Screen burn in with AOD. - Samsung Gear S3

I hate to say this but AOD might not be a good choice on this watch. I have had AOD on for the past 2 days and right not when i got a text i saw that some on the watch face was still on the screen. It wasnt excessive so im hoping it goes away but just letting you guys know that it can get burned in. And just incase youre wondering. I was using a stock watch face so its not a bad third party watch face. And final thing, on my past 2 smart watches you could tell when the watch face would shift every minute with AOD but with this watch it doesnt seem to shift the watch face at all.

I know Tizen states on their website that AOD does move pixels, but I'm sure it's harder for analog faces over digital and the size of the screen.
https://developer.tizen.org/design/wearable/watch-face
Scroll down to "Screen burn" and you'll see they state it moves.
Now I'm not saying it's not possible, in fact I myself don't trust the size of the screen and disable AOD on my watch.

ErickF said:
I hate to say this but AOD might not be a good choice on this watch. I have had AOD on for the past 2 days and right not when i got a text i saw that some on the watch face was still on the screen. It wasnt excessive so im hoping it goes away but just letting you guys know that it can get burned in. And just incase youre wondering. I was using a stock watch face so its not a bad third party watch face. And final thing, on my past 2 smart watches you could tell when the watch face would shift every minute with AOD but with this watch it doesnt seem to shift the watch face at all.
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Did the burn-in go away? Which watch face were you using?

Thankfully it did go away. It was the Urban Classic watch face. Looked so nice with AOD but not going to use it anymore

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Thankfully it did go away. It was the Urban Classic watch face. Looked so nice with AOD but not going to use it anymore
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I just turned my AOD off, just got it today, dont want to take a chance. Until we find out more
Plus with how fast the screen turns on when you raise your arm to look at it, don't really need it much.

ab30494 said:
I just turned my AOD off, just got it today, dont want to take a chance. Until we find out more
Plus with how fast the screen turns on when you raise your arm to look at it, don't really need it much.
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I tested the AOD with a third party watchface that i used to use with my gear s2 and i know that for sure it would move around every minute and the movements on the gear s3 were so small that most watchfaces should have an issue with it. Even the stock one. Defenetly dont use it for now. Hopefully they change it so that the watchface shifts as much as it did on the s2

Although AOD consumes battery life and may even result in screen burn, I think that it adds a great deal aesthetically, if not functionally, to the watch. For me, this is very important. Even if I have to charge it nightly or file a warranty claim.

afblangley said:
Although AOD consumes battery life and may even result in screen burn, I think that it adds a great deal aesthetically, if not functionally, to the watch. For me, this is very important. Even if I have to charge it nightly or file a warranty claim.
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I agree. Are burn ins covered by warranty for sure? If so the ill use it anyways because it looks much better with AOD

After 2 days?
HIGHLY unlikely. Almost impossible on any display.
And I've used AOD since I got the watch on release. No kind of screen issues.

I've had my watch for almost 4 weeks now and have used the AoD since then and I've not noticed any screen burn at all.
Fingers crossed it remains this way.

afblangley said:
Although AOD consumes battery life and may even result in screen burn, I think that it adds a great deal aesthetically, if not functionally, to the watch. For me, this is very important. Even if I have to charge it nightly or file a warranty claim.
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I agree with you 100%. I usually put my watch on the charger when I get home from work. It's anywhere from about 60 to 75% charged. That's with the brightness up a notch to 8 and AOD. I make no effort to conserve the battery. It charges up in an hour or two and I put it back on.
AOD is a must also. When I'm sitting at my bench I can just glance down and see the time, no wrist flick needed. My guess it will take a very long time for any kind of burn in. By that time the next latest and greatest will be out.
I also work in a heavy industrial area, I have yet to damage this thing but it's going to happen. By the time there is any screen burn it will probably be low on the list of defects.

my wrist flick only works only half the time. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Any suggestions on how I should be flicking my wrist?

You don't have to "flick" your wrist. It's just the rotation of your arm. You can do it slow or fast. Just turn your arm round to show your watchface.

I feel the same way. Had the watch about 3 weeks now and AOD on since. No issues here. I even have a 3rd party face.

I guess ill try it again after a factory reset. Hopefully it was just a glitch for me.

Good morning, I'm noticing an excessive consumption when AOD use, about 1% every 30 minutes, AOD off the battery might not go down every hour or more. I am connected to iPhone 7+ I have everything turned off except Bluetooth, use face Samsung Watch Dashboard Gear. also consumes too much energy in AOD with brightness at minimum.

It completely depends which watch face you are using. They all have different AOD faces, and use different amounts of power.

zazadj81 said:
Good morning, I'm noticing an excessive consumption when AOD use, about 1% every 30 minutes, AOD off the battery might not go down every hour or more. I am connected to iPhone 7+ I have everything turned off except Bluetooth, use face Samsung Watch Dashboard Gear. also consumes too much energy in AOD with brightness at minimum.
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1%/30min. is normal. That's 2%/hour which means you will have about 50h (two full days). It is the same most of us get out of it with AOD

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If you are worried about burn in use faces that don't have a lot of colors that include blue( purple, white, etc). The lifetime of the blue emitter on OLED is the least by far and is most susceptible to degradation (burn). The lifetimes of red and green emitters are much longer so colors that use those are not likely to burn.
Display orbiting only helps a little, instead of burning a lot in a small spot you will burn a little in a larger spot.
Blue is also the least power efficient, it takes more power to light a blue emitter to the same brightness as red or green. So faces with a lot of blue in them (or colors containing blue) will drain the battery faster.

Since the S3 is new, we're all speculating on the possibility of screen burn. But the S2 has been out for a year. Are there any S2 users who have experienced this problem?

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Battery life horrible? Try this!!

For all you guys who need the edge on battery, and dont need alot of screen brightness, like me, then try out this app on the play store called screen filter. (I am not affiliated with this in any way, I just like the way it works). What it does is apply a "film" over your screen going even lower than android screen brightness. Perfect for office setting (like me), at night when brightness is too much (laying in bed playing a game), or where bright lights might not be wanted (movie theater, work, etc...). I personally love it, I use it usually at 75% with the android brightness off, and everything is still visible, just that extra kick of brightness is gone. Sometimes I go down to 50%, but that gets me seeing my reflection just as well as the screen itself...
It also helps to keep out them creepers that try to look at your screen while sending private texts, pics, etc... Helps keep wandering eyes off of the fancy 4.8 super AMOLED display!
You can add widgets to custom brightness settings to suit yourself, I have 4 right on one of my screens that I use frequently!
I recommend this app to anyone and everyone!
It wont let me post links, but if you search "screen filter" it should be the first app. The logo has a white rectangle outlined in orange with a grey circle in the corner. Not too hard to find at all.
I'm almost positive that screen filter won't increase battery life. I think the phone basically "thinks" its still at a higher brightness than what you see, so it really doesn't improve battery life. I may be wrong though but I remember seeing that when I used it on my droid x.
kench33 said:
I'm almost positive that screen filter won't increase battery life. I think the phone basically "thinks" its still at a higher brightness than what you see, so it really doesn't improve battery life. I may be wrong though but I remember seeing that when I used it on my droid x.
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OLED pixels produce their own light (that is, without a separate backlight). Colors are made darker by dimming pixels. If the app makes what's being displayed on the screen darker, it should be helping battery life. The same reasoning applies to saving juice with dark backgrounds and inverted apps. It just only works on OLED screens and not backlit screen types.
Okay. I wasn't sure if I remembered correctly. Thanks!
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Lux Auto Brightness works a little better, in my opinion. It can go less than the screen's brightness without the filter look.
Hi guys,
A friends uses auto brightness, and only speaks ~ 20 minutes / day. A few browsing, reading e-mails, games, just got him at 2 days of usage. Not bad in my oppinion, but certainly they should have improved the battery.
To me it seems like the battery life is longer. My first week of use around 9 or so it would be in the red, but using it throughout the day, at 9 tonight it sits at 37%. Yes it will vary depending on use, but mine has been on battery 15h 30m and screen is only 18%. Cell standby is 30%, and chrome and facebook are each 11%. Everything else is quite small compared to those main apps used.
It seems to me it is helping, but it may not idk. I will continue to use it unless I run into a major issue with it.
gkrules said:
Lux Auto Brightness works a little better, in my opinion. It can go less than the screen's brightness without the filter look.
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+1 to Lux. Set your own brightness levels for various light levels. It can make the brightness very low, almost not visible.
TheLynxy said:
+1 to Lux. Set your own brightness levels for various light levels. It can make the brightness very low, almost not visible.
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Anyone have some good values for the automatic brightness settings? I just want to go dimmer across the board compared to stock but I'm confused with all the options so far lol
Alex_Hypnose said:
just got him at 2 days of usage. Not bad in my oppinion, but certainly they should have improved the battery.
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Lol two days of usage and you think the battery needs to be "improved"??
How good does it have to be before people don't complain about it??
jmorton10 said:
Lol two days of usage and you think the battery needs to be "improved"??
How good does it have to be before people don't complain about it??
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I would be happy to get 2 days of usage... I probably could get 1 and a quarter, but I charge mine every night to be safe. Really varies on how much I use it during the day. Some nights I plug it in with 10% others with 50%... I know its not the best for the battery, but I just plan on getting a new one when this one takes a crap. I have a feeling this phone will be around long enough that the option will still be available
XXchocolatetouchXX said:
but I charge mine every night to be safe. Really varies on how much I use it during the day. Some nights I plug it in with 10% others with 50%... I know its not the best for the battery
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That won't hurt the battery, I plug mine in every night also.
Thanks!
What I'd like
jmorton10 said:
Lol two days of usage and you think the battery needs to be "improved"??
How good does it have to be before people don't complain about it??
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What I would like is for my battery to last just *ONE* day. It doesn't do that. I don't mind charging it every night, but I'd prefer it last the day without me having to either charge it or switch batteries.
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nice find
nice find on this. i use inverted apps, and i like the way this works

Gear S2 "Always On" Brightness

Is the always on mode screen supposed to look brighter than brightness level 1 when it's awake? I got a new Gear S2 Classic and don't really recall if my previous one was like this. To me, it looks noticeably brighter since I normally keep my brightness on 1 or 2.
It's my opinion that the always on watch hands are displayed at only one intensity (probably 1 or 2?). No matter what level you set the brightness, the always on watch hands are rather dim.
Is there anyway to show more that just hands ?
My S2 does not stay always on, when set to do so.
obsydian said:
Is there anyway to show more that just hands ?
My S2 does not stay always on, when set to do so.
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I think it actually turns off if you completely ignore so many notifications. Not sure specifically but that is my guess.
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obsydian said:
Is there anyway to show more that just hands ?
My S2 does not stay always on, when set to do so.
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Some of the 3rd party watchfaces have more detail in ambient mode. All the stock faces default to hour/minute hand or digital time. I have one clocki face that has tick marks, hour numbers, large hands, and day date showing during ambient mode. It actually looks like a standard watch in ambient mode. that has been on of the best points of Android Wear watches, and I am glad it is on the S2. Early Gear models didn't have ambient, the Gear S had ambient with very little detail. It does increase battery usage, but I still easily get a full day use with battery to spare when I run a detailed ambient face all day.

Gear S2 Battery Life differences from one person to another illuminated....

I have had a Gear S2 for a few month now. Well... not entirely true. I was without for about a month. I sent the first one in to a repair depot who kept it for over a month. In the end I am still awaiting refund but I bought another one. (Side note, Samsung support is the worst I have ever experiences on the planet in over 40 years of dealing with C.S. Count your blessings if you do not have to deal with them)
I have a friend who also has an S2 his is a few moths older now and his battery life is always excellent.
He has sound off, wifi off, NFC, GPS off but bluetooth is on as is his 3G radio.
I have notifications/sound on, 3G radio Off, wifi Off, NFC Off, GPS Off and bluetooth On.
We would compare in the afternoon and I would be around 55-60 percent and he would be mid to high 80's
Even my brand new one that is 4 months newer than his is the same. We sat next to one another in a training class and I started to notice that his watch face was pretty much always off. We both had Gesture On enabled but mine was on far more than his.
I turned gesture On- off and found after 16 hours I was just under 70%. About 2% an hour. That was the best I had ever seen!!
I have been using it that way for 4 days and repeat the results. My next questions are, is it the sensor or the actual movement regardless of the screen state that burns up so much battery?
In other word if I put 2 side by side with gesture on and moved one of them regularly but not to a degree that the screen came on would that one have a lower battery?
In the end, for me what I discovered was that well.. I move more than he does. I have a much higher step count and I am more physically active. Turning off "Gesture On" made this watch more useful to me but it annoys me that I have to press buttons to see notifications.
I am going to see if I can find a way to make a suggestion upstream to Samsung to add a second Gesture On mode that it is only enabled for say 20-30 seconds after a beep/vibrate notification. That should be easily do-able as that is just software.
The second request I have is to allow me to set the angle to which the watch must be to turn it on. Instead of simply facing straight up, maybe more to an angle as if I held it up to face me would be nice..... If I know how it has to be to turn it on I would just set it that way to light it up.... Of course this is also all predicated on the notion that it is not the sensor itself that consumes so much battery.
Same issue on ALL this kind of watch. I really read the time 50 times at days but all my (gesture on) watch turn on 800 time at days so of course much drain that other people who do not move her arm along the day....
I've only had mine for literally 3 days. So far I think the battery life is pretty good. If I don't play with it much I can end a day at about 50%.
I had the 1st galaxy gear and an apple watch, both of those were horrible with the battery. I could only get 6 hours with my Apple watch.
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konaman said:
I've only had mine for literally 3 days. So far I think the battery life is pretty good. If I don't play with it much I can end a day at about 50%.
I had the 1st galaxy gear and an apple watch, both of those were horrible with the battery. I could only get 6 hours with my Apple watch.
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the apple watch is disappointing. Let's hope the next gen will be better. I'll be happier knowing whether to choose the gear s3 or the apple watch. But it depends on the support samsung gives apple

AOD doesnt turn off in the dark?

hey guy's its my first samsung and was wondering why AOD doesnt detect full darkness when autobrightness is on and doesnt go dark when in total darkness or in pocket etc.
Also if I dont enable edge lighting and get a notification therea no popup on the aod screen at all? no way to have it like aosp or pixel? Or the best would be for screen to wake when notification comes and then go dark leaving icon to show notification.
Last question, is there a way to make the edge lighting style toast notification bubble dark on dark more and not that white bubble? i cant get goodlock to work in my country evem with vpn install it says the modules arent for my phone.
It's not supposed to when it's set to be on continously; it will only change brightness intensity in accordance to ambient levels.
Or this can be set to any level if you chose not to use the auto-brightness feature.
You can set it to double tap on when needed or never to be on at all.
So just how deep does the Sammy rabbit hole go?
Very deep.
blackhawk said:
It's not supposed to when it's set to be on continously; it will only change brightness intensity in accordance to ambient levels.
Or this can be set to any level if you chose not to use the auto-brightness feature.
You can set it to double tap on when needed or never to be on at all.
So just how deep does the Sammy rabbit hole go?
Very deep.
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lol i have a k20 Pro also and on miui the aod stays untill your in complete darkness, which is logical? miui has lockscreen wake when notification comes also like ios. Way better then edge bubble thing or not having any popup?
when the phone is on the desk i want to see who messaged and then decide to check or not.
Mooatreides said:
lol i have a k20 Pro also and on miui the aod stays untill your in complete darkness, which is logical? miui has lockscreen wake when notification comes also like ios. Way better then edge bubble thing or not having any popup?
when the phone is on the desk i want to see who messaged and then decide to check or not.
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I'm running Pie on a Note 10+ so it's they are two very different Android variants.
Controls may be hidden in settings or elsewhere.
I go looking through all the settings that I can find. Even after a year occasionally I find something new; lots of settings.
Androids are like a game... not a boring Apple
Back in the older days pre note 9 AOD actually turned off when you placed phone face down or if you used a wallet type holder or covered proximity sensor ( good ). Samsung then at some point changed their proximity sensor type whereby this feature would be no longer supported. I think the note 8 was the last samsung I owned that worked this way.
However I never recall it ever going completely dark / off even in a pitch dark room.
hmm wierd they would take that feature off why not turn it off when its not needed (aod).
is there another way to have notifications popup on aod apart from edge lightning? like on pixels pr aosp rom?
Mooatreides said:
hmm wierd they would take that feature off why not turn it off when its not needed (aod).
is there another way to have notifications popup on aod apart from edge lightning? like on pixels pr aosp rom?
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I agree. The feature was really beneficial especially for those that use wallet type cases. You open the cover and AOD activated regardless of it being a mom genuine case.
PS. I think the change actually came about after the note 9 series with their under the screen type proximity sensor implementation from s10 onwards.
Limeybastard said:
Back in the older days pre note 9 AOD actually turned off when you placed phone face down or if you used a wallet type holder or covered proximity sensor ( good ). Samsung then at some point changed their proximity sensor type whereby this feature would be no longer supported. I think the note 8 was the last samsung I owned that worked this way.
However I never recall it ever going completely dark / off even in a pitch dark room.
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With only a few OLEDs active their power drain is slight. Their mosfet drivers are very efficient.
The current used additional sensing of previous versions may have been more prohibitive than that of the active OLEDs.
I just leave mine on; turning off decreases off time battery consumption by 20% or so. Not as much as you think as other systems run regardless unless you power the phone off.
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With only a few OLEDs active their power drain is slight. Their mosfet drivers are very efficient.
The current used additional sensing of previous versions may have been more prohibitive than that of the active OLEDs.
I just leave mine on; turning off decreases off time battery consumption by 20% or so. Not as much as you think as other systems run regardless unless you power the phone off.
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I'd vouch for your last paragraph. Screen off drain has become the achilles heel of the galaxy devices more so than before. I can't seem to get below at best 0.4% drain per hour if I'm lucky . I need to look into some of the methods you mentioned in this forum.
Limeybastard said:
I'd vouch for your last paragraph. Screen off drain has become the achilles heel of the galaxy devices more so than before. I can't seem to get below at best 0.4% drain per hour if I'm lucky . I need to look into some of the methods you mentioned in this forum.
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That's probably as good as it gets. Cell standby and device idle are needed otherwise simply power it down.
With AOD always on I figure 1% or less @ hr is good performance.
Tap on only improves it but I like stuff that glows.
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That's probably as good as it gets. Cell standby and device idle are needed otherwise simply power it down.
With AOD always on I figure 1% or less @ hr is good performance.
Tap on only improves it but I like stuff that glows.
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Yeah but,.no but, yeah but... My Moto.G gets 1 to 2 percent evrrynight. " Totally unacceptable for a $1399 msrp device".I'm gonna use this line like the noobies do better still use it as my signature.
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That's probably as good as it gets. Cell standby and device idle are needed otherwise simply power it down.
With AOD always on I figure 1% or less @ hr is good performance.
Tap on only improves it but I like stuff that glows.
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on my k20pro i can get 0.4% and hour idle with aosp rom and like 8-11% active.
here i dont want to root so cant use franko manager to see or app with real data.
this white bubble with edge lighting notifications is annoyinf i cant make it dark??
o **** this app aodnotify does exactly what I want, gives an led circle and shows message preview
orr even better this glimpse app remplaces aod edge lighting with simple lockscreen wake then back to aod with app icon. On regular screen on edge behaviour is the same.
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Yeah but,.no but, yeah but... My Moto.G gets 1 to 2 percent evrrynight. " Totally unacceptable for a $1399 msrp device".I'm gonna use this line like the noobies do better still use it as my signature.
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Over 1% some apks are running amuck*. The 10+ use to do that.
It's very irritating.
*it's a quaint Android custom

Question AOD or Raise wrist to wake?

Since the Galaxy Watch 4 is not a champion when it comes to battery life, I'm sure we're many wanting at least 2 days battery life WITHOUT disabling all the features that made us bought the GW4 at the first place.
I can easily achieve 2 days battery life AOD Off, Wifi Off. All the other features is turned on.
I was wondering if turning on AOD and disabling Raise Wrist to wake would still grant me 2 days battery life since I heard that apparently RWTW consume a pretty good amount of battery every time we tilt our wrist.
How about you guys?
AOD off is a dealbreaker for me. Any watch that doesn't have real and usable AOD, I would not buy. So I would never turn off AOD (unless I was caught somewhere with a low battery condition). I leave raise to wake also on. I know these will suck battery, but that is how I insist on using the watch. To conserve other power, I turn off WiFi and NFC. Not much else I can do.
i don't really care about battery life that much, as long as I can get through a typical day. Charging once a day is fine with me. I have been doing it for many years with the Moto 360 1, Moto 360 2, and S3. I just hope it does wear out the battery too soon (as in, diminished capacity).
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AOD off is a dealbreaker for me. Any watch that doesn't have real and usable AOD, I would not buy. So I would never turn off AOD (unless I was caught somewhere with a low battery condition). I leave raise to wake also on. I know these will suck battery, but that is how I insist on using the watch. To conserve other power, I turn off WiFi and NFC. Not much else I can do.
i don't really care about battery life that much, as long as I can get through a typical day. Charging once a day is fine with me. I have been doing it for many years with the Moto 360 1, Moto 360 2, and S3. I just hope it does wear out the battery too soon (as in, diminished capacity).
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With that configuration how long does the watch stand approximately? Do you track sleep at night and with a workout routine does the watch still have battery left until the morning?
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AOD off is a dealbreaker for me. Any watch that doesn't have real and usable AOD, I would not buy. So I would never turn off AOD (unless I was caught somewhere with a low battery condition). I leave raise to wake also on. I know these will suck battery, but that is how I insist on using the watch. To conserve other power, I turn off WiFi and NFC. Not much else I can do.
i don't really care about battery life that much, as long as I can get through a typical day. Charging once a day is fine with me. I have been doing it for many years with the Moto 360 1, Moto 360 2, and S3. I just hope it does wear out the battery too soon (as in, diminished capacity).
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I must confess I've never really understood the need for AOD as long as the wrist gesture to wake works properly (which admittedly hasn't always been the case) - and I'll take the extra battery life with it off any day over any real or perceived inconvenience of turning your wrist to see the time.
I haven't yet been able to fully determine how well it works on the GW4, but on the Gear S3 it was perfectly fine, so I am expecting it to be at least as good.
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I must confess I've never really understood the need for AOD as long as the wrist gesture to wake works properly (which admittedly hasn't always been the case)
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In my case, I often look at my watch at times I don't want to perform an obvious gesture, like in a meeting, or in front of someone. I want to be able to look at the screen anytime, in any circumstance, like a "real" watch.
Also, just vanity, but.... I went to all the expense and fuss to get a classic-looking watch- round, silver, pretty, matching band, fancy classic watch face, to look like a "real" watch, and "real" watches have an always-on display. I have fooled many, many people over the many years, who had no idea I was wearing a smart watch.
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In my case, I often look at my watch at times I don't want to perform an obvious gesture, like in a meeting, or in front of someone. I want to be able to look at the screen anytime, in any circumstance, like a "real" watch.
Also, just vanity, but.... I went to all the expense and fuss to get a classic-looking watch- round, silver, pretty, matching band, fancy classic watch face, to look like a "real" watch, and "real" watches have an always-on display. I have fooled many, many people over the many years, who had no idea I was wearing a smart watch.
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That's fair enough.
AOD is a sure great feature but it has a pretty huge impact on the battery as opposed to what some saying that it only consume few % of battery. In my testing it consumed 20% every 6 hours, and i could definitely feel the difference AOD on and AOD off.
Since my daily routine include a workout session and since I use sleep tracking, I am afraid that my daily routine can't be compatibile with AOD. It's a annoying not to be able to use the watch to full capacity and having to make choice between fancy look and fitness.
Hope they will be able to improve battery life with updates...
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AOD is a sure great feature but it has a pretty huge impact on the battery as opposed to what some saying that it only consume few % of battery. In my testing it consumed 20% every 6 hours, and i could definitely feel the difference AOD on and AOD off.
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It will vary a LOT depending on which watch face. Probably why most faces have light indicators on a dark background. Also, some faces have a much "simpler" mode when in dim/inactive mode. But yes, it will consume a lot of battery compared to AOD off, unless the dim/inactive mode is very simple and dim. But if it is too simple/dim, it might not even worth having AOD on.
Watchmaker has a feature which shows how many pixels are on with each face, both in active and standby mode. Can be useful. Plus you can edit the face to turn whatever part of the face you want off in dim/standby mode to help save power. The face I am using now, I turned off the logo, always, and the second hand and some of the background off in standby/dim mode.
crxssi said:
It will vary a LOT depending on which watch face. Probably why most faces have light indicators on a dark background. Also, some faces have a much "simpler" mode when in dim/inactive mode. But yes, it will consume a lot of battery compared to AOD off, unless the dim/inactive mode is very simple and dim. But if it is too simple/dim, it might not even worth having AOD on.
Watchmaker has a feature which shows how many pixels are on with each face, both in active and standby mode. Can be useful. Plus you can edit the face to turn whatever part of the face you want off in dim/standby mode to help save power. The face I am using now, I turned off the logo, always, and the second hand and some of the background off in standby/dim mode.
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Thanks for the tips!

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