Hi guys, just looking for some quick help. I woke up today with some lower than expected battery. I checked my battery monitors and it said that Reddit was on for over 6 hours active screen-on time while I slept!
Is it possible this is a system reporting bug? I just have a hard time believing the screen was on the entire time. I was using Reddit for about 30 minutes before bed, but I also always listen to music before. When I'm about to sleep, I take out my earbuds and put them in their case. During this process I lock my screen. I also have a pretty short screen timeout set. So I just have a hard time believing the screen was on the entire time I was sleeping.
Yet, the battery was low when I woke up. The screen was not on when I woke up. I'm kind of OCD about burn-in and unnecessary battery wear, so I'm a bit concerned. What do you guys think could have happened? Are ghosts using my phone while I sleep?
Edit: I'm going to attach some screenshots so you get the full picture.
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Guys i need your advice on what to do. I've checked a few battery test reviews on the s3 online and they post screenshots showing (example) 3hr 46min screen on time and the % of the battery it used was 34%. My phone right now has had 52min of screen on time and has used 38%. I have a serious battery drain issue with the screen. What should i do?
Turn down your brightness. Turn off Auto. Darker wallpapers. And not trying to be smart or funny here, but turn your screen off.
I listen to music all day long and don't have the screen on that whole time. Sure I am on XDA, browser, MLB At-Bat and a few others that I need the screen for, but I'd say that the majority of my day the screen is off.
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Guys i need your advice on what to do. I've checked a few battery test reviews on the s3 online and they post screenshots showing (example) 3hr 46min screen on time and the % of the battery it used was 34%. My phone right now has had 52min of screen on time and has used 38%. I have a serious battery drain issue with the screen. What should i do?
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You do realize those numbers change right? That doesn't mean your screen is using more battery than it should. It means that out of the battery you have used, the screen has accounted for that percentage. The screen will be the biggest power draw on the device if you are actively using it anyways.
turn ur brightness down instead of setting it to auto
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...
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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.
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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.
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
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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,
I've been having this issue with my watch. See the attached screenshot. Battery life literally takes a dive overnight and my two day battery life is being shortened. I haven't been able to solve this thing. I tried resetting the watch, restarts, yelling at it.., nothing worked. Anyone have similar issues?
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I've been having this issue with my watch. See the attached screenshot. Battery life literally takes a dive overnight and my two day battery life is being shortened. I haven't been able to solve this thing. I tried resetting the watch, restarts, yelling at it.., nothing worked. Anyone have similar issues?
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Most likely an app that's messing things up. Either uninstall all apps an reinstall one by one or just factory reset.
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anish25 said:
I've been having this issue with my watch. See the attached screenshot. Battery life literally takes a dive overnight and my two day battery life is being shortened. I haven't been able to solve this thing. I tried resetting the watch, restarts, yelling at it.., nothing worked. Anyone have similar issues?
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I've had a similar problem with mine, was at 70% at 11PM, and I woke up at 7% at 7.15AM.
What I found out was the culprit was the "tilt to wake" option in the Android Wear app.
Well, that's not the actual thing to blame, it's more than I tend to move a lot during the night, and the watch waking up hundreds of times made the battery fall under 15% even if it wasn't connected or if it hadn't received any notification (I keep the phone in airplane mode at night).
Try that, you'll see that you'll leave your watch at 70% at night, and you'll find it at 68% in the morning.
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another option
You can put the watch in theater mode before going to bed too. Double click the side button to enter and exit it. I like the tilt to wake but also toss and turn at night, plus the girlfriend kept slapping my wrist during the night to turn off the "blinding light " lol
Tried and Tried
So I've been trying to see if any application was messing it up. I don't put my watch on at night. I leave it on my desk. At around the 25% mark, the battery always takes a dive, I've noticed this multiple occasions. So, I kept track of the watch at 25% to see what happens? It's like a countdown every minute battery level decreases 1% till zero. I have no idea if this is a bug on my phone but I can't solve it. I requested a new SW3 from google. Should come in tomorrow. Really frustrating to see that battery percentage dip like that.
Hmmmmm, I have noticed similar and in fact had it last night.
Now if I just take it off and go to bed then all's fine, last night I turned it off at about 40% left, turned it back on and it was down to 11% and popping up battery warnings.
Only seems to do it if I turn it off which is wierd.
As per the title really, what's the huge gap in my battery history?
I'm pretty sure it coincides with me going to bed and you can see where I woke up and started using it again but I can't imagine the phone was off entirely for several hours or more which this is indicating to me?
Anyone?
Damn, looks like you leave mobile data on all night? Try using aggressive mode on greenify and greenify apps you don't need whilst you sleep. Download better battery stats and have a look more in depth what's causing that huge drop.
I'm not talking about the drain, I'm talking in the gap in the history where nothing seems to be happening.
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I can't imagine the phone was off entirely for several hours or more which this is indicating to me?
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I had three of these gaps in my battery history last week, over the course of a number of days that the phone was on battery. Far as I know the phone was always on, so I wonder if it's just that there wasn't any recorded information in these gaps, or some other issue with how Battery History functions. I also noticed that the time since the full charge at the bottom left of the graph was longer than the Phone Idle time. Typically the Phone Idle time is similar to the time at the bottom left of the graph. Out of the two times, the time at the bottom of the graph seemed to be correct, while the Phone Idle time seemed to be considerably shorter than the last time I remembered charging the battery. I wonder if these gaps when the phone is on might just indicate that information wasn't recorded over a long enough time span, such as the idle time being too short, and it gets interpreted as the phone being off in the Battery History. I figure it's basically a bug with something related to how Battery History works.