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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.
Hi all,
Just wondering if anyone has found a sleep tracking app that works with the Moto 360.
Thanks
razldazl15 said:
Hi all,
Just wondering if anyone has found a sleep tracking app that works with the Moto 360.
Thanks
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Sleep as Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep) has an Android Wear component that detects your movement. It does work with Moto 360. Just make sure you have your battery charged ahead of time. It consumed about 30% over 8 hours.
Myzur said:
Sleep as Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep) has an Android Wear component that detects your movement. It does work with Moto 360. Just make sure you have your battery charged ahead of time. It consumed about 30% over 8 hours.
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awesome, glad to know it works
i am purchasing that app as soon as i get my 360
The program works great, thank you for pointing me in the right direction.
razldazl15 said:
The program works great, thank you for pointing me in the right direction.
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It kills my watch battery before the morning. Does it kill yours?
dlaciv12 said:
It kills my watch battery before the morning. Does it kill yours?
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Kills my 360 as well. I reported this to the developer and he blamed it on the "old" processor. Claimed the Gear Live works better. I happen to have a Gear Live so I tested that with this app and got the same result. A dead battery before I woke up 8 hours later.
Love the app, but the battery killing kills the app for me.
I generally try to charge my watch before, but generally lose about 40% of over night running the app.
Dirk
razldazl15 said:
I generally try to charge my watch before, but generally lose about 40% of over night running the app.
Dirk
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OK, I take that back. Installed Facer and one of the Sinn watch-faces, this morning my watch was dead when I woke up. My early assumption is that using a Facer plus Sleep as Android will drain the battery. I will try it tonight with a stock watch-face to see how the battery handles the sleep tracking.
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OK, I take that back. Installed Facer and one of the Sinn watch-faces, this morning my watch was dead when I woke up. My early assumption is that using a Facer plus Sleep as Android will drain the battery. I will try it tonight with a stock watch-face to see how the battery handles the sleep tracking.
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Has anyone got their watch to last the night? I got the update for the Moto 360 so I'm going to switch to a stock face and charge up before bed.
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Has anyone got their watch to last the night? I got the update for the Moto 360 so I'm going to switch to a stock face and charge up before bed.
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No luck here, I turned this feature off because it would rather be able to charge my watch up to 100% in the morning before I leave for work than get accurate sleep statistics from my watch.
Hoping that they'll improve it.
AgrahamLincoln said:
No luck here, I turned this feature off because it would rather be able to charge my watch up to 100% in the morning before I leave for work than get accurate sleep statistics from my watch.
Hoping that they'll improve it.
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Yeah, mine didn't make it either. I'm glad the watch gets a full charge in about an hour.
My Moto 360 has been working well with sleep as android. I usually have about 30% battery remaining.
have anyone tried to work with this app while the moto360 set to flightmode ?
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have anyone tried to work with this app while the moto360 set to flightmode ?
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not yet, but i will try.....
so far i make sure at 9pm i charge my 360.... go to bed with like 90%
in the morning its low... only killed it once... but it has been ok to get me to 70% or so with 25 min charge while i get ready
well... i've tried to sleep with the 360 for a few times ... its too bulky to sleep with.
rolled back to the miband.
Using LG G watch
I've been using Sleep as Android for the past week with my LG G watch and found it only uses about 15-20% of the battery overnight, so with a normal days usage and then a nights sleep im left with about 20% most mornings. Maybe the dev has made some updates recently ans its worth a revisit?
My charge cycle is now in the morning while I'm having brekky and getting for the day, not so bad.....
Morning All,
how do I start the app?
when I start it from the wear launcher, nothing appearant happens, if I start it from my phone (MotoX 1.Gen.) it keeps saying 'waiting for connection'.
What am I doing wrong?
TIA!
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Morning All,
how do I start the app?
when I start it from the wear launcher, nothing appearant happens, if I start it from my phone (MotoX 1.Gen.) it keeps saying 'waiting for connection'.
What am I doing wrong?
TIA!
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did u enabled smartwatch on the app settings??
because i use wear mini launcher, and when i click on it, in a few seconds, it connects to my phone
I got a 40% decrease per night. Given the time the battery usually last, is hard to do much better with the MOTO 360. I simply let it charge when I arrive home after dinner, so I can sleep with it fully charged, and let it charging while getting ready in the morning. Never had a problem of it killing my battery if it was full. Tried with watch apps, and some take it to real kill the battery. I suppose if your watchface reacts to the watch being active, it will drain the baterry. Bu I am using a custom (weather, calendar, time in different timezones) and no problem with Sleep As Android. Also developer had improved a lot since the first posts, so it is the best option and works pretty well with MOTO 360. Better battery buy a pebble
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did u enabled smartwatch on the app settings??
because i use wear mini launcher, and when i click on it, in a few seconds, it connects to my phone
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Did exactly the same, wear launcher as well.
Following your steps I just get sort of a timeout message on the watch.
Could it be, that the app portion on the watch somehow is stuck on an old version?
This popped up in my head yesterday. I'm loving my M360 with it's latest update that just made the battery life insane for me. 15 to 17 hours with 60%+ Left. Woot
But Now I am wondering...
The M360 has the oldest processor smallest battery...Yet it now out preforms the G Watch and Gear live...? What? Really making the others look like a joke now.
Your thoughts?
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Your thoughts?
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We're just witnessing the power of software... if you have the latest processor you don't have to try that hard to get reasonable battery life.
But Motorola had bad PR from reviewers about battery life, so they were forced to optimize their code.
IMO, the fact that the life improved so much is what gets Motorola points for me. They could have made it just "good enough", but it feels like they really went all out hopefully they support this watch for a long time
Not sure where you are seeing they are being outperformed? If all things equal (both using always on set to off) G Watch battery will last much longer. The problem is that nobody compares the battery life of these devices using equal settings on both devices.
17 hours and you're at 60%?!?
I took it off at 8 am, and right now it's 3:20 pm and I am at 40%.
And I was in school the whole day so i only checked my watch for time and notifications
I have ambient off, auto brightness and lvl 1 brightness
are you using stock?
I just got this watch monday, so maybe the battery needs to set in, and I did get the latest update
My record is 50 hours with the simple watchface, ambient was off but I checked it plenty.
First day using the watch(got it yesterday). I finished school and I'm at 38% its around 5 pm and I took it off at 7:30 am. I used it a ton though, even showed off the little games to friends. Once it starts to set in, I'm sure I can get a day+ out of it.
I've gotten a good day and a half with this watch, it drains fast at first but as you use it, it will get better.
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That's some amazing optimization
I haven't had time to check the various battery life threads, but has anyone (with good battery life experiences), noted whether during the majority of their
daily time with the watch - they are within connection range of their phone and indeed remain connected?
Just wondering what being out of bluetooth range/not connected does to battery life? i.e. is it similar to the situation when a phone is "polling" for
a Wifi connection or polling for a phone network connection but can't find one so the constant polling activity results in higher than average battery drain..
I personally think that the battery life discussion is one of the silliest there is. I have been always burnt by saying how great battery is somewhere. Was it Galaxy S2, HTC M7, M8 or now Sony Z3, they are never THAT good. However on Moto 360 I am really happily surprised. Even from the first day on I have never had problem with the battery. Actually I have yet to see sub 20%levels on the Moto 360. I get it off charger around 7AM and put it back 11Pm or 12AM. I usually have around 30-40% left. I use automatic brightness and ambient off. I do get a lot of notifications.
But the much praised Z3 goes to charger much sooner than this watch. Sure, I couldn't go on for the next day but it doesn't matter if I can make 20 hours easily since I never sleep with my watch on the wrist.
So, you are saying you get 5hrs of battery life and that's great?
7AM - 12PM. That's only 5hrs. Lol
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i have noticed that having Facer and the other custom watch ups uninstalled (Facer especially) It helps me out with battery life big time.
Even when facer isn't running?
Uninstalling helps battery? I might try that today for shiggles.
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I've had the G Watch since it came out, and the 360 for a few weeks now. All things being equal, the G Watch goes an extra 12 hours easy, but it sure isn't as good looking as the 360, so it had been relegated to just morning gym sessions now.
Locklear308 said:
This popped up in my head yesterday. I'm loving my M360 with it's latest update that just made the battery life insane for me. 15 to 17 hours with 60%+ Left. Woot
But Now I am wondering...
The M360 has the oldest processor smallest battery...Yet it now out preforms the G Watch and Gear live...? What? Really making the others look like a joke now.
Your thoughts?
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My thoughts are that many of us get nowhere near those numbers, and you must be barely using your watch with almost everything disabled to get 2.35% per hour power consumption.
On my watch with latest firmware, reset after the firmware was installed, no apps at all, ambient mode off, step counter on, and default brightness, I cannot get below 3% per hour with almost zero usage, and hover nearer to 4% per hour with real-world (light to moderate) usage. At 17 hours, I would have at best 49% remaining, and more likely 32% remaining.
And that's with ambient mode off. Enable ambient mode and even with light usage and no apps at all, my watch will regularly fail to make it through a single regular, 16-hour day (that's the time between waking and sleeping with an eight-hour sleep cycle, which is the most a typical adult gets).
Also, what review have you seen with the G Watch or Gear Live using their latest-available firmware, so you can make a valid comparison? Because comparing the Moto 360 on its latest firmware against those devices on early firmware is utterly unfair and meaningless.
The Gear Live massively outperforms the 360 in regards to battery stamina. I don't understand how you guys are getting 50 hrs on a charge. I do like ambient mode, but I can still kill a battery in 12 hrs easily.
Hey guys,
I reset the Moto 360 multiple times, didn't install any apps any other than keep and wear battery stats and still have a horrible battery life. The Moto 360 is used very lightly, so only some Notifications and sometimes a voice command and I get a drain of about 5-6%/hour or even more... So when i charge the watch to 100% at 6:30 am it does;t even last till midnight even though I barely use it. And that with the black classic stock watchface !! I made a test and reset the device again and wanted to see how much it drained in the night when I'm not using it at all, and it was 3%/hour which is terrible considering that this is the drain that some users here get with light usage! I would be happy if the watch would last from 6:30 am till 2:00 am next morning and some people seem to get amazing battery life. So I'm thinking of returning the device and getting a new Moto 360 because I'm really getting desperate.. Any Ideas from you guys? :/
5 to 6 percent per hour is normal
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5 to 6 percent per hour is normal
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So it is also normal that it barery lasts 16 hours even though lots of people in the forum claim to get 48 hours(!!) so a 3 times longer battery life than I do ?
My average is 2.5 %/hour with moderate usage.
So you think I should return my watch? Because I don't get how u can achieve a battery life as great as yours. Maybe I got a bad device?
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So you think I should return my watch? Because I don't get how u can achieve a battery life as great as yours. Maybe I got a bad device?
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That's very difficult to answer. Currently I've installed additionally:
Facer
Calendar
File Manager Wear
Calculator
Triple game
Wear Battery Stats
Wear Mini Launcher
I use a Facer watchface ('Radiomir' with hour, minute, seconds, date and battery level), I don't play music, I do get around 60-80 notifications daily including those for breaking news, weather, emails from 2 accounts, workplace/home driving maps, I have disabled step-counter and ambient light mode, brightness is set to auto ...
Try "Advanced Task Manager" https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=wear.taskman to see wich app/face is running on your watch. Wear launch itself many face even if you do not use them. If nothing is running.... but if not .....
I use this. It works pretty good. I get about 3-4% a hour!!!
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Well, no wonder.
Is there a way to force the watch face to remain in full color without slipping into ambient mode?
I'm interested in trying this, even though I'm sure it will have a negative effect on battery life.
Download StayLit Wear from the Play Store and set it to Indefinitely.
Just use a watchface app like Watchmaker, and make/modify your own color ambient watchface. You can choose what to enable/disable on the ambient. It's probably a good idea to turn off a sweeping seconds hand, as the OLED display will take a battery hit when it has to change pixels on the screen.
I have my own face that's color on ambient. It looks identical to the awake face, except the seconds hand is missing. Lasts about 2 days.
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Download StayLit Wear from the Play Store and set it to Indefinitely.
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firehawk said:
Just use a watchface app like Watchmaker, and make/modify your own color ambient watchface. You can choose what to enable/disable on the ambient. It's probably a good idea to turn off a sweeping seconds hand, as the OLED display will take a battery hit when it has to change pixels on the screen.
I have my own face that's color on ambient. It looks identical to the awake face, except the seconds hand is missing. Lasts about 2 days.
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Good info guys, thank you!
I'll give StayLit Wear a shot.
Having an ambient face that looks identical without the seconds hand seems awesome! All the faces I download for Watchmaker seem to have an ambient mode that just freezes the seconds hand in place but it is still visible. I hate that.
I know either of these options will cause me to take a hit on battery, but I am not concerned with trying to get more than a day out of the watch.
StayLit Wear worked exactly how I wanted it to. Unfortunately, it was destroying my battery. I'm using the Dark Suit watch face, which doesn't even have a second hand, and I was losing a percent of battery every couple minutes.
I didn't think leaving the screen on would have such a drastic effect on battery life. With stock behavior, I can get maybe 30 hours with max brightness. I was hoping I could just get through one normal 15-16 hour awake day with the screen always on. It seemed like I wouldn't get anywhere close to that based on the 30 minutes I used StayLit.
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StayLit Wear worked exactly how I wanted it to. Unfortunately, it was destroying my battery. I'm using the Dark Suit watch face, which doesn't even have a second hand, and I was losing a percent of battery every couple minutes.
I didn't think leaving the screen on would have such a drastic effect on battery life. With stock behavior, I can get maybe 30 hours with max brightness. I was hoping I could just get through one normal 15-16 hour awake day with the screen always on. It seemed like I wouldn't get anywhere close to that based on the 30 minutes I used StayLit.
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.... of course it drains battery. The whole SOC is not sleeping...
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.... of course it drains battery. The whole SOC is not sleeping...
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Well when you put it that way, it makes perfect sense. I was thinking about it strictly from the perspective of actual screen battery use. I didn't even consider the method that StayLit probably uses to keep the screen lit...a wakelock!!
So it seems that using watchmaker like @firehawk suggested makes the most sense. It should still allow the phone to sleep, but still display full colors.
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Is there a way to force the watch face to remain in full color without slipping into ambient mode?
I'm interested in trying this, even though I'm sure it will have a negative effect on battery life.
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Try wear mini Launcher , you can set it easy on and off
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Try wear mini Launcher , you can set it easy on and off
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Does it cause a wakelock that severely drains battery? Or does it just keep the full color face while allowing the watch to still sleep?
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Does it cause a wakelock that severely drains battery? Or does it just keep the full color face while allowing the watch to still sleep?
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Most likely your watch won't last 7 hours. At best. It's because of the current technology by the end of this year there will be smart watches lasting more than a couple days and the ALWAYS on screen (no ambient) with the new snapdragon 2100 made especially for wearables.
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biglilsteve said:
All the faces I download for Watchmaker seem to have an ambient mode that just freezes the seconds hand in place but it is still visible. I hate that.
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Just go to customize watch, select the seconds hand and choose bright only. And it's gone!
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Just go to customize watch, select the seconds hand and choose bright only. And it's gone!
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Thanks!