Hi people,
I bought a clock moto 360 yesterday, today I noticed that his battery is only lasting 1 hour (that's right, just one hour), I wonder if you could help me with this issue? I for one days have carried it 6 times in order to use it, this is unfeasible. I do not use it very often and even then the battery pack in an hour.
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Now that BB is starting to have some stock:
Has anyone returned their 360 and gotten another one with better battery life? Reading all these batt life reports, the devices seem to either struggle to get 12hrs or easily make it double that. That sounds like an inconsistency in hardware to me.
I'm in the "barely 12 hr" camp, despite resetting, calibrating, screen off, brightness at 1, correct firmware etc.
I exchanged mine for cash. Will try again next year.
what phone are you pairing with the 360? I wonder if not having a bluetooth LE capable phone affect the battery usage. That's the one thing I haven't heard many people mention.
I think a lot depends what you do each day. Yesterday I had great battery life. But went to a couple of meetings and received some texts and emails.
Today I've been installing done light switches and using a screwdriver which is killing my battery life due to the wrist morons always triggering the watch face to turn on
I am performing this experiment now. Just exchanged the one I got last Monday for one that just arrived at my local BB today. Will post my results.
I'm using a Moto X, btw, and I got 12 hrs of batt with the barest of use. I was sitting at my desk at work all day barely using it at all. I def understand variance in results depending on use, but this was bad battery life with almost no usage.
Not the end of the day, but: the new 360 has been off the charger for 4hrs now and it's down 15%. That's a massive improvement.
I should note that the only thing I did differently over my standard use for the previous one was to switch the heart rate app to "Fit" in the Wear app.
quietglow said:
I should note that the only thing I did differently over my standard use for the previous one was to switch the heart rate app to "Fit" in the Wear app.
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Does that prevent the periodic heart-rate cards from appearing? I turned off the annoying step card, but I haven't yet found a good way to completely prevent the heart-rate cards. Whoever at Motorola thought fitness apps should be included as mandatory should be... well... maybe strapped to a running treadmill for a week or so. I'll bet then they'd see the logic in making them optional as they should be.
I am actually not sure, but I saw it suggested in several "make the battery not suck" threads.
I am pro fitness apps (one of the reasons I bought it was that I wanted a step counter and it was't that much more than a fitbit) but man they missed the boat on the UI of the fitness apps. All the apps with the same purpose, no real ability to control what's being logged and how often, no way to export data, no way to have just steps counted etc. It's a big enough of a mess than it should have been shipped with the fitness stuff turned off, particularly if that ends up being the source of the battery problems.
I finally put my replacement 360 in the cradle at 10pm last night, 16 hrs after I took it out. It had 22% battery left, and that was obviously the first charge cycle, so it'll get better. The longest my first one lasted was just over 12 hours, and that was after at least 5 charge cycles. I'm pretty sure there was something different and/or wrong with the first one.
Im hoping someone might be able to help me here.
Ive had a Moto 360 since early December. I had it replaced by Motorola because there were cracks on bottom side of the watch. They replaced it without question. I got the new one and it worked great the first day, but the last two days the battery has been draining excessively fast. Yesterday, about half way through the day the battery was completely dead. I would say after about 8 hours of use. Today it seemed fine, but I took it off to work on my car. I set it down on a shelf. I forgot about it on the shelf and I picked it up about 6 hours later. The battery was completely dead. Im hoping someone might be able to give some recommendations on what to check or try.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Closing this thread. I think it was the face I was using. I was using a pretty basic face with Facer. I changed to a stock face and Im not losing approximately 4% per hour, which I can definitely deal with.
Looking to get an Android Wear smartwatch.
The Moto has the better water resistance, bigger circular screen but the Asus has better battery, P-OLED screen and faster CPU.
Some Moto 360 users are reporting problems like screen burn in, and battery drain, should I be worried about this?
I need the battery to last from 7 AM to 10 PM.
In for feedback also.
I just got the Moto 360 yesterday and so far it is very nice, but honestly think I prefer my Pebble Time more. Would love to hear other users input.
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Looking to get an Android Wear smartwatch.
The Moto has the better water resistance, bigger circular screen but the Asus has better battery, P-OLED screen and faster CPU.
Some Moto 360 users are reporting problems like screen burn in, and battery drain, should I be worried about this?
I need the battery to last from 7 AM to 10 PM.
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I have had my watch since February, no screen burn in at all. I charge it all night so the screen is on all night as well.
I usually take mine off the charger at 5:30 am and don't put it back on until 10:30 pm and I am normally in the 30's at that point. I have a lot of notifications that come through during the day, I would say 5 to 10 an hour on average. On days I run and use runkeeper it will take about 10% off the battery life every 45 min. So my average days I have no issues making it through a full day. I have found that I need to restart the watch about once a week to maintain this, if not I can have a day where the battery life tanks for no reason.
If you plan to use GPS (Maps) a lot or use the watch to play music via bluetooth from the watch those both will kill the battery faster.
I have had my moto360 for about 2 weeks... But here's the catch (now this obviously may vary from person to person)
When the Moto360 first came out, I was sold on it, I wanted one... But I waited. So now that I bought one I had to go through 2 exchanges because, the first one had a severe battery drain problem and the 2nd one, once it died, wouldn't turn on, even after a day of being on the charger. Now that I have a 3rd (which was my final exchange, and would have requested a refund after) it seems to be working great! I love the build. Of course I wish many things about it were better, but because I like it so much I was willing to get one that works. Just like you're phone, if you use it smart you can get great battery life out of it. When I'm home I have it disconnected from my Bluetooth connection because I don't use it. I can get to the end of the night with 20% or so left. Easily lasting from 7am to midnight. At the price it's set at now, I believe it's worth it. At least until v2 comes out.
flyingfinn333 said:
Looking to get an Android Wear smartwatch.
The Moto has the better water resistance, bigger circular screen but the Asus has better battery, P-OLED screen and faster CPU.
Some Moto 360 users are reporting problems like screen burn in, and battery drain, should I be worried about this?
I need the battery to last from 7 AM to 10 PM.
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I don't think screen burn in is possible on moto 360 since it doesn't have oled.
Mine on full charge lasts day and a half and I'm using it as a pedometer and I've got a watchface which takes my heart rate everytime I turn the screen on.
Big battery savings: Ambient screen (doh), Tilt to wake screen OFF! Just tilt to wake off at least doubles my battery life.
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I don't think screen burn in is possible on moto 360 since it doesn't have oled.
Mine on full charge lasts day and a half and I'm using it as a pedometer and I've got a watchface which takes my heart rate everytime I turn the screen on.
Big battery savings: Ambient screen (doh), Tilt to wake screen OFF! Just tilt to wake off at least doubles my battery life.
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Which watchface is that? I'd love to see more frequent HR data.
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Which watchface is that? I'd love to see more frequent HR data.
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An one I made myself. After I downloaded tons of free watchfaces and even wasted money purchasing watchfaces I used for a few hours before realizing they won't work for me. I realized that if I want something tailored EXACTLY for my needs, I'll have to make it myself.
Inspired by Iguana's http://facerepo.com/app/faces/details/military-digital-watchface-14a9a3f7838 I stole his compass ring and heart and steps icon. I hope He won't mind too much since I made it strictly for my own use, no distribution intended.
Watch died mid-day today
Weird, my watch has been awesome...until today. Usually I can go 6 AM - 6 PM and still be 35-45%.
Today sometime around 2 PM I noticed the watch was dead. It won't even turn back on.
The funny thing is, another guy at work also has one, his did the same thing today!
And he usually gets 18 hrs + of battery life as well.
Anybody else experiencing sudden severe battery drain in the last couple days?
Same here.
From a few days ago, my moto 360 went from lasting all day, to lasting till about 3pm. I have changed nor installed nothing. I look at the watch about 10 times a day, I get notifications on the watch about 10 a day (facebook messages, skype messages etc), and get 1 or 2 calls a day (which makes it vibrate). This has not changed either.
So now the watch is useless, unless I carry a charger around with me.
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Watch died mid-day today
Weird, my watch has been awesome...until today. Usually I can go 6 AM - 6 PM and still be 35-45%.
Today sometime around 2 PM I noticed the watch was dead. It won't even turn back on.
The funny thing is, another guy at work also has one, his did the same thing today!
And he usually gets 18 hrs + of battery life as well.
Anybody else experiencing sudden severe battery drain in the last couple days?
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It's happened to me once or twice, randomly. No idea why. Just happened the other day -- next day was perfectly fine.
Yeah, today after 16 hrs I was still at 50%!
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My theory is that battery life tends to drain more when there is an update to Google play services, thus resulting in a mismatch between watch and phone versions of this app
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I agree, battery life on my Shamu has been all over the board lately with play Services being the culprit.
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I've had my Moto 360 2015 for about a week now and it usually gives me 2 days of battery life, but two days now it seems to be draining overnight, I go to sleep with it around 50% and wake up to have 15%.
It wasn't two nights in a row, so I'm thinking something is randomly running in the background (haven't installed any extra apps).
The only thing that occurred to me was that maybe the heart rate monitor keeps trying to run while the watch is flat on my night stand... does that make any sense?
Thanks
dham84 said:
I've had my Moto 360 2015 for about a week now and it usually gives me 2 days of battery life, but two days now it seems to be draining overnight, I go to sleep with it around 50% and wake up to have 15%.
It wasn't two nights in a row, so I'm thinking something is randomly running in the background (haven't installed any extra apps).
The only thing that occurred to me was that maybe the heart rate monitor keeps trying to run while the watch is flat on my night stand... does that make any sense?
Thanks
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Possible, but not likely. On my first gen it can sit on my dresser and if I bump the dresser in the dark I'll see the heart sensor light up. Do you live by train tracks or something that shakes the place and would wake it up? ?
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Past 3 days my watch has been taking a battery nose dive around 6 hours in... Life seems normal up till that point, and if I look at the battery life in the wear app, it shows it taking a dive. When that happens, usually I get less than an hour before it's dead. If I look at the apps which seem to be using battery, Message+ shows up using 30%. Not even sure how to disable that (or if I should). I now have to wait until I get home tonight to recharge and see if I can reset the watch...
I need help... I just purchased a moto 360 yesterday and I have battery issues.. It came with 29% out of the box and it died by the time I could set it up.
Now I updated it to marshmallow and the problem is still there... Usage of just 2 or 3 min drops 3 or 4%
If it's kept idle, the battery doesn't drop at all... But when I actually use, like open a few apps and stuff, it drops like crazy... And everywhere online I see people saying 14 hours of battery life with screen always on!
I even tried using the watch with airplane mode.. I doubted that my phone was doing something. But even then it drops the same way, maybe a lil less..
Is it just me or does everyone have a problem or is there a fix for it or do I have to go for a replacement?
What settings have you selected?
I have mine with the following:
Ambient screen: Off
Tilt to wake screen: On
Wi-Fi: Off
I did notice for the first week of use the battery on my watch went through a sort of bedding in process, after that it lasted a lot longer. I think it might also be due to the fact that I was constantly installing new apps and watch faces and updating Android Wear, stuff that puts a real drain on the battery.
One thing worth making sure, don't have more than one step counter going. I'd initially installed Google Fit and also had Moto Body pre-installed on the watch and later found out that they were both setup as Step Counters, which was rinsing the battery if I did a lot of walking. After I blocked one (Google Fit) it improved the battery a lot.