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LED notification pulse battery "drain"?

Hello, is it me or the app LG 2x notification app consumes a lot of battery, or better yet does the pulsing LED in general consume a lot??
In battery stats I get 13% used by display and 17% by LED 2x notification!
I've used the phone to browse the web in wifi for 2h straight and sporadic times during the day. How is it possible the LED consumed more power that 2h -alwayson- display??
In-fact when I left the phone pulsing for about 1h the battery dropped around 10%.
The phone has been on battery for 21h, I see that LED app kept the phone awake for 11 minutes and CPU total 2 minutes.
In spare parts I see that this app it's in "sensor usage" with a total time of 7h (!).

This phone has a LED?! Mine doesn't! Wtf.

Tr0gledyte said:
This phone has a LED?! Mine doesn't! Wtf.
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he means the back light notification
when you get an notification the 4 leds home menu search en back will pulse

yes that. it happened again :-( fully charged i got a text, its been pulsing for an hour and battery was 7% less! does it really use that much power? why does it use the g sensor? it doesn't make sense. so what if i get a notification and never touch the phone for 10h with no connection the battery will die???

It is quite strange, I got the same problem.

did you unistall it?

Change the settings so that's its only pulsing for 15 mins, do you have it vibrating also?
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The first day I had it, I woke up around 8:00 AM and got to about 6:00 PM when it ran out of juice. This was with heavy use, screen always on and brightness set to about 60%.
I changed the settings so that the screen is not always on and brightness is now set to 40%. This made a huge difference. Today, for example, I've already had it off the charger for 8 hours and it's still at 79% battery. I'm at work, and it's getting used as it normally would be.
The screen being set to always on will obviously burn through battery at a fairly quick rate, especially if the brightness is set high. It's worth noting that letting the screen turn off automatically does not impede its usefulness. The screen comes on automatically when your turn your writes to look at the device, and when you touch the screen.

100% @ 7:30 a.m. & @ 31% battery as of this post, 9:20 p.m. with heavy use throughout the day. I had the screen @ always on through the majority of the day; however switched to off @ around 7 p.m.

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The first day I had it, I woke up around 8:00 AM and got to about 6:00 PM when it ran out of juice. This was with heavy use, screen always on and brightness set to about 60%.
I changed the settings so that the screen is not always on and brightness is now set to 40%. This made a huge difference. Today, for example, I've already had it off the charger for 8 hours and it's still at 79% battery. I'm at work, and it's getting used as it normally would be.
The screen being set to always on will obviously burn through battery at a fairly quick rate, especially if the brightness is set high. It's worth noting that letting the screen turn off automatically does not impede its usefulness. The screen comes on automatically when your turn your writes to look at the device, and when you touch the screen.
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So which mode will you run daily? Screen-off?

vypurr said:
So which mode will you run daily? Screen-off?
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Screen off for sure. It comes on automatically when I go to look at it, and I want to conserve battery.

eschlenz said:
Screen off for sure. It comes on automatically when I go to look at it, and I want to conserve battery.
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Undocked at 8 AM with 100% charged, used till mid night with heavy usage with 32% left when got to bed. Very impressed with battery performance. I am using default settings (brightness - 4, Always-on screen, showing cards on dimmed screen, alert on watch and phone when connected).

pthakkar9 said:
Undocked at 8 AM with 100% charged, used till mid night with heavy usage with 32% left when got to bed. Very impressed with battery performance. I am using default settings (brightness - 4, Always-on screen, showing cards on dimmed screen, alert on watch and phone when connected).
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Unplug at 7:30am @11pm still 49% battery but my note 3 battery goes down, i have to plug it in the afternoon.
My battery usage on my phone shows android wear being the main culprit.
Before that, I could last all day in one charge.

unplugged at 8a.m. plugged back in around 1:30a.m. about 18% left.
Screen set to "always on", brightness set to "4".
I'm not sure what constitutes heavy usage, but I do look at my screen and do a couple of swipes about every 15 minutes or so, unless I'm expecting an email or something.

Why do you need the screen always on?
The screen on when you look at it functions really well, and saves a lot of battery.
I unplug at 6.45 am. Still got 60% by 10.30 pm
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Wow, guys, what am I doing wrong?
I take mine off charge when I get up at 5.30 AM.
It's down to 85% by the time I leave the house at 7am (it's maybe had the screen on for a total of a minute maximum).
I lose roughly 10% an hour (with maximum "screen on" time of a minute or 2 an hour.
It's below 20% by 3 or 4pm.
So I thought it might be that I had brightness on 4/5, so I've changed to 1/5, but still, it's little better. I might get an extra hour maybe.
I like the idea of it, and when it's alive, it's great. But for me, I'm struggling to get 10-12 hours, with low use.
i'm gonna try it tomorrow with Screen-off mode enabled.
I'd happily accept charging it every night, but I'm struggling to get half a day here.

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Wow, guys, what am I doing wrong?.
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There's definitely something wrong there. I would try unpairing and resetting the watch (the only thing you'll lose is fitness data).
Then I'd uninstall Android wear from the phone, reset the phone and start all over again.

gadgetgaz said:
There's definitely something wrong there. I would try unpairing and resetting the watch (the only thing you'll lose is fitness data).
Then I'd uninstall Android wear from the phone, reset the phone and start all over again.
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Thanks.
Gonna try that now..........

i agree, there's something not right in your situation.
i took mine off at 11am and it's almost 3am now and i'm at 43% screen always on and moderate use

Got mine on Thursday. Since then it's off the charger for 16h/day. Setting is always on. Indoor I usually keep the brightness at 1 since I really don't need more. Outdoor it's always at 5.
I always end my day with 20-30% left.
One thing I noticed is colourful watch face kill the battery. Specifically while driving since the brightness it at 5 at the screen come on often while driving or doing other activities.
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Having reset the watch as suggested, It does seem greatly improved for me.
It came off charge this morning at 7am, so by now I'd normally be down to maybe 30-40%, but I'm currently still on 82%.
Thanks for the suggestion - it looks like it may have solved it.

I'd normally end the day with about 50% left. Two days ago I installed Pinterest and Fancy to see what the interface is like. The next day I ended the day at 7%. Today by around 4pm I was down to 30%.
i uninstalled both apps, charged it up, and the battery usage seems to have gone back to normal.

On my watch the battery is not that great comparing to some of you. Have you activated some battery saving options ?

Mine comes off charge at around 7am. By 10pm I'm usually around 25-35% battery. Usage is light to medium, with screen set to always on at default brightness.

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On my watch the battery is not that great comparing to some of you. Have you activated some battery saving options ?
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i think it generally comes down to how much you interact with the watch. while i have somewhat moderate usage, the interaction time with the screen fully lit is fairly short, a majority of the day my watch is in the low power screen state (b&w mode) and i think that prolongs the battery quite a bit since it is a samoled screen and i'm sure the processor drops down to a low power state.
a lot of my use is swiping away notifications and navigation (but while in navigation the watch is mostly in the low power state since it shows my next step on that screen)

I'm not interacting that much with it, but each time I turn my wrist, the screen turns on, and I think that's the problem. The B&W mode is nice, when I just want to use it like a real watch the B&W mode is sufficient, is there a way to stay in B&W mode when I turn my wrist, but still have the vibrations on?
Thanks.

Little worried battery life

First day after 8 hours I am at 49%
My last watch would last me all day and I end the day at 49%
I like dark watch faces, first day did not charge the default brightness.
I like to have an ambient watch face (I do not want to press a button to get time) last watch kept ambient watch face on.
Two questions,
Can it last a day (a day for me is 16hours) ?
What settings do you use ?
This is very annoying 3 years and android wear devices I am still concerned I can not make if from when I remove it from a charger at 6am to when I can charge it again sometimes 2 or 3am the following day.

Mine goes from 5:30 am to 9:30pm and still has about 40% charge left.

With screen off mode I usually end the day at around 48% 6:30 to 8:00

Try turning auto brightness off. It works for me.

Two suggestion:
- Always ON / Ambience Display + disable tilt to wake
- Disable Always On + Enable tilt to wake
It will last you more than 24 hours.
One last suggestion: Enable Always ON + Enable Tilt to Wake + Auto Brightness, but you use long sleeve shirt.
So when it was unintentionally awake because of your hand movement, auto brightness will keep brightness at minimum because it is inside your sleeve (dark).

Recently switched Always ON off
and more significantly Tilt to Wake off
Getting 4 DAYS battery life
(Projected, currently at 30 hrs)

Turn WiFi off as well. That drains a ton.
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Yeah you really don't need always on and tilt to wake on.

I had this issue as well; watch draining really fast, wouldn't even last a day. I tried a number of things and I found out what works for me. Some will say turn off Wifi, others will say turn off Gestures. I did both of those, but they did not really amount to any great savings.
I reset my phone a couple days back and was forced to do the same to the watch. Once I was back up and all connected, I went into Android Wear app on my phone, pressed the gear (settings), clicked on my Asus ZenWatch 3 name, and ONLY turned off "Tilt to wake Screen". I left ALL OTHER settings alone. THIS my friend is what did it for me. As I type this, it's 2:40 p.m. my time (AST). I unplugged my watch this morning at 6:25 a.m. and I'm currently sitting at 70% battery power on my watch.
I look at it frequently, do voice commands, change watchfaces, install new ones, etc... from this morning till now. Oh...I leave the "always on" alone too. The watchfaces do their ambient faces and I love it. Best watch I ever had. I hope this helps someone.

Not surprising that the watches are a lot like the phones. The same model/year phone can have greatly different battery life with similar uses. Since owning my first smartphone, the first and original Droid, rooting and altering widgets and such, I've always had an issue with battery life. I'd have a dead phone by 1pm with normal to low use, while a friend with the same phone plays with it and gets 3 days.
The watches seem to be the same, and I think I play with mine more than normal, yet am happy with the battery life. I joke with the wife that we both have "charging issues" in that she can't remember to charge her device (phone) and I constantly have to be plenty charged and have charging capabilities wherever I will be. With a quick 10 minute charge in the afternoon or evening (if that at all) I can use and play with the watch all day, sleep with it on to track sleep quality, and I charge it when I get up to shower and my normal bathroom morning routine. This gets it back to 100%.
Although happy with it, I've been adjusting my settings based on usage, and not with a high PITA ratio. Always On set to off, tilt to wake on, and screen on for 10-15 seconds. But I have often thought that the tilt to wake was using battery unnecessarily as my work alone has me moving my arm around all the time. I'm going to try the settings above and see if there's an improvement. It makes sense turning off the Tilt To Wake, and will see if the savings is more than the usage from turning the ambient back on.

I bought this to replace a broken LG G watch R, so far after using it for a week it seems to have half the battery life with the same settings / use

How do you turn off WiFi

How do you turn off WiFi ?
I do not know why it is on ? It is paired by bluetooth to my phone and Wifi is useless.
Lately last week I can not get through a day with my watch. Display is in ambient mode but is on 1 !!!!
Trying to find and way I can keep using the watch ..... it loses 10% an hour. My average day is 6am to 10pm it is dead at 4pm.
Used to be I turned if off and back on if would drain 3% an hour and easily make it through a day but now more often than not it is down 10% an hour.
If I turn of WiFi it may help.
Settings WiFi
WiFi automatic
Select this and it sets up an access point !!!!!! I want it off and I want it to stay off.
But how do I change it from saying WiFi automatic to disabled ?

When I tap the wifi-automatic icon, it asks me if I'm sure I want to turn it off. I'm not sure what you're doing differently. Maybe if you set up an access point, then the automatic icon will switch to turning off?

If it is connected to BT, your wifi isn't being used. By default, if it's on wifi because the BT isn't being used, it will shut off after 2 hours to save battery.
For me, I got about twice the battery life when I turned off ambient mode (why do I want it showing the time when I'm not looking at it?) and set screen timeout to 10-15 seconds. I think I use it a lot, or should I say, play with it a lot. After a day of heavy use, I can usually go from 6am to about 9pm (only once did it shut down due to heavy day and excessive text notifications).
Lately I have been trying to track my sleep on it every night and just to be safe, will throw on a charger for 15-30 minutes in the afternoon or evening to ensure enough charge. Last night with a quick charge I was able to have about 60% when I woke this morning.
Not sure what notifications come through normally, but I'm running Feel the Wear along side Android Wear for a variety of notifications.

Awake (Screen off)

I'm using better battery stats and i see the awake screen off time is always exponentially higher than my actual screen on time, slowly it balances out as i near towards 0% , i check kernel wake locks partial wake locks everything looks fine, what's causing this ghost bug to keep the phone awake when screen is off? is doze not working? on my one plus 3t, there was no major 'awake screen offf' stat in bbs it was always a low percentage but on the note 8 it's always top 3 ... what gives?

Are you using AOD?

winol said:
Are you using AOD?
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Nope. Have edge notifications turned off as well

downloaded wkelock detector, besides the standard google wakelocks, IFTT is waking up the phone thousands of times.
How can i tell IFTT to chill ?

Try using "force doze" app, from playstore, also search for it here in xda for how to fine tunning it, I am getting ~ deep slepping 80% of the idle time with AOD edge clock, that translates in 0.7% per hour of idle with the screen off

winol said:
Try using "force doze" app, from playstore, also search for it here in xda for how to fine tunning it, I am getting ~ deep slepping 80% of the idle time with AOD edge clock, that translates in 0.7% per hour of idle with the screen off
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Okay I'll try that, I assume greenify would do the same thing?
Overnight results

So I used force doze and still have high awake times while screen is off
This is driving me insane been using bbs for years and never had this show up this high before

still having the same problem, i used to get 6-8 hrs of SOT i can barely crack open 5hrs of SOT now, can anyone using better battery stats confirm they are getting lower screen off awake time?

I removed force size app and installed greenify 4 magisk. No diff in results

Anyone?

All I'm asking is for competitive better battery stats screenshots of screen off awake time

Sorry to revive this old thread.
@masri1987 - where you able to find a solution to this?