Since my switch to Tizen I have great batter life. 3rd day here and still at 29 percent.
Have to agree, the battery life is far superior to the Android based Galaxy Gear.
I am on the second day and currently looking at 49% and that was from 7am to 10pm each day with as many notifications as I used to get when it was Android powered. Rest of the time is just idle by the bedside as notifications are disabled on the phone during the night.
It's given my Gear a whole new lease of life.
how?
i wonder why its better tho o0 they did a good job but what did they change? lol doesnt look or feel any different lol
Same here, I bit the bullet and made the switch to Tizen last week.
I was previously on Null, as much as I enjoy the android experience, the fun/wow factor wore off after a while. Also having to charge up the gear every night wasn't a problem, though I sometimes forget.
After I made the switch, battery life was great, I would check the battery % throughout the day and it would drop only a few %.
Thinking the battery % was stuck or hung, I reset the gear and to my surprise it was the same %.
Even though I charge up my gear every night, now I'm trying to get out of the habit and doing it every few days instead.
I get a fare share of notifications on a daily basis and the battery still chugging along nicely.
For those that haven't made the switch and don't mind not having the option of android/null rom, make the switch.
Regards
Tizen does seem to increase the Battery life. One thing to note is that everyone that is reporting 2-3 days probably has the biggest battery drainer (motion wake) turned off. With motion wake on under Null I could go from 6am - 11pm with 30% or more remaining at which time I put it on the charger. With Tizen I go from 6am - 11pm with 55% or more remaining. Both of these are with Pedometer, multiple SMS, a few FB notifys, and about 100 exchange emails.
I have been running Tizen for a while now with motion wake off. Same amount of usage and I can go 3 days (I even run the sleep tracker overnight). Very satisfying results. I miss the motion wake, I do not like having to press the button to see time. An always on or motion wake is what I want in a smartwatch (this is my 4th, (Liveview, Sony, Pebble, Gear). I am going back to motion wake, I will give it a charge at home before bed, use the sleep tracking and still get through the day fine.
Everyone is different in what they need/expect from a smartwatch. The Gear is definitely a great product, and even though I wasn't excited about Tizen I am enjoying the longer battery life and built in applications.
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Tizen does seem to increase the Battery life. One thing to note is that everyone that is reporting 2-3 days probably has the biggest battery drainer (motion wake) turned off. With motion wake on under Null I could go from 6am - 11pm with 30% or more remaining at which time I put it on the charger. With Tizen I go from 6am - 11pm with 55% or more remaining. Both of these are with Pedometer, multiple SMS, a few FB notifys, and about 100 exchange emails.
I have been running Tizen for a while now with motion wake off. Same amount of usage and I can go 3 days (I even run the sleep tracker overnight). Very satisfying results. I miss the motion wake, I do not like having to press the button to see time. An always on or motion wake is what I want in a smartwatch (this is my 4th, (Liveview, Sony, Pebble, Gear). I am going back to motion wake, I will give it a charge at home before bed, use the sleep tracking and still get through the day fine.
Everyone is different in what they need/expect from a smartwatch. The Gear is definitely a great product, and even though I wasn't excited about Tizen I am enjoying the longer battery life and built in applications.
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Dear Tizen users, does it support watch styler? I am so tempted to upgrade especially for better battery life. But I do need watch styler.
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Dear Tizen users, does it support watch styler? I am so tempted to upgrade especially for better battery life. But I do need watch styler.
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Watch Styler is in the Samsung Apps under Gear Manager now. Showed up for Gear 1 a few days ago. I installed and used it but have since taken it off as I don't change watch faces often.
Well ... Mine keeps connecting and disconnecting even after factory reset of both devices.
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Well I'm running tizen for about a week now and I'm very disappointed. Battery life for me is worse than on android. After about 8 hours battery is on 54% and that's with few notifications. With android I could run the Gear for 15 hours and it was on 54% or more. Sucks that I can't go back.
Really happy with Tizen upgrade, just looks way better and battery life is way better than stock Android. Not sure yet how it stacks up against Null_ ROM but I'm sticking with Tizen. Also better looking UI imo
Taskar23: Actually, you can go back to Android. Check out this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2776157
Seeing as how you are a new member here, make sure to follow instructions exactly and do not downgrade if you're not sure of what you're doing.
But be careful, some users report disfunctional touchscreen. Using Null_ ROM touchscreen seems to work, but DOWNGRADE AT OWN RISK.
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One thing to note is that everyone that is reporting 2-3 days probably has the biggest battery drainer (motion wake) turned off.
I have been running Tizen for a while now with motion wake off. Same amount of usage and I can go 3 days (I even run the sleep tracker overnight). Very satisfying results. I miss the motion wake, I do not like having to press the button to see time. An always on or motion wake is .
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I'm getting 2+ days with motion wake turned on. At first I was getting about 25% better battery life then Android. Then some combination of moving from BTU>XAC>ROM improved it to what other folks were claiming.
getting 4 days with motion wake turned off. I don't really need motion wake, too many false positives anyway.
4 days, i am so happy.
Motion wake is enabled. It would be a pain in the ass to have to turn on the phone every time I wanted to check the time or an alert.
Well I have decided to flash with the new NF1 ROM last night. Everything went well, gear is working. Uninstaled the GM and installed again, factory reseted the gear just to make sure and so far looks like about 4% battery per hour
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Well ... Mine keeps connecting and disconnecting even after factory reset of both devices.
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Mine is doing this too. And when it does disconnect (when out of range) it doesn't always reconnect automatically. Is anyone else experiencing this?
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The Tizen update for me is great. I have had it unplugged from the charger since 8am and it is now noon. Many notifications from girlfriend and checking the time. Still at 100% battery. This update has been nothing but a positive move. Layout is very nice. Love the background option and the fact that we can now access the internal storage. +1 for Tizen for me.
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Mine is doing this too. And when it does disconnect (when out of range) it doesn't always reconnect automatically. Is anyone else experiencing this?
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Yeah, my Gear Fit does the same thing, so I think it's probably my Note II's rom. I've never wanted to go to Verizon stock so badly ...
Tizen lost 25-30% per 24 hour
stock Android lost 50% per 24 hour
Null_ ROM lost 50-60% per 24 hour
Same Using Condition and Setting
Meh, I was running Android with tasker and auto remote and about 40 task on my gear and was getting about a day and a half out of my gear.
I upgraded to Tizen, litterally all I use is the pedometer, and sleep(while plugged in). So I unplug at 7:50am every morning. Almost every night around 8:30-9pm the watch dies....thats barely 13 hours. What load of crap lol
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Well my Gear was rooted and running Null 07.
I couldn't resist taking the offer from Samsung and installing the new firmware...
Since then the battery life is drastically improved.
I am running Pedometer watch (I do most of the time).
It has recorded 6000 steps today
I have read 25 emails
4 Wordfued moves
4 messages
1 phone call
My gear has been unplugged for 12 hours and I'm on 83% - nothing short of stunning.
The new notifications are amazing, Wordfued notifications are telling me who made the move, what they played and how many points it was worth.
I simply cannot think of a better smart watch on the market at the moment. (but that's my opinion )
Wow.....
sepiroth887 can start sleeping more I guess.... Seems like Sammy hacked his ATN (or hired him ) and the notifications finally are what they should be!!!
Anything you pick in MK7 gets notifications on the watch. Awesome!!!!!!
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Well my Gear was rooted and running Null 07.
I couldn't resist taking the offer from Samsung and installing the new firmware...
Since then the battery life is drastically improved.
I am running Pedometer watch (I do most of the time).
It has recorded 6000 steps today
I have read 25 emails
4 Wordfued moves
4 messages
1 phone call
My gear has been unplugged for 12 hours and I'm on 83% - nothing short of stunning.
The new notifications are amazing, Wordfued notifications are telling me who made the move, what they played and how many points it was worth.
I simply cannot think of a better smart watch on the market at the moment. (but that's my opinion )
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Really?
Do you have the wake-up gesture enabled??
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somebody get the new update??????
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Really?
Do you have the wake-up gesture enabled??
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Yes. I have gesture for wake up enabled. We were out shopping yesterday so I know it woke up quite a few times. Wish there was a way count to it.
I can only see the need for running Null 8 at the moment for internet and GPS.
Honestly the battery life has been massively improved :good:
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Yes. I have gesture for wake up enabled. We were out shopping yesterday so I know it woke up quite a few times. Wish there was a way count to it.
I can only see the need for running Null 8 at the moment for internet and GPS.
Honestly the battery life has been massively improved :good:
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Mine feels like it drains a little faster. 83% after 12 hours?! Sounds like a miracle.
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Yes. I have gesture for wake up enabled. We were out shopping yesterday so I know it woke up quite a few times. Wish there was a way count to it.
I can only see the need for running Null 8 at the moment for internet and GPS.
Honestly the battery life has been massively improved :good:
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With null 8 you can go into battery stats and have a look how long the screen has been on. I'm at 57% battery with screen on time of 2 hours. That's after 20 hours of charge and lots of playing setting nova launcher up.
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Amdathlonuk said:
Yes. I have gesture for wake up enabled. We were out shopping yesterday so I know it woke up quite a few times. Wish there was a way count to it.
I can only see the need for running Null 8 at the moment for internet and GPS.
Honestly the battery life has been massively improved :good:
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Sounds good. I didn't wear the watch today. Although it was lying around my Gear and connected to it (only received some text notifications) it I only lost 9%. That's 9% in 16 hours to be specific. So yeah, in standby the battery life is amazing.
Definitely going to do some measurements to see what the biggest power hog is when using the Gear actively.
Seems incredible
With the new upgrade the Gear battery is more than fantastic
48 hours and has further 42%
I originally thought my battery life had shortened, then again I realised I charged it 3 days ago and have been using it a lot more with the new notifications activated still on 30%
How did you guys get the new firmware already? I got the gear manager update and have been checking for the watch firmware update and nothing super annoying
My gear is supposed to be delivered today. I downloaded everything i need to root and customize it. I was wondering if there was anyway to use an app lie juice defender to improve battery life. If so, which app is preferred?
Turn off the wrist watch gesture and your fine. A normal use for me drains about 15-20% / 24h..
That's right ! Just turning off the wrist gesture to wake the gear the battery is consuming between 1 5 / 20 % a day / . Merry Christmas.
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Thanks for the info. I had one other question but I didn't want to start another thread. Does NFC need to be enable on the note 3 in order to pair with the gear?
Yea at the time of setting up ur gear bt after that u just need bluetooth to usd gear
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Does that mean you have use the button every time you want to see the time?
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Does that mean you have use the button every time you want to see the time?
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Yes. I have the motion activated... the trick is to turn the screen brightness all the way down. I get about 30% / 24hrs with the motion activated and the screen brightness down.
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Yes. I have the motion activated... the trick is to turn the screen brightness all the way down. I get about 30% / 24hrs with the motion activated and the screen brightness down.
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Thanks for the tip. I had motion deactivated to conserve battery but didn't like having to press the button each time to wake up the watch. 30% a day is not bad at all. I would even take 50%. Anything is better than the 24 hour time I've been seeing posted by reviewers. That worried me a bit. The good thing too is it charges fairly fast. So that 30% drain will be quick to recover.
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in fact, I have 100% a day...but I'm using the iPhone, so I have to keep the bluetooth tethering on all the time.
Thanks for the tips and info. Looking forward to getting it
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Robotblog said:
in fact, I have 100% a day...but I'm using the iPhone, so I have to keep the bluetooth tethering on all the time.
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people still use iPhones?
My battery life with updated US firmware Null_16 and the Freefalling theme. This is 90% standby time I don't have much time to mess with it at work!
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Do you find that battery life on your connected phone suffers? I know keeping the BT radio on will have an impact, but I noticed I had to change some settings in JuiceDefender to allow the data connection to remain active so that S-Voice will work on the Gear. This, of course, means my phone's radio (data or wifi) is always on, when before I used to let JD turn it off while sleeping.
Haven't had the Gear long enough to tell whether or not this will have a serious impact but wondering if there are any tips? I tried finding a setting in JuiceDefender to only turn the radio on when the S-Voice is activated. Unfortunately, that doesn't work.
please help me.
after null_16 my battery life is short.
after 6 hour (only in watch mode without notify or other) my gear shut down.
could you give some tips for extend the battery life ?
thanks
If I turn off the motion wake feature my Gear will go three to four days easy but if I use motion it won't last longer than 12-14 hours. This is with moderate usage. I get probably a total of 30-40 emails and texts and other notifications a day and maybe 10 phone calls. (Most calls not answered on gear) maybe 3 a day. I would love to be able to use the watch without pushing the button. Even a tap on the screen to wake would be acceptable to me. The pebble uses a shake motion to wake which also is better than the Gear motion. I drive for a living and every turn of the steering wheel activates the screen. (Although battery life is not improved on days off.) if I side load apps will my battery life be severely shortened? And to the person who asked about the Bluetooth running all the time, it doesn't impact the battery life of my phone hardly at all.
Post your battery stats here:
So far I am able to get 4 days with a single charge if I keep the display off and turn on only when I want. I also keep the brightness to 2.
Hardcore73 said:
Post your battery stats here:
So far I am able to get 4 days with a single charge if I keep the display off and turn on only when I want. I also keep the brightness to 2.
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i was able to get a full 5.5 days with display off and brighness on 2, sleep mode every night and pushing all notifs to watch and some calls
Hardcore73 said:
Post your battery stats here:
So far I am able to get 4 days with a single charge if I keep the display off and turn on only when I want. I also keep the brightness to 2.
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Almost 4 days here but have a tendency to charge when reaching 20% to avoid going flat wrong time
Usually get around 3-4 days. With brightness at 5 and the gesture on. But I turn it off when I go to bed
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Got with first charge 6.5 days. 3 days (only watch) and 3 days (watch/pedometer/heart rate and so on). Got about ~10% battery left yet. With brightness at 4 and no hand gesture.
65% battery left in two days of use. (i guess 4-5 days in single charge)
brightness level 4
motion detect on.
3 Days to 20%
Motion on
Brightness:2
Notifications: Hangouts, SMS,Gmail, Woot
how do you set it to sleep mode ?
I'm only getting 18-22 hours when paired with my Galaxy Note 3. What is wrong? Brightness is 3 and motion is on. Just a few notifications activated.
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I'm only getting 18-22 hours when paired with my Galaxy Note 3. What is wrong? Brightness is 3 and motion is on. Just a few notifications activated.
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Samsung apps version or mix of version, I sorted that by removing every bit of samsung apps on my z1 and then reinstalled only GearManager1_2.apk. Now back to 3-4days depending on the time I spent on the phone with the gear
my phone use is here and there calls, if i have along time call im using my phone.
also notification: facebook, skype, whatsapp etc..
after 7pm when im home i'm switching the phone off and open it at 7am in the morning. brightness X 4, motion detect on, all of that is 4 days plus in use single charge.
my phone is s4 zoom.
I'm at about 75 hours or so (just over 3 days) with 40% battery still remaining. I have text, email (push from Exchange), phone, Google and Skype notifications being pushed to the watch. I'm using the weather clock face. Brightness is at 3, the gesture is off. I don't turn the phone or watch off at night, although the screen isn't being used all night because I'm sleeping.
I guess my watch is defective then. I can't even get it to work for 24 hours. What could it be? My Note 3's battery seems unaffected, though.
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I am 3 days and 7 hrs and my battery is at 15%. Brightness at 2%, Screen timeout at 10 sec, gesture off, only phone and sms w/a few phone calls and I turn it off at night. How can I get longer battery life.
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end of day four and i have 13% left, it can go to day five but there is no need.
the Average use of the NEO is 4 days in a single charge.
joyo22 said:
I guess my watch is defective then. I can't even get it to work for 24 hours. What could it be? My Note 3's battery seems unaffected, though.
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Not sure if this is really hardware issue. Mine went from 100% to 20% in about 5 hours. Samsung replaced as defective without asking any further questions. However the new one behaves similarly. This morning 100% to 88% in mere 40minutes... Then I switched off BT on phone - no change on Gear battery level in the next half hour.
So I suspect this is rather something on the phone. I started discovery with Samsung customer service. I will see what happens.
Any idea from anyone? I have a Note 2.
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Not sure if this is really hardware issue. Mine went from 100% to 20% in about 5 hours. Samsung replaced as defective without asking any further questions. However the new one behaves similarly. This morning 100% to 88% in mere 40minutes... Then I switched off BT on phone - no change on Gear battery level in the next half hour.
So I suspect this is rather something on the phone. I started discovery with Samsung customer service. I will see what happens.
Any idea from anyone? I have a Note 2.
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I know for a fact that I can barely squeeze 2 days out of the battery (so compared to 3 or 4 days easy for others, seems like something is wrong). If I turn bluetooth off, it seems like (based on 10 hours or so with it off) that I could go over a week, so I'm guessing it has something to do with my phone's bluetooth connection or a bug with something on the phone. I have an s3. Definitely let us know if they find out what the problem is.
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I know for a fact that I can barely squeeze 2 days out of the battery (so compared to 3 or 4 days easy for others, seems like something is wrong). If I turn bluetooth off, it seems like (based on 10 hours or so with it off) that I could go over a week, so I'm guessing it has something to do with my phone's bluetooth connection or a bug with something on the phone. I have an s3. Definitely let us know if they find out what the problem is.
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As an Idea, as I had an issue with the gear 1, go to the gear 1 forum and get the 1.6 version of the gear manager and see if that helps. I am using the latest gear manager with the note 2, but I had major issues with the gear 1 and installing 1.6 fixed the issues.
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As an Idea, as I had an issue with the gear 1, go to the gear 1 forum and get the 1.6 version of the gear manager and see if that helps. I am using the latest gear manager with the note 2, but I had major issues with the gear 1 and installing 1.6 fixed the issues.
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I just got the 4.4 update from Sprint yesterday (for my S3). So far, I'm losing less than 1% per hour even with watch connected to phone. Looks like I'll get 3+ days on this run. Problem might be solved! (I'll report back once I've had a few days like this).
Paired with Galaxy Note2.
Brightness on 5.
I don't use the pedometer or heart rate features.
Most of the time I can get almost 2 days.
I've found that some of the watch faces and other apps on Samsung Apps can be real battery hogs.
For example... I tried using "Roman Watch Style" from the app store and couldn't even get a full day out of it. After uninstalling, it immediately went back up around 2 days.
At the end of the 2nd day I usually have around 7% left.
Battery life seems to be fairly consistent. At the end of the 1st day I'm usually just over 50%. By the end of the 2nd, it's borderline dead.
Hi everyone,
I just bought my Gear 2 Neo 3 days ago and expected its battery use can be 3 days or so. I use the watch not much, just received emails and messages notification. I also turn steps function on and... That's it.
But I experience that my Gear 2 Neo battery use just only 1 day or 1 and half day.
Does somebody have experience like this? I think I would return the watch since charging for it every day is annoying me.
Thank you,
jep08 said:
Hi everyone,
I just bought my Gear 2 Neo 3 days ago and expected its battery use can be 3 days or so. I use the watch not much, just received emails and messages notification. I also turn steps function on and... That's it.
But I experience that my Gear 2 Neo battery use just only 1 day or 1 and half day.
Does somebody have experience like this? I think I would return the watch since charging for it every day is annoying me.
Thank you,
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I am also facing the same issue with my neo.
Anybody else facing this? Any sugestions
apuljain said:
I am also facing the same issue with my neo.
Anybody else facing this? Any sugestions
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My gear 2 neo's battery life seems about right. It's using about 25% battery life per day. The issue that I'm having is that, since getting the gear 2, my phone's (s5) battery life has been horrible. Is anyone else experiencing this?
edrowley said:
My gear 2 neo's battery life seems about right. It's using about 25% battery life per day. The issue that I'm having is that, since getting the gear 2, my phone's (s5) battery life has been horrible. Is anyone else experiencing this?
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I am using s3 and am not facing issues on phone. It still is able to last a day.
have read on other forums and the drain of gear 2 might be linked to android version 4.3
People running 4.4.2 have no issues..
is that the case? ?
apuljain said:
I am using s3 and am not facing issues on phone. It still is able to last a day. have read on other forums and the drain of gear 2 might be linked to android version 4.3 People running 4.4.2 have no issues.. is that the case? ?
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I am getting about two days battery life, not three at all!
I am running 4.4.2 with my Galaxy S4 and a custom rom (Shostock or Golden Eye --I keep switching. . .)
Not sure how to extend the battery life --my brightness is "+1+ and sound is at +0 . . .
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markbc01 said:
I am getting about two days battery life, not three at all!
I am running 4.4.2 with my Galaxy S4 and a custom rom (Shostock or Golden Eye --I keep switching. . .)
Not sure how to extend the battery life --my brightness is "+1+ and sound is at +0 . . .
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There is a similar thread in Gear 2 forum and there people are kind of convinced that it may be a version issue. But there is an issue with watch as well. I disconnected the watch from bluetooth before going to sleep and the battery has come down 4% in 8 hours. Without display and no updates/notifications, no sleep, pedometer etc this is rather too much.
Thanks for letting us know that 4.4.2 the battery is again pathetic.
Any fixes in sight anyone??
You guys must be doing something wrong, I got mine on saturday, gave it its initial charge till it was 100% and today is the first time I have had to charge it, so what's that some 5.5 days, and that's using the sleep function, having it as a silent alarm, using the heart rate monitor every other hour (on a drug that can cause increased heart rate) getting notifications, made 3 phone calls, sent 20 something text (via s-voice).
I have screen set at 2, vibrate (no sound), and on latest fw, it is connected to my Note 3 N9005 running 4.4.2 official ota ROM.
Try to make sure the pedometer is off guys, this could be your battery problem...
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Try to make sure the pedometer is off guys, this could be your battery problem...
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Just to check the watch, i left it at home for 24 hours without anyone touching it and no bluetooth connection. Battery has come down to 64% from 100. I think i should complaint at Samsung to get a replacement..
I think the problem is buy watch's battery, and even Samsung exchange to us another one, the battery is still problem. I think I will return and get my money back
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From yesterday, I did a test which Wake-up gesture is turned off and, amazing, my Gear Neo battery just used less than 1% per hour. I tried to turn this function on again and the percentage change to 1.5% per hour. I believe this problem is here.
Im now very happy with my Gear 2 Neo.
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with Wake-up gesture my gear last 4.5 days.
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You guys must be doing something wrong, I got mine on saturday, gave it its initial charge till it was 100% and today is the first time I have had to charge it, so what's that some 5.5 days, and that's using the sleep function, having it as a silent alarm, using the heart rate monitor every other hour (on a drug that can cause increased heart rate) getting notifications, made 3 phone calls, sent 20 something text (via s-voice). I have screen set at 2, vibrate (no sound), and on latest fw, it is connected to my Note 3 N9005 running 4.4.2 official ota ROM.
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I don't know if we're doing something wrong, but there is a clear difference between results. It may be that the software is optimized for the Note, maybe other apps we've added, maybe the custom rom. . . Whatever --you're getting really exceptional life -don't change what you're doing! :good:
-- I full charged yesterday at about 1:40 pm, it is 10:20am, that ~21 hours (less 20min) and I am at 72%, so about 28% in 21 hours (including going to the gym and going out for the evening and finally an 8.5hour (measured) sleep cycle (watch blocking mode turned on while sleeping and wake up gesture is ON).
-- That's about 1.3% per hour, which would be great. However, my daytime use (Saturday going out and about) will likely be higher.
-- The only difference I did was I switch off Google Now notifications (but switched ON Business Calendar and simple calendar --so I still get my appointments sent) and deleted two apps I am not using (Feedly, eBay).
I would be happy with three days and would put up with 2.5 days; but anything less than two days/48 hours would be too much of a pain in the neck to stop and recharge. Even though I have the hour or so downtime to make it happen, having to pay attention and take that action every 48 would not be what I expected. . .Well. . . we'll see how it fairs without G Now today!
Try screen at 10 sec and wake by button only.
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Guys, I think I know where the problem is. Im using GS3 paired to my Gear2Neo. At the beginning my G2N had a very slowly battery discharge. Since two days ago battery gone mad. It went down 4% per hour even I was not using it. Finally, after experimentnig with varios combinations I found that if you uninstall goproviders app (in aplication manager on your phone) you wont be able to receive Instagram, Facebook, Twitter etc notifications but the battery will be back to normal. Ofcourse, I can still receive standard notifications (calendar, sms, email...), make or reject calls. In last 1,5 hour I lost 2-3% of battery with normal usage. For the conclusion, it is not BT but Gear manager bug. Hope they will make this work properly.
I'm still installing goproviders app but the battery is really good right now, 73% used in 75 hours.
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jep08 said:
I'm still installing goproviders app but the battery is really good right now, 73% used in 75 hours.
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What are your settings at:
Screen?
Brightness?
Wake up to flick or button?
Pedometer - use it?
What notifications?
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I charged the watch to 100% last night and immediately turned it off. I just turned it on ten mins ago and it was at 99% and it immediately went to 98%. I would accept if I had left it on...but it was turned off. I know batteries can loose juice over time, but when it's off that should happen in maybe a full day or 2 days, not in 8 hrs, correct?
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markbc01 said:
I don't know if we're doing something wrong, but there is a clear difference between results. It may be that the software is optimized for the Note, maybe other apps we've added, maybe the custom rom. . . Whatever --you're getting really exceptional life -don't change what you're doing! :good:
-- I full charged yesterday at about 1:40 pm, it is 10:20am, that ~21 hours (less 20min) and I am at 72%, so about 28% in 21 hours (including going to the gym and going out for the evening and finally an 8.5hour (measured) sleep cycle (watch blocking mode turned on while sleeping and wake up gesture is ON).
-- That's about 1.3% per hour, which would be great. However, my daytime use (Saturday going out and about) will likely be higher.
-- The only difference I did was I switch off Google Now notifications (but switched ON Business Calendar and simple calendar --so I still get my appointments sent) and deleted two apps I am not using (Feedly, eBay).
I would be happy with three days and would put up with 2.5 days; but anything less than two days/48 hours would be too much of a pain in the neck to stop and recharge. Even though I have the hour or so downtime to make it happen, having to pay attention and take that action every 48 would not be what I expected. . .Well. . . we'll see how it fairs without G Now today!
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With regards to my set up,
I have wake-up set to off (I work in an office and would constantly be on),
I have all notifications off (except call, alarm, SMS etc) only ones I have bar the std is gmail and facebook.
I use the sleep mode with notifications off
No pedo during the day (I have a fitbit one for that)
In my office im not allowed a phone, so as that is left in my car bluetooth is disconnected for about 7hrs a day (not turned off, just disconnected).
I check my heart rate every hour, I know its only a rough guide but still uses battery.
I have noticed since loading the minority report 24hr ultimate watchface (yes it does work, despite what the site says) my battery life has halved, so currently getting 2.5 to 3 days b4 I hit below 20%.
Screen is set to 2.
Notifications set to silent
One other thing to note, I seem to be getting a rash on my wrist, where the contacts on the back of the neo contact my skin. Anyone else getting this??
ghosty_uk said:
With regards to my set up, //cut//One other thing to note, I seem to be getting a rash on my wrist, where the contacts on the back of the neo contact my skin. Anyone else getting this??
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Thanks for the details!
Wow! you have a very efficient setup --no wonder you are (were) getting such tremendous battery time! ( I need display brightness "3" to use it all day. Also, in the house or in an office, I turn off the motion-to-wake, but outside I do use it. . . )
Your adjustments also makes sense and may be a good part of your savings, since you don't have your phone in the office, and don't need to use the pedometer.
In general, I think that when we get the smart watch our first inclination is to load the watch up and do everything with every possible app! However, after a while, we sort out how we use the watch and can pare back the apps and notifications and make it more sensible, while improving battery life (a bit) too!
From what I have done on my Neo, I agree that using limited, selective notifications -and even selective app loading-- makes a difference in battery life.
I also noticed that different alternative watch faces seemed to drain the battery faster than the default options.
That's why, even after buying/trying several different watch faces; and even after using Breach 's great "create your own watch face thread," [ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2734747 ] , I went back to the stock (weather-time).
As to the rash... wow, I have had no irritation or rash or reaction on my wrist -even after working out with it on and sweating. (Wasn't that a problem with fit-bit or one of the other bands?).
Is anyone else having issues with the battery life on their Gear Live lately? I'd say in the past 2 weeks or so the battery life has gotten absolutely awful with no reason at all. This is seriously as bad as the original Galaxy Gear at this point. When I first got my Gear Live back in June the battery would last all day easily, and I'd usually have at least 30% left at the end of the night when I stuck it on the charging cradle. Now when I get home from work it's almost always at 20%. I don't have any apps or custom watch faces on it because they all suck right now (since the SDK isn't available yet), and haven't changed my usage patterns with the watch at all since I got it. I've done factory resets, used it with other phones just to see if it's something weird with my phone, etc. Nothing helps. Anyone else having these issues suddenly? Thanks.
Kind of bad today 33% ..... may not make it home
AstroDigital said:
Kind of bad today 33% ..... may not make it home
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It seems to be getting worse each day. At this point I've double checked to make sure no apps are installed on the watch and just did another factory reset of it. We'll see how it is today. This is horrible, if it doesn't improve this thing is getting sold.
It was just a bad day.
I may start turning the screen off when I am out in the sun.
Wish there was or I knew how to quickly toggle the screen on/off
AstroDigital said:
It was just a bad day.
I may start turning the screen off when I am out in the sun.
Wish there was or I knew how to quickly toggle the screen on/off
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Yep, would be cool if pulling down to mute also turned the screen off unless turned on manually or by gesture.
I'm having sudden battery issues as well since yesterday. Took of the charger this morning at 8 am, by 10:20 only 75%, did reset and it changed to 49%, now at 12:45 I only have 12% left. Almost zero notifications, battery stat app shows no app use. Very confused from this.
Same issue
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Is anyone else having issues with the battery life on their Gear Live lately? I'd say in the past 2 weeks or so the battery life has gotten absolutely awful with no reason at all. This is seriously as bad as the original Galaxy Gear at this point. When I first got my Gear Live back in June the battery would last all day easily, and I'd usually have at least 30% left at the end of the night when I stuck it on the charging cradle. Now when I get home from work it's almost always at 20%. I don't have any apps or custom watch faces on it because they all suck right now (since the SDK isn't available yet), and haven't changed my usage patterns with the watch at all since I got it. I've done factory resets, used it with other phones just to see if it's something weird with my phone, etc. Nothing helps. Anyone else having these issues suddenly? Thanks.
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I can't say absolutely awful, but it suddenly lasts less than half the time it usually did. I used to go two days with around 21% left when putting it to charge, since around the 24th of December, suddenly last barely a day. I find it really weird, as I am using everything the same as before. The only thing I can think of is the watch being on Android L, and the phone on 4.4.4 KitKat. This is just a theory as I have no Android L phone to test this with, that the 2 versions of Android use the Bluetooth differently and thus create a battery leak. I am not sure, I will have to wait until my Moto G gets Android L.
I am returning my watch to Google because since 2 days ago my battery dies at 4pm when it originally lasted all day and when I went to bed I still have anywhere from 20-40% left. Also my charging cradle broke and won't stick to the watch. Had to use rubber bands to charge it. I wish I hadn't bought the Samsung Gear Live because it is a piece a junk... The Asus Zen watch costs the same and is much better quality....
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I thought I was alone
Mine went from going around 2 days to now about 6 hours. I
I've nuked it and my phone to no avail.
The only think that changed was I upgraded to Lolly Pop. Would love a fix for this
What a scam. If this is how they treat early adopters I'm not going to buy another
I just bought a used gear live, and my battery was terrible with almost nothing but a watch face really added. I went to the google fit app on the watch and scrolled all the way to settings and disabled it and it seems much improved already! I think the step tracking is killing the battery somehow.
So Today I had the wifi on the watch turned off and also had Google Fit turned off. Got a good bit of notifications for texts and such and used voice to replay to the majority of them. With always on screen turned on half the day and tilt to wake motion turned off all day it is at 50% and has been on about 14 hours and says it still has 14 hours left. I am pretty happy with that!
I was having battery issues at well. It got so bad that my watch wouldn't last from 8am until about 2pm. Finally I just stopped wearing it for a few weeks. Picked it up again a week or so ago and got the update. Since then battery life is back to what is expected. However, I haven't added my wifi hot spots yet.
Try the app SWapp True Dark. It allows you to lower your screen's brightness more than what is offered by default. I now get 24 hours out of my watch on a single charge and that is WITH the screen set to "always on"!
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Should also remember that Li ion batteries typically have a charge life of 500 cycles or 18 months before degrading quite a bit. Some of you with older ones will start to have batteries go.