myself.
Inspired by Iguana's http://facerepo.com/app/faces/details/military-digital-watchface-14a9a3f7838 I stole his compass ring and heart and steps icon. I hope He won't mind too much since I made it strictly for my own use, no distribution intended.
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.
Post you battery life below:
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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.
I forgot to attach there picture :/
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.
Hi all,
I've been having this issue with the watch since day one.
The watch is connected to an iPhone.
The heart rate monitor is way too high in a lot of cases, for instance when I sit down and watch TV it's around 55-60 and then peaks to ~150 with no apparent reason as you can seen in the attached photo.
It's not my first smartwatch and I have never had this problem before.
I send it to huawei's labs for inspection and they said it's working fine and it might be issue with the over sensitive sensor and the fact it is connected to an iPhone and not their phone.
Has anyone else encountered this problem?
Thanks,
Ishay
No such issues with my GT2 connected to Android phone.
It sometimes happens that when I put a watch on (it was off my hand for a while and I put it back on) it spikes to high bpm value (i.e. 110 or so), but quickly reduces to normal. During resting/sitting period, bpm remains constantly low, without spikes that you mention.
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No such issues with my GT2 connected to Android phone.
It sometimes happens that when I put a watch on (it was off my hand for a while and I put it back on) it spikes to high bpm value (i.e. 110 or so), but quickly reduces to normal. During resting/sitting period, bpm remains constantly low, without spikes that you mention.
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Thanks for the reply!
can you compare my thumbnail with yours? no sport activity during that day..
ishaycc said:
Hi all,
I've been having this issue with the watch since day one.
The watch is connected to an iPhone.
The heart rate monitor is way too high in a lot of cases, for instance when I sit down and watch TV it's around 55-60 and then peaks to ~150 with no apparent reason as you can seen in the attached photo.
Thanks,
Ishay
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I've never had such issue on pair with mate 30 pro, but on high rates (over 186) suddenly drop to about 135 (1/3 less).
I have an opposite effect but only during training. The watch shows on average 20-30bpm less than my previous 2 smart bands. I've read there should be an improvement with the firmware version 1.0.3.62 but I'm stuck on 1.0.2.60.
I had exact same problems..this morning when I was doing elliptical,the hr went up suddenly 188 and said limit exceeded .once I stopped the tracking it came back to normal , insee this problem after I had set the Huawei mobile service region to China to buy few watch faces..
I finally got 1.0.3.62 update so I'll report back in a few days if the HR has improved.
Hi all,
"happy" to read that I'm not the only one with this issue:
Doing elliptical, raises to 160, LED on back is not flickering but steady on. Stop moving, drops down to 96 (fe). Real rate (according Samsung watch on other arm is 96. Moving again and up to 160..
Started with latest firmware update.. what **** is this...
Exact same problem, with last firmware update, when doing elliptical, heart rate is reportef between 20-40 bpm above what the machine is reading, tried with a camera app and it read the same value as the machine and to make sure trackef my pulse and all were the same but the gt2. My phone is a mate 20 lite. Definitely happenef with the latest firmware. Was ok with the two firmwares before.
I have 1.0.3.62.
the clock stuck to 109bpm. i took it out, i put it on again it showed 75bpm for a while then 109bpm again. To say that I sat for so long. i opened the app and as long as it was stuck there is a gap !!! Last clue at the app 109bpm. The clock shows "normally" that stuck for a while constantly.
With 1.0.2.68 i had no problem!!!
Drastic drop
Mine too. Is it hardware or software?
I have exactly the same issue. Driving along and it will suddenly spike up to 170+ occasionally. Same thing happened the other day walking to the shop peaked to 190+...
Although we could all just be really ill??
I did not experience that issue but the opposite - during workout, the highest HR is usually not as high as it should be, sometimes even 20bpm lower (compared to Polar OH1).
I am facing the same problems. Reading jumps from 55 to 120! When I check against another machine I can see I have 60 and the watch is showing 110! This started after I used it for indoor elliptical and sensor went nuts with wrong readings. Never had that problem before. I will try a factory reset and if not fixed send it back (I have had it for about 5 weeks 24-7)
My brand new HONOR MAGIC WATCH 2 doesn't track heart rate on my wrist, however on my Palm, its tracks properly. Shall I return or is it software issue or hardware?
I have a different problem. My GT2 elegant detects puls and stress levels while I'm not wearin it...Of course it happened after one of latest updates...
Don't know how to fix this and it annoys me alot
Yes I've had the same problem. It's connected to a Huawei phone so not sure why this is happening. Did you manage to solve the problem? I might return mine since it's less than 2 weeks since I received it.
I have similar issue... When starting a workout, even if I'm not walking or doing something the heart rate zones shows "extreme" with 70-80 bpm... Anyone knows a fix?
Hi guys! I don't have a GT2 but GT2e instead, with the latest 1.0.6.20 firmware, and might be a heart rate issue here too. When I bought it, I compared with my Honor Magic Watch (which were replaced because the battery draining very quickly, it lasts now for only 2 days), and the GT2e showed higher heart rate, +10-20 bpm. This weekend, the GT2e showed many times seriously high heart rate, example: during sleep, under2 minutes ramped up quickly to 136 bpm , and then back to 60-70. Today in 5 minutes ramped up from 93 to 149, then back to 121, and I immediately started to check my pulse by counting it manually, and it was between 80 and 90, but the watch still showed 110 bpm. I haven't even do any exercising during that time. I was at the doctor a week ago, ECG and heart rhythm checking, nothing unusual was found, later that day I bought the GT2e.
Could it be possible that those high heart rates measured by the watch are "false alarms"?
I watched video reviews from this watch before buying it, especially about the heart rate accuracy compared to expensive smart watches, and the previous gen. Watch GT, and everyone said that the sensors accuracy is very high, and I'm a bit scared now...
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Hi guys! I don't have a GT2 but GT2e instead, with the latest 1.0.6.20 firmware, and might be a heart rate issue here too. When I bought it, I compared with my Honor Magic Watch (which were replaced because the battery draining very quickly, it lasts now for only 2 days), and the GT2e showed higher heart rate, +10-20 bpm. This weekend, the GT2e showed many times seriously high heart rate, example: during sleep, under2 minutes ramped up quickly to 136 bpm , and then back to 60-70. Today in 5 minutes ramped up from 93 to 149, then back to 121, and I immediately started to check my pulse by counting it manually, and it was between 80 and 90, but the watch still showed 110 bpm. I haven't even do any exercising during that time. I was at the doctor a week ago, ECG and heart rhythm checking, nothing unusual was found, later that day I bought the GT2e.
Could it be possible that those high heart rates measured by the watch are "false alarms"?
I watched video reviews from this watch before buying it, especially about the heart rate accuracy compared to expensive smart watches, and the previous gen. Watch GT, and everyone said that the sensors accuracy is very high, and I'm a bit scared now...
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Try to set heart rate tracking to non-stop and not smart. When I did that it works ok. When it is set to smart it measures in 10 minutes interval. So it is written but I think the watch turns on also when you move and then measures your heart beat. When it does that you get high peaks which I think it is the problem in software because friend of mine has GT2 set to smart and there is no peaks.