Battery life? What the?

[keri2000]

Um so I was fully charged this AM at 5:30 and it's my first day with the watch. It died at 3PM. I used it only to track a 30 minute walk at lunch and switched the watch face once. Tell me this is not normal. I thought it had at least double the life of an apple watch. I can't even use it to track my run after work now...

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[miles4000]

That is not normal. I think most people get at least day and a half of usage. I know I do. What version do you have and what do you have set?

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[keri2000]

I'll have to check. Still at work and the watch is dead... I know it updated when I turned it on. I don't want to be worrying about my watch making it through the day for my night workouts. I thought this was supposed to have a 2 day battery life.

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[tstreete]

Yeah, this is not normal. Some folks have reported that it took a few charge cycles to get it up to full charge, and there are big differences in battery life depending on settings and usage scenarios, especially if you have a 3G version of the watch. On my non-3G watch, if I turn off the "always on" setting and use a largely black watchface, I'm often still above 50% when I go to bed and put the watch on its charging cradle, even with a workout during the day.

 

[msgwolf]

Good evening,
Battery life will get better, I have had my 3g s2 for about 2 weeks now..I took mine off the charger about 8:30am Tuesday morning and am still at 30%. Biggest things I have found...play with different watch faces and under settings and connections set it to auto switch. I run Bluetooth on all the time.

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[dryja123]

Your battery performance is definitely abnormal. Did you use an application to track your half hour walk? I'm thinking that the application killed your battery. If not, disregard.

I track my runs and walks by using S Health. I'm currently averaging 2 days of battery life easily.

 

[keri2000]

So day #2 and my watch died again at 3:45. I didn't even touch the watch at all. Just normal movement and glancing at the time a few times during the day. I deleted all apps I didn't want and only have notifications turned on for texts and FB messenger. I received 4 texts today and 1 fb message. Could this be because I have the 3g version and really crappy service at work? By crappy I mean like 1 to no bars of service on my phone or on the watch. If the watch can't make it through 24 hours it's useless to me and my clip on fitbit is more useful.

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[keri2000]

I used s health to track my walk. I also have a watch face with a lot of color and features. I am thinking of just making it a boring one for now so it's still use able for my evening runs and hikes. I am not carting around my charger.

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[dryja123]

Yes to your crappy service at work. The 3g radio is working over time trying to get a signal to your watch. That's what's draining your battery.

 

[msgwolf]

Are you running stand alone at work or connected via Bluetooth or WiFi to your phone? Here is the face I am using and getting great battery

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[Polen]

I don't have my promo S2 yet, but I have read that if you run the watch on 3G only, that it will die quickly. It needs to be Bluetooth paired with your phone and set to Auto on the network, so it will only use 3G when you get out of Bluetooth range of your phone. I believe this is how most people use the 3G watch.

 

[msgwolf]

Also even know it is new have you checked and done the update to the watch? It helped a lot too

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[ratsttam]

So day #2 and my watch died again at 3:45. I didn't even touch the watch at all. Just normal movement and glancing at the time a few times during the day. I deleted all apps I didn't want and only have notifications turned on for texts and FB messenger. I received 4 texts today and 1 fb message. Could this be because I have the 3g version and really crappy service at work? By crappy I mean like 1 to no bars of service on my phone or on the watch. If the watch can't make it through 24 hours it's useless to me and my clip on fitbit is more useful.

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Get into our settings and make sure that the auto switch is turned on, so that it disables the 3g radio when it's connected to your phone via bluetooth. As long as you have your phone near you, it should almost never go to 3g itself, and there isn't anything it can't do via bluetooth that it would need to do over 3g or even wireless. Other things you can do, if you didn't already, is disable the "always on" display, and use the "auto display". Saves a lot of battery, and is very good at turning the full watch face on when you go to look at your watch (uses the sensors to detect when you're looking at it, it's pretty good about it. Fitbit charge/hr has the same feature).

I take my watch off the charger at 8pm, and i'm usually still around ~50% when I get home at 8am, and it still has about 30% when I take it off around noon-2pm.

 

[keri2000]

The watch is updated and also connected to Bluetooth at work so it's not in standalone mode. I took it off the charger at 930 today and am not working so we'll see what happens. Also that watch face is the one I am using also.

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