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Has anyone else noticed this in the last week or so? My battery is regularly higher than 60% at the end of a 16 hour day. Right now it's at 78%, and I took it off the charger 12 hours ago! I've only had the watch for a couple weeks, but it seems to be laying much longer since that update on the 6th or 7th.
I'm using the rotate dial, and have ambient mode off. I may go back to trying ambient mode since noticing the improvement.
I agree it is better. I have also switched to ambient mode on because I like the ability to glance at the watch to see the time. My watch can go the entire day (~17 hours) without having to recharge.
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.
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.
I have this case:
http://www.amazon.com/Google-Nexus-2013-Case-Manufacturer/dp/B00E5NOXM4
If I have the Nexus at 100% battery and shut off the screen, it will be completely dead after 24-48 hours. Considering that this is standby and that my old old old iPad 1st Gen had a standby time of a couple WEEKS, I'm thinking that there is something wrong?
How long is the standby time supposed to be on the 2013 Nexus?
Is it possible that the case is actually somehow turning on the screen behind the cover and just leaving it on?
Assuming you are on stock 5.1.1, then the battery life is pretty poor....
Mine will only last 48 hours max on standby as it repeatedly wakes up, albeit with the screen off...
I have tried to disable anything I can to stop it waking up, but no good....
KitKat was far better in terms of staying asleep IMHO.
I actually have two N7's and have rooted the seocnd one and am running CleanRom and that is a LOT better at sleeping and so lasts a lot longer on standby.
Why would it be the case? It's not like the case is going to randomly turn it on and off... And if you need to test it; take it out of the case.
My N7 loses a few percent overnight at most... I've left it in my desk at work over the weekend by accident.. Off the charger at 9am Friday, looked at it 9amish Monday, it was at 83%. Nothing special, was stock L at the time.
More then likely you have software installed that is waking the tablet up or running in the background frequently causing the drain. I can unplug mine from the charger at 7am and not use it till 7pm and it will still be fully charged with that case. If I am super busy and don't use it for day or two it may go down to 98-95%. But if I leave Terraria open and put it to sleep by 7pm it may be down to 60-70% without even using it.
My OG ipad has stand-by measured in months. Too bad it's now completely useless. With the constant reboots and battery drains this N7 isn't far behind.
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I have this case:
http://www.amazon.com/Google-Nexus-2013-Case-Manufacturer/dp/B00E5NOXM4
If I have the Nexus at 100% battery and shut off the screen, it will be completely dead after 24-48 hours. Considering that this is standby and that my old old old iPad 1st Gen had a standby time of a couple WEEKS, I'm thinking that there is something wrong?
How long is the standby time supposed to be on the 2013 Nexus?
Is it possible that the case is actually somehow turning on the screen behind the cover and just leaving it on?
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Battery life has declined since some version of lollipop. It's still pretty good but I've lost more than an hour of screen on time. It's impossible to pinpoint what app or apps cause the drainage because wakelock detector only shows facebook messenger as the sole big battery consumer but that's nothing new. In Android's own battery usage stats besides screen my main battery usage is "Android system" and "Android os" which use way too much CPU and cause abnormally much keep awake. I use Greenify and have almost every app except Google's own Greenified but lately I suspect apps bypass Greenify through Google Play services in some way.
But mostly I think it is under the hood stuff in Android and poor optimization from Google devs combined with Wi-Fi being always on. My old nexus 7 2012 which has "keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" set to never has incredible standby time. If not used I get 2 weeks.
Remember how much they praised project Volta last year's i/o, lollipop actually has shortened battery life. This year they called it doze. I honestly think it's just a charade to fool us to believe they put an effort in battery optimization.
^I guess it's just going to be different for everyone depending on a lot of variables.
You say you lost an hour with lollipop, I believe it but I can tell you that I've gained an hour compared to kitkat. So...
Standby time could definitely use some work though.
Hi everyone...
First off, a little background.
I bought my Galaxy S6 a couple of months ago. Battery life on it was fantastic... overnight, I'd drop maybe 1-1.5% per hour.
Then I bought a Zenwatch, which I absolutely love. What a great accessory! Unfortunately, its had a fairly negative effect on my phone battery life. Now, overnight, my phone battery will drop 3-4% per hour. Doesn't seem like like a lot, but over 7 hours, thats a difference of 15-20%.
Last night, just for kicks, I turned off bluetooth on my phone overnight, and it returned to 1-1.5% per hour again.
Is this normal behavior? I thought the fact that it uses BLE should really make this a non-issue.
(Yes, it could be a non-Zenwatch issue, I'll be trying other things over time... just thought I'd start with what seems most obvoius)
Thanks!