Should I be concerned?

[Floridadomer]

I am only getting 10 hours on my watch. It is my 2nd full day with the watch.
I have the fit app off. I had my brightness on 5 because I like it bright but I turned it down to 4 first thing this morning.
I am using a watch face called RichFace Futuristic and it has used 7% battery. I am not sure if that is bad or not?
Screen is at 20% but I would think that is normal?
I had the 360 when it first came out and pretty sure I was getting around 18-20 hours a day.

 

[rcunningham]

If there is nothing else running and all that is running is like 5 things, then percents go up. But the moto 360 is known for bad battery life.

 

[Aquila]

Do you have the screen always on or tilt to wake or other? My first full day was tracking for 24 hours, the next was for 34 and the current looks like it'll clear 48 hours.

 

[Floridadomer]

Do you have the screen always on or tilt to wake or other? My first full day was tracking for 24 hours, the next was for 34 and the current looks like it'll clear 48 hours.

Tilt. My first day was only 8 hours

 

[chezm]

My 360 can go 48 (sometimes even up to 60) hours on a single charge. I keep my screen brightness at 1 and shut tilt to wake off. With tilt to wake on I can reach almost 48 hours. It's taken a while to get this stable, if you can reduce the brightness further it will definitely help. Remember you're in honeymoon mode, using it a lot with the screen constantly coming on...I only now look at it when I need to. The screen is it's main battery drainer, the least it's turned on the longer the battery will go.

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[TJ Kelly Jr]

Typically when I put mine on the charger it's got close to 50% battery life left, and that's at about 20 hours.

Tilt to wake off
Brightness on auto
Ambient mode off
Theater mode while driving typically (I drive a lot for work)

Occasionally it dies quicker, but a quick reboot and charge fixes that issue. First few days battery drained super fast and I was charging it mid day. Had it since Christmas and rarely have battery issues now unless I'm playing with it all day and customizing the watch face (I created my own, not a play store one).

Also, play store watch faces typically use more battery life per hour than stock, not sure why but I'm sure it's the options that are on them with ambient and such.

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[chezm]

Forgot to add here's my current battery rating I also shut my watch off at night when sleeping

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[g2_havok]

after the honeymoon phase was over, i've been getting about ~24-30 hours per charge. this is with ambient, tilt, heartrate, pedometer off. i suspect if i used a really simple watchface, i'd get even more life out of it. my current watchface displays watch and phone battery life.

i think as long as people have reasonable expectations of how to use the smartwatch, its a great tool. like many, i no longer have to pull my phone out of my pocket for any notification, i can make quick and simple replies via voice, i can keep notes and do other simple tasks.

since i was always a watch wearer, looking at the phone for the time was a redundant action. i can now go back to my decades old habit of looking at a watch for the time (and the time will be accurate)! and get simple smart functions to boot!

 

[radgatt]

I'm am concerned about my watch. I used to get great battery life for this watch. I used to start my day around 8:00 am and put it on the charger around 11:00 pm and have over 50% battery. Now I can't even make it to 2:00 pm before it dies. I don't have anything on it. I use the stock watch faces. This is getting annoying. Anyone have any suggestions?

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[g2_havok]

looks like bluetooth is running more than it should. does the watch and phone run hot? does your phone run out of battery quickly too? i ran into that problem a couple of times myself. i had to disconnect the 360 from wear, turn off bluetooth on phone, reboot the watch, clear the wear app cache on the phone, reboot the phone, turn on bluetooth, coonect to 360 from wear. i've been getting 24+ hours since then. i've posted somewhere else that there may be some glitches in the handshake process when connecting to the watch but that is just an assumption based on observations...

 

[Floridadomer]

I'm am concerned about my watch. I used to get great battery life for this watch. I used to start my day around 8:00 am and put it on the charger around 11:00 pm and have over 50% battery. Now I can't even make it to 2:00 pm before it dies. I don't have anything on it. I use the stock watch faces. This is getting annoying. Anyone have any suggestions?

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Just out of curiosity, did you update Android Wear to the latest version (1.1.1.1876095)? If so, is that when the issue started?

 

[radyoactive]

I was at 30% last night when I put it on the charger around 11pm, off the charger around 7am that morning. I have all notifications, tilt, pedometer all running. Havent set up the heart rate monitor. I can live with a full day's usage with all of the features running and using it as it was designed.

 

[Floridadomer]

So after having it a week, I have used 33 percent in 7 hours so that is a lot better than I originally posted!!!

 

[radgatt]

Just out of curiosity, did you update Android Wear to the latest version (1.1.1.1876095)? If so, is that when the issue started?

I was running that version of Android Wear. At one point I got so frustrated I decided to uninstall the app and reset the watch for the 5th time. I waited a while until I tried again. I noticed that Android Wear also received an update to version (1.1.1.1889093). I downloaded this and synced my watch. I hope this improves the watch and connection to the phone. I am ready for 5.1.1 to come to my 360. Hopefully that will get rid of bugs and improve battery life even further.