WiFi on 5.1.1 setup?

[jhilker]

I wanted to update my post. My watch drained 15% in less than an hour this morning. I charged it, same thing. Before I was going to blame the update, I switched watch faces to a stock Android Wear face.

Therein lies the blame, third party watch face was killing my battery. Seems to be pretty ok at the moment, but I haven't had a ton of time to test everything. I"m going to leave a stock watch face on for a few days and see how the battery drain goes.

I've seen a lot of updates to 3rd party watch faces in the past few days, all updating to reflect 5.1.1. Hopefully this will help battery life!

For now in just going with a stock watch face until I see updates.

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[hopefulfarm]

Yes I've seen a few update. As far as the 'freeware' developers go, such as in groups on Google+, there are a lot of watch face 'developers' out there who are totally clueless about how their face affects battery life. Pretty is as pretty does, because if their pretty face sucks 50% of my battery in an hour and a half, it's not pretty. ;-)

 

[crxssi]

I wanted to update my post. My watch drained 15% in less than an hour this morning. I charged it, same thing. Before I was going to blame the update, I switched watch faces to a stock Android Wear face.

Therein lies the blame, third party watch face was killing my battery. Seems to be pretty ok at the moment, but I haven't had a ton of time to test everything. I"m going to leave a stock watch face on for a few days and see how the battery drain goes.

In my case, the battery life settled down a LOT after two days, for no known reason (this is not the first time it has acted like that after updates, even with rebooting). I didn't get updates to Watchmaker or anything (that is the face I use). Same setup each day- WiFi on, but not really used. I am going to estimate maybe 10% more battery suck having WiFi "on" but not used with this update???? But when WiFi is actually ON AND CONNECTED, it really sucks the power.