Battery LIfe

Jamie BG · 9 Feb 2021, 11:18

@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.

James Wylie · 16 Feb 2021, 20:19

@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.

Jamie BG · 17 Feb 2021, 02:46

@james-wylie seen a similar comment on Reddit. Haven’t experienced it myself.

Jamie BG · 22 Feb 2021, 13:03

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.

Nigel Taylor 0 · 22 Feb 2021, 14:32

@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).

Aleksander H · 25 Feb 2021, 19:52

@jamie-bg I get 2 days per charge with mine. Can’t say I noticed much difference.

Andrea Antonio Guadalupi · 4 Dec 2021, 03:13

@meyton89 battery Life best Two days??? No no no , only 19 hours maybe!!!

isazi · 12 Apr 2021, 06:41

@andrea-antonio-guadalupi still two days for me.

olymay · 12 Apr 2021, 07:42

@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?

Jamie BG · 14 Apr 2021, 22:07

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

olymay · 15 Apr 2021, 07:58

@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

Aleksander H · 15 Apr 2021, 08:00

@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.

olymay · 15 Apr 2021, 08:05

@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!

Aleksander H · 15 Apr 2021, 08:08

@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.

olymay · 15 Apr 2021, 08:11

@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

Aleksander H · 15 Apr 2021, 08:14

@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.

olymay · 15 Apr 2021, 08:18

@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

Jamie BG · 15 Apr 2021, 19:50

@olymay I use AOD on, so tilt/touch not required to see the time.

olymay · 16 Apr 2021, 10:37

@jamie-bg said in Battery LIfe:

@olymay I use AOD on, so tilt/touch not required to see the time.

So you have the screen on at all times? I used to use this as it’s nice to easily glance at the time. However I find that even the minimum brightness is still too bright when it gets dark, so I turned it off.

Nigel Taylor 0 · 16 Apr 2021, 11:56

@olymay said in Battery LIfe:

@jamie-bg said in Battery LIfe:

@olymay I use AOD on, so tilt/touch not required to see the time.

So you have the screen on at all times? I used to use this as it’s nice to easily glance at the time. However I find that even the minimum brightness is still too bright when it gets dark, so I turned it off.

It would be REALLY GOOD if there was a scheduled night-time mode.
(timing could even be automated - switch to night 1hr after sunset, switch to normal 1hr before sunrise or something).

In my imagination, this night-time mode would disable any tilt to wake function, so in bed you would only get the screen displaying by touching a button, but then during day you could just power-save tilt (or whatever other mode you prefer) to see time, or have AOD on during the ‘non night time’ as you prefer.

In fact now sleep tracking seems to be arriving next week this should be an even more obvious feature to add. The watch knows you’re asleep, so why would screen ever liven up?!