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.
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Hi. I know there are hundreds of threads on battery usage, but I felt I have a special story behind my test.
Lately I feel that my battery life has decreased, but I would like some second opinions on the case.
It's over a month now since I received froyo OTA, and I had some suspicions that my battery life went slightly down after that. I used it more to test the new features, so its hard to really know. However, the big problems occurred a couple of weeks ago.
At a party with a friend of mine, a friends friend literally pulls my Desire out of my hand and drops it into a mug of beer! As a joke!!
He had heard me taking about my Nokia 3720 earlier and decided to test it. However, ignorant as he was, he did not see that it was A DIFFERENT PHONE I was holding!
So it took 2 seconds in the mug, and the screen went black, and the phone was dead... Or not really, I took it out and dried it of with my t-shirt, turned it on, and the screen went garbeled green on me...
Decided that it was best to leave it alone, so I took out the battery, SIM and MicroSD, dried them off, put it in my pocket and continued the party.
But I have to admit it was kindof a partypooper for me...
Well, later that night, probably 3-4 hours later when I got home, I inserted the battery and tried to turn it on.. Screen turned on with the familiar white background, and green htc logo.. and some garbeled green at the top, argh...
I took the battery out again, left all the pieces spread out on the kitchen-counter and went to bed.
The morning after (or should I say afternoon ) I looked at the phone, it seemed as it had dried out over the night. So I put in the MicroSD, SIM and battery, crossed my fingers, and turned it on. And it worked fine, like nothing had happened, phew!
But some days after, I am sure that the batterylife has decreased quite a bit, seems to not hold a normal 12-14hour day with normal use.
I did at one point post-froyo (pre-drowning) have it running for 2 full days before charging, approx. 40 hours, not very much usage though..
So, I decided to test it starting yesterday evening.
I let it drain fully (turned it on 1 time after it died, and let it die again). Charged it while turned off, and unplugged it and turned on after approx. 1 hour of full charge (green light).
Now, I have already ordered a new phone (a Streak is on its way over the North Sea as I write this . But I wanted to do the test just for the heck of it.
My girlfriend also has a Desire running Froyo, and I notice she uses her phone WAY MORE for gaming and stuff, and only charges a little more frequent than me.
They are both AMOLED phones, I got mine in Feb, she bought hers in March.
So, here comes the timeline:
@23:30, Turned it on after fully charged, went through all homescreens to activate all widgets. Did not run any programs.
I have no specially data intense widgets, only email and weather (3hr sync). Wifi off, and 3G (H) on always, no active background.
@08:00, On my way to work, Battery indicator (i use *#*#4636#*#* to check battery status) at 88%, recieved 1 email during the night.
Battery usage says: 49% Cell standby, 49% phone not in use, 2% android system.
I have noticed my phone struggling to keep connections while travelling even short distances(pre- and post-froyo), maybe a little worse of a problem post-froyo.
Did not happen today though!
I often need a reboot to get the connection back (Flightmode often works 1 time, but not 2 times. does not activate the second time I try it, just hangs...)
It's not only the data connection, there is no cell reception at all (apparantly).
Maybe I should start a thread on that also, but it is not a big issue for me (this phone is on a free use data plan, almost never use it for calls)
Dataplan here in norway costs around 50$ btw, no other extra costs for tethering and such in norway
@09:45, at work, recieved 2 more emails. now @84%, on EDGE network. battery usage: 53% Cell standby, 45% phone not in use, 2% android system.
not that bad actually... 10:21 "on" time, with 34 minutes active-use time.
Will try to leave the phone alone some more, and do some surfing on it around noon.
@12:55, still at work, used the phone for surfing and gReader for 25 minutes, on EDGE network. Downloaded a BOL revisited episode (podcast), I usually listen to an episode via bluetooth streaming while driving to/from work.
Now @67% and 35°C ( I noticed an temp. increase). Cell standby 47%, Not in use, 41%, android system 9%, screen 3%. uptime 13:35, waketime 1:07.
It connected to H (3g) the last 5-10 minutes or so of surfing. Turned on Wifi when I was finished, to see if I notice any battery decrease.
@14:25, did another 15-20 minutes of surfing, this time on Wifi, now @62%. also was a quick trip via google maps with gps on. battery usage states: Wifi usage 3% and google maps 2% already.. seems they use a lot of battery in a short time.
Wifi is set to turn off after 15 min of inactivety.
TBC....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=720717&highlight=teardown
Read that. Do a teardown and clean everything, you're out of warranty anyways.
Most likley a drop/smudge of beer etc inside short circuiting something and you'll have a slow, but increased battery drain from that.
thanks for giving me a heads up on that!
Not sure if I will take the time to fix it though, I'll have to see how much I miss it when I start using my Dell Streak
@15:35. On my way home from work. Writing using voice recognition on android. Battery level is currently @ 46%. Downloaded several emails, and 1 reply. Now connecting bluetooth for BOL streaming.
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Okay now i'm home, after 40 minutes of Bluetooth streaming battery is @36%. Stats are: cell standby 39%, not in use 34%, android system 15%, screen 5%, WiFi 3%, Bluetooth 2%, maps 2%. Times are: 17:07 total, 2:49 awake.
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@18:15 Surfing for 15 minutes now over 3g, and battery icon is orange.. level: 27%, awake time is now just over 3 hours.. I think it has held up quite good today, but I have really not used it as much as I normally would. And I also have a suspicion that using less WiFi helps a little on battery. Previous I have used WiFi always on to save 3g usage, but maybe it decreased battery.. anyone with a comment on that?
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@18:45. Slight use of xdaapp and browser, now @18% and sinking rapidly :s
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@19:45, well my battery has just about had it for today, so this will be my last post. It's now @11%, have used it a little the last hour, but only light use..
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Hows the battery life you guys are experiencing with the mango update in general with and without battery saver mode on
is battery saver mode making a big difference?
im using battery saver for when the battery gets low and im noticing a bit of a stretch of extra battery life on my htc trophy (verizon)
when u turn battery saver mode on doesnt that disable notifications push and toast?
i know i havent tried the battery saver mode on the whole day to notice any difference just wanted to see if anybody else has yet and what kinda life are u getting on battery saver mode on all the time and when the battery gets low
well for the one day that I left my charger at home by accident when going to school I turned on battery saver mode and was able to make it through the entire day with my normal use habits with about 30% remaining once I got home. this was when I was on 7712 haven't done this on the official yet.
My 7720 experience was pretty horrid with battery life until I got the Samsung update on Tuesday. I went from barely making it 10-12 hours on a charge to 18-24 hours. I can get up to 1.5 hours with battery saver turned on.
For the first couple of days, I left my status set to "online" the entire day, and my battery barely lasted through the day (around 15 hours). Battery saver mode came on after about 13 hours, or it wouldn't have lasted.
Today I set myself to offline, and last time I checked it (after around 8 hours of normal use), it showed 80%. So it seems pretty clear to me that overall, Mango battery life is very good, but keeping yourself online is a killer.
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My 7720 experience was pretty horrid with battery life until I got the Samsung update on Tuesday. I went from barely making it 10-12 hours on a charge to 18-24 hours. I can get up to 1.5 hours with battery saver turned on.
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same here but HTC surround. Went from 7712 to official mango
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Battery saver mode works pretty well for me... I love it... Thank god its inbuilt and I didn't had to download another one dollar application to do this thing.. Things like this should be inbuilt .. Also adding additional tile shortcuts of any kind we want..
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Haven't tried it. Battery life went down noticeably but I have chargers everywhere. I stay online all day. If I wasn't online in message hub I'd be online in some other app so why not. On Android my gtalk is always on as well. Don't see this phone lasting a day for me with or without battery saver, lol.
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I'm still debating about staying online all day. Most of the people I chat with on Facebook are online in the evening, but not so much during the day.
But I love the battery saver option. When I was online all day, and it did kick in toward the end of the day, I observed the battery usage drop to a mere trickle (it only lost around 1-2% per hour after that). So, without having to change anything, I can be assured that my phone will still be available in an emergency.
at full charge my venue pro shows me around 3 days and 18 or so hrs...with battery saver i get 3 more added...best part is i play music moderately, use the radio, wifi on all the time and at the days end it stil shows around 2 days and 12 hrs or so time left....is somthing wrong cos when i first bought the phone, 15 hours was the maximum i got for the phone.....
plug in charge usb messenging hub locks up
has anybody had this happen?
when your phone is in battery saver mode and you plug it in it becomes unresponsive and kind of locks up. messages and emails don't send or receive.
only way it ever happens for me:
if i was in a message and i plug into usb computer or wall outlet power the phone cant switch back from a message to the list of messages, i cant send the message that is typed, i cant type, and no messages are received (or show up after a reset) i can go back home but every time i try to do something it says loading and closeshas happened for a year now
Battery life for me in Mango and 8107 (or whatever the latest update is called) has been pretty awful. I recently did a hard reset.
Post hard reset, a full charge would say 1D 4hours or something
After a few weeks, a full charge now says 18 hours, but lasts considerably less.
By noon my phone is at 50%, if I don't charge it, it hits battery saver mode by the time I leave (6pm). That's with taking it off the charger at 7am, and barely using it. Pretty horrible.
I'm seriously considering a BlackBerry. WP is great and all, but it's just not built for business use. And I need a battery that can last more than 10 minutes.
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Battery life for me in Mango and 8107 (or whatever the latest update is called) has been pretty awful. I recently did a hard reset.
Post hard reset, a full charge would say 1D 4hours or something
After a few weeks, a full charge now says 18 hours, but lasts considerably less.
By noon my phone is at 50%, if I don't charge it, it hits battery saver mode by the time I leave (6pm). That's with taking it off the charger at 7am, and barely using it. Pretty horrible.
I'm seriously considering a BlackBerry. WP is great and all, but it's just not built for business use. And I need a battery that can last more than 10 minutes.
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Sounds like you have a bad battery. My titan is at about 72% after an 8 hour day with lots of email use and some browsing / texting through the day. (i check 7 email account and exchange and hotmail are both push) Currently at 10pm mine still says 52% and estimates 10 more hours use. Now if i were to play a game for an hour or more i'd probably kill it but for browsing and more business like use... it can't be beat. My old surround lasts about 16 hours with wifi on unless my wife games it to death.
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Sounds like you have a bad battery. My titan is at about 72% after an 8 hour day with lots of email use and some browsing / texting through the day. (i check 7 email account and exchange and hotmail are both push) Currently at 10pm mine still says 52% and estimates 10 more hours use. Now if i were to play a game for an hour or more i'd probably kill it but for browsing and more business like use... it can't be beat. My old surround lasts about 16 hours with wifi on unless my wife games it to death.
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Geez I wish.
Maybe it is time to switch it out. I've had it since Jan '11.
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?
thoots
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,
My battery stats have improved greatly by turning off location completely.
Took it off charge at 6am and with heavy usage
YouTube internet calls etc
still have 65% 16.5 hrs later.:good:
Just starting to play with battery use on my new G5. 100% charged 10 hours ago just before bed.
On a day to day basis i am a pretty light user. Calls and texts mainly.
Left phone unpluggged so it slept and 7 1/2 hours layer its at 93%.
20 mins music and email checking 19 hours in its at 88%.
Have Greenified much in the way of apps which i think improved things. Compared to the Sony i had the G5 seems to have ok battery life.
Its certainly in the useful, full day and better range.
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Just starting to play with battery use on my new G5. 100% charged 10 hours ago just before bed.
On a day to day basis i am a pretty light user. Calls and texts mainly.
Left phone unpluggged so it slept and 7 1/2 hours layer its at 93%.
20 mins music and email checking 19 hours in its at 88%.
Have Greenified much in the way of apps which i think improved things. Compared to the Sony i had the G5 seems to have ok battery life.
Its certainly in the useful, full day and better range.
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Is yours rooted? I tend to get 5+ hours screen on time sometimes 7 which is amazing for a phone this cheap.
Same here, I have about 4-5 hours of screen on time with greenify, non-rooted. I'm a regular user, messenger, emailing, browsing, spotify etc. I'm also using Adguard which has its impact on the battery but a small price compared to having ads all over the place
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Is yours rooted? I tend to get 5+ hours screen on time sometimes 7 which is amazing for a phone this cheap.
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Nope, no root as yet. And actually i may not depending on what ROMS become available in the future. Pretty happy with the way this is setting up and Android 7.0 stock. I think i may well leave it unrooted until after Android O hits and see where i go from there.
i'm rooted and the battery is very good, i got 7,5 hours SOT, usually i have 5-6 H of calls and 3H of SOT, 2 sims active, wifi and 4g always on, and the battery is 20-25% when i put on charging from evening to the morning. Very happy with this battery
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i'm rooted and the battery is very good, i got 7,5 hours SOT, usually i have 5-6 H of calls and 3H of SOT, 2 sims active, wifi and 4g always on, and the battery is 20-25% when i put on charging from evening to the morning. Very happy with this battery
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Very good battery for price of the handset
I don´t know it´s a isolated case, but since i bought the phone, the battery is pretty bad, yesterday i tried to charge with another power adapter and my battery it´s lasting longer, anyone have this same problem?
Sometimes this happens to me.
When i keep my phone overnight(Battery Saver ON) even wid a charge of 60-70%, next day mrng, the battery is completely drained and phone is OFF. This doesnt happen daily, happens only sometimes. Any guesses why dis happens?
let me just preface the below post with the note that my watch is STILL under warranty, and I've already set up a repair after following typical troubleshooting plus what I was able to dig up here.
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so, I noticed this morning when I got out of bed..my GWA2 was at 22%....I literally did a double take.
see, I charge my watch twice a day, once before bed, once when I get out of bed, and its NEVER below 80% first thing in the morning, with a typical average of 85-90% charge.
and the average lifespan if I dont charge this way tends towards 2-3 days(WITH several things on at all times, eg wifi for example, not the watchface though).
so going from 2-3 days to effectively 8-9 hours was a HUGE 'wait, what the duck?'
is it me or is that NOT normal?
and before anyone asks, this last charge was with the watch set to power saver mode, so it lasted barely 12 hours. again cause for concern.
not sure whats different other than my moving from the iphone 6s plus to the iphone 8 with its bluetooth 5 transmitter...
anyone got a clue?