6.0 Marshmallow: Hurting battery life of Bluetooth Low Energy devices?

goliatham

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TLDR version:
It strikes me as quite a coincidence that the charge hr and keylink both start experiencing this right after a marshmallow update.
Anyone else seeing similar issues?
Any suggestions on fixes?

Details:
I just updated my motox pure to Marshmallow on Sunday, and also charge my fitbit charge hr.
On Tuesday the fitbit battery hit low (normally lasts at least 4 days). I charged again.
On Thursday, the fitbit battery hit empty, and I got a notify that my moto keylink battery was low.
I charged Thursday evening, followed fitbit restart procedures, rebooted phone.
Friday morning, fitbit is at Medium.
I wasn't really following my keylink battery status. I just got it around the end of october, so it's quite early to be dying.

I don't seem to be having issues with battery life on my headsets. The phone might be a little worse on battery since marshmallow, but nothing too significant.
 

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Re: Marshmallow hurting battery life of BLE devices?

Do you have the FitBit HR set up as a trusted device? Do you have ring notification turned on?

I've also noticed that my Charge HR's battery has been going down pretty quick, but I have those things turned on. I'll turn them off and see what happens.

*edit*
Do you have always connected selected in the fitbit device settings? I just enabled it to see if there would be any warnings, and it said that being always connected will drain your battery faster.
 

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