I have had the SW2 since Tuesday. I charge it at night and at 7:30 am I take it off charge. By 7pm every night (12 hours later) it is about to die. I have to recharge it to use it until about 10pm when I plug it in for the night. I have the weather installed on never refresh, Missed calls, Call handling and watchit. I dont use the watch that much. Normal use. Were is this 3 to 4 day battery life sony is saying??
I replied to your other post not repeating myself here
That doesn't sound normal. I did notice that the watch battery drains quick when my phone and watch are separated by a large distance. With a large distance I mean different rooms in a concrete building.
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Not charged mine since I got it Thursday. I noticed there are some complaints on battery drain using some of the third party apps in the store. The watch faces one seemed to get a lot of mentions... Can't remember the exact name of it.
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my last for 4 days (turn it off at night)
With a moderate use, the charge of my SW2 lasts 2 days.
I get 2 days ish with mine, and i leave mine on at nights
Initially i got 1 day, but i was using it to show off etc
I get 2 days without swithching it off too. This is kinda dissapointing since sony claims 3-4 and even 6 days lith light use.
I use my sw2 with sgs2, i wonder if thats relevant to the battery life.
Another thing ive noticed, I get almnost no diference in bat life when disabling vibrations, changing brightness and stopping notifications. Basicaly i get 2 days with heavy use and 2 days with light use.
Maybe this means most of the battery is drained via BT?
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battery is Android build dependant
Here is an update.
I've got a replacement since the first sw2's screen got ugly dark spot.
The new one also had about 2 days of battery, then I updated to newer cyanogen version and voila, 3-4 days of battery easily achieved.
Then I changed my S2(i9100) for Moto G. The moto g has original kitkat and the battery life on my sw2 droped to ~1day. phone's battery was also about a day, without sw2 connected it can easily do 2-3 days! my S2 running cm11( kitkat 4.4.2 ) was fine.
Soo, obviously the battey life is very much rom dependant. sony's software works works well with some roms and not so well with others!
regards.
Mine is receiving a charge at the end of every 4th day. I'm not turning it off at night.
I'm using one of the original watchfaces and it has the same behavior with the nexus4 and the Z1C I'm using.
As set of apps installed, the ones waking up the watch are the notification apps: Email, Messaging and Watchify ...
I have mine connected to a Moto G running KitKat and only get 1 day maximum out of the watch
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The current software is not optimized for vers.4.3 and 4.4, a major update coming soon clock software
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Nexus 5 with SlimKat, turning off when I sleep, mostly using Watchify, Hourly Vibration (vibrate every 30 minutes) and Calendar, occasionally Toggles, Runastic and few other apps. 5-7 days on battery. For me battery is great.
Mine lasts 4/5 days being off night
I used to get a week when running on 4.1 and now like 2 days after upgrading Xperia T to 4.3. Hopefully the update will fix this.
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On a G2 with 4.2.2, I consistently got close to 3 days with normal use (with all call handlings, notifications, weather etc working normally). With the 4.4.2 update, I am seeing a bit higher power drain, so I'm looking at about 2 days of full time use. Will try the latest SW2 f/w update and report....
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I have had the SW2 since Tuesday. I charge it at night and at 7:30 am I take it off charge. By 7pm every night (12 hours later) it is about to die. I have to recharge it to use it until about 10pm when I plug it in for the night. I have the weather installed on never refresh, Missed calls, Call handling and watchit. I dont use the watch that much. Normal use. Were is this 3 to 4 day battery life sony is saying??
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I had the same issue with mine; it went away when i uninstalled the music extension....
I got it fixed. Every since update I get 2 days. Not using it though. I had the qualcomm toq and gear 2 and gear 2 neo. Using the gears now.
i'm getting 3-5 days, Butterfly S on 4.4.2, hasn't changed since the update
using
-facebook (selective list of people)
-gmail
-twitter (selective list of people)
-whatsapp
-hangouts
-call handling (just notification, can't answer)
-sms/text
i do have the tap-to-wake disabled, serves no purpose in my opinion
would love to try the Gear 2, not willing to buy a galaxy phone for it though
I think my battery problems are solved after a day with the new firmware. Tap to wake disabled.
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I'm planning to purchise SW2. Does it last more than one days?
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I'm planning to purchise SW2. Does it last more than one days?
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this is pretty awesome
Battery time
Low usage 7 days*
Normal usage, 3-4 days*
*Watch always on
Fully charged and detached charger around 6am on Thursday. At 11:30am on Sunday the battery icon is around half way through. The watch has been on all that time and connected to my Z1.
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Fully charged and detached charger around 6am on Friday. At 11:30am on Sunday the battery icon is around half way through. The watch has been on all that time and connected to my Z1.
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Oops 6am Friday, not Thursday
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I'm planning to purchise SW2. Does it last more than one days?
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Fully charged it until Saturday morning unplugged it at 09:00.
During Saturday a lot of playing around checking out different apps when finally settle for the following:
Calc by Pacosal
Dialer by Eir3
Send SMS by Eir3
Log for Smartwatch by Eir3
WatchIt! by Jonas Pettersson
WebBrowser by Vaggan (For fun, not very useful, but so cool to browse on the phone!!)
SmartWeather by Alexander Zakharyan
Poweramp Control Pro by Vasily Kiniv
Call handling, Messages and Calendar reminder by Sony
Endomondo is also there as I have Endomondo Pro
Also bought Augmented Smartwatch Pro by Augmented Views, but there is a bit of a learning curve on that one, too much information on the display and too little information on how to get what you really want on the display.
Used it to control PowerAmp for a while, played with it quite a lot on Saturday.
Left it on the whole night without charging it.
Today I got up at 08:40, and been using it to control the music while I was out driving, This afternoon I was out walking for one hour checking Endomondo on the Watch regulary.
Now at 15:00 I still have 50% battery left, so I'd say this looks promising.
I don't have a problem charging overnight each day, but it is nice to know how good it is on battery.
i get 5 days of use easily, with normal use, i do switch the watch off at night, because i don't want it to wake me if i get a mail in the middle of the night
i would like it tho, if the watch gets turned off, my phone changes profile, so it rings with the watch switched off, but doesnt when the watch is turned on and connected
2 and a half solid days
after approx 54 hours I got a 15% warning and 5 hours later a 10% warning
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With an HTC One I got 4 days being left on all the time with fairly regular notifications. Seems good enough. If I switch it off at night, I can probably last a week.
I got almost 4 days too with note 2
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I'd say at least 2 days at most 4
Charged 2 times, both times 5 Days, watch on whole time, couple of messages everyday received and sometimes music control with poweramp.
Im using it with a xperia z.
3 to 4 days...
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I have my sw2 paired with the LG G2 and it lasts me about 2 full days always on. I dont see myself getting better times unless I just dont use it.
Update....yesterday my watch only lasted for about 18 hours. this morning I changed from the digital watch face to the white analog with date. within in the past fours hours I have noticed a huge improvement in battery life.
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The battery lasts longer than the smartwatch 1 then because I have to charge daily.
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nexus 4 running cm10.2 nightlys, galaxy s3 i9300 running ultimaRom 15.0 boeffla 3.0 kernel.
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I get 2 days without swithching it off too. This is kinda dissapointing since sony claims 3-4 and even 6 days lith light use.
I use my sw2 with sgs2, i wonder if thats relevant to the battery life.
Another thing ive noticed, I get almnost no diference in bat life when disabling vibrations, changing brightness and stopping notifications. Basicaly i get 2 days with heavy use and 2 days with light use.
Maybe this means most of the battery is drained via BT?
Regards
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I'm on my 3rd day with galaxy note 3 on light use I mainly use it with my poweramp music player and mainly for emails texting and calls etc. My battery is halfway right now. I turn it off when I go sleep. Not because I don't want to waste battery but who checks the time while they sleep on a watch who wears a watch to sleep with to begin with. And when you sleep it would vibrate on ya arm? Then what you wake up at 2a.m. to check a message? Yea ok in conclusion the life is pretty good and worth it.
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arizal said:
I get 2 days without swithching it off too.
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Overall, it's pretty normal especially if you don't turn it off at night, some differences in battery life among smartphones could be due to different BT radio and stack, possible BT power saving features, and, at a less extent but not least, the medium distance between the SW2 and the phone.
I have a problem with battery drain when using my SW2 - I have to charge it twice a day. I've used it for 4 days now, and it's not changed at all.
I just updated the firmware on the watch, hoping this will have any effect. It's on the charger right now, so I don't know if it did anything at all yet. When it comes to apps, I don't have a lot installed - only a notification forwarder, the sms app, alarm, timer and dialer/caller. The brightness is almost at the lowest at all time.
Background info: When I bought my Sony Smartwatch 2 I forgot to give it a 30 minute charge. I don't think this is the reason, but it could've impacted the battery life i guess.
Any tips on what to do?
Perhaps just contact sony and get a replacement. It sounds as though you have a faulty device. I usually only have to charge my device every four days. Once I even got it to last six days with very light use.
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Hi all. Haven't seen any active battery life threads.
Curious what everyone is getting because I'm thinking my drain might be a bit worse than others are getting.
I'm on the AT&T variant. Off the charger for 13 hours today and at only 42%. I've really only used it to check notifications and that's it. So I'm averaging about 4-5% drain per hour. Is this normal?
Any tips for achieving better battery life?
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-Are you using an always on Clockface? That affects battery alot. I have to charge every night. I am usually down to 20 or 30% at Night. That is with me playing with clock faces to try and find one I like and using the always on Faces.
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-Are you using an always on Clockface? That affects battery alot. I have to charge every night. I am usually down to 20 or 30% at Night. That is with me playing with clock faces to try and find one I like and using the always on Faces.
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Yeah I am and figured that would be the first question for me. Unfortunately that's one thing I can't live without...or at least don't want to.
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-I still get all day battery. I get up around 6 am and put it on the charger at night around 10 and still have 20 to 30% so it isn't getting 2 or 3 days but I don't wear a watch at night anyway so it works for me.
Same here
I am also around 20-30% after a full day use, that is if I am only on bluetooth ... I think it is the qualcomm chip vs. the samsung one? My experience is definitely far away from the 3 days claim. C'est la vie, I love the watch!
used to last only 1 day, by the time i get home from work at 8pm it had 10~15% left. After the latest software update now I have 75~80% by the end of the day, it even last through out the next day so i only needed to charger it on the 3rd day, HUGE battery improvement. Whatever verizon or samsung did on the new patch it is awesome, I always have all connections enable (bluetooth, wifi, NFC, location, mobile, etc)
Is yours the 3g version?
Also is it AT&T and what is your software version?
Nothing knowingly changed on my usage (did download a slightly more colourful watch face but stopped using it and back to black) switched off S-Voice and disabled overnight notifications, don't use AOD, and battery is getting worse. 99% at 11.30pm last night and now at 8.20pm next day it's at 21%
Any suggestions? (UK model S3)
Disable Settings->Gear Info->Report Diagnostic and usage info See if that helps.
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Nothing knowingly changed on my usage (did download a slightly more colourful watch face but stopped using it and back to black) switched off S-Voice and disabled overnight notifications, don't use AOD, and battery is getting worse. 99% at 11.30pm last night and now at 8.20pm next day it's at 21%
Any suggestions? (UK model S3)
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You might also want to force a reboot by Holding in the Power Button. If something odd happened a reboot might clear it.
"You might also want to force a reboot by Holding in the Power Button. If something odd happened a reboot might clear it."
Sorted - thanks. Not sure why, but sorted
Yeah mine went to **** today after weather updated in the gear store. Battery stats showed the weather app drained 57%. Rebooting the watch fixed it and the drain subsided.
craya said:
Yeah mine went to **** today after weather updated in the gear store. Battery stats showed the weather app drained 57%. Rebooting the watch fixed it and the drain subsided.
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Still new to the Gear S3. Where do you find the battery stats for what apps might be using what percentage? Or is it a 3rd party app that shows that info. Thanks.
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Still new to the Gear S3. Where do you find the battery stats for what apps might be using what percentage? Or is it a 3rd party app that shows that info. Thanks.
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Open gear manager. Go to settings tab. Scroll to bottom and click on About Gear. click on the battery icon.
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Open gear manager. Go to settings tab. Scroll to bottom and click on About Gear. click on the battery icon.
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Thanks. I was looking on the watch not in the phone app - found it. Watch faces are using quite a bit in my Gear.
So I have been getting about 4 days usage up til last night, I normally recharge after about 3 days.
However when I got up this morning my watch was off and when I started it it was on 1 %, this was after 1d 21h of usage :-
Samsung health 29%
watch faces 16%
Notifications 9 % etc
I have not changed the way I use the watch or installed anything new in the last couple of days apart from Samsung pay on the phone (it is not available on the watch yet in UK)
So it looks like samsung health any ideas why its draining the battery?
I found this happens on my S3 and S2 (prior to that), i do a full reset and sorted.
Yes a pain, but i don't have any 3rd party apps and its just tweaking the settings, 15 mins tops.
I just had this begin this week. Used to use the watch and have it last 18hrs with >35% batt at the end of that period.
Suddenly in the middle of this week it began making it less than 8 hrs.
Watch is 1 month old.
Reboots/power offs have not helped. Will try full reset.
Little button on back of watch?
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I just had this begin this week. Used to use the watch and have it last 18hrs with >35% batt at the end of that period.
Suddenly in the middle of this week it began making it less than 8 hrs.
Watch is 1 month old.
Reboots/power offs have not helped. Will try full reset.
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Same problem here on my wifi classic gear s3 idk what's the cause if it like not even 6 hour and it's dead sometimes out of nowhere
Same here. All of a sudden, bad battery life. Turning off S Voice wakeup made things a lot better.
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On Android Wear weather and smarter watch faces normally takes quite a lot of battery.
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I had the same issue for a day, my battery was drained before I left work. I tried power cycling the S3 multiple times without resolution. So, when I got home and charged the S3 back up to troubleshoot the problem, I ended up rebooting my phone that the S3 was tethered to. After rebooting my phone, my S3 was back to normal battery life. Go figure!
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On Android Wear weather and smarter watch faces normally takes quite a lot of battery.
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It was definitely not an app gone wild. In fact, the gear app showed the *only* battery usage was the watch face, and I've been using the same one for weeks.
In my case, as everyone else said, a factory reset fixed whatever the issue was. I restored the same apps and faces from backup. Battery life is back to 1.5 days with screen always on.
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Aaaaaand it's back. Been running solid for days with ample battery remaining.
Last night I powered off the watch, which I had not done since I factory reset last week. This was the first time it has been rebooted or power cycled since the reset.
I noted it showed 55% battery when I put it on the charger last night. That was typical of what I've seen over the last several days after 18+hr days.
This morning I powered on at 7:30am. I have not run any apps on it, or used it for anything other than a watch with the same face I've had the entire time.
In 3.5 hours the battery has dropped to 75%.
The last several days it's been above 90% until well after lunch, even with use.
Don't know what is going on.
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Update on today:
7:30am 100%
5:30pm 20% (last 2 hrs in power save mode)
Previous 5 days:
6:30am 100%
10:30pm >50%
(That's with always on display)
This doesn't feel like a battery calibration issue. The previous days I get a solid 36 hrs with AOD on.
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Do you guys know if the Batter drain is greater if the watch is not connected to the phone? I got a Classic and Frontier. Went to bed with about 5% difference in battery...and woke up to find a 20% difference between the two.
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Do you guys know if the Batter drain is greater if the watch is not connected to the phone? I got a Classic and Frontier. Went to bed with about 5% difference in battery...and woke up to find a 20% difference between the two.
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The cellular radio is a major drain on the battery. It can be set to ON, OFF, or AUTO. By default it's set to AUTO and will be activated when disconnected from the phone. Under the best circumstances in standalone mode, it can drain at more than 2% per hour. In an area with a weak signal, the battery can be drained dry in a handful of hours.
So I bought my gear s3 two days ago, and it was on Tizen 3.0, with the battery draining from 100% to around 15% in 14 hours of moderate use. Last night, I updated to Tizen 3.0.0.1, which claimed to improve battery usage, but today, just a mere 2 hours into the day with almost no usage and I am left with 89%! Is this normal? Based on this use, I would have to charge my gear every single night to be able to make it through the next day. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
(According to my gear app I should have 2 days of battery life, but it ends up barely lasting me through the day.)
Yes, unfortunately that is what I get too!
If I turn AOD off, it'll only use 25% per day!
But when I was on 2.3 it lasted that long with AOD on!
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Yes, unfortunately that is what I get too!
If I turn AOD off, it'll only use 25% per day!
But when I was on 2.3 it lasted that long with AOD on!
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My experience as well. Not only is the battery usage is much higher, but the screen respond is horrible since the update. I can live with it, but I don't like it.
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