Asus Zenwatch Battery Saving Tips?

[xLOLxTSNOOPS]

Hey everyone, I've noticed that the Asus Zenwatch has very quick battery drainage, for me at least. I don't have any apps installed on it, and the watch face I have isn't too intense. Anyways, I was wondering if anybody had some tips for me on how to conserve battery for the watch.

P.S. I have stay awake disabled, brightness all the way down, and some other common battery saving tips.

 

[alose]

Give it a day or two. The first day the battery seems to drain quickly then you get decent battery life. I put my watch on at 7:30 am and now at 10 PM it is at 47% battery. I do nothing special in regards to battery saving besides setting the brightness to 1, as indoors all day i find that plenty bright.

I do regular stuff like check several messages and Google Now cards throughout the day., and control music for an hour or two.

 

[xLOLxTSNOOPS]

I've had the watch for about a week now (got it as a gift for Christmas) and it still seems to drain quite quickly.

Know of any reason why this could be happening?

P.S. I have the watch on from about 6:30 A.M to about 3-4 P.M and it will have about 50-40% battery left.

 

[9/9]

It doesn't help you much, but I have found mine to have surprisingly good battery. I have had it about a week now and I generally take it offer the charger at 6:30am and put it back on the charger at 11:00pm with ~30% battery still left. I use it pretty often during the day and have the ambient mode on all day. The only real action I have taken with battery life in mind is that I do avoid the "bright" faces.

What doe the Android Wear app on your phone say is using the most battery on the watch? That is probably where I would start.

 

[CSX321]

I've had the watch for about a week now...I have the watch on from about 6:30 A.M to about 3-4 P.M and it will have about 50-40% battery left.

Has your watch updated to 5.0.1? Maybe that could be the problem. I don't have screen always on, mainly use it for notifications (I get maybe a couple of dozen per day), and mine uses less than 3% battery power per hour. I nearly always have at least 70% left at bedtime.

 

[xLOLxTSNOOPS]

Yes, my watch is 5.0.1. I don't have the watch always on either, and I only use mine to check the time to be honest. Not really notifications too much.

 

[xLOLxTSNOOPS]

Here is my Battery Status page. There isn't much that it can tell me, sadly.

 

[CSX321]

Hmm. Which watchface? There clearly seems to be something wrong there.

 

[xLOLxTSNOOPS]

I use a custom watch face created with Intellicom. The only moving thing on there is the digital numbers changing and battery percentage changing. It's also semi-dark.

 

[CSX321]

I don't see anything online about Intellicom being particularly bad on battery. It definitely seems like you're losing battery about twice as fast as you should, though. I'm afraid I don't have any other ideas at the moment. Here's my battery usage today so far:

 

[xLOLxTSNOOPS]

Wow, that's crazy! Hopefully something will happen, or I find out if something is causing such a battery drain. Thanks for trying though!

 

[9/9]

Wow, that's crazy! Hopefully something will happen, or I find out if something is causing such a battery drain. Thanks for trying though!

Just curious, any progress or change on your problem?

 

[xLOLxTSNOOPS]

It has gotten much better. It doesn't go down nearly as fast as it did. I don't know what it was, but yeah.

 

[adamandro12]

Hey, my watch has gotten worse with battery. Dramatically worse. I'm losing about 10 to 15 percent per hour even with notifications off. I do use always on but a few weeks ago was getting better life.

Would apps like instaweather drain even if they aren't the active watch face?

 

[xLOLxTSNOOPS]

Hey, my watch has gotten worse with battery. Dramatically worse. I'm losing about 10 to 15 percent per hour even with notifications off. I do use always on but a few weeks ago was getting better life.

Would apps like instaweather drain even if they aren't the active watch face?

Well it depends, do you get notification and such on your watch throughout the day?

 

[adamandro12]

I get 3-6 notifications an hour I would guess.

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I don't get notifications from the weather app, no.

 

[xLOLxTSNOOPS]

I get 3-6 notifications an hour I would guess.

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I don't get notifications from the weather app, no.

Could you send a screenshot of your watch battery manager?

 

[adamandro12]

I think you're referring to this. I recharged to 100 about 6 hours ago and have barely used it since other than to check a few notifications. I run always on with a mostly black screen but have tried other screens to rule out that as the change. Brightness set at 3. But as I said, I was getting better life until a week or two ago.

Thx