SmartBand and battery life

diego9016 · Jul 8, 2014

Fot those who have the SmartBand, how does it affect battery life? Do you use it 24/7?

jiggyb21 · Jul 9, 2014

I use it 24/7 and have noticed zero difference in battery drain..due I believe to Bluetooth 4.0. Battery is so good on this phone it honestly never was even a worry for me.

diego9016 · Jul 9, 2014

jiggyb21 said:
I use it 24/7 and have noticed zero difference in battery drain..due I believe to Bluetooth 4.0. Battery is so good on this phone it honestly never was even a worry for me.

And do you leave the Lifelog always on registering?

jiggyb21 · Jul 9, 2014

diego9016 said:
And do you leave the Lifelog always on registering?

Yes I do..
I started using the smart band days after the phone. So again I don't have much to compare to. I use my phone a lot for web, texting, some calls and stream music most all day. None of it on WiFi. Take it off charge at 6am. Home from work at 5pm always with over 50% battery left. Go to bed about 11pm using it all night with 25% or so.

Now you have me curious. Maybe I'll go a day or two without...just haven't ever thought about. Battery is killer.

funky0308 · Jul 10, 2014

Lifelog drains battery - yeah...
Just check Power Management and you'll see it - for me it was always "nr 1" on consumption list, above screen and I always use 70-80% screen brightness...

I'm not using lifelog anymore, I simply don't need it..

I have smartband for notifications and I'm very satisfied with it.

I even sold smartwatch when I "found" smartband.
It was sitting in box and I thought it's only for fitness...boy how I surprised when I tried it

Sent from my D6503 using Tapatalk

sfex3best · Jul 10, 2014

Just got my smartband and it comes in handy a lot. I keep it all on except for locations.

I noticed a battery drain but a lot of comments on the play store say it's the latest update of lifelog which is the reason for it.

edge3uk · Jul 10, 2014

You need to go to the logger settings and disable physical motions on phone to stop the drain. It's just for car and cycle logging anyway, which doesnt even seem to work so well.

diego9016 · Jul 10, 2014

edge3uk said:
You need to go to the logger settings and disable physical motions on phone to stop the drain. It's just for car and cycle logging anyway, which doesnt even seem to work so well.

I can't seem to find the option to disable that... Where is it? Can you upload a screenshot?

edge3uk · Jul 10, 2014

You go to settings, and click logger, not the toggle switch...

jiggyb21 · Jul 11, 2014

edge3uk said:
View attachment 2844470You go to settings, and click logger, not the toggle switch...

Exactly how mine is set....probably why I wasn't getting significant drain.
Love this thing for notifications. I work in a noisy environment and always missed notifications. Such a sensitive place, the wrist.

Sent from my D6503

Sichroteph · Jul 19, 2014

edge3uk said:
View attachment 2844470You go to settings, and click logger, not the toggle switch...

Thank you so much, I completely missed that "hidden" page.

edge3uk · Jul 19, 2014

@Sichroteph No problem! There's quite a few hidden settings like this in sonys apps. It's always worth having a search for them.

Sichroteph · Jul 19, 2014

If you are interested I spent a couple of hours building a no battery draining Tasker app that lock your phone when the smartband is too far. (root required)

It can also detect the day or night Mode for special phone actions (sound mute, dim screen light, Airplane Mode etc...)

Here :

http://xdaforums.com/general/accessories/alternative-phone-locking-unlocking-t2821068/post54255513
Very pleasant to use with my lock free phone and still feel protected

Smidefix · Jul 19, 2014

Smartband, this is mostly just me sleeping for 9h and 2h awake.

http://i.imgur.com/ajr5aJ6.png

With location off. TERRIBLE.

SB13X · Jul 20, 2014

I had both my Smartband and SmartWatch SW2 paired and battery life was still great. No complaints from me and I'm a heavy user.

Sichroteph · Jul 20, 2014

Smidefix said:
Smartband, this is mostly just me sleeping for 9h and 2h awake.

http://i.imgur.com/ajr5aJ6.png

With location off. TERRIBLE.

Just an idea, if you were sleeping then the smartband logger was the only little activity in your phone. (25% of nothing is nothing)

Smidefix · Jul 20, 2014

Sichroteph said:
Just an idea, if you were sleeping then the smartband logger was the only little activity in your phone. (25% of nothing is nothing)

still almost double drain and wake every 5 and a half min from sleep. Not sure the band is worth it - for me. I just enjoy being able to have it in my bag/backpack and getting vibrations for calls/notifications. oh well. not the place to rant about functionality.

edge3uk · Jul 22, 2014

Smidefix said:
Smartband, this is mostly just me sleeping for 9h and 2h awake.

http://i.imgur.com/ajr5aJ6.png

With location off. TERRIBLE.

See post #7

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