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[SOLVED][Q] Battery issues?

Wondering if anyone else has had any battery issues? I went to sleep last night with about 85% or more battery, and 5.5 hours later my phone was dead....when i plugged it in for like 5 minutes to call my work and tell them i was going to be late...when i got to work my phone said 45% phone idle and 45% cell standby for battery use

none here - took phone off charger about midnight, this morning after alarm rang for the full 10 minutes, it still showed 100%
i've been watching it and am really impressed with battery life - is it possible you've got a program running in the background? - i had Startup Auditor to stop apps in the background but had that from before, on my Vibrant
on the vibrant,running a predominantly black wallpaper, screen brightness at 13%, putting phone in "airplane mode" when i sleep, keeping GPS off, data sync off etc, it'd be down to 17-22% at end of day before going back on charger
this G2, running live wallpaper (thunderstorm), no efficiency moves (ie GPS off, etc), screen brightness at 50%, phone still had 34% last night before going back on the charger - and the battery has not "conditioned" - i noticed on the past 2 phones batteries life got better after the first few weeks of use.

Nothing different than my nexus...and i was thinking maybe it was a game but that should have been killed automatically and i dont think it would say phone standby and cell idle if it was an app would it?

tonite you might try putting the phone in airplane mode when you go to bed, and turn off GPS
see what happens to battery drain overnite - if it diminishes then i'd look at what apps you've installed. there was an article on engadget not too long ago that some researchers had analyzed the 358 most popular apps, and found 30 were reporting data to their "mothership" that had not declared it or asked for permission to report data.
hope that helps

well another weird thing is, that when i bought the phone and brought it home, usually it comes with half battery and thats what it showed but i had to charge it quick with no apps really installed on it yet...Im charging now and will test to see what happens with battery...i just removed off alot of my apps.... to see whats up

I'm getting about 10 hours with regular usage though I wish I knew why Photobucket keeps starting everytime i kill it.

I hope you guys charged the phone fully before you used it first. That can play a big role in battery life.
I got my phone yesterday and haven't done any calibrations yet. I've been playing with it like you normally would if you buy a new smartphone. I took it off the charger around 9pm last night and at 7:32am right now I have about 60% left. So roughly 10.5 hours later and I've only lost about 40%. I'm very impressed by that. My vibrant would have been dead by now, it rarely lasts through the night if its not on the charger.

Jrbourque said:
Wondering if anyone else has had any battery issues? I went to sleep last night with about 85% or more battery, and 5.5 hours later my phone was dead....when i plugged it in for like 5 minutes to call my work and tell them i was going to be late...when i got to work my phone said 45% phone idle and 45% cell standby for battery use
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What's your time with out signal, sounds like the 50% bug to me, google the airplane mode fix, if not you might want to look into a new radio, and you should allways recal your battery after you flash
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rigbyrobot said:
What's your time with out signal, sounds like the 50% bug to me, google the airplane mode fix, if not you might want to look into a new radio, and you should allways recal your battery after you flash
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what do you mean time without signal? and cant flash the build or radio without root(if thats what you meant) im fully charging it now and removed all of my apps...and going to see what happens from there

I've been using mine off and on mostly text, web and speedtests for 4 hours off the charger and my battery is at 91%
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Share your power consumption with ambient mode ENABLED?

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.

alexdiaz said:
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.

robber said:
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.

Google Fit Demolishing battery

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.

Ghost_1 said:
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.

Ambient improvement on 2.0?

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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Question Pixel 6 Pro Uneven Battery Drain/Calibration

I've tested this so many times and same results whether it's A12 or A13 with the September update. As a test I basically unplug the phone from the charger and immediately turn on Twitch and watch at 360 over WiFi non stop. I've done this dozens of times and it's my daily routine. It's not a battery drain issue. It's that the battery life from 100% - 90% come off ungodly at around 70 minutes of continuous streaming/screen on time. But for example 50% - 40% I get about 20 minutes. In the end my overall battery life seems normal for this phone but why is the percentage indicator so uncalibrated? Is there a way to fix it? It can really mislead you into thinking you have more battery life than you actually do.

I haven't had any problem with my percentage indicator ever in the last 10+ months. I have no idea what to suggest.

I find my screen on time using this phone is generally better than screen off with OSD, just sitting beside me on my desk with phone idle and mobile network idle, and obviously other wakelocks.
My Pixel 4XL sitting here all day as well, 4 days before I had to give it a charge, no sim only using wifi, before I used to get a day and a half with this phone.
Pixel 6 Pro lucky to get a day since the Jan 2022 images, for me the shipped Oct build was the best for wifi, lte and bluetooth and battery life by a long shot.

MarkAnthony121 said:
I've tested this so many times and same results whether it's A12 or A13 with the September update. As a test I basically unplug the phone from the charger and immediately turn on Twitch and watch at 360 over WiFi non stop. I've done this dozens of times and it's my daily routine. It's not a battery drain issue. It's that the battery life from 100% - 90% come off ungodly at around 70 minutes of continuous streaming/screen on time. But for example 50% - 40% I get about 20 minutes. In the end my overall battery life seems normal for this phone but why is the percentage indicator so uncalibrated? Is there a way to fix it? It can really mislead you into thinking you have more battery life than you actually do.
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I've had this problem on Android phones for over 10 years now, the problem is more noticeable when the battery is larger in size AFAIK.
But yeah, my phone has the exact same thing, except my battery dies at 3% now already which is an actual issue

humzaahmed155 said:
I've had this problem on Android phones for over 10 years now, the problem is more noticeable when the battery is larger in size AFAIK.
But yeah, my phone has the exact same thing, except my battery dies at 3% now already which is an actual issue
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Right? After so long you would figure that it wouldn't be hard to make the battery percentage show you an accurate indication of where you're at. Unless they do it on purpose for some reason

Hey together. Same issue i had with android 12 on Januar this year. After many Updates has solved i think in April/may.
Now since android 13 i git the same Problems.
Here are a few examples.
- Flashlight turns on automatically
- the phone just calls people
- the camera goes on and film something or is just on
The cause is that the display wakes up when it is in your pocket. If you hold the Abs that activates tapping on the display, Solves many Problems.
Also rotate and the proximity sensor is again very unstable. So thinks the hands-free setup once again I hold it to the ear even though I have the mobile phone in front of my face. If I then hold it to the ear thinks it I have it in front of my face and turns on hands-free calling.
Another problem is the recognition whether you look at the display and it goes on, or The display stays on, then often the display is on for a long time even though I do not use it at all.
Exactly the same problem when lifting. Since it is in the pocket, the mobile phone wobbles permanently and the display is constantly on. Then the mobile phone likes to call emergency call contacts.
The easiest way is to disable these features, tap to wake up. Leave the display on when you can see if you are looking at it.