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[Q] Do I have a faulty device.?

So I had several calls yesterday for over 30 mins each..
Each time i would hear echoy sound of my voice, and i also feel like i could hear the voice coming out of the phone lol, even though the phone isnt on speaker.
I also my have a bad battery it'll go pretty low i guess. Yesterday was my first full day using it, went to work at 70% since i forgot to charge it, at noon unplugged it's at 100% came home around 9 and got 10% left. , so i got 9 hours in total, from calls. light browsing, light twitter, facebook use.. I havent even setup my work email, and i constantly get over 100+ emails a day on my account. So i know battery will go significantly
Should I wipe everything clean and see if it works.. I have 14 days to return for a new one.
also today left my house at 7:30.. it 9:50 now and already at 75%...

I think someone else on here had similar issue with having an echo when speaking into the phone. If im not mistaken they exchanged it and the new one did not have the problem. Maybe you should take it in for an exchange.
As far as battery life, well it seems to be varying from user to user. I am getting pretty good battery life, anywhere from 12-15 hours on a charge with medium use. On light use I get well over 15 hours. There are some that seem to be having poor battery life. Have you checked your battery stats? Whats your android OS % at? And what is your screen on time? Have you turned on ECO mode?

twoslo said:
I think someone else on here had similar issue with having an echo when speaking into the phone. If im not mistaken they exchanged it and the new one did not have the problem. Maybe you should take it in for an exchange.
As far as battery life, well it seems to be varying from user to user. I am getting pretty good battery life, anywhere from 12-15 hours on a charge with medium use. On light use I get well over 15 hours. There are some that seem to be having poor battery life. Have you checked your battery stats? Whats your android OS % at? And what is your screen on time? Have you turned on ECO mode?
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Someone else had the echoy thing.
Yesterday my OS wast at 56% and screen is at 28%,
Today its almost the same..
My brightness is at 30% though.

Got a replacement yesterday..
Left the house at 8:20, after 2 hours im at 88%.. But my Android OS is at 62%. is this bad.?

HelloDominick said:
Got a replacement yesterday..
Left the house at 8:20, after 2 hours im at 88%.. But my Android OS is at 62%. is this bad.?
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Assuming you dont have a lemon, it all depends on how you use your phone.
Do you have lots of apps with push notifications?
Or do you have lots of apps that check for new notifications every 10 minutes?
Screen brightness? Screen-on time?
What radios do you have on?
...the list goes on
On a typical day, I can get about 12 hours with moderate use (3 hrs screen on time). Close to 24 hours with light use. Mine idles pretty well (approx 1% or less battery loss per hour).
FWIW - my 'Android OS' is usually at around 50% and screen is at about 25%

pjsnyc said:
Assuming you dont have a lemon, it all depends on how you use your phone.
Do you have lots of apps with push notifications?
Or do you have lots of apps that check for new notifications every 10 minutes?
Screen brightness? Screen-on time?
What radios do you have on?
...the list goes on
On a typical day, I can get about 12 hours with moderate use (3 hrs screen on time). Close to 24 hours with light use. Mine idles pretty well (approx 1% or less battery loss per hour).
FWIW - my 'Android OS' is usually at around 50% and screen is at about 25%
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Facebook every hour
Twitter every 15 mins,
Work email every 1 hour
I do have ESPN scorescenter, Pandora, Google Music, Spotify as a widget, but their notifications are set to none. Will this drain battery on the screen.?
Screen brightness is at 20%, outside 55%.
Where do I check Screen on time.?
Wifi, BT, GPS, NFC are all off. Only thing on is the 3g network.
Right now 6 hours, im at 63%.

HelloDominick said:
Facebook every hour
Twitter every 15 mins,
Work email every 1 hour
I do have ESPN scorescenter, Pandora, Google Music, Spotify as a widget, but their notifications are set to none. Will this drain battery on the screen.?
Screen brightness is at 20%, outside 55%.
Where do I check Screen on time.?
Wifi, BT, GPS, NFC are all off. Only thing on is the 3g network.
Right now 6 hours, im at 63%.
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Doesn't seem like a lemon to me. Falls somewhat in line with my battery experience.
You can check screen on time by going to the power saver in settings, scroll down to battery use and hit that. Then hit 'screen'

pjsnyc said:
Doesn't seem like a lemon to me. Falls somewhat in line with my battery experience.
You can check screen on time by going to the power saver in settings, scroll down to battery use and hit that. Then hit 'screen'
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at 21%, 1 hour 59 mins

HelloDominick said:
at 21%, 1 hour 59 mins
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Yep - sounds about right. I think you're good to go.

pjsnyc said:
Yep - sounds about right. I think you're good to go.
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and i didn't turn on eco mode or power saving. So my phone is normal then.?. Not a bug on 4.0.4 or a bad unit.

HelloDominick said:
and i didn't turn on eco mode or power saving. So my phone is normal then.?. Not a bug on 4.0.4 or a bad unit.
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Yeah - I never turned those on or used any kind of juice defender either (thought I am on Wifi alot). I think you're fine.
Try this - fully charge your phone before you go to bed. Leave it off the charger over night. See how much your battery drops. Even with a few google accounts on push, facebook messenger push, instagram push, LG social+ and a couple of news readers that auto-update every few hours, I've seen my battery drop at most 5% over 7 hours.

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Yeah - I never turned those on or used any kind of juice defender either (thought I am on Wifi alot). I think you're fine.
Try this - fully charge your phone before you go to bed. Leave it off the charger over night. See how much your battery drops. Even with a few google accounts on push, facebook messenger push, instagram push, LG social+ and a couple of news readers that auto-update every few hours, I've seen my battery drop at most 5% over 7 hours.
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will try it later tonight..
yesterday i went to long island and lasted maybe 8 hours because i was using it heavily..but then charged it at their house to 80% and after 11 hours i was down to 9%.. with light-medium use

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.

How I solved my battery consumption

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

Mischka20 said:
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,

[Q] High battery drain. Can't even last a day

I read some people got as high as 36 hours if ambient screen was off.
My moto 360 barely last a day. 10-11 hours max.
Anyone know the reason?
Thanks in advance

I do not have an answer, but I can confirm that I am easily getting through a day on one charge. I have had my Moto 360 for a couple weeks now. During the course of the day, I receive frequent emails from three different email accounts and receive frequent texts. I use it to reply to texts. I use it to control music playing on my phone. I also receive frequent Google cards. Yesterday morning, I took it off the charger at 8 a.m. When I put it back on the charger a little after midnight last night, it still had 60 percent.
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As of last week, mine no longer lasts all day either. I don't know what has changed, except it seemed to come after the Android Wear app update that enabled Wi-Fi.

Faspaiso said:
I read some people got as high as 36 hours if ambient screen was off.
My moto 360 barely last a day. 10-11 hours max.
Anyone know the reason?
Thanks in advance
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yeah, i'm losing ~10% an hour too . . .
not sure why. Ambient off.

Yup my battery used to be great now today it died at 6pm... hurry with the update Motorola!

Until your 360 gets the 5.1 update there is no WiFi communication between phone and watch. However, if you have the Cloud sync enabled in the settings in your Wear app on your phone it could be trying to sync with the 360 and draining its battery?
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karlmf said:
Until your 360 gets the 5.1 update there is no WiFi communication between phone and watch. However, if you have the Cloud sync enabled in the settings in your Wear app on your phone it could be trying to sync with the 360 and draining its battery?
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It's disabled. My battery is somewhat fine if not using the watch, but 2-3 min gaming on it drains like 10-15%.

I have 35-45% left after reaching home from my 9 hour shift.
I am happy with it as I am not using it at home.
I put it to charge on reaching home. Take it from the charger at 100%. Switch off and turn on by morning.
If I don't turn it off by night, the charge will be 85% by morning.

I have also noticed considerable drain lately. It is not every day, but increasing frequency. Cloud sync is off. took it off the charger at 11am w/ 100% and by 530 it was at 2%. Last night I had a timer going for my laundry and it was depleting rapidly too. Its really annoying.

Is 15% lost, normal over 9 hours of sleep?

Hi
I slept with the watch on for 9 hours. It was at 86% when I feel asleep and 66% when I woke up.
Flightmode - On
Ambient Screen - Off
Wake when lifting arm - On
Is this normal? It just seems a lot for me, when the watch is doing 'nothing'. My Samsung Gear 2, barely lose a percentage over a night.
Thanks in advance

I say yes... I loose about 3-4% an hour for normal use

happens.
if I leave my watch ON throughout the night, there will be 10-15% drop by morning.
so I started to charge it fully and turn it OFF before going to bed

so, a watch with 320mah battery lost 20% in 9 hrs.....
so the watch consumed about 2.2% an hour, or about 7.1mah draw an hr.....
thats not bad... consider that 7mah draw is almost nothing since most devices today (phone, tablets, etc) at full speed can easily use about 700-1200mah an hr....

chaco81 said:
so, a watch with 320mah battery lost 20% in 9 hrs.....
so the watch consumed about 2.2% an hour, or about 7.1mah draw an hr.....
thats not bad... consider that 7mah draw is almost nothing since most devices today (phone, tablets, etc) at full speed can easily use about 700-1200mah an hr....
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They always have way more to use battery on.
When my watch is idle, it should ONLY remember time. It was even on flight mode, so no BT searchign.
My Gear 2 have a 300 mah battery and I can easily use it 3-4 days in a row, if not more. As I only use it to check notifications. There is so much on the Moto 360 that is using the battery, that you do not need. There are 3 (most used) ways to wake the screen. Touch, button or lifting arm.
I would be happy to disable the touch, as it uses more battery, as the screen always need to be ready to get touched. Also heard users complain about the HRM going on and off even with Moto and Google fit disabled.