I just got a moto 360 off Craigslist yesterday. We did a factory reset and I left with it. I played with it a lot last night and it went down about 60% in 3.5 hours. I assumed that was beaches if the almost content use. Put it on the charger last night and woke up with it at 100%. It was down 7% in 20 minutes. Is that normal? Does it slow down later? it's updated to 5.0.1. wondering if there is something wrong with this one.
It really depends on a number of factors:
1) how often you use the watch (kinda duh);
2) what apps you're running and how power-hungry they are;
3) brightness level, ambient screen setting;
4) watch face (the second hand, for instance - does it update continuously or per-second?); does the watch face also make any location requests?
5) API calls to the watch from the phone and which apps.
My typical 8-hour working day takes up 30-40%. I have notifications turned on for a few apps, music controller is working for roughly 40 minutes. My ambient screen is off and brightness is always on the brightest setting (5).
I wonder if this software update tries to help to conserve the battery life of the watch, it seems like the time taken for the watch to go to sleep is faster than previously.
This has made an impact on an app which I have been using since I got the watch. I have been using Endomondo for my sports activities to track my heart rate and my calories burnt. Whenever I use the app, the watch will be lit on throughout and after one hour of cardio activities the calories burnt will be about 500-600.
Since the update, when I turn on the app it will just show for about 10 seconds and then go to sleep mode. It seems that the heart rate and calorie counter would stop and only continue when I tap the screen again, so the counter has become inaccurate and now the calorie counter will read less than 200 calories burnt after 1 hour. It is quite irritating when I have to keep tapping the screen every now and then to make sure its running and it goes back to sleep again after 10 seconds.
Anyone experienced such issues or have any solutions?
Since the 1.4 update my watch seems to lag displaying the watch face. It seems to happen more on certain stock faces than others.
I don't use always on mode so normally I would tilt my wrist and the normal face would show straight away. Now I've updated to 1.4 when I tilt my wrist the watch shows the ambient face for a second then the normal face.
I've tried unpairing the watch which now performs a factory restore as of 1.4 but this hasn't resolved the problem.
Has anyone else noticed this? I can get around the lag by having always on mode enabled but I don't know how this effects battery life.
Thanks all.
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I use always on in combination with SWApp Dark app to reduce brightness of ambient screen and getting 2 days out of battery for my usage.
Not a solution to your problem, though.
Yep, same here. It like wakes up in Ambient mode for about 1 to 2 seconds from time to time. Not always and I notice it a mix on some faces more than others.
My daily driver face does not do it but my secondary does it all the time.
This issue is happening to Moto 360 Gen 1 and 2 watches as well. Loads of people are experiencing it, hopefully it'll be fixed soon.
I'm tempted to replace my Fossil Collider Hr with a Watch GT2 but have a few questions which I can't seem to find the answer to anywhere (including in the user manual). Appreciate it if any owners can help me out and answer my queries (for reference I'm an iOS user in case it makes a different to any answers):
1 - Can it show all phone notifications or only "approved apps" (like the Fossil)? Does notification support differ on iOS vs Android?
2 - Does the standby watch face only show the time or can it also show other things like date, step count, battery. 2nd time zone?
3 - With the latest firmware updates does the standby watch face still disable raise to wake? Do notifications still appear if you have standby watch face set?
4 - Can anyone give me an idea of what battery life they get with the standby watch face enabled (and is this with or without GPS tracking and real time or smart heart rate tracking)?
5 - Does the screen brightness on standby watch face adjust for ambient light (i.e. brighter outdoors, dimmer indoors or in a dark room at night). Is it distracting in the cinema or sleeping at night?
6 - I think from what I've read that the watch gives an onscreen notification if it gets disconnected - can anyone confirm if this is the case? This is a feature i loved on my Garmin Vivomove and really miss on the Fossil Collider
7 - How quickly does the watch time update when the time on the phone changes? The Fossil is instant whereas the Garmin Vivomove could take up to 30 mins unless I manually synced it
8 - Can you set scheduled Do Not disturb Hours on the watch (e.g. at night)?
9 - I understand I can't use the built in play music function on iOS but do I get music controls to play/pause/skip whatever I'm playing on the phone?
10 - Do most watch faces offer the 2nd time zone function or is this limited to just a few watch faces?
Appreciate this is a lot of questions but I just can't find the answer to these anywhere else! Many thanks
omohat said:
I'm tempted to replace my Fossil Collider Hr with a Watch GT2 but have a few questions which I can't seem to find the answer to anywhere (including in the user manual). Appreciate it if any owners can help me out and answer my queries (for reference I'm an iOS user in case it makes a different to any answers):
1 - Can it show all phone notifications or only "approved apps" (like the Fossil)? Does notification support differ on iOS vs Android?
2 - Does the standby watch face only show the time or can it also show other things like date, step count, battery. 2nd time zone?
3 - With the latest firmware updates does the standby watch face still disable raise to wake? Do notifications still appear if you have standby watch face set?
4 - Can anyone give me an idea of what battery life they get with the standby watch face enabled (and is this with or without GPS tracking and real time or smart heart rate tracking)?
5 - Does the screen brightness on standby watch face adjust for ambient light (i.e. brighter outdoors, dimmer indoors or in a dark room at night). Is it distracting in the cinema or sleeping at night?
6 - I think from what I've read that the watch gives an onscreen notification if it gets disconnected - can anyone confirm if this is the case? This is a feature i loved on my Garmin Vivomove and really miss on the Fossil Collider
7 - How quickly does the watch time update when the time on the phone changes? The Fossil is instant whereas the Garmin Vivomove could take up to 30 mins unless I manually synced it
8 - Can you set scheduled Do Not disturb Hours on the watch (e.g. at night)?
9 - I understand I can't use the built in play music function on iOS but do I get music controls to play/pause/skip whatever I'm playing on the phone?
10 - Do most watch faces offer the 2nd time zone function or is this limited to just a few watch faces?
Appreciate this is a lot of questions but I just can't find the answer to these anywhere else! Many thanks
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1. On Android I can confirm it shows what you select and you can select all apps from you're phone. I can't confirm on iOS
2. Standby faces show only time for now and can't modify them or install new ones. Only in future updates maybe
3. Yes. No, you need to manually unlock it to see notifications. Only vibrate.
4. I had standby wf enabled once for a cycle of around 5-6 days. I do not find it useful as it cannot turf off at night by itself in bed (it seems). Without always on wf, with all others enabled stress, hr, etc , I get around 10 days
5.yes and yes, it's distracting for me even at minimum brightness ). But that is me
6. Yes you get notified but will not remain in the notifications list from the watch. You see it when it vibrates or you miss it . After unlock, a notification is visible by default directly on screen for 5 sec I guess from the time you receive it
7. I have no clue on this one. On Garmin I know it is connected to the gps and I think it is getting time from there not phone
8. Yes hours yes but not on week days.
9. No clue. I always had only androids
10. Limited to some of them. Good part is that we have a really good community posting alot of wf daily and also creating them on request . Even cloning some known Sam ones
I had the watch from December and must say it is pretty close to the perfect watch for me after changing and still owning to many of them.
Some minuses I noticed that bugged me compared to others, first one is the most important:
1. Vibration is really faded, the worst vibrations on any watch that I ever owned but I can live with it
2. Notifications don't have icons for all apps. Ex. Skype has the same icon as many others and it is hard to see the app that notifies at first glance
3. Adding custom watch faces is not that easy and kind of hit and miss at the moment if you don't have a rooted Android phone. On iOS at the moment it is impossible to send custom wf to the watch.
4. Support. China always gets the best, they even have a payed watch face store for gt2.... The rest gets some new watch faces at around 2 weeks... Not really a problem if you can send custom wf to the watch. Just today in around 3 telegram groups o saw around 40 new wf's....
Done with this wall of text and hope it helps you. Conclusion , defenetlly I would by this watch again even after this many months. To convince you I can tell you that I currently own 4 garmins, 1 Moto, 1 Samsung, 1 amazfit and some other sport bracelets, with gt2 being may main one even comparted to my amazfit gtr
Awesome - thanks for taking the time @mauk to answer all my questions!
Bit disappointed with the standby watch faces being so gimped (why no raise to wake or notifications) but I'm still tempted.
Looks like raise to wake is the way to go - are you happy with the "hit rate"/accuracy of raise to wake or do you often find yourself tapping the screen/shaking your arm to activate the watch?
Yep, no issue to wake when raising and sleep when lowering the arm. Hit rate is pretty good for me. Ah and yes, it has no tap to wake, only button pushing
Seems to me that mine will raise to wake when the standby face on if I immediately do so after a notification vibration comes in. Say the standby face is on and I'm walking, if it vibrates a notification and I immediately pull my arm up to look it'll show it to me. I also noticed when I sleep or take my watch off the standby face will eventually go dark (which I like)
I actually tried the standby face because I get annoyed that the watch constantly wakes up on the slightest movement, especially when driving.
I do wish I could read messages more than a couple of lines and the icons for WHAT notified matched the app (does have the gmail icon). I don't care about responding to messages. One thing I got that I wasn't expecting was the ability to control my phones music. Reviews I read said you couldn't, only the watches locally stored music but there must have been an update.
I use garmin v3 now. I plan switch to samsung watch.
I do cardio workout, garmin watch have time alerts(every 1 min or 3 min ). do samsung watch have time alert ?