For those concerned about Moto 360 battery life

[ZivZulander]

Re: For those concerned about battery life

Used mine Saturday, about the same usage as the OP, except with a lot more facebook messages and about the same amount of texts. Went about 17 hours on a charge and still had a little over 30% when I got home to go to bed. once you stop dicking with the screen all the time looking at all the features and testing everything out and just look at it when you get notifications, or talk to it to reply to messages here and there, it lasts all day.

Ars also says that the processor is not powerful enough and the screen stutters and hangs. Have you experienced this?

 

[jameskk1]

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Took mine off charger at 6:45 this morning. I haven't really played with it all day. Just used it for normal viewing of notifications and a couple sending of texts and calling people. Right now it's 6:23 and it's at 44%. I would say this is on par with what I got with the Samsung Gear. Overall I am much happier with the Moto 360 because the text is much larger than on the Samsung. I can read it very clearly compared to the Samsung.

 

[turnerm]

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Maybe I'm doing something wrong? My battery life is HORRENDOUS!! To say that I was disappointed today would be an understatement. I picked mine up on Saturday afternoon, charged it up and then started playing with it. It was dead by the time I went to bed. So I figured - OK... I just used it too much so let's see how it goes after a good charge overnight.

So I put it on my wrist around 8am on Sunday morning and it's telling me I've got 10% battery life left around 2pm. Huh? So I charge it up and notice it's at 100% sometime around 6. Put it back on and it's nearly dead by the time I go to bed around 11:30.

So I figured I'd try it out today - a normal workday. The thing was ABSOLUTELY dead by 2pm and I promise you I only looked at the time about 5 or 6 times. No I DO receive a ton of emails everyday but come on... I didn't even look at the watch except to tell the time.

Clearly, based on the experiences here I've either got a highly defective watch or I'm doing something wrong.

Also - it has been VERY slow to turn on when I turn my wrist over to read the time. I usually have to tap it or hit the button on the side just to get it to turn on. Any ideas? I'm lost and was about to take it back to Best Buy before coming here. I really want to like it but if it can't last more than a half day then it's worthless to me.

 

[smooth4lyfe]

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Yeah after I have been using mine, the battery is not as bad as what people are making it out to be

 

[88 FLUX]

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Guys, I hate to have to report this to everyone. But I must have gotten some mythical 2nd generation Moto 360 (we'll call it the Moto 720). Because I'm still not experiencing any issues including battery life. It's been on my wrist since 9:15 AM. Just about every notification I got today was checked on my Moto 360 because I'm at a conference in Orlando so my phone barely came out of my pocket. This included reviewing at least 30 emails, reading over 40 Hangouts messages, checking the time many times, checking my heart rate once, and using Google Maps Navigation for about an hour while driving around aimlessly in my downtime. At this moment, I am at 56% (editing post to state that it is currently 9:20 PM in my time zone). I'm sure there are defects out there. But I am fairly confident that most "reviews" claiming 12 or less hours of battery life are judging it based on a day of playing with it like a toy. Especially since they were quick to jump on the bandwagon within hours of having it in their hand.

Also, I personally can give a crap less about it having an older processor. We're talking about an extremely lightweight OS that doesn't need a lot of processing power. Should Moto have used a more up to date processor? Probably. But it may have jacked the price to $299 or higher which people would have then complained about as well.

Overall, my battery life has actually been better and the OS has been much for fluid than both of those items on my LG G Watch. And that's all that matters to me. Probably the same reason why benchmarks mean absolutely nothing to me and real world experience means everything.

Moral of the story, I think some people just simply need something to complain about. I'm sorry to anyone having legitimate issues with the device. I just haven't had any myself.

 

[Green_Laser]

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Pretty interesting mixed results.

I know, this probably has ZERO to do with it, however, maybe, just maybe the device the 360 is paired with is what is causing a faster drain?
I know, sounds weird, the watch has newer Bluetooth, though maybe some phones paired maybe don't have same Bluetooth version, even though it's backwards compatible.

Those with the watches, could you report the phone your watch is paired with, and if your batt drainage is good/bad on 360?

Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. Just pondering how the results so mixed, inconsistent results.

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[anon154738]

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Pretty interesting mixed results.

I know, this probably has ZERO to do with it, however, maybe, just maybe the device the 360 is paired with is what is causing a faster drain?
I know, sounds weird, the watch has newer Bluetooth, though maybe some phones paired maybe don't have same Bluetooth version, even though it's backwards compatible.

Those with the watches, could you report the phone your watch is paired with, and if your batt drainage is good/bad on 360?

Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. Just pondering how the results so mixed, inconsistent results.

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I was thinking the same thing. The phone could have something to do with it. How? No idea....

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[MannyZ28]

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I want to add another requirement for posting your battery life experience: Is Ambient on or off?

By default, Ambient is off, so if you haven't turned it on it should be off.

So going forward, lets include the Phone the 360 is paired with and whether Ambient is on or off.

Thanks to everyone that has shared their experience so far.

 

[turnerm]

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I have mine paired with a Samsun Note 3. Ambient is off, auto brightness on.

As another frame of reference. I charged the watch up when I got home tonight. Put it on the charger around 7:30. It was at 90% around 9pm. I put it back on my wrist. It's now about midnight and I've got 58% battery life left. This tells me that I can expect to get about 6-7 hours out of it which is just CRAZY. And I haven't really even done anything with it since I've had it on.

I'll give it one more test run tomorrow and if dies on me around 2pm or so as I suspect that it will... it's going back. I just can't justify spending $250 on a watch that only lasts a third of my day. I don't mind charging every night but having to charge in the middle of the day completely defeats the purpose when it's a watch that we're talking about!

 

[MannyZ28]

Re: For those concerned about battery life

I have mine paired with a Samsun Note 3. Ambient is off, auto brightness on.

As another frame of reference. I charged the watch up when I got home tonight. Put it on the charger around 7:30. It was at 90% around 9pm. I put it back on my wrist. It's now about midnight and I've got 58% battery life left. This tells me that I can expect to get about 6-7 hours out of it which is just CRAZY. And I haven't really even done anything with it since I've had it on.

I'll give it one more test run tomorrow and if dies on me around 2pm or so as I suspect that it will... it's going back. I just can't justify spending $250 on a watch that only lasts a third of my day. I don't mind charging every night but having to charge in the middle of the day completely defeats the purpose when it's a watch that we're talking about!

Crap, I have a Note 3 as well, hope that it's a defective watch and the phone does not have anything to do with poor battery life. Still waiting on mine.

 

[Bigchris]

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Ok, so got the 360 on Saturday, and played with it off and on trying to get everything ready for today, WORK. So, I took it off the charger around 5am, had a few phone calls, maybe 20 txts and about 10 emails, a light day for me. By the time I got home phone was at 29% at 6pm. Today I tired it with ambient off, phone is M8, I'm playing the settings today to see where the sweet spot is, I also had brightness on 5 too. I'm going to reserve my final opinion about the battery for a few more test through out the week. Im glad to see some are getting excellent life, that gives me hope.

 

[Green_Laser]

Re: For those concerned about battery life

I have mine paired with a Samsun Note 3. Ambient is off, auto brightness on.

As another frame of reference. I charged the watch up when I got home tonight. Put it on the charger around 7:30. It was at 90% around 9pm. I put it back on my wrist. It's now about midnight and I've got 58% battery life left. This tells me that I can expect to get about 6-7 hours out of it which is just CRAZY. And I haven't really even done anything with it since I've had it on.

I'll give it one more test run tomorrow and if dies on me around 2pm or so as I suspect that it will... it's going back. I just can't justify spending $250 on a watch that only lasts a third of my day. I don't mind charging every night but having to charge in the middle of the day completely defeats the purpose when it's a watch that we're talking about!

wow sounds horrendous
the way it sounds, at least to me, is that you got a lemon
can you exchange to see if you get better results?

is everyone on the same version of AW? (Current Version is 1.0.1.1379611) There may be only one version - I'm not sure.

 

[MannyZ28]

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Ok, so got the 360 on Saturday, and played with it off and on trying to get everything ready for today, WORK. So, I took it off the charger around 5am, had a few phone calls, maybe 20 txts and about 10 emails, a light day for me. By the time I got home phone was at 29% at 6pm. Today I tired it with ambient off, phone is M8, I'm playing the settings today to see where the sweet spot is, I also had brightness on 5 too. I'm going to reserve my final opinion about the battery for a few more test through out the week. Im glad to see some are getting excellent life, that gives me hope.

So on the day when you started at 5 AM and ended at 6 PM with 29% you had Ambient on the entire time? If so, that's not bad at all.

 

[Green_Laser]

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So on the day when you started at 5 AM and ended at 6 PM with 29% you had Ambient on the entire time? If so, that's not bad at all.

my thoughts exactly

 

[turnerm]

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wow sounds horrendous
the way it sounds, at least to me, is that you got a lemon
can you exchange to see if you get better results?

is everyone on the same version of AW? (Current Version is 1.0.1.1379611) There may be only one version - I'm not sure.

I even deleted and redownloaded AW and reset the watch. I either got a lemon or there is some sort of issue with the Note 3.

 

[Bigchris]

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Ambient off.

 

[MannyZ28]

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OH... just thought it might have been on because in your next sentence you said "Today I tried with ambient off".

 

[Bigchris]

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OH... just thought it might have been on because in your next sentence you said "Today I tried with ambient off".

When I first got it it was on, turned it off Sunday night in preparation for Monday to see how it would work out that way. I'll give it a week to see how things go.

 

[clevin]

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I don't even know why anybody would think everybody will have the same battery performed.

This thread is, no offense, not very helpful, in that it doesn't really provide any guidance for anybody.

Maybe a new thread regarding how to conserve battery should be opened.

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[unregistered4]

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For those with bad battery life, where are you keeping your phone in relation to your watch? I had an early version of the metawatch that would chew up battery when I kept my phone on the charger and walked around the house -- forcing the watch to consume more power to keep the connection. I suspect that same phenomenon would be at play on the 360.

My one day test was better than anticipated: ambient off/auto brightness on; 16 hours of moderate use with 35 percent left in the tank; original Moto X.