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Got my ZenWatch yesterday and charged it up and used it all day today.. but after just 13 hours - the battery was down to 5%. Most of the reviews I've read suggest 24-36 hours of use.
Anyone else finding the batteries are a little light?
Give the battery a bit of time to settle in. And plus your using the watch a bit more intensively than designed for.
I would be very interested how you'll go after a few days, and a few charge cycles.
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TheWerewolf said:
Got my ZenWatch yesterday and charged it up and used it all day today.. but after just 13 hours - the battery was down to 5%. Most of the reviews I've read suggest 24-36 hours of use.
Anyone else finding the batteries are a little light?
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The reviews are definitely biased. Mine dropped 50% in only 4 hrs with brightness sett to minimum. Totally dissatisfied with this watch. The performance doesn't even come close to matching the looks.
my wife takes it off the charger at 7:30. When I looked last night around 12:00, it still had 35%. She has it always-on and I think brightness at 3...
I did notice that it seem to disconnect from her phone at a shorter distance than my moto would. Both watches connected to note 4s.
Here is something to think about. I had the moto 360 and returned it primarily do to battery life. Had it for two weeks and hoped it would get better but I would take it off the charger at 530 am and it would be dead before 5 pm sometimes even early afternoon. I got this watch set it up and charged it over night. Took it off the charger at 530 and it was dead by noon the first day. Second took it off the charger at 530 and it lasted until 5. I was thinking I would have to return it but yesterday I took it off at 530 am and at 11 pm it still had 13%. I have been going always on, brightness at 2 or 3. I get a ton of email and text. What I'm saying is maybe it's too early to tell....I got two full days with the gear neo but it just wasn't as cool.
The battery life is excellent here.
One of the review says the battery is horrible if you have "unlock my phone" feature checked on Zenwatch manager. So try to deactivate that feature and try it.
The battery life on my Zenwatch is excellent. I am confident that it will last me the whole day even with active use.
Usually there may be some 3rd party apps that can drain the battery, such as incompatible watch Face.
Couldn't be happier with the battery life! Getting through a full 12-16 hour day with plenty to spare.
Seems like the better battery life is holding up. Took it off the charger at 530 and it is now 10 and I still have 18%.....haven't changed my habits. Won't last even close to two days. But one full day is acceptable.
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Give the battery a bit of time to settle in. And plus your using the watch a bit more intensively than designed for.
I would be very interested how you'll go after a few days, and a few charge cycles.
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I think you're right - on day two, I'm at 33% after the same time elapsed. I actually don't use it too intensely and I leave the brightness at 1. We'll see how it goes over the next week.
kinged said:
One of the review says the battery is horrible if you have "unlock my phone" feature checked on Zenwatch manager. So try to deactivate that feature and try it.
The battery life on my Zenwatch is excellent. I am confident that it will last me the whole day even with active use.
Usually there may be some 3rd party apps that can drain the battery, such as incompatible watch Face.
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Definitely, in fact, I removed all the Wear apps from my phone because Wellness was killing my phone's performance, then when I noticed the Watch still thought it was using Wellness, I factory reset the watch and reinstalled just a few apps and left things like 'unlock my phone' off... and it's doing better today.
Thanks everyone for the input.
Keep us updated
I'm waiting for it to be released in Australia.. getting impatient.
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I unplugged my watch at 6:30 yesterday morning. At 7:30 pm it still had 63% left. I don't bother with any type of wellness app, at all. I don't bother with any type of 'find my phone' or 'find my watch' or phone unlocking app. I don't use the always on feature, but keep brightness on 3 due to being outside quite often. I use the watch strictly for notifications, and replying to Hangouts messages via the voice input. I have 3 weather locations set in Google Now that all show on my watch, and I play Words With Friends with a dozen different people. Between all that, plus emails, texts and calls I get 100s of notifications throughout each day. To have 63% left at the end of the workday is very acceptable. I could easily go out after work till the wee hours of the morning without any worry of the battery giving out before I do.
Mine goes all day and evening with plenty of juice to spare. I have taken no measures to preserve the battery. I use it to unlock my moto x as well. No issues with battery life that I have seen after 3 days of using the watch.
After the first day of crappie battery life. I am getting a good 18 hours. I'm not doing anything either to preserve battery life. It is WAY better than my moto 360 experience. I usually only have 10 to 13 % left when I put it on the charger but I would charge every night anyway.
It's been good for me... I've been using it with the display always on plus one or more watch faces with weather. Gets me about 16 hours or so. I've been using turn by turn navigation plus media control quite a bit. I've also spent an hour or more playing with facer watch faces.
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My watch has now been off the charger for a little over ten hours and I still have 63% battery life left. Holy crap! Best battery life yet, by far, since I've had the watch. Guess it takes about a week to settle in. Couldn't be happier.
Update: It's now been about 13 hours off the charger, and my watch just hit 50%... Starting to think this 2 day battery life claim holds water... Very happy right now!
Much improved now... 14.5 hrs on constantly and I'm at 52%.. which means it should be good for another 14.5 hrs which is 29 hours total run time.
I only need 18 so getting 29 is more than excellent!
I think the battery "guestimate" needs a short while to settle in with such a small battery. The first couple days I actually saw my battery percentage go *up* 3-5% between checking it. When it's saying it's low the first few days you have it, it likely actually isn't.
One last note - as has been mentioned before - some apps can really just suck the watch's battery dry, even apps that seem like they shouldn't. I hope Goog gets a handle on this because there's no really good way that I can see to know in advance other than installing and checking battery use over a day.
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One last note - as has been mentioned before - some apps can really just suck the watch's battery dry, even apps that seem like they shouldn't. I hope Goog gets a handle on this because there's no really good way that I can see to know in advance other than installing and checking battery use over a day.
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Can anyone post anything they have done differently to get the better life. I'm getting close to 2 weeks with it, have seen it get better after it "settled in", but I'm still trying to get a little better. I can make it through the day, but usually only barely and I'm over the constantly fiddling with it part of ownership. I get maybe 50-60 notifications a day. I've tried uninstalling apps, trying to stick with stock watchfaces, it's really hard to tell.
I'm really looking forward to the next update so that I can see what apps are using the battery. I tried the Wear Battery App, but someone suggested they thought it was draining the battery itself. Just seeing if there is a consensus on what works and what doesn't. I have removed almost all the ASUS apps, the unlock one really helped a lot. Thanks.
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Can anyone post anything they have done differently to get the better life. I'm getting close to 2 weeks with it, have seen it get better after it "settled in", but I'm still trying to get a little better. I can make it through the day, but usually only barely and I'm over the constantly fiddling with it part of ownership. I get maybe 50-60 notifications a day. I've tried uninstalling apps, trying to stick with stock watchfaces, it's really hard to tell.
I'm really looking forward to the next update so that I can see what apps are using the battery. I tried the Wear Battery App, but someone suggested they thought it was draining the battery itself. Just seeing if there is a consensus on what works and what doesn't. I have removed almost all the ASUS apps, the unlock one really helped a lot. Thanks.
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I have no such problem but a co-worker was having terrible drain and he uninstalled the Asus Zenwatch manager itself and it fixed his problem. Best advice I can give is to uninstall all the apps other than the android wear app, and maybe even kill it just to see what happens, and then slowly add them back in.
For comparison, I took mine off the charger at 7am this morning so after 12 hours I'm at 55%. I dim the display but don't turn it off. I'm using a nice face from the Intellicom app and I probably get several hundred notifications over the course of the day. I'm more than happy with this device.
Im seriously considering returning this item. I just bough the moto 360 yesterday and im getting unaceptable battery life. I see people on this forum able to use the watch for a full day and it still got battery while mine is struggling to run for 6 hours straight. Right now my watch has been running for 4 hours and a half and its down to 44%. I have tried every troubleshoot,I have resetted my watch 4 times now,I have cleared the cache of my application and reinstalled the whole thing. I even tried running it without any application installed, completely stock and my battery is still draining like crazy.
Im not using it that much. Right now I have insta weather installed,skymaster skin and wear battery stats and thats about it. I love this watch but i cant deal with this kind of ****. I consider myself pretty good with hardware and new accesories, and I cant believe how much time ive wasted trying to make this thing worked. Is there something to do really?
Try to use for is purpose for notifications if you bought yesterday and do all that things how are you going yo know which is is battery life with a normal use ?
The panel is who use al the battery , if u use ir forma notification you would get a day battery like a phone if you use youre phone for 4 hours you would drain your battery is battery life of your phone of 4 hours ? NO.
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Try to use for is purpose for notifications if you bought yesterday and do all that things how are you going yo know which is is battery life with a normal use ?
The panel is who use al the battery , if u use ir forma notification you would get a day battery like a phone if you use youre phone for 4 hours you would drain your battery is battery life of your phone of 4 hours ? NO.
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I have some difficulty understanding , but from what I can see you are telling me im using my watch to much? this is not the case. I just got back from work, and in 3 hours of work I lost about 30% of battery. this mean that my watch would be dead after 10 hours of small to none-use of my watch. I always see people talk about how theirs can last 18-24hours on average usage, are these people simply lying?
What do you have install ?
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What do you have install ?
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Insta weather
Skymaster clock
wear battery stats
all the rest is stock.
When im looking at the percentage of the usage of each app by google wear app ( nothing is showing with wear battery stats) it shows this
skymaster : 14%
Screen : 14%
Android wear : 9%
unknown Icon : 7%
Idle : 4%
Bluetooth : 3%
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Try unistall Skymaster and instaweather
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Try unistall Skymaster and instaweather
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I already did try like I said, Ive tried running the watch stock and it was still losing battery life. Ive read somewhere that I need to completely empty my battery a couple of time before getting better?
Yes it will get better battery bit is not magicall remember
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I already did try like I said, Ive tried running the watch stock and it was still losing battery life. Ive read somewhere that I need to completely empty my battery a couple of time before getting better?
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Also, as of right now, I keep losing contact with my watch. Bluetooth is fine and everything since I can change the look of my clock and settings.. but from time to time im losing connection with hangout and it do not send the messages to my watch.......
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Yes it will get better battery bit is not magicall remember
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Yea well, I still have 12 days left to try it and see if it gets better, If not im gonna have to return this watch. I need at least 10 hours.. I mean comon this is ridiculous getting 5 to 8 hours per charge.. Im doing 20 hours of heavy usage on my LG g3 right now so the watch would die on me 3 to 4 time by the time my phone die... this is ridiculous
That Skyweather app is incredibly poorly written and eating your battery like crazy! It looks like it's causing wakelocks! UNINSTALL IT! NOW! And don't put it back on your watch, ever!
And you never mentioned what screen settings you are using which can be a huge culprit for battery drain! If you care about battery life:
Do NOT use Ambient Mode!
Do NOT use Auto Brightness!
Set your watch on the lowest #1 brightness and leave it alone. Stop fiddling with it. Stop turning on the screen! I see a LOT of on-screen time! I know it's new and all but it's not a toy.
It's supposed to be for quick glances, not a replacement for your smartphone!
Put the watch into THEATER mode if you find your wrist movements are waking it up far too much and eating battery. Be smart.
Also, YES, fully charge and then fully drain the watch for several days to a week. (Bring your charger to work for this part.)
I did this and my battery is excellent. It worked for me so give it a try.
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That Skyweather app is incredibly poorly written and eating your battery like crazy! It looks like it's causing wakelocks! UNINSTALL IT! NOW! And don't put it back on your watch, ever!
And you never mentioned what screen settings you are using which can be a huge culprit for battery drain! If you care about battery life:
Do NOT use Ambient Mode!
Do NOT use Auto Brightness!
Set your watch on the lowest #1 brightness and leave it alone. Stop fiddling with it. Stop turning on the screen! I see a LOT of on-screen time! I know it's new and all but it's not a toy.
It's supposed to be for quick glances, not a replacement for your smartphone!
Put the watch into THEATER mode if you find your wrist movements are waking it up far too much and eating battery. Be smart.
Also, YES, fully charge and then fully drain the watch for several days to a week. (Bring your charger to work for this part.)
I did this and my battery is excellent. It worked for me so give it a try.
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Thanks for the information! Did you meant skymaster pilot watch face? i bough it for like 1$ but it looks like it is the biggest battery drainer
Lexite said:
Thanks for the information! Did you meant skymaster pilot watch face? i bough it for like 1$ but it looks like it is the biggest battery drainer
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Use the new facer app and watchmaker no battery draining problems here.
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FallN said:
That Skyweather app is incredibly poorly written and eating your battery like crazy! It looks like it's causing wakelocks! UNINSTALL IT! NOW! And don't put it back on your watch, ever!
And you never mentioned what screen settings you are using which can be a huge culprit for battery drain! If you care about battery life:
Do NOT use Ambient Mode!
Do NOT use Auto Brightness!
Set your watch on the lowest #1 brightness and leave it alone. Stop fiddling with it. Stop turning on the screen! I see a LOT of on-screen time! I know it's new and all but it's not a toy.
It's supposed to be for quick glances, not a replacement for your smartphone!
Put the watch into THEATER mode if you find your wrist movements are waking it up far too much and eating battery. Be smart.
Also, YES, fully charge and then fully drain the watch for several days to a week. (Bring your charger to work for this part.)
I did this and my battery is excellent. It worked for me so give it a try.
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One more tip that works well when you don't need to use your watch at night power it down and back on when you wake up and if you don't need notifications from your watch put it in aeroplane mode that turns bluetooth off big drainer when you need it take it out of aeroplane mode I get nearly 3 days use like this.
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That Skyweather app is incredibly poorly written and eating your battery like crazy! It looks like it's causing wakelocks! UNINSTALL IT! NOW! And don't put it back on your watch, ever!
And you never mentioned what screen settings you are using which can be a huge culprit for battery drain! If you care about battery life:
Do NOT use Ambient Mode!
Do NOT use Auto Brightness!
Set your watch on the lowest #1 brightness and leave it alone. Stop fiddling with it. Stop turning on the screen! I see a LOT of on-screen time! I know it's new and all but it's not a toy.
It's supposed to be for quick glances, not a replacement for your smartphone!
Put the watch into THEATER mode if you find your wrist movements are waking it up far too much and eating battery. Be smart.
Also, YES, fully charge and then fully drain the watch for several days to a week. (Bring your charger to work for this part.)
I did this and my battery is excellent. It worked for me so give it a try.
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Just be aware that theater mode seems to turn off vibrations.
"...If you care about battery life:"? It's good advice, however do you hear yourself? What you are basically saying is "don't use the features, shut it all down and use it only to look at the time (ahem, just get $35 timex if that is the case). That's kinda nuts for a product that is targeted to the general consumer. Motorola (or Lenovo or Google?) have a marginal product here at best. Thats bad because the smartwatch has been with us now for a number of years, the battery should be a lot better - especially at this fairly high price point. How many people have returned the 360 after a few days because the battery life is crap in real world use? I'm going to bet many did, unless they are like us tinkerers, programmers and devs here... Nobody and I mean nobody is going to know to do the the things you have outlined to "save" the battery. Consumers are just going to use it, show it off and load whatever is available on the app store..
I've said it before on these forums and I say it again... We are paying to beta test this watch for Motorola. The battery life is horrific and Motorola know it. It is a "toy" admittedly a cool one at that. But frankly... All of us 1st gen owners who are sticking it out should be getting coupons for a deep discount on gen 2.
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"...If you care about battery life:"? It's good advice, however do you hear yourself? What you are basically saying is "don't use the features, shut it all down and use it only to look at the time (ahem, just get $35 timex if that is the case). That's kinda nuts for a product that is targeted to the general consumer. Samsung have a marginal product here at best. Thats bad because the smartwatch has been with us now for a number of years, the battery should be a lot better - especially at this fairly high price point. How many people have returned the 360 after a few days because the battery life is crap in real world use? I'm going to bet many did, unless they are like us tinkerers, programmers and devs here... Nobody and I mean nobody is going to know to do the the things you have outlined to "save" the battery. Consumers are just going to use it, show it off and load whatever is available on the app store..
I've said it before on these forums and I say it again... We are paying to beta test this watch for Samsung. The battery life is horrific and Samsung know it. It is a "toy" and a cool one at that. But frankly... All of us 1st gen owners who are sticking it out should be getting coupons for a deep discount on gen 2.
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Umm, did you notice that you're in the Motorola Moto 360 forum?
same here i bought it tried to learn or play with the watch all day not all day few hour after it died but i didn't thought it was watch defective or w/e. its my own fault because i turned it on non-stop. i give it a normal usage a day after i bought it pretty much live to 20% on 9 hour on few times changing face theme and showing off to friends lol,, i think this watch will last 15hrs max on any heavy usage. those who said 1 or 2 day they're definitely lying or encouraging people to buy the watch or can be Motorola's hired scum bags
Guys, I am constantly getting at least 40 percent left at the end of my 12 hours day.
Using it for notifications only, as intended, plus some weather checking and replies by voice to incoming messages.
Ambient OFF
Auto brightness ON
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same here i bought it tried to learn or play with the watch all day not all day few hour after it died but i didn't thought it was watch defective or w/e. its my own fault because i turned it on non-stop. i give it a normal usage a day after i bought it pretty much live to 20% on 9 hour on few times changing face theme and showing off to friends lol,, i think this watch will last 15hrs max on any heavy usage. those who said 1 or 2 day they're definitely lying or encouraging people to buy the watch or can be Motorola's hired scum bags
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While that post is pretty much in need of a complete rewrite, I will agree that I have no idea who these people are that are getting 2 days out of there watch on a single charge. I End the day at about 30% which is great, but it would be practically dead by morning if I wouldn't charge it over night.
I use InstaWeather and have no issues on battery life. Have you updated to the latest firmware? I can easily get a full day with plenty of battery life left at the end of the day. I'd return it for a different one. You may have issues. After the first update to 4.4, battery life for everyone went up dramatically.
The battery life on the watch seems to be much better than my Urbane so far. I used it all day yesterday and I still had at least another day of use left. I still charged jt last night but I might try to see how long it will last before it dies.
Here it is with ambient mlde always on, WiFi on, and brightness set at 4.
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The battery life on the watch seems to be much better than my Urbane so far. I used it all day yesterday and I still had at least another day of use left. I still charged jt last night but I might try to see how long it will last before it dies.
Here it is with ambient mlde always on, WiFi on, and brightness set at 4.
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WOW! Better than the urbane? I had the urbane, and was satisfied with batt life. My one concern with the huawei was the smaller batt.
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WOW! Better than the urbane? I had the urbane, and was satisfied with batt life. My one concern with the huawei was the smaller batt.
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The above should speak for itself. My Urbane was good but it was inconsistent some day I would end with 30% others I would have 60% doing this exact same thing. I'm only really on my full second day now but it still seems better overall. I've also noticed its a little faster which it shouldn't be because they are identical hardware wise. I'll report back later this week after I use it at school. I usually really 3-6 miles depending on the day which could kill the battery faster since it's counting my steps. Yesterday I only walked 2 miles which isn't a lot so we will see.
Mine doesn't make it through the day
I've had it 2 1/2 days, maybe it will get better. But it's dead by late evening - maybe 8p, with an 8a start.
Here's today's:
I'm using the same set up as I listed in the OP. Let's see how it does tomorrow now
I used it on the first day full charge. With everything on except google fit and brightness at level 4. I was getting 2.81% decrease/hr. I measured from 7 am to 4 pm; a 9 hr day with at least 30 emails and other notifications from tapatalk and such. 1 phone call and a few texts in that 9hr period. However today in my 2 hr venture to the grocery store, I used up about 5.41%/hr. And I did change up the watchface to a sweeping seconds one. That was the only diff to account for the increased battery. BUT even with that, the battery meter still said it would last another 2 days.
Like many others have said, this is my second full day with it. I assume it will just get stable and get an accurate reading in another day or so.
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I used it on the first day full charge. With everything on except google fit and brightness at level 4. I was getting 2.81% decrease/hr. I measured from 7 am to 4 pm; a 9 hr day with at least 30 emails and other notifications from tapatalk and such. 1 phone call and a few texts in that 9hr period. However today in my 2 hr venture to the grocery store, I used up about 5.41%/hr. And I did change up the watchface to a sweeping seconds one. That was the only diff to account for the increased battery. BUT even with that, the battery meter still said it would last another 2 days.
Like many others have said, this is my second full day with it. I assume it will just get stable and get an accurate reading in another day or so.
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Yeah it seems to get good better life from my initial impressions. I would say with heavier usage it would get 1.25-1.5days but that depends on how you use it.
So far mixed review on battery life. Yesterday, it didn't last the whole day. But I think the wifi might have been on when I wasn't near a wifi. Did a 90 minute bike ride today and was connected to my phone vis RunGPS application which should have been using the watch HRM. Went from 95% to 45% in those 90 minutes. Don't know the impact, but when I got back, found the HR was stuck at 125 for half the ride, and 72 for the other half of the ride. Just frozen. I charged it fully at 12:00, now at almost 11PM, it has 73% remaining. I have the display set with "always on" turned off.
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So far mixed review on battery life. Yesterday, it didn't last the whole day. But I think the wifi might have been on when I wasn't near a wifi. Did a 90 minute bike ride today and was connected to my phone vis RunGPS application which should have been using the watch HRM. Went from 95% to 45% in those 90 minutes. Don't know the impact, but when I got back, found the HR was stuck at 125 for half the ride, and 72 for the other half of the ride. Just frozen. I charged it fully at 12:00, now at almost 11PM, it has 73% remaining. I have the display set with "always on" turned off.
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I never use the HRM because I know it kills the battery based on experience with AW and my old Samsung Gear Fit. I'm not surprised that it died that fast because its not made to primarily be a fitness watch despite having a HRM and fitness apps. I know that sounds dumb but a fitbit would do a better job because that's is sole purpose. I don't expect the HRM to be accurate on any smart watch; I tested mine yesterday at the gym while on the treadmill. The treadmill say my HR was 165 while the watch said it was 100 so there's a big difference and I trust the treadmill over the watch in this case. I have my display always on still and get good battery life. I don't expect the watch to last forever if I'm cranking the brightness and using the HRM. I'm not defending the watch by any means but rather stating that no AW/smart watch would handke this kind of thing well yet. I enjoy the look of Huawei and convenience it provides with alerts, notes etc... but I'm glad it lasts a day for my type of usage. I wonder if Marshmallow will improve the battery life at all.
Here's today's battery life. I knocked the watch of my night stand last night so I had to finish charging it when I got campus in case anyone was wondering about the activity tracking and watch on time difference from today. Nevertheless here's today's battery stats. Overall the battery life wasn't impacted that much by walking ~12k steps and over 5 miles which is surprising. I use the standard blue watch face it comes with because it's my favorite one so far and ambient mlde is always on as mentioned above.
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Good battery backup for a smartwatch
Had it fully charged when I went to bed last night, it was down to 30% when I got up this morning. I have no idea why it went down so fast. I put it in theater mode when I go to bed. I slept through the alarms, I'm wondering if maybe they were going off repeatedly and wore the battery down. -cjr-
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Here's today's battery life. I knocked the watch of my night stand last night so I had to finish charging it when I got campus in case anyone was wondering about the activity tracking and watch on time difference from today. Nevertheless here's today's battery stats. Overall the battery life wasn't impacted that much by walking ~12k steps and over 5 miles which is surprising. I use the standard blue watch face it comes with because it's my favorite one so far and ambient mlde is always on as mentioned above.
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Had it fully charged when I went to bed last night, it was down to 30% when I got up this morning. I have no idea why it went down so fast. I put it in theater mode when I go to bed. I slept through the alarms, I'm wondering if maybe they were going off repeatedly and wore the battery down. -cjr-
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I'd imagine if your anything like me and ignore your alarm for an hour because I'm a heavy sleeper then the vibration motor would certainly bring it down fast. I think that's really odd to drain that much but if it's consistently doing that I would be concerned.
Yeah, I tried using Sports Gear Tracker today to track my workout... didn't work eiter. I thought it was tracking and I checked a few times. The HR appeared frozen again, but the timer was running. But, when I got home, it has no record of the workout. Don't know what happened. Google fit does have the workout. But the Heart rate record is just flat. I'm going to try a hard reset and see if that fixes the Heart rate problem. Would sure like to know if anyone else is having any success with HRM, I'm thinking at this point to send it back as defective and try a different one. Seems odd that it would perform that badly. -cjr-
I'm still not getting through the day - 12 hours tops before it dies. Am wondering about settings - I have everything set as it came out of the box: haven't touched WiFi, so assume it's on; have ambient display always on.; default brightness setting of 4.
I'm not using the HRM at all, and not even really checking the watch constantly.
Any suggestions? (thanks in advance)
I have wifi off. I had it on and I think it really drained the battery.. try turning it off..
Urbane definitely had better batt life. While the huawei is acceptable, its definitely not as good, which I did expect with the battery being 25% smaller.
Thanks, will give that a try.
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Urbane definitely had better batt life. While the huawei is acceptable, its definitely not as good, which I did expect with the battery being 25% smaller.
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I'm having the opposite experience here. My Urbane was very inconsistent with battery life but when it had a good day it was around what the Huawei is. Its dependent on your usage but for me its great.
First off. Don't have a lot to spend so can't go getting a newer Moto 360, but I found one on CL for $80 great condition with screen protector. I used to have a 1st gen pebble a couple years ago and loved the notifications and alarms on it. I know that battery isn't great on android wear but if I can get through 10 hours working to read important notifications. Occasionally set an alarm. Etc, that would be good.
However, if in my position, would you still consider this first Gen Moto 360?
best buy
I bought mine at best buy the other day for $199
I have one, and honestly I would wait until Google sorts out the Wear app update issue that is going on right now.
The newest version of Wear breaks the 1st gen 360. Connection issues, battery drain, unstable as all hell. Wait until the latest reviews predominately say it works with the 360 1st gen.
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One question?
The 360 1st gen will receive the 1.4 upadate marshmallow ?
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I just bought a new 1st gen a few days ago to replace the one that I broke. $150 on Amazon with free prime shipping. I didn't even consider any other smart watch. The other $300+ watches have no significant upgrades, in my opinion, compared to this one. They're slightly prettier (that Huawei watch is especially nice), but that's not worth at least doubling the price (more than that in the case of Huawei). Get this one, and get it soon. It won't be around much longer.
As for battery life, as long as you disable the fitness stuff, I easily get a full day's use out of it. Sometimes I'll go to bed with it at 25% battery. That's with ambient screen on, gestures on, and the screen permanently set to full brightness. Oh, and I also commonly use watchfaces that include animations, which is supposed to further drain the battery. No issues.
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TheSt33v said:
I just bought a new 1st gen a few days ago to replace the one that I broke. $150 on Amazon with free prime shipping. I didn't even consider any other smart watch. The other $300+ watches have no significant upgrades, in my opinion, compared to this one. They're slightly prettier (that Huawei watch is especially nice), but that's not worth at least doubling the price (more than that in the case of Huawei). Get this one, and get it soon. It won't be around much longer.
As for battery life, as long as you disable the fitness stuff, I easily get a full day's use out of it. Sometimes I'll go to bed with it at 25% battery. That's with ambient screen on, gestures on, and the screen permanently set to full brightness. Oh, and I also commonly use watchfaces that include animations, which is supposed to further drain the battery. No issues.
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How in the world you get a full days worth, unless you talking through your ass... I have the fitness disabled and even all the minimums on the watch and by 4pm I'm at 15%. So there no way what you saying is truthful.
Now as should you buy the 1st gen sure... the 2gen is more or less the same except for the battery. Still worth the price you pay for it and I havent had any issues with the watch.
dimaconcepts said:
How in the world you get a full days worth, unless you talking through your ass... I have the fitness disabled and even all the minimums on the watch and by 4pm I'm at 15%. So there no way what you saying is truthful.
Now as should you buy the 1st gen sure... the 2gen is more or less the same except for the battery. Still worth the price you pay for it and I havent had any issues with the watch.
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Depends what he considers a full day. 12-18 hours may be? I've everything on on my watch like gestures, fitness stuff etc and I get 18-20 hours of battery. With light use, I get through couple of days on a single charge.
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mohsinraza said:
Depends what he considers a full day. 12-18 hours may be? I've everything on on my watch like gestures, fitness stuff etc and I get 18-20 hours of battery. With light use, I get through couple of days on a single charge.
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sorry but i find that very hard to believe. I've had my 360 for three days now and each day from 7am - 3pm and then have to charge. Using min on the setting and barely use it
dimaconcepts said:
How in the world you get a full days worth, unless you talking through your ass... I have the fitness disabled and even all the minimums on the watch and by 4pm I'm at 15%. So there no way what you saying is truthful.
Now as should you buy the 1st gen sure... the 2gen is more or less the same except for the battery. Still worth the price you pay for it and I havent had any issues with the watch.
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I take it off the charger around 10 AM, and I put it back on between 10 and 11 PM. So I suppose it's not technically 24 hours, but it is a full period of daylight. Maybe I spend less time staring at my watch than you do.
TheSt33v said:
I take it off the charger around 10 AM, and I put it back on between 10 and 11 PM. So I suppose it's not technically 24 hours, but it is a full period of daylight. Maybe I spend less time staring at my watch than you do.
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still i can not see how you could possibly last that long, I take mine off the charger at 7am and by 2:30pm I'm already at 25%. I've trying doing a factory reset and even reinstalled wear as some posts have suggusted cause they claim to have days worth of battery time. well thats all BS. still have pretty bad battery life. Think it's just normal
dimaconcepts said:
still i can not see how you could possibly last that long, I take mine off the charger at 7am and by 2:30pm I'm already at 25%. I've trying doing a factory reset and even reinstalled wear as some posts have suggusted cause they claim to have days worth of battery time. well thats all BS. still have pretty bad battery life. Think it's just normal
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I don't know what to tell you. Maybe my previous 360 was just awesome. I just got my replacement today, so I'll report back on whether or not I get the same results.
thinking of email Motorola and checking with them, maybe I just got a fault battery
TheSt33v said:
I don't know what to tell you. Maybe my previous 360 was just awesome. I just got my replacement today, so I'll report back on whether or not I get the same results.
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I got a second hand moto 360 (for $100 but everything still new 10/10 condition), everything running minimum, no fitness stuff disabled, lowest brightness yet still bright enough for my liking, disabled WiFi, gesture on, ambient mode off, I usually take off the charger at 8AM and by end of the day when I get home around 8/9PM with moderate or light use I'd still have around 20-30% left. Been using that for about a week now and seems consistent. On latest 5.1.1 update too.
tygerchylde said:
I have one, and honestly I would wait until Google sorts out the Wear app update issue that is going on right now.
The newest version of Wear breaks the 1st gen 360. Connection issues, battery drain, unstable as all hell. Wait until the latest reviews predominately say it works with the 360 1st gen.
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I have the 360 1st Gen and have none of those issues with the latest wear.
I take it off charger at 7am then let it drop a couple of percent then charge it back until 8 am ( if I don't I'm 10% less at the end of the day) fitness enabled, ambient and tilt to wake on and I'm at 25% to 30% at 10pm.
Admittedly I'm not playing about with it all day.
dimaconcepts said:
sorry but i find that very hard to believe. I've had my 360 for three days now and each day from 7am - 3pm and then have to charge. Using min on the setting and barely use it
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Check if you have some app draining the battery. Battery used to last only 10-12 hours maximum when I first got it back in July '15. Eversince I updated it to 5.1.1, battery life has doubled and it's been like this for the past few months.
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PolishPoet said:
I have the 360 1st Gen and have none of those issues with the latest wear.
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I have every one of these issues right now. I am on my second unit and will be sending this one back to Motorola. I'll be checking back in when I receive my replacement unit.
As to battery life, before all the issues started I could get 3-4 days out of my watch with moderate use. I had gestures and ambient screen off and I use one of the stock watch faces. I also don't wear my watch at night and would shut it off at about 11 pm. I used the fitness stuff (pedometer and rarely heart rate) and use the voice texting to respond to texts.
This is why I am so disappointed in the latest wear version.
I will go from 5:30am until I get home from work around 4pm with well over 50% left. I have all the fitness stuff running, the "tilt to wake" feature on, and a somewhat animated face. Generally I'll charge it for an hour in the evening, wear it to bed (in theater mode) so I can use it as a silent alarm, and then charge it for an hour or so before work to get it close to 100%. This morning I didn't charge it.
Ok so funny thing, I don't know what I did last night, cause I browse a few of the pages on this site and they stated about resetting you watch to factory setting and reinstalling wear. and for some reason now. now I seem to have enough juice for a day and a half. Weird so I guess. Either way 360 worth its money.
Apparently the issues are not as widespread as I thought.
The 360 1st Gen is a great smart watch, even with the issues, and you won't find one that does as much as cheaply. I love my watch. It allows me to control my phone without taking it out of my pocket.
It appears that something has been updated to improve battery life. I got a full 7 days last time I charged my watch. At 6 1/2 days I was at 10% battery and I switched to battery save mode (I did not have charger with me). When I charged watch after 7 full days I was at 5% battery. I changed nothing in my normal routine or in my settings. I have wifi off and bluetooth on and connected to watch at all times. AOD is off. Still getting notifications, etc. It does not appear to be a fluke. I'm at 75% battery currently after 2 days and 4 hours.
I bought this watch when it came out and I was getting 4 - 5 days (less when actively using GPS). Usually it was closer to 4 days. The first charge I did which lasted 7 days was on 10/29 so if there was some kind of update it would have been probably 10/24 - 10/29.
Anyone else seeing battery life improvements lately?
I just got my watch yesterday did an up date and not changing anything I'm still at 93% after coming off the charger at 0615hrs. My S2 or S3 never managed that. Lol
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Is step tracker better or?
vojopd said:
Is step tracker better or?
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Step tracker and all the same fitness tracking that I had on before. Not sure what you mean by "step tracker better". Is this a setting or different app?
fliptwister said:
It appears that something has been updated to improve battery life. I got a full 7 days last time I charged my watch. At 6 1/2 days I was at 10% battery and I switched to battery save mode (I did not have charger with me). When I charged watch after 7 full days I was at 5% battery. I changed nothing in my normal routine or in my settings. I have wifi off and bluetooth on and connected to watch at all times. AOD is off. Still getting notifications, etc. It does not appear to be a fluke. I'm at 75% battery currently after 2 days and 4 hours.
I bought this watch when it came out and I was getting 4 - 5 days (less when actively using GPS). Usually it was closer to 4 days. The first charge I did which lasted 7 days was on 10/29 so if there was some kind of update it would have been probably 10/24 - 10/29.
Anyone else seeing battery life improvements lately?
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Well, it depends. To be able to compare one need to specify model (46mm(472mAh)/42mm(270mAh))(1.75:1 or 1:0.57).
I get roughly 3+ days (42mm) (AOD-no, BT + Wi-Fi(auto), light(2 -auto) and notifications)
That is close to your observation if your watch is a 46mm - that is.
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Step tracker and all the same fitness tracking that I had on before. Not sure what you mean by "step tracker better". Is this a setting or different app?
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There are problems with step counter and HR monitor... Take a look at US and EU Samsung forums. 90% of watches have these problems.
vojopd said:
There are problems with step counter and HR monitor... Take a look at US and EU Samsung forums. 90% of watches have these problems.
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My step counter and HR monitor are working great.
Just out of curiosity I went out to Samsung's US forum (Samsung Community>Get Help>Wearable Tech>Wearable Tech) and I'm not seeing a significant amount of posts about issues with the Galaxy Watch step counter or HR monitor. Are you referring to another forum? Please post link. Even if there were a lot of posts how did you determine 90% of watches have these problems?
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There are problems with step counter and HR monitor... Take a look at US and EU Samsung forums. 90% of watches have these problems.
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That's complete BS, here is no way you could know that. Maybe 90% of the people posting problems and that 90% is probably a tiny amount of the watches sold.
I only got my watch a couple of days ago but i can tell you that I am into my 3rd day with this watch and i am currently on 65% battery with the 46mm bluetooth only version.
My setting are...
AOD off
Wifi off
Bluetooth always connected 24/7
Heart rate monitor on request only
Screen brightness on 7
Very impressed with this so far after coming from the huawei watch original which had to be charged every single day.
pkylle said:
Well, it depends. To be able to compare one need to specify model (46mm(472mAh)/42mm(270mAh))(1.75:1 or 1:0.57).
I get roughly 3+ days (42mm) (AOD-no, BT + Wi-Fi(auto), light(2 -auto) and notifications)
That is close to your observation if your watch is a 46mm - that is.
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My watch is 46mm version. My last charge (the second in a row that has lasted 7+ hours) lasted 7 days 6 hours. This was without turning on battery saving mode. I was at 1% when I charged.
The battery time has improved significantly for me. Not sure what it is but I'm liking it. Display at 7 brightness, AOD off, Auto Low Brightness on, screen timeout 15 seconds, HR set at frequent, step tracker on, wifi off, BT always on, notifications from phone on.
Tel864 said:
That's complete BS, here is no way you could know that. Maybe 90% of the people posting problems and that 90% is probably a tiny amount of the watches sold.
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I agree. By looking at posts on Samsung US forum I would say the percent of posts with problems relating to this is much lower than that and probably less than 20%.
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My watch is 46mm version. My last charge (the second in a row that has lasted 7+ hours) lasted 7 days 6 hours. This was without turning on battery saving mode. I was at 1% when I charged.
The battery time has improved significantly for me. Not sure what it is but I'm liking it. Display at 7 brightness, AOD off, Auto Low Brightness on, screen timeout 15 seconds, HR set at frequent, step tracker on, wifi off, BT always on, notifications from phone on.
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How do you turn Step tracker Off?
I Couldn't find any info or Setting...
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I agree. By looking at posts on Samsung US forum I would say the percent of posts with problems relating to this is much lower than that and probably less than 20%.
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Actually the longest threads are about these problems with thousands of comments already and no solution. I also returned my watch because of the hr sensor not working reliably. I guess a lot of people just don't use the always on hr, because this is how you see that it doesn't work properly. It gets stuck sometimes leaving gaps on your charts and stays stuck for quite some time if you don't manually release it by some workarounds.