Android Wear 2.0 destroys battery life

[pananza]

I've been using my LG G Watch R daily for over a year and even with screen always on and a "normal" set of notification the battery lasted 1.5 - 2 days.
Got the Android Wear 2 update two days ago and now the watch can't even last until I go to bed. It's empty after about 14 hours.

Anyone else experiencing this, or have any tips?

 

[Scoredx]

I have simmilar situation.

---------- Post added at 02:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:47 PM ----------

Maby google will release any "patch"

 

[lil-devil]

I've been using my LG G Watch R daily for over a year and even with screen always on and a "normal" set of notification the battery lasted 1.5 - 2 days.
Got the Android Wear 2 update two days ago and now the watch can't even last until I go to bed. It's empty after about 14 hours.

Anyone else experiencing this, or have any tips?

Try going into the dev menu and turn off all the animation and flashing the 2core boot IMG

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[drewcu]

Found that to be the case initially but after a factory reset, cache dump, and installing only the apps I really use, it has since normalized to something acceptable (but not great).

On AW 1.5 it used 30% in an average 12 hour work day of limited use (but screen always on). Now on AW 2.0, it used roughly 40% yesterday under the same parameters and is on track for about the same today (small sample size, I know). So yes AW 2.0 uses more battery than its predecessor, but it's not terrible and hopefully in future updates this can be improved upon.

My theory for which watches were slated to qualify for AW 2.0 centers around battery life: only those watches with decent battery life would get it because Google knew it would consume more than AW 1.5. Probably not the whole story but could be part of it.

 

[vegeta340]

I have similiar situation. I will try to remove/disable as much as I can. Custom ROM will be probably the best solution, it will be more exciting than aw 2.0.

 

[Luca69]

Guys wait for a couple of days. The system is still updating in background. Once it is completed, battery life goes back as AW1.5 at least this is my experience


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[JanSchotsmans]

With me battery drained quickly after install. After leaving it for a few days, updating the apps that I use and removing the ones that it just opted to install because they were on my phone, it normalized quite well.

Then I thought "hrm, since it's a major update, maybe just factory reset and start anew".

Now the watch runs about 1.5 days while recording my heartrate on the watches sensor every 15 minutes and about an hour a day of it being paired with my Wahoo chest strap displaying detailed heartrate on my watch itself.

The important thing to remember is that now actual apps get installed on the Watch instead of just face interfaces and other ultra light interfaces. It'll take a while for things to normalize, but the battery life isn't exceptionally worse then before for me after a full reset and some care taken in what I installed on the watch itself.

 

[lil-devil]

This is my battery life with stock 2.0 with the 2 core boot IMG. Similar battery life as I had before.

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[datawrhsdoc]

Now the watch runs about 1.5 days while recording my heartrate on the watches sensor every 15 minutes and about an hour a day of it being paired with my Wahoo chest strap displaying detailed heartrate on my watch itself.

Jan, how did you get it to work with your Wahoo? I have one as well and would love to get it working with my LG G Watch R.

 

[VS88]

My GWR has outstanding battery life on standby and a respectable while using. I cant complain. More or less the same as my other watches

 

[zviki]

Battery life is ok for me but it's laggy!

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[JanSchotsmans]

Jan, how did you get it to work with your Wahoo? I have one as well and would love to get it working with my LG G Watch R.

Most often I used a BTLE watchface that pairs with a BT heartrate monitor. But now that Google Wear is really just Android, you can use full fledged HRM apps and pair the HRM with sports trackers right on your phone (granted, those use a ton of battery, while the watchface was rather soft on the battery usage.