For those that hand a smartwatch is wear os consistently at the top of your battery usage list? I can't figure out why wear os is such a battery hog lately.
biggiestuff said:
For those that hand a smartwatch is wear os consistently at the top of your battery usage list? I can't figure out why wear os is such a battery hog lately.
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I have a Fossil Gen 5 Carlyle and the Wear OS app isn't even showing battery usage for me. What is showing up as high Wear OS usage for you?
EeZeEpEe said:
I have a Fossil Gen 5 Carlyle and the Wear OS app isn't even showing battery usage for me. What is showing up as high Wear OS usage for you?
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It's essentially number 2 drainer for the day. I have a ticwatch pro 3. Never had issues with it before until this past week.
biggiestuff said:
It's essentially number 2 drainer for the day. I have a ticwatch pro 3. Never had issues with it before until this past week.
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Oh interesting. Yeah I've had my phone since October 29th and never saw Wear OS have any high usage like that. If it that remains for the next few days, I would unpair the watch and start fresh again.
I might just have to. I've restarted both devices and turned off things like cloud sync. We'll see how it goes.
Another Fossil Gen 5 user and WearOS is nowhere on the power usage graph for me either.
TW Pro 3 Ultra here and I don't even see WearOS on my battery usage either.
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I have the newest fireware from last week on my moto 360. After I got the update battery was 2% to 3% an hour drain. Coming from 5%. Ambient off and screen either on auto or 4 brightness. Yesterday and today my battery life is now 8% to 10%. Nothing changed. Same watch face. Using Facer app for watch faces. My watch will drain 2% 15mins or so. Ill look at it and it will show 88% then 15 mins later Ill watch it jump down 2%. Not 1% but always 2%. I have reset the moto 360 and uninstalled facer and reinstalled it. Nothing same battery life. How come after the firmware the battery life was awesome then all of sudden 5, 6 days later im seeing this battery drain? Even if I use the stock watch faces it still drains way to fast. I have every thing off. Crap even after the update I used ambient for two days and still lasted from 7am to 10pm with juice to spare. Now I cant even get 7am to 10 pm with out a charge. What could be going on?
You tried resetting the 360. Now try restarting your phone. Remember, these two devices are tethered together via Bluetooth, so phone issues can affect the 360's battery life as well. I'm not saying that's positively the culprit, but with no other changes to the watch, there's not much else, other than a defective battery. (Assuming there's not another change you haven't seen, such as an updated wear-compatible app.)
jt3 said:
You tried resetting the 360. Now try restarting your phone. Remember, these two devices are tethered together via Bluetooth, so phone issues can affect the 360's battery life as well. I'm not saying that's positively the culprit, but with no other changes to the watch, there's not much else, other than a defective battery. (Assuming there's not another change you haven't seen, such as an updated wear-compatible app.)
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Yeah I have done that. I just changed watch faces on the facer app to see if the watch face was causing the issue. Ill know in a few.
I think there's an app that bugs and uses battery, I noticed bad battery life and I reset and got over 2x more.
Try reset and not installing apps :good:
v3ngence said:
I think there's an app that bugs and uses battery, I noticed bad battery life and I reset and got over 2x more.
Try reset and not installing apps :good:
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I have no apps installed on the Moto 360
idle0095 said:
I have no apps installed on the Moto 360
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Not even facer?
I've noticed this myself. And like you, I've reset my 360, switched to minimal watch face, restarted my phone and even deleted the data for my google now app on my phone. Not sure what's causing it. Latest firmware and everything.
Mine just started recently.... i think mine might be related to the update of the wear app on my phone... it updated and did a force reboot of my moto 360. after that my watch started crashing processes and getting stuck... for a while, i couldn't even factory reset.... battery fell like a rock.... very odd.
Removed all 3rd party apps from phone, factory reset watch, and still battery drain is crazy. what used to last all day with 30% left over when i get home is now chewing up 50% in just 5 hours.... something is very wrong with the latest wear app i think....
Very interesting, I have had better life after the update...BUT one or two apps are acting a but funky on the phone...
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Hey guys,
I reset the Moto 360 multiple times, didn't install any apps any other than keep and wear battery stats and still have a horrible battery life. The Moto 360 is used very lightly, so only some Notifications and sometimes a voice command and I get a drain of about 5-6%/hour or even more... So when i charge the watch to 100% at 6:30 am it does;t even last till midnight even though I barely use it. And that with the black classic stock watchface !! I made a test and reset the device again and wanted to see how much it drained in the night when I'm not using it at all, and it was 3%/hour which is terrible considering that this is the drain that some users here get with light usage! I would be happy if the watch would last from 6:30 am till 2:00 am next morning and some people seem to get amazing battery life. So I'm thinking of returning the device and getting a new Moto 360 because I'm really getting desperate.. Any Ideas from you guys? :/
5 to 6 percent per hour is normal
alex_cai92 said:
5 to 6 percent per hour is normal
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So it is also normal that it barery lasts 16 hours even though lots of people in the forum claim to get 48 hours(!!) so a 3 times longer battery life than I do ?
My average is 2.5 %/hour with moderate usage.
So you think I should return my watch? Because I don't get how u can achieve a battery life as great as yours. Maybe I got a bad device?
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thomas333 said:
So you think I should return my watch? Because I don't get how u can achieve a battery life as great as yours. Maybe I got a bad device?
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That's very difficult to answer. Currently I've installed additionally:
Facer
Calendar
File Manager Wear
Calculator
Triple game
Wear Battery Stats
Wear Mini Launcher
I use a Facer watchface ('Radiomir' with hour, minute, seconds, date and battery level), I don't play music, I do get around 60-80 notifications daily including those for breaking news, weather, emails from 2 accounts, workplace/home driving maps, I have disabled step-counter and ambient light mode, brightness is set to auto ...
Try "Advanced Task Manager" https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=wear.taskman to see wich app/face is running on your watch. Wear launch itself many face even if you do not use them. If nothing is running.... but if not .....
I use this. It works pretty good. I get about 3-4% a hour!!!
alex_cai92 said:
5 to 6 percent per hour is normal
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Well, no wonder.
Hello, need some help.
Have a Note 5 and Moto 360 got them both at the same time and never had an issue till the last update. Watch is running 1.3.0.2166028.
I had previously had Moto Fit tracking all my health related data after using Andoid Fit caused excessive battery drain on the watch.
I noticed in the latest update Moto Fit got reset to Android Fit and I now had to DL a new Moto Body app on my device. After I resetup everything my watch is running great however now my phone is getting held awake almost the entire day by Bluetooth and I am not sure why.
I am using Pascual watchface and nothing else really running on the watch. I have attached the screenshots of yesterday's battery life on the device which was dead by 8pm. The watch had 73% battery remaining. No other bluetooth devices paired except the car for 30min.
Thanks
I am experiencing exactly the same issue with my Moto 360 and Nexus 6 after the latest Moto Body update, except for in my case Bluetooth ends up using about 30% of the battery. My Android Wear version is the same as yours and I am running against Android 5.1.1. Any point in trying to upgrade to Android M preview?
schwartzki said:
Hello, need some help.
Have a Note 5 and Moto 360 got them both at the same time and never had an issue till the last update. Watch is running 1.3.0.2166028.
I had previously had Moto Fit tracking all my health related data after using Andoid Fit caused excessive battery drain on the watch.
I noticed in the latest update Moto Fit got reset to Android Fit and I now had to DL a new Moto Body app on my device. After I resetup everything my watch is running great however now my phone is getting held awake almost the entire day by Bluetooth and I am not sure why.
I am using Pascual watchface and nothing else really running on the watch. I have attached the screenshots of yesterday's battery life on the device which was dead by 8pm. The watch had 73% battery remaining. No other bluetooth devices paired except the car for 30min.
Thanks
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I contacted Motorola Support and restored the watch to defaults and deleted all on phone apps. Not using any fitness apps the watch is still keeping the CPU alive on my phone for at least 50% of the day. So no improvement there.
Ran the phone with the Bluetooth off for the entire day yesterday. Here are some screenshots captured at midnight. Significant improvement vs watch being connected.
I solved my issue. Returned the Moto 360 and picked up a ZenWatch to see how I feel about it.
I was just wondering what is the normal battery drain amount, I can barely seem to get a day out of the battery... Last night I put it in airplane mode and theatre mode and it made no difference in battery, it went about 30% over 8 hours. During the day it's ever worse. I get anywhere from 7 to 15% battery drainage per hour. Somedays I can barely make it the entire day. Do I have a defective unit? what are you guys getting in terms of battery use in your watches. I have the latest android 6.0.1 and android wear 1.5.0.3044569 Build number M1D63G.
I purchased the watch about a week ago.
Battery drain pretty random in my case... my watch is also on M1D63G... awful update, hoping for a quick fix but I don't think it will come quickly.
No fix for maybe one year, so..........
dersie said:
No fix for maybe one year, so..........
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To be honest I'm waiting for Sony IFA 2016 which will be on Thursday and I really really REALLY hope they will introduce Sony Smartwatch 4 along with Xperia X Compact so I will be able to throw my hard-earned money right at their faces to buy this stuff
Not certain that Sony like Android Wear ?
I have noticed same thing with my SW3 and i think that is caused by watchface - in my case - watchmaker premium - i have been created my own watchfaces - nixie and flipclock from scratch - and mine SW3 also last about one day per charging. Try to change watchface to stock sony watchface and compare battery drain then - and ofc - let us know if that was the case.
I have a feeling Watchmaker watch faces tend to cause drain, not sure though since it seems a bit random.
I changed my watch face to stock one and the battery is at least somewhat better and lasts day & night.
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isosika said:
I have a feeling Watchmaker watch faces tend to cause drain, not sure though since it seems a bit random.
I changed my watch face to stock one and the battery is at least somewhat better and lasts day & night.
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I use watchmaker and Pujie black and the battery does indeed die faster when I'm on watchmaker. On Pujie I can go up to 1.5 days on a single charge with brightness on auto , gestures and all radios on. Might be a rogue app causing too much drain...maybe revert to stock then install an app a day to see what might be causing the drain?
I have 2 phones, and when I just use the watch not connected to the phone, I get a couple days of life, and the screen does not randomly turn on. I think the android wear app on the phone is causing the problems?
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Battery drain pretty random in my case... my watch is also on M1D63G... awful update, hoping for a quick fix but I don't think it will come quickly.
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Just got M1D63X, maybe that will be the fix?
My galaxy watch would normally get 3-4 days of battery life. After this latest patch, I get 2 if Im lucky. Currently running 18 hours on my latest charge, Ive dropped from 100 to 52%. Battery history shows the watch face consuming most of it. The watch face Im using is dark, no light features. Any ideas?
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My galaxy watch would normally get 3-4 days of battery life. After this latest patch, I get 2 if Im lucky. Currently running 18 hours on my latest charge, Ive dropped from 100 to 52%. Battery history shows the watch face consuming most of it. The watch face Im using is dark, no light features. Any ideas?
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Second party watchface battery draining can come from many factors and in your case, you should first go back to a simple Samsung OEM WF to check if it is the culprit and also the AOD.
No problems here. BT version. Every day using shealth for workout. Without it 6 days.View attachment 4787623
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I turned off Location, and had a big battery improvement...
nemosandman said:
Second party watchface battery draining can come from many factors and in your case, you should first go back to a simple Samsung OEM WF to check if it is the culprit and also the AOD.
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I do not use AOD. However, Facer does appear to be the culprit. Removing it my battery life is now 4-5 days.
Any other watch face apps that I should consider that are better on battery life?
galaxys said:
I turned off Location, and had a big battery improvement...
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Never had it turned on.
Just try different ones is all I can say. I imagine that that drain issue isn't gonna be common with other faces since you said it only started happening after an update of the watch face (so it might actually get fixed soon). I use Dashboard that came with it.
I believe I fixed the battery of my watch by denying the Galaxy Wear app to run in the background. No loss of functionality, it just keeps asking to allow it every time I open the app.