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    • isaziI Offline
      isazi Moderator @James Wylie
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      @james-wylie in my experience the first day battery life is pretty bad, but after that you should get more or less 2 days.

      Watch: Suunto Vertical Ti

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      • Jamie BGJ Offline
        Jamie BG Bronze Member @James Wylie
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        @james-wylie take it off bluetooth, set it to wifi, put it on the charger, and check your firmware updates. Keep checking and updating until on the latest version i.e. build num ber PXDZ etc.
        Do the same with the play store until your wear os is 2.23 and home app is 2.43.
        Check checking and updating the play store until no more updates. Also set play store to manual update (you will get a notification when there is an update available).
        Let watch fully charge.
        Reboot watch and connect back up to wear os app on phone.
        Make sure that wear os app is unrestricted, so you don’t lose bluetooth connection.

        Ignore any battery history/projections for first couple of days. But from here on in your should get +1.5 days.

        Two of the major battery drain issues are:

        1. Auto updates - huge battery drain whether on wifi or via bluetooth.
        2. Disconnects mean that watch will switch over to wifi, which can tend to draw more battery than bluetooth.
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        • James WylieJ Offline
          James Wylie @Jamie BG
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          @jamie-bg Yeah that’s my usual procedure. Seem battery life has settled down today, about 2% an hour.

          If anyone is new to wearOS… always just go through the tutorial and let it sit for a bit to get a benchmark battery life on it. I cant even count how many times I have had to reset various other watches because I downloaded a watch face or app that destroyed the battery.

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            Jamie BG Bronze Member @James Wylie
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            @james-wylie 2%/hr is about what I get with 3rd party watch face, AOD on, touch to wake on, tilt to wake off, and normal usage.

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              James Wylie @Jamie BG
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              @jamie-bg I seem to be falling into some kind of bug trap with both my wearos watches. It seems like if I play any music on my samsung galaxy fold 2, the watch gets stuck in some mode where it thinks I am playing music and the bluetooth battery drain goes through the roof. I don’t know why it does, but my guess is its polling for the current song for music controls. The only fix seems to be to reboot the phone and the watch, but it comes back as soon as I start playing music again. Not sure if this is a samsung/wearos bug or what, but its getting really old.

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                Jamie BG Bronze Member @James Wylie
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                @james-wylie seen a similar comment on Reddit. Haven’t experienced it myself.

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                  Jamie BG Bronze Member
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                  Anybody noticed an improvement to battery life. Used to get between 2 - 2.5% with AOD on & touch to wake (non suunto face / using marine commander).

                  Noticed that this week I am pretty much always much closer to the 2% mark if not slightly better, where previously was often closer to 2.5% mark. Seems that since the last wear os update might be getting a 0.5% /hr improvement on battery life. And while I know that isn’t massive (about 0.5 day extension); if I am correct, its interesting to see that H MR2 and wear os updates are finally starting to show the anticipated improvements.

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                    Nigel Taylor 0 Bronze Member @Jamie BG
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                    @jamie-bg said in Battery LIfe:

                    Anybody noticed an improvement to battery life. Used to get between 2 - 2.5% with AOD on & touch to wake (non suunto face / using marine commander).

                    Noticed that this week I am pretty much always much closer to the 2% mark if not slightly better, where previously was often closer to 2.5% mark. Seems that since the last wear os update might be getting a 0.5% /hr improvement on battery life. And while I know that isn’t massive (about 0.5 day extension); if I am correct, its interesting to see that H MR2 and wear os updates are finally starting to show the anticipated improvements.

                    Yup! I charged to 100% as of 19:00pm yesterday, 19hrs later I’m on 75% (drain of less than 1.5%/hr - I feel I was closer to 2.5 to 3% per hour prior to this last couple of weeks)

                    WearOS app suggesting I could get another 3 days 😳 (although I’ll charge to full before and then after a run tomorrow evening).

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                    • Aleksander HA Offline
                      Aleksander H Bronze Member @Jamie BG
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                      @jamie-bg I get 2 days per charge with mine. Can’t say I noticed much difference.

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                      • Andrea Antonio GuadalupiA Offline
                        Andrea Antonio Guadalupi @meyton89
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                        @meyton89 battery Life best Two days??? No no no , only 19 hours maybe!!!

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                        • isaziI Offline
                          isazi Moderator @Andrea Antonio Guadalupi
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                          @andrea-antonio-guadalupi still two days for me.

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                            olymay Gold Members @Andrea Antonio Guadalupi
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                            @andrea-antonio-guadalupi if I don’t use the GPS then I am getting over 70 hours of battery life from mine.

                            If you are only getting 19 hours then either you are tracking lots of activities (bravo if so!) or you need to look into what apps are draining your battery.

                            Do you have any third party apps installed? If so, which ones?

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                              Jamie BG Bronze Member @olymay
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                              @olymay also check gesture settings. Tilt to wake doesn’t with for me (wakes up watch too much), touch to wake works better.

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                                olymay Gold Members @Jamie BG
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                                @jamie-bg I use tilt to wake (with power saver tilt) as I may be a tech geek, but I’m still a traditionalist and want to be able to look at my watch using just one hand 😉

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                                  Aleksander H Bronze Member @olymay
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                                  @olymay I use always on and get 2 days if no activity. I like to see the time without having to perform a gesture. 2 days with always on is pretty good.

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                                    olymay Gold Members @Aleksander H
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                                    @aleksander-h Agreed!

                                    With no activity (I haven’t done much recently while recovering from injuries) I was getting over 70 hours, with my best at 78hrs!!!

                                    This was 100% to 5%

                                    Remove overnight (7 hrs)
                                    Tilt to wake on
                                    Power saver tilt
                                    Full notifications (i get a lot of these as well!)
                                    Auto brightness

                                    This watch is a battery beast! No other smartwatch I have had has even come close to this!

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                                      Aleksander H Bronze Member @olymay
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                                      @olymay said in Battery LIfe:

                                      This watch is a battery beast! No other smartwatch I have had has even come close to this!

                                      My Samsung Gear Sport did slightly better. It was a terrible sports watch though. The GPS on that thing was all over the place.

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                                        olymay Gold Members @Aleksander H
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                                        @aleksander-h No offense to Samsung watches, but with the lack of third party apps (I know there are some, but it only some, not like Apple or Google (in fact I think Garmin has more than Samsung!)) I am reluctant to call them a full smartwatch. But that’s just me 🙂

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                                          Aleksander H Bronze Member @olymay
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                                          @olymay said in Battery LIfe:

                                          @aleksander-h No offense to Samsung watches, but with the lack of third party apps (I know there are some, but it only some, not like Apple or Google (in fact I think Garmin has more than Samsung!)) I am reluctant to call them a full smartwatch. But that’s just me 🙂

                                          Will be interesting to see if they do make the switch to WearOS.

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                                            olymay Gold Members @Aleksander H
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                                            @aleksander-h I really hope they do.

                                            Samsung hardware has always been great (and WOW I love that rotating bezel!) but Tizen has been a bit of a flop and has really held their watches back (in my opinion!)
                                            I would have bought one years ago but for the lack of key Google apps (Google Pay being the main one!).

                                            There are also reports of a Pixel Watch coming soon (I know these rumours have been around since the beginning of time, but these are finally starting to sound almost believable), so WearOS might start to get some solid support and development.

                                            This would only be a good thing for all consumers 🙂

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