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[LG G Watch] gamaral:
I've managed to squeeze out two days of use out of a single charge, without an always on screen. I get about 4 calls per day, Google Now nav to and from college, hangouts, facebook and twitter use throughout the day. Oh and I'm also using Gohma.
[LG G Watch] matthewtyson:
I have Always On disabled, with brightness at 6 max. Woke up the screen throughout the day 100+ times to check time and notifications or reply to texts, and did 10 minutes navigation. My heaviest usage so far. After 13 hours I have 66% battery remaining.
[LG G Watch] jimbobtexas:
I use RunKeeper for my running activity. Apparently, it really eats up the battery, probably because it stays on the whole time. I'm at the office almost 3 hours later (it's 10:40am), and my watch battery is down to 42%. Yikes.
[LG G Watch] Hardcore73:
Run keeper does at it fast. It is because it leaves screen on. You will still be able to go all day.
[LG G Watch] stevemw:
Yes, I agree. I've noticed no appreciable difference in battery use and my G watch is connected to my Nexus 5 24x7.
[LG G Watch] anwedr:
I get 30-40% on a full day usage with screen always on and brightness at 6.

BTW, how do I get Runkeeper to start the timer without having to use my phone?
[LG G Watch] TempeDuck:
So over the past two days the battery on my G Watch has taken a nose dive. Before I would be around ~40-50% at the end of the day, 6:30am-9:00pm. Now it is dead by noon. As I site here typing it is at 6% and I took it off the charger at 6:45. I have barely used it, maybe 3 texts and 2 email notifications.

What the hell happened to this thing?
[LG G Watch] jamcar:
I got 36 hours on it last week, but today I got 6. The battery seems to be pretty inconstant and only getting worse.
[LG G Watch] Abowersq:
Im going to bump this thread up. I got my G watch yesterday afternoon, charged to 100% and then wore it until i went to bed. Today took it off charger this morning around 645, and by 445 when i got home it was at 18%. From reading this thread i have seen multiple folks saying 24 hours of usage or more. Not sure if i need to take this back to Verizon where I got it from due to battery not lasting all that long.

Brightness all the way down, moderate notifications all day. Phone battery has been doing awesome (sidenote) LG G2 on xdabbeb's ROM.

Any other suggestions? Thanks all
[LG G Watch] ptesmoke:
i easily get two full days out of mine, seems to have gotten even better since the last OTA, after the last two days i went to bed @ 20%
[LG G Watch] Abowersq:
Great.......I'll see how tomorrow goes. If not I'll be seeing about replacing it.

Wow...wrong acct....lemme get the right one.
[LG G Watch] abowers:
Back now. Regardless. Battery life shouldn't be this poor.
[LG G Watch] abowers:
So, left phone off charge last night after I posted what I did. At 100% just sitting on my nightstand. Muted screen off. 8hrs later its at 55% without doing anything. This is crap battery life. Def going back to Verizon today to possibly return or trade.

Uninstalled the android wear launcher. To see if that helps.
[LG G Watch] abowers:
Now at 89%......this is out of hand.

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82% with ZERO notifications. An hour later.
[LG G Watch] kpjimmy:
I have screen always on as the setting and to have the phone and phone show notifs. Have a bunch of apps installed, watchfaces, starbucks app, and etc. Leave the house at 8am and return to the house at 6PM. Battery reads 63%.

However, on the weekends, I select screen off. Leave the house at 8:30AM and return at 4PM. Watch reads 83%.

Both with moderate usage. I get a bunch of emails and different notifs throughout the day so a day and a half is what I assume would be the case if I don't charge nightly.

Not too bad IMO. I had to get used to it from being from the Pebble world lol.
[LG G Watch] abowers:
See, that's what I was expecting. Ive gotten just a few emails this morning and a text here or there.

78% now.

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73% now. Not cool.
[LG G Watch] nickfuzz:
I had great battery life the first day, then installed a few apps for the watch (a calculator, wear internet browser, attopedia, mini launcher) and the battery got much worse.

I uninstalled attopedia, and wear internet browser. Then my battery life improved substantially.

For those with poor battery life, try uninstalling some apps to see if that helps.
[LG G Watch] Abowersq:
Presently at 47% with nothing but Stock stuff installed. Its 241pm here. Not as bad as it was yesterday, but not great. I might drain the battery all the way down and start over with a fresh charge, see if that helps.

Been just about as active as I was yesterday. Only difference was I didnt mute the watch.
[LG G Watch] abowers:
Its really going to be down to getting the drain under control. Not very pleased so far. Might hold out until the 360 drops.
[LG G Watch] abowers:
Pulled off the charger this morning at 520am. Now it's 705am, and its at 83%. I'm returning this thing.
[LG G Watch] rbf351:
the battery life on mine is horrible.

Took it off the charger this morning around 5:30, and 4 hours later it's down to 56% with very little use

i'm glad this is a loaner, and will be giving it back in a few days
[LG G Watch] EnIXmA:
I take mine off charger at 8 am every morning, and by 8 pm its down to 55%... Most of the people are getting this type of better life

You got s defective unit or a watch app is draining the battery
[LG G Watch] abowers:
I've got only the OE apps on it. No extras. This is really aggravating.

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Its now at 36%. Done. Totally done. I may wait till the 360 to get another one.
[LG G Watch] kpjimmy:
Pretty much the same here. 8am to 8.45pm yesterday and saw it was 45%. Screen on. Gotten texts, hangout msgs, hundreds of emails and looked at my watch constantly during the day.

I have wear launcher, wear messenger, bunch of different watchfaces, minuum, IFTTT, wear bucks (starbucks app), and others I can't think of at this moment.

I'm happy with mine. Also planning on the 360 when available.
[LG G Watch] Erik1805:
Same here. Take it of the charger this morning and now on 50% so not bad. Will test some more , just got it :)
[LG G Watch] kpjimmy:
Just a fyi, was reading androidpolice and saw the wearable widgets app was just updated. However this little snippit resonates with me lol...

From Android police "but the battery drain will be higher as it's basically refreshing the widget state once per minute over Bluetooth"

I personally don't have it installed, but wanted to know what can be one of many possible causes for drain.
[LG G Watch] abowers:
Picked up my second one. This one actually had 85% battery when i dropped it on the charger to wake it up. The first one was totally dead. Might have been defective from LG. Either way. Going to try this again. I've really become accustomed to this watch. Really like it.
[LG G Watch] abowers:
Now I can't get the update to take. Grrrrr
[LG G Watch] abowers:
Well....looks like it took finally.
[LG G Watch] kpjimmy:
Reporting back. Took off the charger at 7am and back home at 8.30pm over 12 hours with heavy usage with navigation; 34%.
[LG G Watch] ptesmoke:
I'll report mine today. took off charge at 6am and put back on at 1220am watch was at 73%. normal for me...I feel like I use it a lot but clearly not as much as some of you. I check time and notifications as they come in and the odd dictated keep note.
[LG G Watch] HuStLaZ:
I usually take it off charge about 6:45am, by 10pm it's down to about 35%.

Steps off, screen always on, and moderate notifications.
[LG G Watch] kay_vee:
My battery life was bad until I removed a custom watchface, now its only dropping 3% an hour so far today. :)
[LG G Watch] Erik1805:
Same here. Uninstalled a few custom watchfaces and seems a lot better.
[LG G Watch] abowers:
I had a big problem with the first one. New one is at 85% still.
[LG G Watch] abowers:
This is what I wanted. I'm now at 57%. Win.
[LG G Watch] DummyPLUG:
Second charge, leave it on table, connected with screen always on, auto power off after about 40 hrs

I guess a whole day is not a problem if I wear it and go out.

p.s. connected with Nexus 5, it should support bluetooth 4.0 LE, may be this help the battery a little bit
[LG G Watch] LilSmiler:
Had G Watch for just over a week (screen on, brightness 3, notify on watch and phone) with moderate use, checking all notifications and sending 5-10 messages/mails a day watch battery is average at 30-40% after 14Hrs use, phone battery (N5LP) does seem affected a little, maybe 10% more usage with the watch connected...

All in all very happy with the battery life :good:
[LG G Watch] jimbobtexas:
I'm a heavy Hangouts user. I have a group of friends that text back and forth all day long. My battery life tends to be commensurate with that activity. I noticed yesterday that my battery life had been doing really well until about 5pm. That's when everyone gets done working, and starts texting with each other. Before I knew it, my battery had dropped below 15% before 6pm. That was really unusual, but it made me wonder if other factors had come into play, like a power-hungry watchface (I use the Weather Watchface). Might be nice if someone wrote a power monitor for the Wear device itself, so we could see who the hungry apps are...
[LG G Watch] stagman1:
Bad experiance with g watches

I am now on my 2nd g watch because of poor battery life and both of them have the same problem.I am getting about 8.5 hours life before shutdown due to lack of power.I have tried everything i can think off to extend the battery life but nothing seems to work.

It seems to me that some have got a very very good life and some have got a abysmal battery life and there is no way of telling which one you will get.I am doing a test to see if it may be something on the phone that is affecting it so i have disconneted it from the phone and will monitor battery life over the next few hours but dont hold up much hope.

I will be taking it back to the shop again just to see what they say(they did try the old"It must be something you are doing" routine)but it comes down to if its fit for purpose which it clearly is not!

If anyone has any thoughts they would like to share on this then please feel free to add anything.simalarly if anyone has had the same problem and found a solution then i would be most interested to learn of it.

Wish me luck

Dave
[LG G Watch] jimbobtexas:
It was the Weather Watchface that was killing my battery. I switched to the Better Wear watchface, and I'm sitting at 80% at 1:30pm, after taking it off the charger at 7:30am.
[LG G Watch] HolzwurmMarkus:
It's the Watchface .... or an other app... Several people had also this problems. I have had this to on some watchfaces. If I use an other watchface it last not 8-9 but more then 24 hours....

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 5 mit Tapatalk
[LG G Watch] stagman1:
Bad experiance with g watches

I sussed it but im not sure how! i charged it up to 100% then took it off charge but did not connect it to the phone and it lost 1% per hour which is what everyone else was getting so i reinstalled the wear app on the phone and restarted the phone and in 13 Hours it lost 13% charge which is perfect.i cant be sure waht it was but something was in constant communication with my watch so it was severly draining the battery.i am going to test some differant apps to find out which ones do affect the battery life drastically but as it stands i have got it to work the way it should:laugh::good:
[LG G Watch] Erik1805:
Losing about 1% p/hour on moderate use. happy with that.
[LG G Watch] adamelphick:
Took mine off charge at 8am this morning, been using it for WhatsApp messages etc and plenty of notifications.... it's 8.15pm and it is still on 57%...

Pretty good I think? Oh and I had an animated watch face on it most of the day!
[LG G Watch] matejilic:
Hello, I have a problem with the battery life on my G Watch. A few days ago the battery life deteriorated quite s lot. It went from draining about 1% an hour to 10% an hour, without any interaction from me. The problem is that this started happening suddenly. Before that it was all good. I tried to factory reset it a couple of times, uninstalling all my apps, muting a lot of the apps and nothing seems to help. Also, I tried changing the settings on the watch (screen alleays on and of) and it still drains to 0% in about 10 hours. Did anyone experience something like this? Does anyone have a hint at the solution? Thanks!
[LG G Watch] dersie:
I have same problem few days ago. I uninstalled an app for black screen when charging and Wearable Widgets and now it is normal.

You really have to pay attention to the applications used.

You can have also problem with BT connexion if it is not fine. Try to unpair and pair again.
[LG G Watch] matejilic:
I have zero apps installed. Also, unpair and pair again doesn't help..
[LG G Watch] dersie:
Try in airplane mode to see. With this there are no BT problem and you can eliminate this reason.

After there are an app wich show running task in wear device, you can see if there are not unknown app running.
[LG G Watch] matejilic:
It helped, now it's back to normal. Thanks
[LG G Watch] anthonyh90:
Those of you getting 1% drain per hour of usage, do you have the watch set to always on or just to display when you raise you watch?
[LG G Watch] rickuski:
Slumber for screen off

Check out the Slumber app. Does exactly that...enables the screen to be set to off whenever its connection for charging.
[LG G Watch] dersie:
It do not power off the screen, only use a black background but backlight is still ON.

Now with the last update if screen is not setup to always ON the screen power off on charge.
[LG G Watch] tomh1979:
took mine off the charger 6am friday, and didn't need to put on the charger till sunday at 8:30am with 15% still left on my G Watch, so 2 days is possible. :laugh:
[LG G Watch] dragonfly1113:
What app do people find is using most of their battery power? noticed a big increase in battery usage on my phone after getting my g watch the other day. Installed a few things yesterday just to test them out, but thinking that a few like wearable widgets is doing the most damage to the battery on my device. Not sure how that can be looked at on the watch. What apps do you guys have that are getting the 1% per hour usage on? Im at 85% and just took off charger at 5am. Have been texting from it all morning but still dont think it should be that much drain for that.
[LG G Watch] Bladder61:
Battery comparison is hard. Everyone uses their watch differently. When posting results you need to give basic info on watch usage and setup. I always keep the watch face on, brightness at 2, and usually use the Weather Watch face. Typical workday I receive and review 40+ emails, 10-15 texts with voice responses, plus an average amount of Google Now cards. On these types of days I consistently get a 3.5 % battery drain per hour. That easily gets me through an entire day with no issues. Usually I have 35+% when I put it on the charger for the night.

I have used wearable widget faces and tend to get about a 5.5% drain per hour. For those that turn off always on you may receive longer battery use. I have always worn a watch so I tend to just glance down at it. I don't enjoy having to lift my arm up in an animated motion to get the face to wake up. It was my biggest complaint with the first Sony watch and then the original Gear watch. I have done some reading over at the Moto 360 forum and most owners seem to be using ambient off (motion to wake) in order to achieve reasonable battery life. To me this defeats the whole purpose of the watch. I'm old fashion I want my smartwatch to look and act like a watch plus give me wrist notifications. Overall I am pretty happy with the LG G.
[LG G Watch] dragonfly1113:
Thanks for all the helpful/insightful information. Yesterday when i was messing with the watch installing apps and stuff all day it died around midnight which was 20 hours of being off the charger. Will see how today goes ill try to tinker less with it since i know that probably doesnt help the battery at all. I agree having the screen off is very pointless i like seeing the actual time as well without having to lift my arm or what not.
[LG G Watch] tietherope:
Went through my first full day with the watch yesterday. I had the brightness at 2 and the "always on" shut off. I took it off the charger at 6:30 am, spent the day playing with it, installing about 15 apps, checking out all the settings and went to bed at 11:30 pm with 51% left. I'm quite happy with the results.

Today I have been using it less, have the screen set to always on, took it off the charger at the same time and right now at 3:16 pm I'm at 75%.
[LG G Watch] ruben46_:
About 60 hours with :

screen off,vibration on, brightness level 1.
[LG G Watch] ti2095:
Android Wear 4.4W.2 Build

Any updates? I am especially interested in moderate usage with background mode off, basically a happy case scenario. Can it go above 3 days or may 2.5?
[LG G Watch] ddeath:
I have no issues running mine for 2 to 3 days with always on-screen off. :)
[LG G Watch] giorgib:
how much standby time without connection?
[LG G Watch] dettofatto:
25 hrs screen on, normal usage, not more...
[LG G Watch] Traxex_:
I'm getting over 2 days with always screen off too.

About 1 day with always screen on.
[LG G Watch] andTab:
Always screen on with light usage: maybe 24hrs.

Pick up at 8am-ish with 100%; put away around 11pm-ish with around 20%-25% left.

Testing screen off today.
[LG G Watch] jfriend33:
Screen always off,brightness 1, playing heavily with watch from noon to 5pm, battery is at 85%!
[LG G Watch] stylez:
Had problems during first few days with the G-Watch disconnections but seems to have bedded in, took the watch off charge yesterday morning about 10am and still 24% but not done much cycling to which tends to drain battery more tracking, phone dies way before watch Nexus 4.

No display on Dim

Display brightness minimum

Only 1 custom watch face.
[LG G Watch] stylez:
What you using for navigation?
[LG G Watch] kpjimmy:
google nav
[LG G Watch] stylez:
When do navigation too, i get locating and when done just opens on phone.
[LG G Watch] lparcshinoda:
How are you guys doing? I'm on 2nd day with LG G watch (using gohma rom 5.0.1) and I have a 5%-8% battery consumption per hour (using one of the stock watchfaces and minima set of app). My settings are: screen always on, whrist rotation wake-up enabled and display brightness set on 1.
[LG G Watch] jfriend33:
My battery life is great after lollipop. Before the update I was getting 4 days with moderate use, always on disabled,brightness set to 1. I also power off before bed and on the 4th night recharge before shutting off. Then remove from charger when 90-95%

Now that I can disable tilt to turn on, or use theater mode (tempted to just always use this mode as don't want others to read and how often can we actually read if busy anyway, yet many now are saying theater mode has no vibration bug, mine works) I've gotten even better battery life.

In 8 hrs of use I've only used about 9 percent. Not sure why Google fit is using 2 percent, it's disabled.

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[LG G Watch] frigidazzi:
I actually came here to ask about Google fit too. I have it disabled on watch and phone. Not sure why it's still being used.
[LG G Watch] philessthanthree:
I don't understand how you only dropped 9% in 8 hours. I am using screen always on, brightness level 1, tilt to wake, and only a small amount of apps and custom watch face and in 8 hours I lose about 25%.

What are you doing that is so different? I get occasional emails and text messages and do one time of navigation for about 20 minutes in the morning and that's it. I wish I could have ~4 day battery time like you.

I'm paired with LG G2 by the way. Would really like to know your secrets!
[LG G Watch] lyrical1278:
you have screen always on and he doesn't. I need to find the seting for tilt to wake. I usually have to twist my wrist twice for it to wake up.
[LG G Watch] jfriend33:
I shut my watch off at night. On days I navigate I probably only get 3 days not 4.

Tilt to wake is toggled under android wear app: settings icon, not menu icon, 3rd option down.
[LG G Watch] jfriend33:
Grrr. Why is Google fit running! Can't complain about battery life tho still lol sorry not trying to rub it in. But if u compare it with my last post....
[LG G Watch] lparcshinoda:
I've uninstalled Google Fit, since I'm not using and it was causing some minor drop.
[LG G Watch] jfriend33:
Any way to uninstall without root? Tia
[LG G Watch] Angristan:
My first day
[LG G Watch] EpicLPer:
Nearly 4 days, maybe 3 and a half with "heavy" usage. But I'm still kinda impressed!
[LG G Watch] SkateSoft:
I find having GPS, Bluetooth, and a wear device kills my phones battery life. I am on a htc one m8 5.01 gpe and with those services disabled I can easily get 6 hours of screen on time and normally much more. With all the services enabled I am lucky to get 4 or 5. Does anyone have any tips?

Is it nessasary to have GPS on the use the watch?
[LG G Watch] dersie:
Look at your Dep Sleep in your phone. before Wear I have 70% DeepSleep so good battery life and with Wear and face for Smartwatch Bureaux for example, DeepSleep can fall to 30% so battery life maybe divided by 2.
[LG G Watch] charles753df:
Before this update I used to have around 2 day battery life. Always on, brightness at 3, and wear mini launcher. Also, I never rooted it. That was fine with me. Now after this update my watch will last about 12 hours. I have uninstalled all apps, factory defaulted it, and re-synced it to my phone. No change. I am at a loss for what else I can try to make this better. I am hoping that after work I will be able to call LG and get some type of resolution but I doubt that they will since this update is working for so many others. :rolleyes:
[LG G Watch] dersie:
I do not think you have uninstalled ALL app AND Faces.

Install SYU Wear Manager or Advanced Wear Task Killer to look what is running in your watch ;)

You can also try in airplane mode to avoid all BT issue between phone and watch to test.
[LG G Watch] charles753df:
I did get syu wear manager and I did miss some things. I will try the airplane mode to see how long it will last.

Thanks for suggestions!
[LG G Watch] hallevison:
Newbie to watch

Hi:

I just got one of these watches off of ebay. I am a fan of smart watches and own a WIMM 1, I'm Watch, and a Qualcomm Toq. I have been using the Toq, which I really love, until now. I thought it would be fun to would try a Android Wear device because Qualcomm is no longer supporting its watch. The BIGGEST issue with it so far is the battery life. On the first day I had it I got roughly 6 hours. Since then I found SYU ware manage I killed everything that I could:

[IMG="SYU ware manager output"]http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~hal/tmp/screen_20141231_1449_2.png[/IMG]

and am now getting about 8 hours, which makes the watch almost useless

[IMG="battery lifeime"]http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~hal/tmp/screen_20141231_1447.png[/IMG]

The watch is running wear 5.0.1. I have 'Always-on' and 'Tilt to wake' enabled. The 'Tilt to wake' does not seem to be working. I gather that is a common problem with 5.0.1. I am using a facer dial and had < 50 notifications.

Does anyone have any advice on how to make the battery life better? I have read that the old OS had a longer battery life. Do you recommend rooting the watch and putting an older OS on it? I am new to the watch, but have experience rooting and roming phones and tablets.

Thanks and happy New Year!
[LG G Watch] dersie:
Standard drain with always ON is between 3.5%-4.5% by hour with standard usage : 10 Alarm/day, 15 notifications by hour, 4 Calendar event with snooze, voice command for alarm....

Android system pre-load all what he want, so even after kill app system reload it, so not many usefull.

Try uninstall ALL app and face and set in airplane mode to see first if you have no hardware problem.