Battery Life Discussion

Brendo · Jul 15, 2014

Mine's on default settings. Always lots of notifications. Easily get two days. been sick and bedridden; left it sitting on table and connected and it lasted three and a half days

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enko420 · Jul 16, 2014

it's first day use:

Unplugged at 6:00 AM. it is no 6:32PM and the battery is at 56% so 1 day as in 24 hours seems to be correct.

My only worry is when the battery starts to degrade.....

thaibruin · Jul 16, 2014

enko420 said:
it's first day use:

Unplugged at 6:00 AM. it is no 6:32PM and the battery is at 56% so 1 day as in 24 hours seems to be correct.

My only worry is when the battery starts to degrade.....

Not sure if you've seen the iFixit teardown, but it looks like the battery would actually be pretty easy to replace. Only a few torx screws and adhesive-free components.

http://ifixit.org/blog/6594/wearables-teardown/

Mihnea1996 · Jul 16, 2014

thaibruin said:
Not sure if you've seen the iFixit teardown, but it looks like the battery would actually be pretty easy to replace. Only a few torx screws and adhesive-free components.

http://ifixit.org/blog/6594/wearables-teardown/

And IP67 is gone, I think.

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thaibruin · Jul 16, 2014

Mihnea1996 said:
And IP67 is gone, I think.

Sent from my Nexus 5

Why? You just screw it back together tightly. There is no adhesive seal used either to hold it together or internally.

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enko420 · Jul 17, 2014

thaibruin said:
Not sure if you've seen the iFixit teardown, but it looks like the battery would actually be pretty easy to replace. Only a few torx screws and adhesive-free components.

http://ifixit.org/blog/6594/wearables-teardown/

the problem with that is the problem im having with my gear 2 neo. where do you purchase these batteries?

Herb.Grinda · Jul 17, 2014

Got mine yesterday, today was my first full day of use. Off charger at 7am, it is now 10:41pm and at 37%. Brightness was at 3, but switched to 5 around noon and left there.

AstroDigital · Jul 24, 2014

Screen is at 4.
Turned on day one 6am and 10pm had 45%, I will need to charge the watch every day.... sigh
May turn the brightness to 3.

JoeFCaputo113 · Jul 25, 2014

AstroDigital said:
Screen is at 4.
Turned on day one 6am and 10pm had 45%, I will need to charge the watch every day.... sigh
May turn the brightness to 3.

Really complaining about that man? It's not some super device here people what are you expecting??

Sent from a Galaxy 5 light years away

AstroDigital · Jul 25, 2014

Joe0113 said:
Really complaining about that man? It's not some super device here people what are you expecting??

Sent from a Galaxy 5 light years away

I get two days from my cell phone, two days on the Gear 2 (basically the same hardware)

Like the charge the cell phone and watch both the same day, 24 hours is too short.

Also fine you may say you sleep say 6 to 8 hours, plug the watch in, 95% of the time sure but every now and then when I am travelling it maybe more than 24 hours before I get some sleep and chance to plug the watch in.

You know that it should be possible to get 48 hours, they can even update the OS.
Why have the watch turn on with notifications or when you raise you hand?

Have it so when you get a notification, you get the vibrate but leave the display off, with the always on display (maybe the reason Gear Live sucks more juice than the Gear 2?) you can tell if you want to read the message.

Press the power button to the display on full.

I did read the reviews the Gear Live has poor battery life and I did know this so yes I can live with it

colts187 · Jul 26, 2014

I leave it with screen on mode. I use it all day from about 7am to 6pm. I get just barely two days with brightness set to 4. I get easily over 100 notifications throughout the day. I love how easy it is to use that mini launcher to adjust the brightness. I don't really check my heart rate much but I do keep count of all my steps. About 12k average per day.

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compchick813 · Aug 16, 2014

I just got my Gear Live on Wednesday and so far my battery life is as I expected with my usage. I wish there were battery stats for the watch itself that we could access to make it easier to tell if a particular app is eating more battery than it should.

This is my usage from today:
Always on: off, brightness: 1, steps: on
Sleep tracking from watch (Sleep as Android beta) from ~12:20 - 6:30 am (watch muted)
Probably ~40 notifications, reset watch (apparently if you're using MultiRom and boot into another rom you can't pair it without resetting), installed some apps, checked heart rate 3 times, checked time/weather/steps/traffic/notifications probably 30 times. I noticed it was showing nav cards during my 1 hour drive this morning. I muted Maps after that.
12 am 100%
6:30 am 68%
3 pm 20%
4 pm 17%
5:30 pm 7%
6:30 pm 2%

miike1106 · Aug 21, 2014

Is it possible that there are apps that can cause battery drain? I downloaded a few apps recently and installed minuum keyboard as well. I did notice a dramatic battery loss. I wake at normally around 7 am and by 5:30pm the battery was pretty much gone. So I'm wondering if it's one of the apps or if it's something else. As of right now, I unplugged it at 8am, it is now 11 am at about 72%, about 10% loss per hour, set at 4 brightness, light-medium usage.

AstroDigital · Aug 21, 2014

I would say say, some app can drain the battery, but the battery life is really bad on mine too.
I am really thinking about installing the custom ROM

Mihnea1996 · Aug 22, 2014

I tried to keep the Gear Live without connection with the phone. Mine lasts around 2.5-3 days, used it only for measuring heart rate and counting steps. With around 13k steps/day(hiking) , I can say that 2.5 days of battery life is OK. Now I want to use it paired with the phone, would be nice to see 2 days.

AstroDigital · Aug 23, 2014

If pairing is the issue I wonder if an macro will work.

steslatt · Sep 9, 2014

It seems my battery has degraded. I've had the watch since launch and for the first few weeks I used to get from 7am till 10pm with 30-35% left.
Now with the same apps and settings I can barely make it to 10pm at all. I've tried resetting and only using the pre installed apps. I just ended up with similar results. I think I'm going to RMA it.

frankthetoad · Sep 9, 2014

I take the watch off the charger at 7:30 AM. Screen set to always on, brightness at zero. I get near constant Goggle Huddle notifications, Boom Beach, CoC, package shipment, weather, traffic, etc. Use it to make phone calls, switch tracks on Play Music, take notes, set timers. I take it off my wrist between midnight and 1AM. Usually have about 17% left.

AstroDigital · Sep 9, 2014

Except when it is dark I do not think I can live with minimum brightness

Ed Murray · Sep 14, 2014

I got my Gear Live on Thursday. Charged and unplugged at 9:00pm, worked all night, lots of app installs, screen off mostly except while playing with it. Battery was at 17% at 8:00am.
Next day it was at 46% at 8:00am so I think I just played with my new device a bit too much. Not too mention, most batteries need to be cycled out of the box and will get better after 3-5 charges. I also wonder if they will sell aftermarket batteries for these watches...

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