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[Q] Battery Drain

Anyone getting a larger battery drain on their phone because of Android Wear? I have been having issues with the watch and my phone lately. I am currently using the Z3 and this watch/android wear seems to be syncing with my phone all the time. Before the phone with my band I would make it to 50 percent of battery life after a ten hour day, now it is just struggling to make 9 hours total. When I was using the Microsoft Band, it was not as power hungry as this watch with the syncing. Any tips for this? The reason why I know that it is Android Wear is when I go to my settings to see app uses it used up about 22 percent of the battery whereas the screen had only been used 25 percent of the time. Any input is greatly appreciated.

You might have a lot of offline music that it is trying to sync. Or third party app that constantly transfers something. I hardly see any impact on my not so perfect battery in nexus 5.

If you use the Stamnia mode you should add Android Wear as exception!
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Yeah, I don't have music put on the device. Something was definitely draining the phone so I went ahead and did a reset to both the Phone and the Watch and now it is working fine. I think I noticed that if I use the google play music app to stream music my phone gets really hot whereas when I am using Sony Music Unlimited to Stream, it just sips on the battery all day long.
Also on a side note, what do you think of the Sony Smartwatch 2? I am thinking of buying it for a more classy look for those occasions.

Problems after 5.0.1 update

I updated a couple of days ago to the android wear 5.0.1 OS and the latest android wear app...
Great work was done on the watchface API. Watchfaces are now more organized and accessible..
The biggest problem I'm facing now is the huge Battery Drain.
Watch can no longer last through the day.. I put it on at atound 6:30 in the morning.. At 2:30 PM, I'll be down to 15%.
What good is a watch if it can't last a normal day?
I think i might have jumped on the android wear wagon too soon.
Now I'm stuck with a useless device in my wrist.

Do you have a lot of 3rd party apps for the watch? I"m just guessing but it could be that these 3rd party apps aren't optimized to work with 5.0.1. Perhaps you could remove those apps and see how it goes.
And I assume that you've already done a reset?

I've made it through about 16 hours and am down to 46%. What are you doing to run it down so much? I have wrist activation turned off and ambient mode turned off. I do have Facer running with a watch face that gives weather and battery stats, but that's the only thing that would drain my battery.

I have not reset... I have two third party apps.. A compass and phone lost detection..
I'll reset and feedback here.. Good advice man thanks.

I have the same problem once i got the update even facer also updated battery life is bad again

Im having the same problem also. But after turn off BT a night, next day turn in again, the problem fix magically. Problem now is sometimes having difficulty to charge it. Need to turn off BT again then only can fully charge. Btw, didnt reset after system update.[/QUOTE]

redbaron414 said:
I have the same problem once i got the update even facer also updated battery life is bad again
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For facer, see if this makes and difference -> http://www.reddit.com/r/Facer/comments/2p2in2/battery_life_android_wear_5_duplicate_watchfaces/
switch to the "other" facer app on your watch...

Manar Aleryani said:
I have not reset... I have two third party apps.. A compass and phone lost detection..
I'll reset and feedback here.. Good advice man thanks.
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Uninstall phone lost detection app, that improved my battery life vastly
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Same thing happened to me. I usually take my watch off the cradle around 8am and get home from work around 6pm. Usually have about 60% life remaining. I'm using just the built in digital watch face. Today was my first full day on 5.0.1 update and my watch died before 3pm. I can't believe it. Hoping it's just a fluke. Think I'll go one more day and if it happens again will try a reset.

DanRyb said:
Same thing happened to me. I usually take my watch off the cradle around 8am and get home from work around 6pm. Usually have about 60% life remaining. I'm using just the built in digital watch face. Today was my first full day on 5.0.1 update and my watch died before 3pm. I can't believe it. Hoping it's just a fluke. Think I'll go one more day and if it happens again will try a reset.
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The reset did improved the battery performance for me.
I don't see any harm in resetting as this is a watch after all, so little will be lost.
However, the battery performance surely improved but it did not return the watch to the same battery performance as before the update.
I used to pick up the watch at 6:30 AM and put it on the dock at 11:30 PM with 48-50 percent left.
Now I pick it up at 6:30 and put it on the dock at 10 PM with 15 percent left. But it's still surely an improvement before the reset and after the update (I got only 5 hours before I decided to reset)
I still haven't installed ANY third party apps at all. I can only imagine how the performance will decrease if I install phone lost detection or any other Bluetooth-demanding apps.

i am finding that i'm getting slightly less battery life, but i make it through the day fine. i'm starting to wonder how much the accelerometer is killing battery. they finally integrated the option to disable "tilt to wake" and i have seen an improvement only at work where moving my hands on the keyboard. on the weekends, when i'm just wearing/walking, etc., tilt to wake makes no difference.

I got the latest 5.0.1 update on my watch seem like battery life is back! Im at 65% and its 4pm I removed it from the charger at around 5am .
My previous problem was I had the 4.4w on my watch and Facer that was on Android 5.0 . That was the reason for the bad battery life.

I've been on 5.0.1 for a couple days now and while battery life seems unchanged to me, the watch does seem to have a hard time charging to 100%. I got home from work and put it on the charger and usually it charges to 100% within an hour. Now I noticed it would get to about 85-90% and stop charging completely. The blue circle charging screen stays on but it doesn't keep charging. I left it on the charger all night and it was at 86% when I picked it up in the morning. Anyone else seeing this issue?

impala454 said:
I've been on 5.0.1 for a couple days now and while battery life seems unchanged to me, the watch does seem to have a hard time charging to 100%. I got home from work and put it on the charger and usually it charges to 100% within an hour. Now I noticed it would get to about 85-90% and stop charging completely. The blue circle charging screen stays on but it doesn't keep charging. I left it on the charger all night and it was at 86% when I picked it up in the morning. Anyone else seeing this issue?
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I have pretty much the same issue with my Moto 360, except in my case I only get to 75~78%, less than yours. I've been googling here and there about this one, but so far no luck with fixes or workarounds. I've e-mailed Motorola and, although I don't except a lot from them, hopefully they get back to me with something useful.

i think i noticed this also! hovered around 85% -ish.
i just took it off the charger, put it back and then it has not happened since. this was a couple days ago.
stock stock stock all the way homie! latest updates. nex 6 paired.

Yeah seems ok to me now too. Strange.

Excessive Phone Bluetooth Battery Drain after most recent androidwear sw update

Hello, need some help.
Have a Note 5 and Moto 360 got them both at the same time and never had an issue till the last update. Watch is running 1.3.0.2166028.
I had previously had Moto Fit tracking all my health related data after using Andoid Fit caused excessive battery drain on the watch.
I noticed in the latest update Moto Fit got reset to Android Fit and I now had to DL a new Moto Body app on my device. After I resetup everything my watch is running great however now my phone is getting held awake almost the entire day by Bluetooth and I am not sure why.
I am using Pascual watchface and nothing else really running on the watch. I have attached the screenshots of yesterday's battery life on the device which was dead by 8pm. The watch had 73% battery remaining. No other bluetooth devices paired except the car for 30min.
Thanks

I am experiencing exactly the same issue with my Moto 360 and Nexus 6 after the latest Moto Body update, except for in my case Bluetooth ends up using about 30% of the battery. My Android Wear version is the same as yours and I am running against Android 5.1.1. Any point in trying to upgrade to Android M preview?
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Hello, need some help.
Have a Note 5 and Moto 360 got them both at the same time and never had an issue till the last update. Watch is running 1.3.0.2166028.
I had previously had Moto Fit tracking all my health related data after using Andoid Fit caused excessive battery drain on the watch.
I noticed in the latest update Moto Fit got reset to Android Fit and I now had to DL a new Moto Body app on my device. After I resetup everything my watch is running great however now my phone is getting held awake almost the entire day by Bluetooth and I am not sure why.
I am using Pascual watchface and nothing else really running on the watch. I have attached the screenshots of yesterday's battery life on the device which was dead by 8pm. The watch had 73% battery remaining. No other bluetooth devices paired except the car for 30min.
Thanks
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Update:
I contacted Motorola Support and restored the watch to defaults and deleted all on phone apps. Not using any fitness apps the watch is still keeping the CPU alive on my phone for at least 50% of the day. So no improvement there.
Ran the phone with the Bluetooth off for the entire day yesterday. Here are some screenshots captured at midnight. Significant improvement vs watch being connected.

I solved my issue. Returned the Moto 360 and picked up a ZenWatch to see how I feel about it.

losing 30% -40% battery overnight?

I was just wondering what is the normal battery drain amount, I can barely seem to get a day out of the battery... Last night I put it in airplane mode and theatre mode and it made no difference in battery, it went about 30% over 8 hours. During the day it's ever worse. I get anywhere from 7 to 15% battery drainage per hour. Somedays I can barely make it the entire day. Do I have a defective unit? what are you guys getting in terms of battery use in your watches. I have the latest android 6.0.1 and android wear 1.5.0.3044569 Build number M1D63G.
I purchased the watch about a week ago.

Battery drain pretty random in my case... my watch is also on M1D63G... awful update, hoping for a quick fix but I don't think it will come quickly.

No fix for maybe one year, so..........

dersie said:
No fix for maybe one year, so..........
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To be honest I'm waiting for Sony IFA 2016 which will be on Thursday and I really really REALLY hope they will introduce Sony Smartwatch 4 along with Xperia X Compact so I will be able to throw my hard-earned money right at their faces to buy this stuff

Not certain that Sony like Android Wear ?

I have noticed same thing with my SW3 and i think that is caused by watchface - in my case - watchmaker premium - i have been created my own watchfaces - nixie and flipclock from scratch - and mine SW3 also last about one day per charging. Try to change watchface to stock sony watchface and compare battery drain then - and ofc - let us know if that was the case.

I have a feeling Watchmaker watch faces tend to cause drain, not sure though since it seems a bit random.
I changed my watch face to stock one and the battery is at least somewhat better and lasts day & night.
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isosika said:
I have a feeling Watchmaker watch faces tend to cause drain, not sure though since it seems a bit random.
I changed my watch face to stock one and the battery is at least somewhat better and lasts day & night.
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I use watchmaker and Pujie black and the battery does indeed die faster when I'm on watchmaker. On Pujie I can go up to 1.5 days on a single charge with brightness on auto , gestures and all radios on. Might be a rogue app causing too much drain...maybe revert to stock then install an app a day to see what might be causing the drain?

I have 2 phones, and when I just use the watch not connected to the phone, I get a couple days of life, and the screen does not randomly turn on. I think the android wear app on the phone is causing the problems?

romcio47 said:
Battery drain pretty random in my case... my watch is also on M1D63G... awful update, hoping for a quick fix but I don't think it will come quickly.
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Just got M1D63X, maybe that will be the fix?

7.1.2 battery life

Is anyone else's Pixel XL having not so great battery life since the update? I'm getting 3-3 1/2 hours of sot today i was at 70% so far and 45 min of screen time and barely been on phone. I did a hard reset 2 days ago to see if that did anything but still the same the past 2 days.

Mine isn't that bad, but I definitely noticed a drain after 7.1.2. It was enough that I was checking to see if some rogue app was running in the background. Glad to hear I am not the only one.
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yea, i talked with google support and they had me stick it into Safe mode and to try that for a couple hours to see if the drain persists. Basically every app I use is blocked in safe mode so we will really get down to see if its phone or apps

Gilley said:
Is anyone else's Pixel XL having not so great battery life since the update? I'm getting 3-3 1/2 hours of sot today i was at 70% so far and 45 min of screen time and barely been on phone. I did a hard reset 2 days ago to see if that did anything but still the same the past 2 days.
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I have noticed it too.

for me my battery drain was from play music. I had the same battery life as you, I went to pure stock with only my bootloader unlocked and the drain persisted. I stopped using Play Music and started streaming with a different app and my battery life jumped to 2 days after a while

I think it has been about similar to what it was prior to update. I typically average about 4 hours talk time and stream music on Play Music, typically a few hours worth a day. I am also in a terrible Cell reception area. On screen time is usually 2hrs+. Typically after a full work day I still have about 60% almost religiously every day.
Did you do the OTA or did you hard reset the phone after the 7.1.2 update? I had a drain issue back on 7.1.1 --> 7.1.2 beta and the hard reset fixed it.

fatapia said:
for me my battery drain was from play music. I had the same battery life as you, I went to pure stock with only my bootloader unlocked and the drain persisted. I stopped using Play Music and started streaming with a different app and my battery life jumped to 2 days after a while
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Yea i've been using Spotify as my music streaming app.

iceman4357 said:
I think it has been about similar to what it was prior to update. I typically average about 4 hours talk time and stream music on Play Music, typically a few hours worth a day. I am also in a terrible Cell reception area. On screen time is usually 2hrs+. Typically after a full work day I still have about 60% almost religiously every day.
Did you do the OTA or did you hard reset the phone after the 7.1.2 update? I had a drain issue back on 7.1.1 --> 7.1.2 beta and the hard reset fixed it.
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I did OTA 7.1.2 and been on it since it was released and then did hard reset 2 days ago. And I know some of my apps kill it like I said but even when I havent been on it today I was dropping fast. My buddy is at 54% with his and has 54 min of SOT so something is up with this patch.

Gilley said:
Yea i've been using Spotify as my music streaming app.
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I haven't tried the Spotify app since I've updated, I've been using the Amazon Music since I have prime and the music is free. Hmm I wish I could offer more help

Crap battery life here. I've even gone as far as a factory reset and not restoring data/apps. Sitting on my desk on wifi (lte makes no difference) with nothing running, 10-20% battery drain after about 2 hours. I went from about 2 1/2 days of moderate (for me at least) usage to where the hell is my charger.

bernsy said:
Crap battery life here. I've even gone as far as a factory reset and not restoring data/apps. Sitting on my desk on wifi (lte makes no difference) with nothing running, 10-20% battery drain after about 2 hours. I went from about 2 1/2 days of moderate (for me at least) usage to where the hell is my charger.
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I use Force Doze, i.e. forces device to doze on screen-off immediately.
It reports a 5% drop during 10 hours of dozing.
Why the hell

For me it's fine. Same battery like 7.1.1.

I did that support with google and they said to email them back after a couple hours to report what happened, that was 2 days ago and still nothing in return. So thats neat

So following up on my battery issue, I contacted Google and told them about my problem. They take about 3 days to reply so its been a long process. Told me I could send my phone in and they would look at it and decide if a replacement would be granted. The turn around time is ONLY 5-10 days without a phone. I have my own business so this wasnt an option. Next they were asking questions and one came up is there any physical damage. The attached picture shows the "damage" of a 5 inch fall out of pocket when i was sitting on sidewalk with my daughter. They then told me that I would need to send it in to their third party provider UBreakIFix to get it fixed then I could send it in and have them look it over and then TRY to get me a replacement. I dont think I've ever had a worse possible experience with customer service. Between taking as long as they do to reply to the whole 5-10 days without a phone option even after I tell them I cant be without a phone that long. Needless to say I dunno that I would ever buy another warranty for a google product if this is how they provide it. I love the phone but I guess it shouldnt be at 80% within a couple hours of the day after it is unplugged.

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thenessus said:
Don't use wifi scanning for location.
Turn off Google Voice completely.
Don't use Facebook App.
My battery life is 6-7 SOT, with idle drain at less than 1%. Pure stock.
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I don't use Facebook at all. I've tested with Google Voice turned off and with all location settings off, makes only a minor difference. I'm talking minutes of battery life difference. I don't even know that 7.1.2 is at all to blame. It does seem slightly better since this month's update. I've even tried to factory reset without loading any of my apps back on to see if something was hoovering up the battery. Same deal.

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Odd. I have tons of apps on my phone and use Facebook often(including messenger) but with relatively low brightness, Bluetooth, GPS WiFi scanning for location constantly on and still occasionally get a good 4 hours SoT. On occasions I get lucky and get something magical like in tagged pictures. Maybe a replacement for anything lower than 3 1/2 of SoT would be in order.

For me, it was Android Auto.
Don't know why, but that seemed to have done the trick for me. My battery was showing a few apps that seemed to point to streaming or using BT (Google Play Services, Podcast Addict, Samsung Accessory App were taking more battery than Phone Idle, when my phone was sitting idle most of the day). So, over a few days I uninstalled/reinstalled all various apps (Samsung Gear Manager, Podcast Addict). Nothing seemed to work. Then I uninstalled Android Auto, and battery life went back to "close" to normal. Reinstalled it, and it was fine until it connected to my car. After that ... the battery drain came back.
Haven't played around with settings in android auto to see if there is a setting that can resolve the battery drain. I have just left it uninstalled for now.

mikaole said:
For me it's fine. Same battery like 7.1.1.
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Same here. If battery is hurting then get BBS from Play or XDA thread. Check out what's alarming overnight and you're bound to find the culprit. For me it was MiBand 2 app draining 0.5% / hour overnight while doing absolutely nothing. I'm now down to 0.5% / hr total and can also spend and entire day plus without a charge since deleting the app and removing the band. Some of these apps insist on pinging home or keeping the phone awake with screen off. Get rid of them and you'll be fine. Either that or give it a quick charge during the day for about 15 min.