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After far too long of shockingly-bad battery life from the stock Moto 360 with no apps at all installed and power consumption of as much as 8% per hour -- and multiple failures to even get to the end of the day without having to recharge, let alone get multiple days -- I want some feedback from my fellow Moto 360 users:
I DO NOT WANT YOU TO REPLY UNLESS YOU HAVE ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:
* Latest firmware installed
* --> Ambient mode enabled <--
* Auto brightness or brightness level 1 (the lowest)
If you do, please reply noting your typical battery life in hours and/or your typical hourly power consumption. Please also note whether you have Motorola Connect installed, whether you have any other Wear apps installed, whether you have a watch face other than the default, and how much the watch is being used.
My goal here is to get a ballpark for what power consumption should be with Ambient mode enabled. Please, if you do not have Ambient mode enabled, do not reply.
Have you tried rebooting your phone in the morning, before you take the watch off the charger? Before i did that, i was getting about 7% drain per hour, after doing that for the past few days, i've gotten the following: 4.9%, 3.4%, 3.6%.
Currently, i am not using any facer watchfaces, just the Moto Rotate face.
steveliv said:
Have you tried rebooting your phone in the morning, before you take the watch off the charger? Before i did that, i was getting about 7% drain per hour, after doing that for the past few days, i've gotten the following: 4.9%, 3.4%, 3.6%.
Currently, i am not using any facer watchfaces, just the Moto Rotate face.
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Thanks for the tip. Rebooting the phone should have precisely zero effect on the watch's power consumption; I'm pretty certain this is nothing more than placebo effect. I'll give it a try tomorrow though, just to rule another thing out.
Ambient Mode on. Auto Brightness. No Apps. Latest firmware (whatever is latest on 10/13/14).
I get at least 16 hours. I haven't had it go dead yet. 20-30% left by midnight. I think it got down to 10% once?
Moderate use. Music always playing/updating. Texting/emails are the only method I use for communication and it's fairly frequent (a few notifications an hour) and I occasionally ask it stuff. I never use the heart rate monitor.
Ambient/auto bright. Off the charger at 745 am, it is just about 12 hours later and I am at 20%. This is very typical.
I run a few apps including wear mini launcher but nothing crazy. Motoconnect installed on phone as well. All software current.
Ambient on, auto mode.
I wear it from 2 days, yesterday I've had about 15 hrs (7am to 10pm before death). Moderate use, some notifications per hour and about 20min of navigation. Didn't receive calls or used cardio. Stock watchface and some apps installed.
I also got 15 hours from 100% to 2%, with ambient ON. I don't expect much more without a substantial software update on both the phone and watch sides.
I did this yesterday and the watch had used 12% every hour. I constantly shook it to keep the screen on, every time the screen faded out.
My 360's battery life has actually been much better than I expected, even with Ambient Mode On. I've been using it for about a week with ambient mode enabled, brightness at level 3, and I still get about 20 hours. I've got a few Wear apps installed, like Wear Mini Launcher and one or two others. Without ambient mode turned on, I get about 24 hours or so. I expected the battery to be terrible after all the reviews but so far I've lucked out on my 360.
Off the charger at 730 am and dead at 9pm. I love the watch and will suck it up and deal with it but the battery life sucks.
Mine consumes about 4.5-5% per hour with ambient on, medium usage.
Kinda double than I get with ambient off.
No one is running facer, right? My battery life seriously sucks with this app.
I get about 12-15hrs before its completely drain.I have ambient light on auto brightness as well.Couple face watches nothing fancy updated to the latest firmware.
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Mine consumes about 4.5-5% per hour with ambient on, medium usage.
Kinda double than I get with ambient off.
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I was off the charger at 745 yesterday and dead at 615 which is my worst day ever. I do get a ton of notifications due to work email. I turned off ambient for today and cannot believe the difference. Ambient mode uses at least 2x the battery vs not having it enabled.
Off the charger at 745, it is now 2 pm and I am at 83%. I didn't expect it to be this drastic of an improvement.
I really like ambient mode, but it is tough to justify when the watch is dead in 12 hrs due to it.
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I really like ambient mode, but it is tough to justify when the watch is dead in 12 hrs due to it.
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Couldn't agree more. In my opinion, ambient mode is simply not a feature of this watch because it is not usable. And that's with a brand-new battery, too. Two years from now, you'll likely have to recharge twice a day just to get through the day with ambient mode enabled.
I have ambient mode on and use Facer and and I can last a full day from averagely 0830 to sometimes around 0100 in the morning. Lowest I've gotten is to around 4% and that was almost near 0200.
But my stats are from light to moderate use. Didn't use navigation or other apps extensively, just time checking and occasional clearing of notifications.
I find the responses here interesting. Maybe I just have a great model. I admit that I probably have what people would consider light usage (it's a damn watch not a phone!) so take it with a grain of salt I guess. But with ambient mode *ON*, I've been going from about 9-10am to 12am (14-15 hours) and ending the night at 66%! I turn off the watch, and then use it for another day the following day. Today, would have counted as my 3rd day in the row without a charge, but it was at like 25%, so I charged it for about 5-10 mins (not sure what percentage it was at.. probably like 30-32%), and went from around 10am to 4-5pm. So basically 2.25 days or so of battery life with light usage. Oh, I also use a black background, and stock "classic" face which probably contributes to this as well.
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I did a test over 2 days, first one with Ambient Off and second with Ambient On. It was "scientific" as the usage varied slightly (i.e. I used it as and when I needed on that day) and found that on day one at 10pm I still had 20% battery left and on day two when I got home from work at 18:30 I had 15% left and it was dead by 10pm.
With the news Im hearing about the watch being more responsive to wrist movement and turning off I will be using it with Ambient Off. Im satisfied with the battery life - I put my phone on charge every night already, no harm in also doing the watch especially as its so simple.
I installed Google fit the day it was released and my battery seems to be taking a big hit. I was getting 24ish hours with ambient mode on and now I'm not getting 12. Is anyone else seeing this?
I see no difference with or without Google Fit. Are you constantly syncing?
No. In installing it was the only change before the decrease in battery life. Wear battery stats doesn't show any apps using any battery either. Thinking I'll reset the 360 and see if it clears up.
How the **** do people get 24 hours with ambient on, when I barely get to 16 hours with ambient off and a stock black watch face and nearly zero usage of the watch?? I can't help but think I have a bad device and should return it...
what apps do you have installed? maybe its something else...
thomas333 said:
How the **** do people get 24 hours with ambient on, when I barely get to 16 hours with ambient off and a stock black watch face and nearly zero usage of the watch?? I can't help but think I have a bad device and should return it...
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Well, i get up at 5 am and take my watch off the charger and when i out it back on at 11 it usually has over 30% which I'm assuming would be plenty enough to get me back to 5 am if i tried.
I only have Keep, play music, fit interval timer and wear battery stats installed...
I did see a reduction in battery. I didn't think it was Fit until I saw this post. I'm going to give it a day or two... Might be battery recalibration or something. My battery life isn't bad but before fit and the update I was getting about 40-50% per 12 hours... Give or take 10% depending on the notifications and such.
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mine decreased significantly as well.
I was getting between 4% - 5% drain an hour. Installed Google Fit, drain increased to 10% - 12% per hour.
No apps installed except wear battery stats.
May be you should change location setting..use power saving mode instead of gps
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My battery on the watch is more or less the same but my phone battery has taken a hit for sure .. fit is keeping my phone awake a lot!
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Yeah I noticed this as well. I deleted Fit on my N5 and battery life appears to be better gain.
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I did see a reduction in battery. I didn't think it was Fit until I saw this post. I'm going to give it a day or two... Might be battery recalibration or something. My battery life isn't bad but before fit and the update I was getting about 40-50% per 12 hours... Give or take 10% depending on the notifications and such.
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This is an update: no changes to anything except turning off ambient mode. Ambient mode was on and off throughout the day yesterday because I though that might have been killing the battery. I turned it off during last night's charge cycle to turn the screen off as usual but this time I didn't turn it back on. Normally, leaving on Ambient mode only takes 5-10% in a given day, so I can only assume that either I was moving a lot yesterday or something more sinister was going on.
Still using:
-Nexus 5
-Google FIT, Facer is being used, wear battery, a few other minor apps
-No changes to GPS settings, etc
The watch has been off the charger since 7:30-7:45 (100%) it is now 4:23 (75%) approximately 8 hours @25% , which is closer to my normal battery time. I've been receiving my normal notifications and I haven't even reset my device. Hopefully other people have the same results cause it really sucked last night to have a watch on my arm that didn't even work... lol
i've notice just a small decrease in battery, but not a huge one, i still took off the charger at 6am this morning and still have 51% right now, where as normally i'd have about 65%.
I was at about 55% when I installed the latest Wear update this evening. Three hours later I'm at 16%. Ambient mode off. Gonna keep an eye on it but that Wear update seems to be the culprit for me.
I suspect that the Google Fit is only using phone sensor at the moment and the Fit app is only syncing from the phone and not the otherway round. Checking Heart Rate history on the www.google.com/fit is also not showing anything.
When you check in Google Fit settings in the app, it doesn't show the Moto 360 as an connected device. Not sure if this by design.
How can the heart rate monitor and/or heart activity be turned off completely? I still get these "You've reached your daily goal" messages every single day, sometimes only minutes apart - it gets annoying, quickly. I've switched off all three sections in the settings menu, but it doesn't seem to do the trick.
Anyone else noticing a meaningfully better drain on Ambient on 2.0? Previously, it was a 7%-8% drain on ambient which made the option essentially useless for a full day of use.
After 2.0 update, I'm seeing closer to a 4 to 5% drain with Ambient on. It's a huge improvement and makes it completely viable in my opinion.
Curious if anyone else is seeing similar results.
Thanks!
Hmmm.. I think I'll give that a shot in the morning. My drain is around 3.1% and I can get 23hrs of battery. I'm think at 4.5% I'd pull of 18hr which would be just fine. Will report back tomorrow night with my findings.
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I've turned on ambient mode after the update and had no issue. To the point that I'm even getting better results with it (I think ) because the screen doesn't turn on in full brightness every time I want to check the time or check for notifications, I also have brightness on 1
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I used to end the day with about 30% battery on my watch with ambient on. I'm closer to 50% now. Thats usually with 14-16 hours off the charger.
50pc left with ambient on after 15 hours is superb. Did you change any other settings? I'm nowhere near that yet albeit have only had the watch a few days.
I was down to 10pc after 14 hours... Running 5.0.1, pasquel face, low usage, ambient and tilt on. Watch on my wrist all day
Forgive me, but what does 2.0 refer to? I have software version 5.0.1 on my watch, Android Wear 1.0.5 and Google Play Services 6.5.90. I should be up to date having received two updates in December.
I was already averaging 24 hours battery life with ambient on before the update, and I think it might be even better now with 5.0.1, though it hasn't been too noticeable since I still charge it nightly as I did before.
I noticed that before the update, with ambient on, tilting the watch would only fully activate the display IF mute was OFF (with ambient and mute on, the watch stayed dimly lit, which I liked). This had a nice battery saving effect i think, but it meant missing notifications. After the update, mute no longer has this side effect. Instead I set tilt off and ambient on, and I get the same behaviour without needing to mute.
I've owned the watch for about a month now, and I used ambient mode the entire time (I tried with it off several times but I just couldn't get used to it). The first couple of days it only lasted 15-16 hours, i.e. I would go to bed with about 5% remaining. On the second day I discharged the watch fully until it shut off -- took about 16 or 17 hours. The very next day battery life improved markedly, and I went to bed with 33% left, and I've been averaging 24 hours each day ever since.
As I write this now, my watch is showing 67% left after nearly 9 hours off the charger, and Android Wear app estimates another 19 hours remaining for a total life of 28 hours with ambient on! (Keep in mind this was a quiet Sunday; on weekdays I'd get far more notifications from work Gmail and hangouts.)
Hope this helps.
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I got my SW3 few days ago.
When I "unbox" this whist, I just did the init. installation (update) with the 5.0.1 version of Android Wear without fully charge it first.
After few days, I found that the battery lifetime can NEVER exceed 18 hrs from fully charged.
However the specification stated it can be up to 2 days, and some people in other forum posts said it can be more than 2 days.
I would like to ask if it is normal or not? Do I need to replace it? I am very confused.
What are your experiences? Please kindly share.
My watch was full on Wednesday, and I just plugged it in about 45 minutes ago with 5% left. Now, I did have it off overnight last night with about 32% before shutting it down. However, Wednesday night into Thursday I left it on and I only lost about 6%. So even I left it on last night, It would of still lasted me until 5pm today getting home from work. So I can go 3 days with my watch and getting a decent amount of notifications. Screen always on here as well.
I voted >60 because it does last me more than 2.5 days. I'm somewhat careful with it to get that amount, but it's certainly not hard to get that. But it should 100% absolutely be getting more than 18 hours. My suggestion would be to factory reset and only leave the essential apps on there that you need, if any. Just use the watch in it's bare minimal and see how your battery life is. If you still struggle for 18 hours, I'd say swap it out.
I charge mine every two days, however I could probably get another 5 to 10 hours out of it. I have GPS turned off, but everything else is on. I have Coffee, Mini Launcher, Facer, IFTTT, and a few other apps installed.
I charge every couple of days or so, and use it for reading notifications through the day, controlling spotify on the phone. Also running IFTTT, Facer, Mini Launcher, and using Sleep as Android at night (latest build worked wonders for this - before this I'd have to be charging every day.)
AlanJC said:
I charge mine every two days, however I could probably get another 5 to 10 hours out of it. I have GPS turned off, but everything else is on. I have Coffee, Mini Launcher, Facer, IFTTT, and a few other apps installed.
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Hello,
How to disable GPS? Is it "localization services" in settings? Can you allways use "Google fit" correctly without it? Because without disable my SW3 last around 60h with : fit, notifications, ghostracer (gps for running around 45 minutes), watchmaker, wear mini launcher.
Thanks
My watch lasts me around 2 days when I sleep I put cinema mode on so the screen doesnt auto wake up
I've had mine for a week now today. I've had a couple very heavy use days where it lasted almost exactly 24 hours. However, yesterday was a moderate-to-heavy use day (worn and used for about 10 hours plus a little tinkering later in the night) and it still had 50% battery this morning. Resting much of the weekend when I got it, it had around 30% battery Monday morning. So it has varied with use, of course, but I'm pretty happy with the life. I knew a lesser battery wouldn't cut it on my heavy use days when I'm bored at work.
So, had my watch since Wed, and ben doing a good test since Sat morning:
Constantly paired with my S4
Screen off/Gesture off/Tap on
Non theater mode
Starting at 10:30Am Sat taking it off the charger, i have worn it since; checked a few emails, send a few voice texts, checked weather, etc. Currently (1:30 Mon), i am at 63%.
Frankly, i am more than happy with that battery life. If i can get away with charging it every few days casual use, without having to pair/unpair to conserve, i am sold. Now they just need to release the steel band for separate purchase (or a dedicated holder for band choice) so i can customize as much as my watch face.
So, here i am at 11:30 on Tuesday, and i am now at 10%; this included a GPS monitored walk, dozens of voice texts, emails received, time checked a bunch, and other misc fiddling with it. While the dreamer in me dreams of weeks of battery life, the realist in me is more than happy with 3.5 days of active life.
72 hour battery life 2% left
Edit: This is with display ON all the time. Tilt to wake OFF. No gps.
Hello,
I´ve got my ZenWatch 1 week ago and am very happy with this beautiful gadget. But there is/was one thing that disturbed my daily enjoyment:
The battery life.
After a normal 14 hours day the battery dropped from 100% to 10-15%. I use the always on feature and had round about 3-6 notifications per hour. Also I´ve toggled the connection to my phone (OnePlusOne) on all time.
And after 2 days I started trying to get a better battery life without disabling every nice feature (Must have is the always on feature and I need my notifications).
I tracked every full hour the current battery status and changed on a daily basis the configuration and the watch faces to find the best way between battery consumption and a normal usage.
My results are:
The most battery eater is the connection to my phone inclusivly the notifications and watchface-updates like weather etc.
I solved this problem, using Tasker on my phone, enabling BT every hour for 1 minute to let the notifications fly to my watch automatically. That saved 30-50% battery life the day!!!!
Also I do use a watch face supporting the Low-Bit-Feature, which "turns off" black pixels in dimmode. Battery safer! (10%-30%)
Today my setting is this:
Watchface: Watch Face - Minimal & Elegant
BT on every 1 hour for 1 minute to get notifications
Screen is always on
tilt to wake is off
And today after 14 hours normal usage I´ve unbelivable 64% of my battery (never charged!).
I hoped I could help you!
P.s. this was my first thread!
watch comes of the charger at 6am and when it goes back on at around 11pm I'm generally at 35-40% battery. I've got the screen in always on mode with tilt to wake on, and a facer watch face that updates weather. I'd say I get 30-50 notifications in a day so I'm not sure why your battery is so bad
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watch comes of the charger at 6am and when it goes back on at around 11pm I'm generally at 35-40% battery. I've got the screen in always on mode with tilt to wake on, and a facer watch face that updates weather. I'd say I get 30-50 notifications in a day so I'm not sure why your battery is so bad
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I´m on 5.0.2. And it drains very much without my "hack"....
kellybrf said:
watch comes of the charger at 6am and when it goes back on at around 11pm I'm generally at 35-40% battery. I've got the screen in always on mode with tilt to wake on, and a facer watch face that updates weather. I'd say I get 30-50 notifications in a day so I'm not sure why your battery is so bad
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What watch face do you use?
it's called dual5, I got it from the facer google+ community and modified it to add weather
forgot to add the link: https://plus.google.com/117239413397670731360/posts/BJF6RMJjedX
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I solved this problem, using Tasker on my phone, enabling BT every hour for 1 minute to let the notifications fly to my watch automatically.
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The thing that would bug me about that would be the "no connection" icon showing on the watch face most of the time. I don't suppose there's anything you can do to suppress that, is there?
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I have not found a solution for that.
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I've never had issues with battery life. If I wear it all day and leave it off of the charger at night, I will wake up with 25-30% battery power left.
There must have been different batteries used in manufacturing. I've never had great battery life, if I leave the always on, brightness to 3 I can get through the day to about 9 pm before it dies if I don't use it for much of anything else except notifications. Since it's summertime I now leave the screen off, brightness to full so that I can actually see the screen in the sunlight. That usually makes quite a bit of difference.
Too great of a difference between half that says they have great battery life and half that says that theirs is horrible. I think there was a manufacturing flaw. I contacted ASUS and they said that if I was able to get 16 hours out a charge it was good enough.
I don't recall getting 16 since I first got mine...this morning it came off the charger at 3:30am - always on with dim watch maker face that one of our members created but I altered a tad, brightness to a 3. there really isn't much I can do with the watch beside check notifications including text messages (so the Bluetooth off 1min on wouldn't work for me). by this afternoon 2:30pm watch was completely dead and off. also since the latest update it disconnects from my phone frequently and when the watch is disconnected I often get the white screen asking if I want to wait or tap ok because its been disconnected. not as happy as I once was with my watch,