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    Tieutieu Platinum Member @halajos
    last edited by Tieutieu 18 days ago

    @halajos I’m with you. the consumption I observed yesteday during testing is to high. for Now I would choose to use live tracking :

    • for small races or journey under 5 hours max
    • or launch it during longer activities only when needed

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      Egika Platinum Member @halajos
      last edited by 18 days ago

      @halajos said in Live location S+ app:

      @Nikolai-Simonov thanks for the efforts, looks very interesting. Any chance to reduce the power consumption on the phone, for instance by limiting the update frequency to let’s say once per minute? I’m using the built-in location sharing on Android, which is far less accurate but doesn’t eat the battery.

      hm. I thought the original idea of the app was, to reduce power consumption of the phone. Like BT connection uses less energy than the phone’s GPS chip…?
      Seems not to be the case for you then…

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        Tieutieu Platinum Member @Egika
        last edited by 18 days ago

        @Egika as phone need to send position through mobile network, it consumes data and battery, and as I observed lot of time, phone consumes more battery especially when mobile network is weak and the phone tries to reach it.
        But I’m sure it uses less battery than if using phone GPS chipset.

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          Egika Platinum Member @Tieutieu
          last edited by 18 days ago

          @Tieutieu I undertood, that @halajos compared built in location sharing from the phone with the new setup and watch connection.
          Maybe he can clarify, if the mobile network reception was comparable…

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            sebchastang Silver Members @halajos
            last edited by 18 days ago

            @halajos Thanks a lot for your work @Nikolai-Simonov 👍
            Ideally it would be nice to choose the update frequency (for exemple 1s, 5s, 10s, 30s, 1min, 2min, 5min, 10min, 30min) so we can save battery on both watch and smartphone.

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              halajos Bronze Member @Egika
              last edited by 18 days ago

              @Egika I didn’t compare, I just have past experience with location sharing on Android during a 11-hour run. If I extrapolate the 19% in about 2 hours with Live.t mentioned by @Tieutieu, it would deplete the battery completely in 11 hours. I don’t recall how much Google location sharing consumed within that 11 hours, but it was definitely far from full discharge.

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                Gunnar @halajos
                last edited by 18 days ago

                @halajos Android can show the battery consumption per app, does iOs this too?

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                  Egika Platinum Member @halajos
                  last edited by 18 days ago

                  @halajos I would really like to see a real world comparison in phone battery effect under comparable situations. Maybe someone can test.

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                    Miroslava @Nikolai Simonov
                    last edited by 18 days ago

                    @Nikolai-Simonov So either I’m stupid or it doesn’t work 😄 I went for a run yesterday, I set everything up, just like you sent me in the instructions, I’m attaching a photo. It registered the position but nothing happened, no movement, no data, nothing.1000016250.jpg 1000016252.png Today I went out to the street to try walking to work. I’m not exaggerating but I had to press the button 10 times because the device was not found. On the 11th attempt it connected, I say ok I sent my location to my friend, let her follow me, I even tried an SOS SMS, all this is ok I send a photo of the walk 1000016259.png
                    but I have basically three questions

                    1. why do I have to press the button on the watch 10 times before the device finds it? Is it a problem with android or what?
                    2. it didn’t show my heart rate, only my movement speed
                    3. every minute I got a notification on my phone that the watch was connected (can I turn it off somehow? this was very annoying). During a walk that lasted 2.5km, I got those notifications about 15 times.
                      I have no idea what I’m doing wrong
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                      Nikolai Simonov @Miroslava
                      last edited by 18 days ago

                      @Miroslava
                      Thanks for trying it out and for the detailed message!

                      • What button are you pressing 10 times?

                      • To see heart rate in the tracking view, make sure the “Additional metrics” option is enabled in the app settings.
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                      • Repeated “watch connected” notifications
                        Those shouldn’t appear constantly. That sounds like an issue possibly a phone-specific behavior. Could you let me know what phone model and Android version you’re using?

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                        Tieutieu Platinum Member @Nikolai Simonov
                        last edited by 18 days ago

                        @Nikolai-Simonov Thanks. I just edited my test report to specify that sending metrics was off and that i had continious gnss ON.
                        I’ll test again with notifications off, gnss off and additional metrics on

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                          Miroslava @Nikolai Simonov
                          last edited by 18 days ago

                          @Nikolai-Simonov

                          1. hod.jpg 1. I pressed the top button 10 times today until it connected
                            1. I already understood that it’s in the settings 🙂
                          2. Motorola edge neo 30 i think android 14
                            tommorow i go run and try it again
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                            Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager
                            last edited by 18 days ago

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                              Francesco Pagano Silver Members Bronze Member @Nikolai Simonov
                              last edited by 18 days ago

                              @Nikolai-Simonov said in Live location S+ app:

                              Repeated “watch connected” notifications

                              I can confirm on Android 14 I see repeated notifications “watch connected / watch disconnected”, every 30 seconds or so

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                                Miroslava @Francesco Pagano
                                last edited by 18 days ago

                                @Francesco-Pagano exactly as me

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                                  Nikolai Simonov @Miroslava
                                  last edited by 18 days ago

                                  Hi @Miroslava @Francesco-Pagano
                                  Thanks a lot for helping test and report this!

                                  I was able to reproduce the issue — on some devices, it looks like there’s a conflict with the Suunto App (SA). Roughly once per minute, SA causes the disconnection between Live.t and the S+ app on watch and that’s why you’re seeing repeated connection notifications.

                                  I still need a bit of time to fully investigate what’s going on, but in the meantime:

                                  Good news:
                                  The SuuntoPlus app handles reconnection correctly, so even with these interruptions, tracking should continue to work well.

                                  Temporary workaround:
                                  You can mute notifications from the Live.t app in your phone’s system settings. That should make it less annoying until the fix is ready.

                                  I’ll publish a small hotfix soon to make the connection notification silent by default.

                                  Thanks again for your help in tracking down this weird bug really appreciate it!

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                                    Nikolai Simonov @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
                                    last edited by 18 days ago

                                    @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos nope, it’s svelte

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                                      Miroslava @Nikolai Simonov
                                      last edited by 18 days ago

                                      @Nikolai-Simonov I’m super glad I helped you catch the mistakes, we’ll see how it goes after the fix, when I try it out 🙂

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                                        Dušan Ković
                                        last edited by 17 days ago

                                        @Nikolai-Simonov Would adding different intervals between data pings be beneficial for mobile phone battery life? For example - 1min, 2min, 5min, 10min, 15min, 30min, 1 hour, etc. On a lot of activities you don’t need real-time (1sec pings) tracking

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                                          Miroslava @Nikolai Simonov
                                          last edited by 17 days ago

                                          @Nikolai-Simonov 1000016277.png today run livetrack worked perfectly

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