Hi,
I know there's a lot of talking around about power consumption and it is not my intention to open another thread about it: just an information to share.. Even if Diamond2 will not be remembered as a world champion in powersaving (I can remeber only Artemis being one), I am experiencing an additional bug that could make think that the battery life is shorter than real! When fully charged, battery level goes down quite quickly(talking about hours) but at 3% the device is able to run for at least another 40 minutes of hard work (wifi+fullscreen youtube). This may be caused by a wrong battery calibration, I let it discharge completely but seems not to work. This "hidden" extra charge is certainly a positive thing but it is disappointing to notice that HTC newer devices can have a such banal problem. It's the third htc phone I buy,never experienced it before, and its not now I'm gonna start behaving like a maniac always concentrated on how i charge my phone just to workaround their bugs.
EDIT: Sometimes after 3 consecutive softresets I get 3 different battery levels, not bad eh? I could play the lottery with those numbers
I spent most of the day yesterday outside skating. Had GMaps running the whole time with GPS and HSDP connection at all times, + a twitter client which refreshes every.. 5 minutes or so.. Also halfway through enabled G-Watch with Geocaching..
Every 10 mins or so was checking the screen (yeah, cheap alternative for a GPS Navigator ). Some photos and videos were also made on the way
By the end of the day, the phone started complaining about the battery (20% ?) and I turned off GMaps, G-Watch and the twitter client. Some 15 minutes later I got the very low batt notification (10%, right?) and I forced the data connection off (forgot about it the first time ^^ )
Now.. After that I still had to connect to GMaps + Data + GPS to check the route back home ^^
After about 1 hour maybe, I reached home.. and it was still alive.. I was pretty impressed with the battery life, but now that you say it, it is weird that it lives for SO long at low batt levels.. I'd love to find a solution. For now I'll try to do a couple of full discharges to try and calibrate it =/
Very glad to hear that Diamond2 is capable of such battery performances! (not mine at the moment). Anyway,if I'm not wrong, you confirm a strange battery indicator behaviour..we'll see
i just got my Moto X updated last night (11/22/13 ) and so far i like it. I'm not sure if i plugged the phone back up overnight to charge it since i moved it from my normal spot on my night stand next to my bed to the kitchen counter when i started to download and update the phone. (wanted to be closer to the wifi for the download) so im not sure if the battery drain was from the new update or not plugging it in. I'm on At&t network btw. so far i haven't really noticed anything different except for the changes in the icons for locations service and settings button. the lock screen looks a bit "squattier" but i may have must not paid enough attention to it before. i normally use my phone as my music player at work and it has so far lasted me all day and not dropped to the 10% mark till way past time i should have been in bed having to be at work so early. so i will be interested to see if it makes better or worse battery life monday. when i noticed the battery was drained today i had been playing candy crush for about 45 mins and my normal usage for weekend and it was only down to 39%. oh and for the record i keep all the radios on except Bluetooth since i don't have any bt devices with auto brightness turned on as well. the notification bar icons are now all white. (formally they were blue with the signal bars and 4g icon turning white when it switched off Lte) lastley the "touch sounds" seem to be muted now to low to be noticeable if your not listening for them now. that's something i don't like as i dont have the greatest vision and the sounds actually helped me a lot. the update went smoothly and had actually forgotten about it until i got a call so i cant say for certain if the update took more than the 20 mins it said it would. how was your experience?
That's quite a wall of text there.
I'm also on ATT and just finished my first day with Kit Kat after the update last night.
I've not experienced any explicit problems.
After 17 hours my phone is at 31%, but I also had it on the charger for a short while this afternoon while i was exporting some photos. typically I'd be at about 30% by bed time with moderate use. I did use the GPS briefly and spent more time than usual away from wifi though. I also enabled android runtime. I'd give it a few days before I pass any judgement on battery life. Prior to the update I'd had a couple days which I had near 5 hours of screen time. That's impressive by it's self and I hope it continues, but those kind of days are rare for me.
Lol I typed it out on my computer originally. It didn't look like much but after seeing it on my phone...your right. Anyway I'm happy to report a full day of use and battery was only down to 19%.
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My idle battery drain went way down on both my Nexus 7 and Moto X after the KitKat upgrade.
That's huge for me, because I often get busy at work and won't be able to touch/use my phone for long stretches, so it's nice to be able to carry my phone around for 6 hours but not have my battery life drop by 25% during that period.
Other than that, I'm happy. I wish they had kept the up/down arrows on the wifi signal. I do like the modifications to the haptic feedback, though - before, some of the vibrations were kind of rough and loud, many of them have been toned down.
Not liking kitkat, the dialer from jellybean that easily slid from logs to dialer to contatcs is gone. Im not likng the new dialer at all, the white theme it has drains more battery and is less easy on the eyes, google got it right with ics and jellybean theming most of the UI black, dialer also doesnt search for nearby places numbers like Nexus 5's dialer does, email app is good but again themed white, and a huge problem....setting the brightness all the way down isn't as low as jellybean was, this is a bug that needs to be fixed, the lowest brightness setting isnt low at all.
As title states my GPS is pretty shocking, on a perfectly clear day not a cloud ion sight it drop out and back in randomly, usually when you are approaching the next manoeuvre. Battery will also only last 20 minutes on google Maps but i presume thats because it rarely locks on.
I did a simple 48 mile journey earlier that i knew well, turned on Maps and use Voice Guidance. I had done half the journey before it locked gps from leaving my house.
Did this Stock and with Insertcoin, Viper, Maximus and a few others?
The ambient display toggles on every 5 seconds rather I have a notification or not. So a lot of the time it is just coming on to show the clock and nothing else. And I think it must be doing the same thing in my pocket because I only had about 1.5 hours of screen on time today (light use) and the battery is depleted already.
Has anybody else had this issue or know how to figure out what app is making it come on for no reason? Driving me crazy.
Granted, I'm only on day 4.. but still..
I've tried disabling LTE, simple watch-face, etc.. but can't get it to live for more then 12 hours without needing a recharge..
Do those of you reaching more then 12 hours use an always on screen? Gestures?
I did do a test overnight and it only dropped 20% (7 hours) - but my typical drop rate is much higher then that with casual use..
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ps - I'm on-track for 12 hours again today, and that's with only having received ~3-4 email notifications which I just quickly dismissed in the past two hours so far..
For those that might be interested in this subject, I also posted it on reddit which seems to be getting much more traffic..
https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidWea...ort_watch_how_are_you_guys_getting_more_then/
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I just put mine on charge after 48 hrs with 3% left that is with screen always on off and only turning WiFi on when needed.I'm using mine tethered to my g6 without lte.
Firstly in my case I don't use LTE.
I've found having WiFi and gps switch on has made very little difference to battery life, as it's tethered anyway for this information.
I think the battery life has got better after a couple of weeks usage, and typically a full day has plenty left, nearly 50% on occasions.
Yesterday was a long day, and it managed 20 hours straight through
I usually get around 24 hours. But barely 24 hours (if I do anything except let my watch run idle on my wrist whole day, I don't hit the mark).
Screen always ON
NO SIM (doesn't even work in europe)
Always tethered to the phone
Tilt OFF
Gestures OFF
Location MIXED (decided to experiment a bit, seen no discernible difference in battery drain whether it was ON or OFF)
Watchface: Portions with 4 complications
First couple of hours is sleep tracking with screen turned off (but constant HRM sensor activity), which consumes slightly less than regular operation.
Today I turned always screen off and holy **** what a difference. After 12 hours I'm still at 80%. So the clear culprit of this is the screen. I think I will try to get used to this, it was wasting energy 99% of the time before anyway (I'm not looking it at it all the time).
I end up getting through the day at about 30 to 50% with everything on except for LTE which I toggle on and off during the rare occasions I need it. I usually use brightness 6 during the evening and 8 during the day, I find the auto-brightness too dim on every occasion. On the other hand I've had a few random days where it rapidly used it's battery and I was down to power saving in the afternoon. Havne't figured out what is happening when it occurs but when it happens my phone also rapidly drains. Other than that I wish I could increase the screen on time, it sometimes dims before I've done what I want to do and I feel like I have enough spare bat to burn a little more keeping it on longer.
My Answer, you don't. I leave everything on and charge it, like 3 times a day. I'm lucky because I have two others to swap to during charge, but I even bought a second charger for work when I do not have those available.
I simply do not want to reduce any features of the watch, so I charge it often. That's just what it is if you ask me, you're not going to miraculously get this thing working for 2 days, simple as that. So use it big, and charge it often!
$13.99 the name is: LG Watch Sport Charger, Kissmart Replacement Charger Charging Cradle Dock Adapter for LG Watch Sport Smart Watch
krabman said:
I end up getting through the day at about 30 to 50% with everything on except for LTE which I toggle on and off during the rare occasions I need it. I usually use brightness 6 during the evening and 8 during the day, I find the auto-brightness too dim on every occasion. On the other hand I've had a few random days where it rapidly used it's battery and I was down to power saving in the afternoon. Havne't figured out what is happening when it occurs but when it happens my phone also rapidly drains. Other than that I wish I could increase the screen on time, it sometimes dims before I've done what I want to do and I feel like I have enough spare bat to burn a little more keeping it on longer.
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Is there a faster way to toggle cellular on and off other than going into settings?
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Not that I know of and for me it's a double downer, when I use the watch standalone I don't need bluetooth. I menu dive to switch both and then revert when I'm done. The radios should be available from the pull down quick settings IMO, it would be enough to have an icon there to open them all and you could toggle those you need from there. Considering the wasted space on that pull down it becomes a bit of a what were they thinking issue...
Hi guys i'm interested about lg watch sport here in europe and i'm willing to buy from ebay korean model. My cuestion is can i use it completly without pairing to phone with sim inside. Can i set it up without cell phone? How about using facebook, viber ( making VOIP calls) email etc... thanks
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Hi guys i'm interested about lg watch sport here in europe and i'm willing to buy from ebay korean model. My cuestion is can i use it completly without pairing to phone with sim inside. Can i set it up without cell phone? How about using facebook, viber ( making VOIP calls) email etc... thanks
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You need to pair with phone initially. It also makes it easier to copy your accounts over to the watch. After you set it up, you don't need your phone anymore BUT if you keep it on cellular the watch isn't going to last.
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Not that I know of and for me it's a double downer, when I use the watch standalone I don't need bluetooth. I menu dive to switch both and then revert when I'm done. The radios should be available from the pull down quick settings IMO, it would be enough to have an icon there to open them all and you could toggle those you need from there. Considering the wasted space on that pull down it becomes a bit of a what were they thinking issue...
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From my time with the watch it appears that having cellular on has little impact on battery life as long as you're within range of your phone. The part that does affect battery life with cellular on is IF you're in an area with just complete sucky cell signal to start off with. (IE my workplace) that will kill battery.
I had battery draining issues at work even with cellular off at work but I figured out that although on my phone when connected to work wifi I can get to the play store on my phone but on my watch it can't get to the playstore or communicate with google. My assumption is the watch is draining because the google play services can't connect/sync with google therefore causing it to stay awake and drain. Watch battery life has been much better when I disable wifi on my phone BUT now my phone drains a little faster because it's not on wifi.
Bluetooth Autoconnect app has been a lifesaver when having watch/phone/BT headset/BT car connected. You can set up profiles and priorities so that the car/headset/headphones take over the call duties so you can hear phone calls through those devices instead of the watch.
I'm still getting used to life having to sift through the menus to disable and enable radios but you're right. There needs to be an easier and faster way.