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.
Related
Hi all,
I have been testing (sofar day 5) how long can my HTC Diamond last on standby without needing to recharge.
Phone is constantly on (day and night). It is on standby i.e. screen off, but the power is on. So every time I tap the little power button it shows me how much (%) of the battery is left.
I am on day 5 and the battery is 66%.
Will update tomorrow.
I don't know if anyone done this before, but I am trying to find out, how long will battery actually last in real world (in standby).
Cheers.
Are you just using Flight Mode?
And none of them is turning on ?
1. 2G / 3G phone (stay at one place / moving day & night )
2. Wi-Fi
3. Bluetooth
day 6
DAY6......checked battery status this evening.....52% left.
Phone is on standby (screen off). Everything else is on.
This is just my little experiment. Probably does not make sense to many, but maybe someday,someone would wanna know that, how long the battery lasts this way
to ykwong
sorry did not notice someone has replied.
phone is essentially in flight mode.....phone itself is off (no calls coming in or out)
but, Bluetooth and WIFI is on. Everytime I check for battery status....it notifies me of my WIFI connection.
If your mobile is in standby Wi-Fi and Bluetooth even if they are turned on are in standby too (except when you turn it on to check battery charge) thus they don't consume power.
Ive been testing mine aswell andi've found i lose 6% every 8 hours, thats with minimal use and screen off once used. radio 1.25.00.5 and the offficial 1.93 rom and with settings from shcaps advanced config.
wifi is turned off automatically when in standby mode, and turned on when you activate the phone again unless you've done a registry hack to force it on.
Moreover this test is quite useless as battery life consumption depends on the power of the signal, your battery can easily last half the usual time if the signal is weak and twice longer if you just under a cell
johnnymatrix said:
wifi is turned off automatically when in standby mode, and turned on when you activate the phone again unless you've done a registry hack to force it on.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Indeed, thats true.
Battery life is poor
I got Diamond 2 days ago. What I noticed was the battery life is appalling actually. I charged full and with normal usage (ie, 5-6 calls lasting about altogether lasting less than an hour and some pplaying around) it doesnt last more than a day. Battery shows 10% at the end of the day. Is that normal? Or is it just mine. (By the way 3G on, Wifi, bluetooth off)
I charge mine twice a day...
i have to charge mine everyday after work and im not using in THAT much, some calls and checking some mails. the batterytime really sucks, my old phones have loads of better batterytime, so what if i surf some on the net and checking some videos to do i have to charge it every hour or what? really sucks :/
htc has released a new battery for longer standby time. the battery volumn is 1350MA, with a back cover. the price is around 40 pounds.
unlike the third party battery some of us have bought, does the gps still work with this one?
ehe12 said:
htc has released a new battery for longer standby time. the battery volumn is 1350MA, with a back cover. the price is around 40 pounds.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
How much volume and weight doe it add up to the sleek diamond? Does it not kill the joy? What will be the difference then b/w diamond and raphael thickness and weight??
day7
today.....power at 43%
to posters: I know that this test may sound pointless to some. All I am saying that someone someday may find this informative.
If you have the phone off, there's no point in this test - at all. When the screen turns off, wifi turns off as well. This would be the most battery consuming application you have, so it would last a long time regardless of battery or phone.
My settings shows fully loaded battery but the ROM update screen tells me that i have less than 50% available. Who is correct? And is there a way to unload the battery totally w/o having the diamond on all the way (already tried, is not working) to refresh it from base? Thanks!
day 8
battery at: 29%
........I will check and finish this test tomorrow , I assume it will we under 20 %
I'm starting such a test myself today, see if I can make it to Monday. I will be using my phone for calling, i.e. the phone function is on (except when I sleep, don't want to be disturbed ), the occasional internet (checking train schedule, maybe using it as a router for my laptop for 5 minutes), and maybe 5 minutes of teeter or something. The average day use I'd say.
Question: how do I see the percentage of my battery charge?
Test starts as of NOW, 15:47 in Amsterdam, which is 13:57 UTC. It's fully charged, so I don't need a percentage reading on this one
Hey all,
I took my N1 out of the charger 5 hours ago. I checked 1 website, that took like 1min. I've been voicecalling for 25min and 4s (had the speaker active for 4 minutes). That's all I've done with my phone. All the other time it's been idle with it set to use 2G only to save battery (I'm in an area where 3g is weak, so it keeps switching, and I heard that kills battery quite a bit, so that's why I set it to 2G only, correct me if I'm wrong on that).
Now my phone only has 15% of battery left.
I can't imagine this is normal, so my question is: Is this normal? If not, what % of battery should I have left normally after 25min of voicecalling?
Thanks in advance.
Rico
Do you have any background apps that are refreshing a lot? What's the screen setting while on a call (how long for the screen to turn off), does the screen stay ton while on speakerphone? Are you sure you were at 100% when removed from the charger? GPS? bluetooth?
No idea how the battery couod drain that quickly without at least a couple of these things being some sort of a role.
Sorry, forgot to mention those things.
- No things running in background. Just mail checking once every hour.
- GPS is on, but normally that doesnt drain my battery at all, can leave my phone idle for 12 hours and still have 80% or more left.
- Screen is on auto adjust, and it wasnt bright at all while I was using it, when i normally use my screen I can use it for at least 2+ hours before battery is at 30% or less.
- Screen was on during the speaker, but that was only 4min. The screen does go off when I'm calling without the speaker on.
- Yes it was at 100%, I'm 100% sure.
- Bluetooth is off, wifi was also off.
I've had problems with the phone draining during phonecalls with the same length of talk time.
That, or playing movies/youtube, but i can understand why that would happen.
What ROM are you using?
After i switched to the undervolted CyanMod Rom, it helped with battery length.
I'm running the stock ROM with update 1.
As an extra note, I tried to start the camera, but it didn't want to start. Not even after multiple tries.
I don't know if that has anything to do with this problem.
I've been posting here as well, there's some extra information as well: google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=3b2399fce53a8f2a&hl=en
run your battery completely dead... like when your phone turns off open the boot loader and just kill the thing till you cant even get the boot loader to come up...
take the battery out wait a few seconds to make sure all the extra juice has discharged in the phone and put it back in...
start charging again and dont turn it on until it is fully charged (green light should show up and then wait smore after that)
In the general thread, seems like everyone is getting great battery life but my friend and I have had okay battery (him not so much). I don't call or text much but I do check FB/instagram/email on the hour each hour. All notifications are set to manual since I check it regularly and location is off. The only thing I do is stream a music app called MelOn and I have bluetooth on for my moto360. I am at 62% with 1 hr 12 min screen on time, unplugged for about 6 hours, streaming music for the last 4 of those hours. Music and FB are my top 2 drainers. I'm not upset about it but I'm not impressed either. To get me through the evening, I have to charge it right before I leave the office so I'm waiting on my 4500mah battery from china to come in (set for delivery today and will review it after a few days). My friend, on the other hand has notifications set to every 2 hours or whatnot, doesn't stream content, no calls, occasional texting, location off, and is has about the same battery drain as me. His top drainer is com.sec.imsservice which I've read is wifi calling but he doesn't have that option turned on nor is he on wifi (full bars and lte at his location). Yesterday, he had location services on and all push notifications on and within 7 hours, it was down to 22%. Battery doctor says it accounts for over 50% of his battery usage and he is unable to disable/kill it. What could be causing this and what can he do about it.
Thanks in advance!
I'm seeing the same culprit as your friend — every couple weeks or so, com.sec.imsservice hangs consuming ~25% of the CPU (in other words, an entire core — which is enough of a power draw to continue to drain the battery even when plugged into a by-the-spec USB2 port (5V, 500mA)) while Wi-Fi Calling is listed in the Call settings grayed out, perpetually "Enabling;" I can't even force-stop the process, I have to reboot the phone to clear it up (which takes forever "upgrading" 69 apps, and uses roughly 7% of the battery in the process). Of course, I do have Wi-Fi Calling enabled, but with "Cellular Network Preferred" selected — it's another thing entirely not to have the feature enabled at all; hopefully they'll have this bug squashed in Lollipop.
Hello all,
Since the latest firmware update, my G Watch R no longer turns it's screen off when i leave it on my bedside table overnight (not charging) where as it does turn off if it's on the charging cradle.
I've always had the screen set to always on and it generally lasts 2 days easily before the update but now that the screen stays on ambient mode, the battery would drop from 60-70% to around 35-40% after several hours while I'm asleep. I've done a factory reset last week and it didn't help.
On a slightly related note, the battery seems to drain much faster when it reaches below 20% and most of the time it just dies at around 5-10% left even with battery saver on.
Anyone else encountered this?
go into the wear app on your phone and disable always on screen. u also need to do this from the watch settings as well.
But that would turn off ambient mode which I want on and had done so since I bought the watch in November.
I have the same issue as well. Would love to have it back.
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.
Sent from my OnePlus 3 using XDA Labs
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