I have found the battery life to be absolutely incredible on the ZW2 since I got it. I could go the whole day and night without an issue. Now though, for the past 2 days battery has been disgusting. I don't know what happened. I haven't installed anything for the watch since I got it, but all of a sudden I am going from 75% battery in 12 hours to 25% in 12 now. I am not using it more, in fact I think I am using it less. No additional software has been added. I don't think anything has been updated. Its as if something all of a sudden is killing the battery. Anyone else seeing this issue?
I have the same issue and had the issue with my LG G watch also. My phone normally drains faster as well when it happens. My solution is to reboot the watch. That usually solves it. Occasionally, I had to reboot my phone as well on the G watch. I'm in the habit of rebooting the watch every couple of days.
When i first got mine, 1.45in version, with always on screen, wrist gesture to wake, and screen on medium brightness enabled it wouldn't make it through 3/4 of the day.... just terrible. I tried it for two days and no luck. I then realized that i really didn't like or need the always on screen mode (especially since a touch or wrist gesture will show the time just as well). When i turned that off, it more than trippled my battery life. I use it very often now and at midnight i am at 50%.
bossman137 said:
When i first got mine, 1.45in version, with always on screen, wrist gesture to wake, and screen on medium brightness enabled it wouldn't make it through 3/4 of the day.... just terrible. I tried it for two days and no luck. I then realized that i really didn't like or need the always on screen mode (especially since a touch or wrist gesture will show the time just as well). When i turned that off, it more than trippled my battery life. I use it very often now and at midnight i am at 50%.
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I'll give that a shot, but I had great battery life for week then it stopped. I am not sure it will make a difference or not since I changed nothing and added nothing to the watch. It just went from awesome battery life to horrible battery life overnight....
plz can anybody tell me is Asus ZenWatch2 watch have a speaker to make call ??? thanks in advance
The watch has no speaker. In fact I don't think you will ever see a smartwatch with a speaker to make calls. Use a bluetooth head set with the watch and that would solve your issue. Also I appreciate you hi-jacking my thread though, god knows it's hard to start your own.
re-2007 said:
plz can anybody tell me is Asus ZenWatch2 watch have a speaker to make call ??? thanks in advance
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I read it has a speaker, but Android Wear doesn't support it right now
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raremind said:
The watch has no speaker. In fact I don't think you will ever see a smartwatch with a speaker to make calls. Use a bluetooth head set with the watch and that would solve your issue. Also I appreciate you hi-jacking my thread though, god knows it's hard to start your own.
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The Samsung Gear 2 and Gear S you can make and receive phone calls. I have the gear 2 Neo and I can answer my phone using my watch because it does have a speaker. It works rather nicely.
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dabombcra said:
I read it has a speaker, but Android Wear doesn't support it right now
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The Samsung Gear 2 and Gear S you can make and receive phone calls. I have the gear 2 Neo and I can answer my phone using my watch because it does have a speaker. It works rather nicely.
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Let's stay on the topic here.
I noticed that the battery was draining from 50 to 0 overnight. Watch idle was the culprit.
So what I did is change watch face from Zenwatch to ustwo and noticed huge improvement.
Can someone test this out? Could it be an issue with Asus watch faces?
Thanks
OK So here is what I found. Using what @chrisb22 wrote, If I reboot the watch in the morning just after removing it from the charger battery goes into awesome mode. Meaning, past two days 7 AM to 10 PM ending the day at 68%, 70% respectively. Today at 7 AM I did not do the reboot, pulled it off the charger and started my day as usual. It is now 1:15 PM and I am at 27% Battery left. Looks to be a exponential battery drain bug in the software. @danix180 it very well could be the face. I am going to try the reboot tomorrow to confirm that I am not have the drain. If it gives me amazing battery life again I will try the Face and update.
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Let's stay on the topic here.
I noticed that the battery was draining from 50 to 0 overnight. Watch idle was the culprit.
So what I did is change watch face from Zenwatch to ustwo and noticed huge improvement.
Can someone test this out? Could it be an issue with Asus watch faces?
Thanks
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I have found the more colorful the watch face, the battery drains quicker. Try a watchface that has a black background and see if this helps.
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My watch had terrible battery life out of the box. A factory reset seemed to have fixed that. I also disabled google play services' keep awake permission on my phone (which vastly improved my phones standby time by more than 4x or more). I have always on screen on and am now at 57% after about 15 hrs (maybe a bit more). My biggest battery killer is watch idle at 8%, followed by something with no name or icon at 6%, then Android system at 3% and screen at 2%. Oled displays really dont use much battery when 90% of your display is black. I am hoping we can get root sometime so i can remove the unnecessary Asus apps such as asus weather, wellness and UP which may help a bit as well since they show up on my usage stats sometimes.
I can confirm once again that some asus watch faces are really what's causing the battery drain overnight. Last night it drained from 100 to 0 with the Gravity face.
With any other non Asus face overnight drain is 10% tops.. It could be one of those asus app like weather or wellness that's actually causing the issue
Just picked up my ZenWatch 2 over the weekend. Like others, I initially had great battery life but starting today it totally took a dive. I rebooted the watch and it seems to have slowed the burn rate dramatically. Will probably just get into the habit of rebooting it on a routine basis.
late,
Coz
jon7701 said:
MMy biggest battery killer is...
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Where can you check, what is causing the battery drain in android wear? 3rd party app?
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Where can you check, what is causing the battery drain in android wear? 3rd party app?
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Android wear app, click the settings cog in the top right corner, where it says Asus zenwatch 2 connected click it and then click watch battery.
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I use a WatchMaker face and my watch has been draining terribly, perhaps lasting 12 hours at most. I just started rebooting it every morning after taking it off the charger and now it lasts all day and into the next. I haven't changed to a built in watch face yet but that will be my next troubleshooting step.
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Hey guys just got my zenwatch 2.. upgraded from a pebble. but so far its been a downgrade The battery I feel is defective. First day it made it about 6-7 hours. Second day it went to 6% in about 4 hours!! I have wrist gestures off and screen always on- off. its pretty much unusable I really wanted to make it work and I'm going to try a few more days . Then today I left it on the charger for like 6 hours and battery was reading at 92%??? I pull it off....boom drops 1% the other day I'd pull notification shade down and read bat. push it up and pull it down again and it would drop another point. It's crazy!!! I thiink I need to send it back to ASUS. I wish I could root it and throw another simple ROM or something. I really like the watch and was looking forward to android wear. Maybe its back to pebble. Any suggestions? and or will there be a root/rom for this watch do you guys think?. Thanks glad you guys are here to cry to lol
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... left it on the charger for like 6 hours and battery was reading at 92%??? I pull it off....boom drops 1%
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O.k. this sounds like a faulty device. especially the drop to 1%!
My Zenwatch2 lasts arount 24hours including sleep tracking during the night and charge every morning in the office. The charging cycle needs about an hour.
Battery drain was huge in the first 3 days because of constant fiddling with my new toy - i had to charge twice a day
Additional note: The zenwatch 2 has WiFi support built in. I had to ask google WHY this could be needed?! WiFi allows you to get notifications, even if you are out of reach of your telephone (BT-Connection broken). This also uses some battery - the zenwatch even notified me, it had disabled WiFi to use less battery. Could only be helpful in my own house, when the smartphone is out of reach. I changed the wlan timeout from the default 120 minutes to 15 minutes.
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Hey guys just got my zenwatch 2.. upgraded from a pebble. but so far its been a downgrade The battery I feel is defective. First day it made it about 6-7 hours. Second day it went to 6% in about 4 hours!! I have wrist gestures off and screen always on- off. its pretty much unusable I really wanted to make it work and I'm going to try a few more days . Then today I left it on the charger for like 6 hours and battery was reading at 92%??? I pull it off....boom drops 1% the other day I'd pull notification shade down and read bat. push it up and pull it down again and it would drop another point. It's crazy!!! I thiink I need to send it back to ASUS. I wish I could root it and throw another simple ROM or something. I really like the watch and was looking forward to android wear. Maybe its back to pebble. Any suggestions? and or will there be a root/rom for this watch do you guys think?. Thanks glad you guys are here to cry to lol
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I agree with @pbaumi, this sounds like you got a bad device. Even when I had terrible battery life, my watch would still last about 8 hours with screen always on. I have screen always on and went from 86% to 48% in about 9 hours. Thats actually the worst ive seen it at for a few days as well.
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after 3 days 15% at the end of the day.
roughly 3,5 days, running pedometer all the time and mostly sleep record as well
After two days I charge my Note 3 and at the same time charge the Fit.
At about 50 or 60 %
I haven't got specific numbers on this, sorry, but yesterday I left my Fit at home with almost a full charge and when I returned 2 hours later the screen was on with a notification, which probably happened when my phone was within range. The odd thing is my battery was at 35%. It makes me think that either having BT on or something else drained the battery. Other than that one instance battery has been great.
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charging Fit every 2 days with no problem making it that long. my N3 battery however was getting crushed by Fit Manager until i updated my N3 to KitKat and i got my battery back and resources in battery usage went from 30% to 15% so KitKat greatly helped my N3 battery when using Fit.
Gear fit battery lasts 3.5 days with normal usage without auto screen on. What I am more concerned is the battery of my S4. I have days when I have it drained before evening...I don't know if Bluetooth or Gear manager eats it faster.
Mugur
http://mugur-ionescu.ro/samsung-gear-fit.html
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Gear fit battery lasts 3.5 days with normal usage without auto screen on. What I am more concerned is the battery of my S4. I have days when I have it drained before evening...I don't know if Bluetooth or Gear manager eats it faster.
Mugur
http://mugur-ionescu.ro/samsung-gear-fit.html
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on my Verizon N3 on 4.3 i had the same problem. i would go to bed before Fit Manager at around 30% almost every night and Fit Manager brought me down to needing to plug it in before bed. i upgraded to 4.4.2 and now it is back to a manageable battery usage again.
fletch33 said:
on my Verizon N3 on 4.3 i had the same problem. i would go to bed before Fit Manager at around 30% almost every night and Fit Manager brought me down to needing to plug it in before bed. i upgraded to 4.4.2 and now it is back to a manageable battery usage again.
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I am already on 4.4.2 since a while
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I am already on 4.4.2 since a while
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ok well i hope you can figure it out. its strange how across the forums different people report different battery results with Fit Manager.
fletch33 said:
ok well i hope you can figure it out. its strange how across the forums different people report different battery results with Fit Manager.
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I'll change with S5 soon
3 days with regular use, 4 days with light use
fletch33 said:
ok well i hope you can figure it out. its strange how across the forums different people report different battery results with Fit Manager.
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Part of the variance is that some people are rooted, some not, some on custom roms, some not, some using Fit Manager, some using Gear Manager.
I'm getting 3 1/2 to 4 days too.
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I'm getting 3 1/2 to 4 days too.
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Same here.
using stock S5.
I'm getting 4-5 days, typically 5 actually, but I turned off all wallpaper, all notifications (except texts, phone calls and alarms), and set it to leave the screen blank except for the notifications I allowed. I last charged it up just about 48 hours ago and it has 65% charge remaining now. So it's using about 18% - 20% a day.
I don't know about you guys but I don't really care about pretty wallpaper or about seeing every bit of spam email I get. I just want the important alerts like calls and texts. Turning all this sh.., uh, stuff off doubles the battery life. Honestly I don't even use it for a watch, I have a box full of mid tier luxury watches and it would be a shame to not wear them. I just want the Gear "Fit" to do the "Fit" part mostly.
Mine usually lasts about 4-5 days. It has about 10 apps pushing notifications and a black wallpaper (I'm just using the standard clock). I'm pretty happy with the battery.
Picked up my new Fit on Tuesday night charged it and this is now Saturday night with 33% left. Using for notifications except email, pedometer on, sleep function every night. Auto screen turned off. Very pleased much better overall than my Gear 1.
You can refer to thisthread for a more detailed battery life explanation. I usually get about 5-6 days per charge. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2709343
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4 days as well.
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Phone battery impact with Android wear.
Anyone any idea of the impact to the phones battery when connected to a watch all day?
My Nexus 5 battery life is pretty poor anyway, just wondering how it will cope when connected to the wearable!?
Ta
Your phone and the watch will use Bluetooth 4.0 which is really battery friendly. Not sure on the actual percentage though
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JackHanAnLG said:
Your phone and the watch will use Bluetooth 4.0 which is really battery friendly. Not sure on the actual percentage though
J
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Thanks... Can I hold you to that
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I have an Xperia Z2 and the battery will usually last 36-48 hours on a charge, with my pebble connected all the time, but without the pebble connected i only get about 50 ish hours, so it doesnt make too much of an impact, im guessing the LG G Watch will do a similar amount of drain as its only pulling info over Bluetooth again so shouldnt drain too much.
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I have an Xperia Z2 and the battery will usually last 36-48 hours on a charge, with my pebble connected all the time, but without the pebble connected i only get about 50 ish hours, so it doesnt make too much of an impact, im guessing the LG G Watch will do a similar amount of drain as its only pulling info over Bluetooth again so shouldnt drain too much.
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Thanks for the info.
Just to throw in some info on the battery life of the watch. Mine has never gone below 40% by end of day with normal use so don't worry about the watch dieing, if that was even a concern. Its hard for me to weigh in on phone battery life, I have the Flex and I'm getting about 2 days one charge, unless I game for hours with it. I Think its adding a few hours.
Took my watch off charge at 7:50am today its now 15:10PM and I have 65% battery still.
Using following settings :
1. Screen always on
2. Show cards even when screen dimmed
3. Alert on phone and watch
4. Brightness level - 1
Usage has been quite High because its the first day I have used it, sent about 20 Texts and done some maths with it, also it seems there are problems with the software and after awhile it seems to disconnect from my nexus 5 even if the software on my phone thinks its still paired.
As for phone battery its reporting in battery stats nothing regarding android wear, and im at 60% battery from the morning and i have hardly used my phone apart from trying to figure out why stuff is refusing to pair or even work.
I also use CM11 nightlys and the snapdragon battery app on my N5 this might have something to do with all the disconnects
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Took my watch off charge at 7:50am today its now 15:10PM and I have 65% battery still.
Using following settings :
1. Screen always on
2. Show cards even when screen dimmed
3. Alert on phone and watch
4. Brightness level - 1
Usage has been quite High because its the first day I have used it, sent about 20 Texts and done some maths with it, also it seems there are problems with the software and after awhile it seems to disconnect from my nexus 5 even if the software on my phone thinks its still paired.
As for phone battery its reporting in battery stats nothing regarding android wear, and im at 60% battery from the morning and i have hardly used my phone apart from trying to figure out why stuff is refusing to pair or even work.
I also use CM11 nightlys and the snapdragon battery app on my N5 this might have something to do with all the disconnects
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Yea, I would say if you aren't using a stock configuration there might be something else going on with your phone. All the reviews and impression videos I've seen haven't mentioned anything about frequent disconnects.
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Screen on, brightness 2, been replying to texts all day, the G Watch has been off the charger since 06:00 and it's now 01:32 (19.5 hours on) and I've still got 40% left.
Can't really fault it. I just drop my G Watch on the charger every night when I go to bed. Easy.
Sent from Nexus 5 or 7.
Well I am glad to hear I won't have to worry about it during the day. My S4 however... Dead in 6 - 8 hours under moderate use. Hope this keeps phone screen off more to help
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Yea, I would say if you aren't using a stock configuration there might be something else going on with your phone. All the reviews and impression videos I've seen haven't mentioned anything about frequent disconnects.
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Ditching the Snapdragon app has solved some disconnects, however it still disconnects at least 2 to 3 times a day.
Still on the same CM build, untill its been running for a week will i swap to another CM build to see if there is issues with the CM bluetooth
Zero disconnects on stock. ?
Sent from Nexus 5 or 7.
How's the battery life on Nexus 5 when it's paired with the Watch?
I assume that, aside from bluetooth, the Watch will use up some portion of the phone's battery for location services and other partial wakelocks?
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Can't really fault it. I just drop my G Watch on the charger every night when I go to bed. Easy.
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Do you leave it on charge all night? Is it OK to do this? I've been taking it off charge when it's done and then powering it off at night. There should be a way to power off the screen while charging.
9am to 8pm and still 65% remaining
7am to 8.30pm 83% with 'screen always on unticked'
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Wear 100% / Nexus 5 100% Battery at 7AM
Its now 9:15pm and G watch is at 62% and Nexus 5 is at 68%
I reckon you could go 30 Hours before needing to charge both devices.
Wear from 8am to 9pm 55% remaining. Less than average day for notifications. It killed my G2 though. Had battery saving on for location. But it really chewed it. Just one day. I disabled location reporting again. Will see if that has any effect on phone battery vs any loss of functionality on the wear. But I'm very happy so far.
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Watch on since 7am to 9:30pm. Watch at 13% and phone at 64% with 1.5 hours on screen time.
I am now using my phone about 50% less.
Love it!
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2 days? I had a full charge in this at 6 am, now i just got a 14% low battery alert at 2:28pm...
Is this normal? I am not doing anything unusual at all, did not use it to make a single phone call, and am at work so ive only checked it a handful of times today...
what have yall experienced here??? this seems ridiculous!
Well took my gear s off charge at 7:30am and have checked it at regular points through the day including showing it off to work people and it's not 22:37pm and I still have 67% left of the battery so mines about right...
I have thus set to do Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, sms, twitter and a few other notifications so gets used fully through the day.
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Well took my gear s off charge at 7:30am and have checked it at regular points through the day including showing it off to work people and it's not 22:37pm and I still have 67% left of the battery so mines about right...
I have thus set to do Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, sms, twitter and a few other notifications so gets used fully through the day.
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hmm....
i just brought up the list of running apps and found that the music app was still open (though on pause) from this morning.
i have a hunch, playing or not, that if you leave the music app open in the background it may be the source of the battery drain.
no, i do not have the clock face set to always on as well. just music app running in the background on pause.
i'm hoping this is it, though since i killed tasks i went from 14% to 1% in as many minutes. I'm guessing not...
Took it off the charger this morning at 6:30am at 60% and as of right now at 5:30pm it has 33%.
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hmm....
i just brought up the list of running apps and found that the music app was still open (though on pause) from this morning.
i have a hunch, playing or not, that if you leave the music app open in the background it may be the source of the battery drain.
no, i do not have the clock face set to always on as well. just music app running in the background on pause.
i'm hoping this is it, though since i killed tasks i went from 14% to 1% in as many minutes. I'm guessing not...
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I cleared off my recent opened apps about 3 times during the day. that might have helped my battery
you may want to check out this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/gear-s/help/gear-s-battery-issues-t2935271)
100% @ 8:00am - 71% Now @ 7pm.
11 hrs = 29%. Used quite a bit.
I used it a fair amount today.
Took it off the charger at 7:10am (100%)
at 7:15pm it is 62%.
It seems to be getting better.
I turned off the Wifi. Maybe that has something to do with it?
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you may want to check out this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/gear-s/help/gear-s-battery-issues-t2935271)
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Thanks for the link...
After i re-charge i'm going to try this:
Update on Battery Life for me
HUGE day of use primarily with notifications and texting. Up and fully charged at 7am and now at 5:30pm I'm still at 48% battery.
On Wifi
BT Tethered
Clock off
Brightness at 60%
Vibrate/no sound
GPS Off - which I think is a HUGE key to success. No need to have it on unless needed anyway.
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Thanks for the link...
After i re-charge i'm going to try this:
Update on Battery Life for me
HUGE day of use primarily with notifications and texting. Up and fully charged at 7am and now at 5:30pm I'm still at 48% battery.
On Wifi
BT Tethered
Clock off
Brightness at 60%
Vibrate/no sound
GPS Off - which I think is a HUGE key to success. No need to have it on unless needed anyway.
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how do you turn off gps? I do not see a specific option other then disabling the mobile network alltogether...?
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how do you turn off gps? I do not see a specific option other then disabling the mobile network alltogether...?
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on the GS go to settings, go to connections, scroll to the bottom turn off location
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on the GS go to settings, go to connections, scroll to the bottom turn off location
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TY! looks like it was already off though...
what does it mean:
Location - "gps only" ?
If it means to say location = gps, its a bit confusing...
additionally, the feature i disabled that so far has helped is the mute/pause motion option. This one option seems to be the culprit for my 100% - 0% in 8 hours issue. I'm never enabling that feature again! holy cow!
Just did my first full run down on the battery without charging, been running since yesterday morning and am down to 8%, so less than 48 hours so far, but still two full work days. I can at least forget to charge once in a while.
Not as good as my Neo's 4 dayss, but better than the 12 hours I was getting on the Moto.
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Just did my first full run down on the battery without charging, been running since yesterday morning and am down to 8%, so less than 48 hours so far, but still two full work days. I can at least forget to charge once in a while.
Not as good as my Neo's 4 dayss, but better than the 12 hours I was getting on the Moto.
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Battery life for me is about a day and a half. I set the face to watch just to display black and white numbers I put a black background and that really helps. You don't need the full color watch background that drains a lot of battery when you decide to lift it up and down.
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Update:
i disabled motion for mute/pause and the mobile network (i use bluetooth) and my watch now finishes at about 70% after a full day's use. VAST improvement!
p64imp said:
Update:
i disabled motion for mute/pause and the mobile network (i use bluetooth) and my watch now finishes at about 70% after a full day's use. VAST improvement!
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Disabling Mobile network will improve battery life, i think. Check my post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56722962&postcount=32
I get only 6 hrs from 100 to 0%.
p64imp said:
Update:
i disabled motion for mute/pause and the mobile network (i use bluetooth) and my watch now finishes at about 70% after a full day's use. VAST improvement!
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gonna give that a try. this thing is getting crazy good battery life after its 6th full charge. after 13hrs yesterday with notifications, email reply's, multiple phone calls (two calls of 20 plus minutes) the damn thing had over 60% left. that's with GS to N2 via BT.
Battery life is getting better, been on for 14 hours and still at 75%
At work 13.5 hours and I'm at 51%. Turning off the wake up motion helped me today, and running tethered to my phone helped (although I will not keep doing that), biggest help was not running with gps (but this will not be a normal occurrence). I'm going to run with phone remotely connected and gps running tomorrow and see what just having the wake motion off will do for me.
6-7 hours on GSM
Most of the posts specify battery time while using it on BT thethering.
However I like to use it as a basic phone, no worrying about carrying everywhere regular phone.
Of course I have a phone in a bag (just for case, battery!, for emails, and browsing).
- So, when using it for regular talk it lasts from 9.am to 3p.m. Specifications:
a) about 1 hour talk
b) 2 sms
c) GPS Off, WIFI off, Move ON, not installing extra apps
d) BT and SONY SBH52 ON
This is not enough.
Charging is fast - (with no connecting to plug) i can get 50% batt in 30 minutes.
My battery life after the AW 2.0 update has not been the best. I've been wondering if anyone else has had this issue and figured out how to solve it.
Electronicbrain said:
My battery life after the AW 2.0 update has not been the best. I've been wondering if anyone else has had this issue and figured out how to solve it.
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Haven't had a lot of time to test battery life but my issue now is that my watch doesn't charge above 75%, anyone else experiencing this?
Give it some time, the first day or two after the update my battery was terrible, but it leveled out after. I've lost 9 percent in the last 6 hours
It's still horrible here after over a week. Did it improve with anyone's watch? I'm seriously considering downgrading back to AW 1.0
Have you done a factory reset since the update? If not do one.
Then run the battery down till it shuts off and then charge it back up full this will reset the battery stats.
My battery lasted only for ~12h after AW2. Only solution now for me is to turn off ambient display ("always on" option), now I need to charge only every other day with consumption ~40% in 24h.
Battery life is still not happening. Any new updates?
Hi.
My battery life, for about a week after the aw2 update, is still not happening. I'm only getting about 12 to 14 hours where before I was almost getting 2 days. That's with ambient and tilt settings on. Never had a problem before the update. And I'd hate to start turning things off just to get better battery life.
Does anyone have an update on how to fix this and what's going on?
Thanks.
Disable tilt setting very better but still not amazing....
or disable ambiant.
dersie said:
Disable tilt setting very better but still not amazing....
or disable ambiant.
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I did disable both of them. The battery is a little better, but nothing like before the update.
I use with ambiant and Asus face, not impressive but about 4% at 4.5% by hour for my usage. So can be used for a long day with 16-20H. Before I can have 3.5% or little better (but not always) so not huge difference.
dersie said:
I use with ambiant and Asus face, not impressive but about 4% at 4.5% by hour for my usage. So can be used for a long day with 16-20H. Before I can have 3.5% or little better (but not always) so not huge difference.
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Ok. With Always On turned off and Tilt left on and using Facer for a watch face ive gotten 31 hours with 20 percent left.
Now, I'm starting to feel happy again! I'm gonna try the same settings but switch watch face to a zw2 face and see what happens.
Cruzsongs said:
Ok. With Always On turned off and Tilt left on and using Facer for a watch face ive gotten 31 hours with 20 percent left.
Now, I'm starting to feel happy again! I'm gonna try the same settings but switch watch face to a zw2 face and see what happens.
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My second attempt with my zw2 and the same setting was about 27 hours with 10 percent left.
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Okay. Same setting but with a zw2 face instead of Facer, I've gone a day and a half.
Not bad.
Battery life on mine has been crap since 2.0. ambient screen is off, WiFi off and I'm lucky if it last 2 days. But the charger connection has become complete crap too. Had to order another charging cable... Which is made in China since I can't find actual Asus brand ones for sell anywhere. Takes 10 minutes and lots of attempts to get it to register the charger is connected. Even clean all the prongs to
AthenaLod said:
It's still horrible here after over a week. Did it improve with anyone's watch? I'm seriously considering downgrading back to AW 1.0
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=73622134&postcount=15
if you want to downgrade to 1.5 last security patch update. follow that guide i made
Hy,
Mine was also very bad battery life after updating to androidwear2,0.
I downgraded back to AW1.5, and then after this, i did my update to 2,0.
Now my battery is even better then on 1.5.
I don't know why, but this method work for me.
Greetings
emuandco said:
If battery is your only problem... root your AW2 with TWRP flashed as recovery and just flash Magisk v14.0. Then load https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sssemil.advancedsettings and check your Performance settings. Set "Governor" to Ondemand and "Min Frequency" to 600000. Quite a difference that way.
EDIT: Btw, you have to start the app once then the root permission thing shows up sooner or later, but no way to allow it that way (AW is no full Android and you can see it there for example...) then hop over to Magisk app and under Superuser allow root forever. Then the app works.
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My former post somewhere else ^^
carlospaco said:
Hy,
Mine was also very bad battery life after updating to androidwear2,0.
I downgraded back to AW1.5, and then after this, i did my update to 2,0.
Now my battery is even better then on 1.5.
I don't know why, but this method work for me.
Greetings
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So how long is your battery life with one charge?
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So how long is your battery life with one charge?[/QUOTE
Almost 2 days with one charge.
I use facer for my watchface .
And i have wake up gestures on.
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carlospaco said:
Cruzsongs said:
So how long is your battery life with one charge?[/QUOTE
Almost 2 days with one charge.
I use facer for my watchface .
And i have wake up gestures on.
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Cool. That's pretty much what I'm getting.
Thanks.
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Anyone else running this combination? My battery life was amazing until I got this watch. I can be on my phone now and just watch the percentage drop. Any tips to slow the drain down?
I have a gear s3 also and noticed battery drain, mainly the phone will not enter deep sleep hardly at all when the gear is connected and gear apps installed as well. I had samsung health installed as well.
Recently uninstalled health and all gear related stuff and now phone deep sleeps again nicely.
Have you figured out any workaround yet?
I have not figured out a workaround. It's definitely the watch causing it though. I turned the watch off one night and battery life went back to normal. I also have the Samsung Health app running. Only solution I have found is I charge the phone much more often than I used to, while at work. I love the watch and not parting with it.
rx7boy22 said:
I have a gear s3 also and noticed battery drain, mainly the phone will not enter deep sleep hardly at all when the gear is connected and gear apps installed as well. I had samsung health installed as well.
Recently uninstalled health and all gear related stuff and now phone deep sleeps again nicely.
Have you figured out any workaround yet?
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interesting. I noticed the exact opposite. It seems my watch is now draining faster than before. the phone seems like it has the same capacity but the watch dies within 7 hrs with always on. I spent a few days messing with it but even shutting every connection off it hasn't changed. maybe the watch's battery just went bad? oh well. forward we go.. to the next trial.
johnp357 said:
interesting. I noticed the exact opposite. It seems my watch is now draining faster than before. the phone seems like it has the same capacity but the watch dies within 7 hrs with always on. I spent a few days messing with it but even shutting every connection off it hasn't changed. maybe the watch's battery just went bad? oh well. forward we go.. to the next trial.
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I'd say that's your watch battery. My watch battery is amazing. After a full day, it's still in the 50s when I put it on charge around 10pm.. In fact, I have never seen the low battery warning since I've had it.
EVOme said:
I'd say that's your watch battery. My watch battery is amazing. After a full day, it's still in the 50s when I put it on charge around 10pm.. In fact, I have never seen the low battery warning since I've had it.
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perhaps. I thought of that as well in trying to eliminate the problem. I have a request to send to samsung to replace the battery under warranty so let's see if that fixes it. It's just the timing of having great battery a few weeks ago with the nexus 6p to crapping out with the v30 was a strange coincidence. and btw.. go boys... that's all I have to say.