Hello XDA community,
I just switched from an older Android Wear watch to the Huawei Watch. So far, even playing with Watchmaker a lot and keeping the screen on more than usual, I've been pleased with the battery life. But, in trying out the apps, I inadvertently started up the "Daily Tracker" fitness app.
I searched the forum for an answer but did not find an answer. Other than a factory reset, is there a way to turn off the built in "Daily Tracker" app?
When I checked my battery stats, it was an app that used about 3% battery life. It's not a noticeable impact for me right now, but 3% could make a difference if some other apps I use were to start draining it more heavily.
Thank you for any suggestions.
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I'm sure another battery life thread exist but the search function is not working for some odd reason.
Anyhow, I recently bought this device(32 GB) model on Ebay and it is a refurbished edition. I updated it to the latest 4.4.2 and the device is amazing. However, one issue that disappoints me is the battery life. It lasts around 5-6 hours if I'm constantly browsing the web and watching videos. To charge it, it takes a good 7 hours. I looked at the battery and noticed that Android OS was responsible for 56% of the battery drainage. I notice the back of tablet(near the camera) getting very hot when I was playing some games as well.
I'm really trying to push this things to the limits to check to see if it's faulty so I can return it before the 14 days is up. My questions are, what is the typical battery life you users experience and how long does it usually take you users to charge it? Also, my Android OS has never taken up that much battery---is this normal? If not, how can I fix it?
Thanks!
Streaming videos kills battery in general but that's still high battery usage for Android OS. I suggest you invest BetterBatteryStats from the play store and see if something else is causing your battery drain. Post some screen shots when you get the app. I
My Android OS battery utilization is sitting at 7% at the moment. I don't stream much data, and but I think high Android OS battery utilization has more to do with background data than video or music streaming anyway
Few things to improve battery life in general is to disable location reporting and location history in GPS menu. Better yet, but disable GPS in general. Turn off the setting in the advanced wifi menu that let's apps scan wifi even if it's off for location data. Google+ and hangouts are big drainers... Disable or unistall them is you can or at least don't let them sync data. Go to Google account setting and disable syncing of anything you don't needs.
Edit: I just stream 1.5hrs (1.3gb data) of Netflix and my Android OS battery usage didn't go up. It's gotta be a rogue process taking CPU cycles/checking location/sending lots of data. Install BBS and see what's causing it. More than 7hrs of screen time for me today and I still have 25% battery left.
@streetenigma23 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2742745
Usage = 10hrs
Charge Time = 4-5hrs.
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Thanks for the suggestions. I will go ahead and d/l that app and see how it goes. I'll put up some screenshots and try to see if we can get to the bottom of it.
So I received my moto 360 at the weekend, and it's pretty great, but the battery life so far has been horrendous. As in, 20%/hr, charge multiple times per day terrible.
I've uninstalled all Wear apps as far as I can tell, wiped my phone, reset my watch.
However, the top app for drain according to Android Wear app on my phone is an app with no name, and the default "little green android holding a package" app icon. I've no idea how to figure out what this culprit is, but I feel that my battery life should increase significantly if I do.
I've been on with Moto UK support, and described this problem to them. They've asked for a screenshot, which I provided, and said they'd get back to me.
Is there any way to identify all apps on my wear? I checked the storage stats but all the apps there have names and icons (except system apps)
Thanks!
For those wondering, it appears to have been WeChat. I had no idea that there was a wear component to that app, but Wear Battery Stats pointed me in the right direction.
I've just changed from a Gear Live to a Moto 360 and after charging and syncing the battery died after three hours! Horrendous. Someone please advise! My gear Live with the same settings never did this.
Hi,
I just received a Moto 360, and I know what you're going through!
I've gone from 3 charges a day previously, and today the watch is reporting I have almost 2 days remaining of charge.
First, FULLY cycle the battery. Leave it on the stand over night, run it until it turns off (if you're in a rush, ambient display, full brightness!). Then, full charge to 100% and leave it for an hour on the charger once it is full.
After that, do a factory reset on the watch (in settings). In Android Wear on phone, use the settings menu to resync your apps.
Do one more full discharge and full charge, and you should be sorted.
If not, use the Watch Battery section of the wear app to identify problem apps. Before today, I had never seen a "watch idle" entry, because an app was holding the watch awake. Identifying and removing that app has solved the rest of my problems.
Hope all this works. Some of the steps seem/may be unnecessary, such as the factory reset, multiple full charge cycles. However, I speak from experience that they do work!
Edit: Do be aware that the charge cycles where you do a factory reset and sync will drastically drain the battery, giving the illusion that the problem is still there.
chrispy_212 said:
Hi,
I had never seen a "watch idle" entry, because an app was holding the watch awake. Identifying and removing that app has solved the rest of my problems.
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So which app was that. Could you be specific please? I've had my 360 since October and had no issues with battery life until about 2 weeks ago and now it can't make it through a work shift all of a sudden. I've seen the 'watch idle' and the android guy with no title in the battery stats (as well as 'Bluetooth', which is mind blowing) as the main drains but I can't figure out which apps need the boot. Thanks in advance for the help, this problem is driving me crazy!
For me it was WeChat. I didn't even know it had a wear component. However, using Wear Battery Stats (available on Google Play) I noticed that there was a missing icon under "app activity" because it had updated that day. Tapping on this blank icon told me it was an activity belonging to WeChat. Using this, I deduced that was the problem app. Removing it seems to have solved my issue. I'd recommend a similar process, although I only found this app on that day due to it updating, so you may struggle. I get the impression the standard of coding of wear apps so far is pretty shoddy, I don't think not providing a package name and icon is unusual or specific to this one app.
chrispy_212 said:
Hi,
I just received a Moto 360, and I know what you're going through!
I've gone from 3 charges a day previously, and today the watch is reporting I have almost 2 days remaining of charge.
First, FULLY cycle the battery. Leave it on the stand over night, run it until it turns off (if you're in a rush, ambient display, full brightness!). Then, full charge to 100% and leave it for an hour on the charger once it is full.
After that, do a factory reset on the watch (in settings). In Android Wear on phone, use the settings menu to resync your apps.
Do one more full discharge and full charge, and you should be sorted.
If not, use the Watch Battery section of the wear app to identify problem apps. Before today, I had never seen a "watch idle" entry, because an app was holding the watch awake. Identifying and removing that app has solved the rest of my problems.
Hope all this works. Some of the steps seem/may be unnecessary, such as the factory reset, multiple full charge cycles. However, I speak from experience that they do work!
Edit: Do be aware that the charge cycles where you do a factory reset and sync will drastically drain the battery, giving the illusion that the problem is still there.
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chrispy_212 said:
For me it was WeChat. I didn't even know it had a wear component. However, using Wear Battery Stats (available on Google Play) I noticed that there was a missing icon under "app activity" because it had updated that day. Tapping on this blank icon told me it was an activity belonging to WeChat. Using this, I deduced that was the problem app. Removing it seems to have solved my issue. I'd recommend a similar process, although I only found this app on that day due to it updating, so you may struggle. I get the impression the standard of coding of wear apps so far is pretty shoddy, I don't think not providing a package name and icon is unusual or specific to this one app.
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Thanks for the reply. I don't use that specific app so no luck there. Good call on Wear Battery Stats though. I actually already use it but I'll use its stats this time instead of the standard wear stats. Thanks again, hopefully I can find the culprit, been having issues with my phone battery as well recently too.
B1gC72 said:
Thanks for the reply. I don't use that specific app so no luck there. Good call on Wear Battery Stats though. I actually already use it but I'll use its stats this time instead of the standard wear stats. Thanks again, hopefully I can find the culprit, been having issues with my phone battery as well recently too.
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fyi - i haven't tested this since it happened, but i disabled BT on my phone (just disabled in settings, without disconnecting the wtch first) and the watch drained itself in probably about 20-30 minutes. When I finally got it charged, it said BT took everything.
When I was having app issues, I also noticed very high bluetooth consumption. This could likely be a poorly coded app constantly trying to ping your phone for data and receiving no reply as it is not designed for a scenario where your phone is not connected.
The alternative of course is defective hardware.
A step I did not include in my original post was that I also clean-flashed a new rom on my phone. I felt this was due to a unique problem that I had (bluetooth problems in car also) but nonetheless thought I should mention that too. It's hard to be sure which step exactly cured my watch.
Same was happening to me, after several master resets and trial and error, i found that on my Samsung s7 edge i had my watch set as a trusted device so when it was connected to my phone my device would unlock without passcode. After turning that off, battery life is normal again, 24hrs plus. I think the constant bluetooth checking to see if it was attached drained battery extremely fast, hopefully this helps someone
A lot of us SW3 users are having battery life issues after the Wear 5.1 update. My Smartwatch 3 went from 50% to dead in 90 minutes without using location or Wi-Fi. But after a factory reset (and long resync) my Smartwatch 3 is lasting longer than ever with Ambient Mode still enabled. I recommend factory resetting (the only things that will be lost are preferences and sideloaded apps) and disabling Wi-Fi after setup. If you can tolerate it, disable additional features like tilt wake and GPS (location). See if battery life improves and reenable useful settings after a few days.
Trick didn't help me. After 2 resets battery life is same. Drainig battery is here. Now for 2 days I am looking what is draining battery.
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Trick didn't help me. After 2 resets battery life is same. Drainig battery is here. Now for 2 days I am looking what is draining battery.
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Ive done 2 factory resets since the issue started.
I've also turned off gestures, GPS, wifi and cloudsync.
Nothing seems to make a difference...
I think that some apps are not optimized for newest version of Android Wear, my Smartwatch after update has problem of battery draining, I've done 2 resets but nothing, then i uninstalled all apps and installed 1 app every 4-5 hours to find what causes problems. For now I found WatchMaker Pro that causes battery draining. Now using my watch normally, with wifi on, wrist gestures and some watchfaces installed from yesterday at 6 AM, today at 4:30PM i have 35% of battery, is not so bad!
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I think that some apps are not optimized for newest version of Android Wear, my Smartwatch after update has problem of battery draining, I've done 2 resets but nothing, then i uninstalled all apps and installed 1 app every 4-5 hours to find what causes problems. For now I found WatchMaker Pro that causes battery draining. Now using my watch normally, with wifi on, wrist gestures and some watchfaces installed from yesterday at 6 AM, today at 4:30PM i have 35% of battery, is not so bad!
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I suspect this might be true. For me, Muzei app and possibly FORM watchface suddenly consumed 400mb of cellular data within minutes and sent my battery diving. Uninstalled both apps and battery life has been back to normal, even within Wi-Fi turned on (albeit rarely utilized since I'm hardly away from my phone).
So I'm new to the Pixel XL coming from a Nexus 6P so I'm very familiar with the software.
I've had really bad battery life the past few days with it and wanted to know if there was a good app for finding a Wallace it something that's burning up battery behind the scenes.
Accubattery just lists the apps I'm using as the culprits, but I feel like there is more to the story. Accubattery also recorded a 4 hour screen off time and only 1 minute of "deep sleep" (doze?).
I installed betterbatterystats as system app when I had root some time ago, and after several updates and no wipe flashes, it is still working as system app.
If you have root I suggest you to use it. You can detail your usage and your wakelocks, one down side though it is resetting stats when you charge or restart your phone.
i personally suggest using francos naptime app (found in the playstore) and enabling aggressive doze. that should get you more standby time