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I just got the phone yesterday. I've been using it VERY heavily, and I havent been cycling it properly.
But I just got 4.5 hours of pretty heavy use out of it. That's nothing close to what it should be. But it was constant 4G use almost the whole time.
I'm trying to cycle it properly now. but I cant stop running around long enough to get a full charge on it. (once so far).
vectorized said:
I just got the phone yesterday. I've been using it VERY heavily, and I havent been cycling it properly.
But I just got 4.5 hours of pretty heavy use out of it. That's nothing close to what it should be. But it was constant 4G use almost the whole time.
I'm trying to cycle it properly now. but I cant stop running around long enough to get a full charge on it. (once so far).
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Use the SmartActions App. It has a battery Extender that works very well.
I have it along side Juice Defender. I Constantly stay under 4G LTE, and I have wifi on. I could probably let a video loop for 7 hours before it died.
This is after two-three days of cycling and training juice defender.
I despise battery chatter, but I have to say that I have been using this thing hard setting up my apps downloading off the cloud and surfing the net. 10+ hours on a single charge. Not many voice calls, but lots of screen on time and data.
Your mileage will vary.
Its about on par with a galaxy nexus with ics
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I'm lucky if I get 7 hours of moderate use, with the smart actions. I think I might have to exchange it and get a new one and try to cycle the battery better the first few times. I was not kind to it on the first day.
I also work in a place with minimal 4g coverage. So it's struggling the whole. time
Suggestions, before I replace it? (with another)
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I'm a pretty heavy user. Bluetooth in ear streaming music while i ride my bike to work, lots of news widgets updating between 20 and 45 minutes each, constant emails and social networking, and a few bt calls. The phones battery lasts me 4 to 6 hours, depending on number of calls. Luckily i have one of those battery pack things.
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I'm a pretty heavy user. Bluetooth in ear streaming music while i ride my bike to work, lots of news widgets updating between 20 and 45 minutes each, constant emails and social networking, and a few bt calls. The phones battery lasts me 4 to 6 hours, depending on number of calls. Luckily i have one of those battery pack things.
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Sounds very similar to my own usage. I've avoided using bluetooth so far, and I try to download music before i leave. It gives me a bunch of extra time. And I've got the battery pack, but it wont give me much.
But I've managed to cycle my phone twice today. That's not okay.
I cant wait for root so I can wipe the battery stats and try again.
Wiping battery stats does nothing for battery life. Its just stats!
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I think there might have been a quality check error on the Atrix HD batteries that shipped out.
Everyone I know gets different battery stats.
I know I'm getting excellent battery life. I can watch movies, surf the web, and play games... leave it off the charger and I'll still have 40% for the next day.
It took a day or two. The first two days I let it die before charging. Juice Defender takes a good day to figure out your phone, but it plays nice with Smart Actions.
Also, some gameloft games do not play nice with the phone stand by and sleep states. Gun Bros would send notifications and run in the background and drained my battery on my MAHD.
I'm going to buy hands free headphone ,so I need to know what drains less battery wifi or Bluetooth?
And can I connect it to 2 devices at the same time?
detexr said:
I'm going to buy hands free headphone ,so I need to know what drains less battery wifi or Bluetooth?
And can I connect it to 2 devices at the same time?
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Are there even wifi headsets for phones? i only know there are bluetooth ones
If you are on stock use bluetooth due to bluetooth low energy consumption.
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I am sick of hearing about how bad the battery life is on the Gear.
My Gear have great battery life, charge it every two days but yesterday.
The Google Smart watch is coming and it has much better battery life that the Gear's 12 hours??? !!!
Who can only get 12 hours on the Gear, and what do you do to burn the battery that quick?
Mine also lasts 2-3 days.. I'm connected to the note 2 if that makes a difference.
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crzyricn said:
Mine also lasts 2-3 days.. I'm connected to the note 2 if that makes a difference.
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Should make no difference at all.
thats because most reviewers dont know what they are talking about
My battery life is great. 3 to 4 days moderate use. And worse comes to worse wack it on the charger while i get ready for work and I have a days worth of battery.
I have a feeling they had pre-release versions which may have had worse battery life. Shame!
Yes, with more recent gear manager updates, I get around 3 days+
Mine lasts 3-4 days.
But I am only using it during the work day.
At the end of the day I have 85% left everyday. I think its biased reviews. I'm sure if the apple watch had a 6 hour battery they would says its genious and revolutionary.
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As a longtime 'professional' reviewer for over a decade (for the high fidelity audio industry), the non-rooted watch gives about 2 to 3 days battery life. Also, I don't recall seeing any reviews where they sideloaded apps, which makes the watch even more useful :good:
Frankly, don't trust all reviewers. :cyclops:
hahaha .... :laugh: ... they (those reviewers said about bad battery life) have already decided just on the number of xxx mAh. (once they see it.). :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
I NEVER TRUST ... I TRUST MYSELF ON WHAT I HAVE DECIDED and TRIED ON MY OWN.
My battery life is 3 or 4 days. .. depending of use .
I think it depends of 'home screen ' . With watch styler, if my watch face is 'white' battery life can be 2 or 3 days. But with a standard watch face (black) battery life is 3 or 4 days...
If bluetooth is always turn on, the other battery's drain can only be screen... and it depends of the number of notifications you receive every days ! (And number you look at your watch daily )
Yes I agree with you on that I get 2 to 3 days of battery life heavy usage brightness at 4 and timeout at 15
Yes my Gear had pretty decent battery life, 2-3 days. Works out great just plug it in when I go to bed.
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Yes I agree with you on that I get 2 to 3 days of battery life heavy usage brightness at 4 and timeout at 15
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I have been using my gear on an S4 with android 4.2.2. Battery was usually about 50% at bedtime. I updated to the android 4.3 yesterday which gave me full capabilities of the Gear. Today after 8 hours of pretty heavy use (lots of email) I am at 90%. 4.3 does a much better job of handling BT connections, not just on the Gear but my other BT devices.
This is my 4th smartwatch (Sony MN800, Sony MN2SW, Pebble). The Sony MN2 was pretty decent, touchscreen/color but its battery life was terrible, had trouble making it through the whole day. Pebble had great battery life, constant on screen, but having to use buttons and no color was tough for me after having a touch color screen. Gear is definately heading in the right direction for me. Now that the battery life is can last 2+ days I am even more pleased with my decision to dive in. I turn the screen brightness to +2 which is extremely bright for indoor use.:good:
Yep, agreed.
My battery life is more than I can hope for with this thing.
I'm on day 2 and still have 61 percent battery life left.
I have screen brightness on 1 (which seems perfectly viewable for me) and time out for 7 seconds.
I can go 4 days easy with my current settings.
While I agree the battery life is a bit better than the reviews suggested, I'm surprised so many of you are getting 3-4 days worth. I use mine very lightly... it's stock, I don't have hardly any apps loaded on it, I'm currently just using it to occasionally see the time, and get txt/call/email notifications. I have the most battery efficient watch face (the black one with orange hands and only four markers), brightness on 4, timeout on 10s, using the latest gear manager on a stock Note 3. After 48hrs, I'm below 30% battery. The only excess usage I get is from the auto-wake... I do notice it coming on sometimes while I'm driving, or at the gym. Other than that, I really don't see how I could use it any less to get more life out of it (other than not using it at all). Once the software gets updated to make it a little more useful, I would expect battery life to get worse.
I'm not complaining, 2 days is acceptable to me, I just would have expected my usage patterns to put me at the long end of battery life relative to other users, rather than the short end.
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Yep, agreed.
My battery life is more than I can hope for with this thing.
I'm on day 2 and still have 61 percent battery life left.
I have screen brightness on 1 (which seems perfectly viewable for me) and time out for 7 seconds.
I can go 4 days easy with my current settings.
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I agree the reviewers had very bad results or bias, But at the same time I wish I knew how you guys were getting your results. Today was a light day, got maybe 20-30 texts and 5-10 emails. Didn't make any calls or respond to any texts with S-voice. I did just realize I had reset it recently so the brightness was at 4 with a 10 second time out. I normally run brightness at 2 and timeout at 7 to try to save the battery. I also use strong vibration and have the digital clock/weather watch face with a black background. I am at 82% after 12 hours, which again I don't think is bad. That would net me 2-3 days, but again that was what I consider very light usage. With heavy usage I doubt it would make it through the day.
I'm not complaining because I am ok with charging it every night, so long as it makes it through the day I am ok with it. I would just be happier if I knew I could get 2+ days with medium usage at least, including bright screen and all that jazz.
Also, side tracking I know, but what apps have you guys side loaded that you have found useful?
I have brightness at max and use it VERY heavily. I work as a mobile computer tech and all my calls are taken on it, I use svoice to make calls, I use svoice to reply to SMS and I'm always playing with it. The lowest battery at the end of a day (by which I mean 7:00am until midnight) was 38%.
I really cant fathom how it would be possible to deplete the battery in just 12 hours.
my use today :
I read 15 sms, 10 mail , take 3 pics and call with my father 15 min with gear speak phone (and the other 15 min with the phone.)
blue tooth connected permanently.
Number of auto wake : ?? A lot !!
Time Out : 15s
last complete charge : this night ( disconnect at 8 am.)
Now I read 1:28 am.
Battery level : 61%
it's all rights !!!
What are your results after having the Gear Live for a full day? Also include the phone you are pairing it with.
Draining like hell. Sony Xperia Z1 compact. Phone shut down at 11pm last night for the first time ever. I usually have about 40% left at bedtime and I even had it on charge for an extra hour in the day.
EDIT: I may have been a little premature here. After a phone reset and a day of use the phone battery drain is not as bad as it first was. It's worse than normal but not drastically so.
No option for "improved" battery life. In my case since I don't have to pull the phone every 2 minutes it seen to me that it is doing a lot better. unplug at 7:15 this morning and it is currently at 96% (At this time it is usually at 85ish)
Pretty solid drain over here...
Gym session killed batter on phone. But I was also getting a lot of texts & changing songs, so.... Maybe that's on me. Haha. Oh well. Watch battery life is fine, so NBD
I'm paired with an M8 and while I do see a little more drain I would not call it drastic. I actually hadn't even noticed until I saw this thread and actually looked so it's small enough for me it's unnoticeable
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I also have my gear connected, but impact not huge
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RAM is a bigger problem. The Wear app uses anywhere between 115 - 150MB, which is quite a lot.
No impact on my Note3.
Ian B
I haven't noticed any change on my M7 running GPe.
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I noticed a big reduction, but I suspect it's because I now have Google Now set to on. I'm using it today with Google Now turned off, but the watch still connected etc, and it seems to have gone back to normal battery life.
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There seems to be a small difference when paired with a Nexus 5, nothing too big though.
Anyone who has two or more devices connected to the watch, does it drain the battery of the watch faster?
Big difference, my note 3 won't last half a day if i use my watch.
Used to get about 7 hours with heavy use on my note 3 before plugging in the external battery, now I get about 5 1/2 hours when the watch is connected.
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I have a Sony Xperia Z ultra and the Android Wear application on my phone is killing my phone´s battery
I have installed Gsam battery monitor and the application was in use by the system for almost 3 hours and a half of 5 hours I was running the phone without charging...
What I have done is to "force stop" feature in the android system menu and since then, battery is normal and I am still receiving notifications from my phone to the watch
I suspect that the android wear application has some important bugs related to battery draining issues in some cell phone models like Sony
It doesn't seem to have made any noticeable difference in battery life on my HTC One M8. I haven't paired it with my Note 3 yet, so I'll have to see how it does too.
Killing the battery on my One Plus. I don't know if I have too many apps going on my watch or what, but this watch is slaughtering my battery life. The One Plus has a decent size battery and great battery life pre Gear Live.
Bluetooth is bluetooth, if you have the latest version of bluetooth sure the bluetooth uses a bit of the battery but having the phone talk to your watch, bluetooth headset or car makes no difference.
The watch no sooner affect your battery life than any other bluetooth device will.
I never turn bluetooth off, hop in car the phone pairs with the car, go for a jog pairs with the headphones.
LG G3 855 version. Not only does it affect my battery, it also affects the phone. I get constant redraws on both LG home launcher and Nova launcher when the watch is connected.
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Bluetooth is bluetooth, if you have the latest version of bluetooth sure the bluetooth uses a bit of the battery but having the phone talk to your watch, bluetooth headset or car makes no difference.
The watch no sooner affect your battery life than any other bluetooth device will.
I never turn bluetooth off, hop in car the phone pairs with the car, go for a jog pairs with the headphones.
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You're totally right about Bluetooth especially with LE 4.0 or 4.1. I think that it the gear live case Google Now is the source of the drain not Bluetooth itself. It's totally pinging back and forth. Google services uses more battery than my screen sometimes and don't get me started on the wake locks. I never had that problem with the s4 or s5 and my other gear watches.
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No big difference on a note3 running CM11 and several watch apps and at least one or two other devices paired.
I have always used Google now so maybe that is why I don't notice much.
Because of the shortened battery life, has anyone used any alternative watches to the gw3 that are comparable and have mostly the same features (calls, texting, emails, etc.) in the US for android?
Anyone?
No alternative in the Smartwatch World Only alternative with better battery life in the Tracker World but 0 function
Maybe Fitbit Versa 3 & Sense. A little Smart a full tracker and no bad battery life
Samsung Galaxy Watches are the only Android e-sim standalone for USA carriers with LTE 4g bands....
Just seeing if there are any bluetooth alternatives out there. I just got a gw3 yesterday hoping it would be better than the og gw and not disconnect all the time but 24 hours later and the watch is down to 43%. Just not gonna cut it when I am not using it much. I like the watch ecosystem but this battery is just not good.
I got my GW3 the first day it was available at my local store and have just established a routine where every other evening I put it on the charger for a couple hours then put it back on before I go to bed. Only times I have varied is when I switched to watch faces that were battery killers.
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I got my GW3 the first day it was available at my local store and have just established a routine where every other evening I put it on the charger for a couple hours then put it back on before I go to bed. Only times I have varied is when I switched to watch faces that were battery killers.
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Yeah, I charge mine every day for 1-2 hours depending on my use. I wish it charged a lot faster and then charging every day wouldn't be a problem.
galaxys said:
Samsung Galaxy Watches are the only Android e-sim standalone for USA carriers with LTE 4g bands....
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Samsung uses Tizen on Galaxy Watches not Android.
Vahur_v said:
Samsung uses Tizen on Galaxy Watches not Android.
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True, they interface with Android phones.
jhcomputerguy said:
Just seeing if there are any bluetooth alternatives out there. I just got a gw3 yesterday hoping it would be better than the og gw and not disconnect all the time but 24 hours later and the watch is down to 43%. Just not gonna cut it when I am not using it much. I like the watch ecosystem but this battery is just not good.
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I got the GW3 LTE direct from Samsung and I easily get 48-52 hrs on a charge: WiFi set to auto, LTE set to auto (I'm on what's left of Sprint), no AOD on, +several notifications. So not sure why you're not getting good battery life. I have noticed anywhere from 1-1.3% discharge per hour. I use it with my Samsung Note 20 5G (standard)
I use an active 2 and a GW3, switch between the two. Since they both use the same OS, same app. It's a seamless switch, kind of like wearing the same watch all the time. I don't need to worry about battery life cause I'll always have 1 fully charged.
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TicWatch ？
I have the Samsung Gear S2. It has 250 mAh battery life and it can work for 2–3 days depending upon the usage.
wease said:
I use an active 2 and a GW3, switch between the two. Since they both use the same OS, same app. It's a seamless switch, kind of like wearing the same watch all the time. I don't need to worry about battery life cause I'll always have 1 fully charged.
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I do the same...