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[Moto 360] eatonjb:
I am not all that happy with my battery life. I wish I could do ambient mode, but that will not happen, I wake up at about 830, put the watch on about 915/930, and I am usually out and doing whatever till about 4am! the battery will never last me that long, even with little use.

I wirlessly charge my S5 right now, so sometimes I will take it off and charge the watch.. I really just want exactly 24 hours of use with a little more use. lets hope 5.0 does more for battery.

I don't want to go back to my pebble, but there is something to be said with 5 days or battery life.
[Moto 360] 640k:
i took my watch on a 14hr trip with GPS guidance from my phone. I took the watch off the charger around 5p and it was completely dead by 6a. i found it interesting and disappointing that i had such poor battery life.

on the way home, i didn't bother with GPS and i put my watch on around 8a Saturday and didn't return it to the charger until around 9:30p Sunday and it still had 21% battery left.
[Moto 360] Locklear308:
God like
[Moto 360] JanNegron:
HOW? Mine today was at 3.74% but yours is at 2, whaaaat?
[Moto 360] abowers:
Im coming from the LG G Watch (square) and I have to say, they are about on par with each other. I did a lot with the 360 today, showed it off to some co-workers, etc. All notifications pushed to phone, ambient screen off most of the day, until this evening, where im trying to fully discharge it to get a full top off for tomorrow.

No issues with it here.

Took off charger this morning at 610AM, and it is now 843PM, and im still at 26%. Im comfortable saying this is pretty good life for this watch.
[Moto 360] style154:
Not sure what's going on. Nothing shows up under app activity so I don't know what's keeping it awake but something is wrong here anyone could give me a pointer what to try? I have wiped before also
[Moto 360] davidtrs:
I'm getting a lot of hours with the battery :fingers-crossed:
[Moto 360] jco23:
Here's mine. Wish my phone would do this well.
[Moto 360] Erik1805:
Here's mine at the moment. Using facer.
[Moto 360] jco23:
Yeah. In my experience, using the stock faces seems to have a high correlation with better battery life.
[Moto 360] ttown:
I usually put the watch on around 7 or 8 am and take it off around 10 or 11 pm. I usually have 40-50% battery life remaining. Nothing is disabled and I have a decent amount of apps installed. I have stopped using Facer or any other watch faces I have downloaded from the play store and stick to the stock watch faces. Since you can customize one of the faces to your hearts content, I haven't felt the need to use Facer anymore.
[Moto 360] Erik1805:
Startend using the Moto360 without the Facer app and just with a default watchface. That makes a great difference.
[Moto 360] gpmg762:
Fantastic battery life after upgrade, 110 days before fully discharged. Nah, new wear battery Stat is just buggy.
[Moto 360] TeejayCard:
I brought my Qi charger to work today and plugged it in to my usb since I don't have any more room to use the outlet adapter for the wall, and it won't charge it at all. I watched as my Moto 360 went from 83% to 73% and was like hmmmm I don't believe it is charging. Anyone else have the same issue?
[Moto 360] chaco81:
depending on the qi charger ur using, the 500mAh (max) that the USB provides may not be enough to makeit work
[Moto 360] TeejayCard:
I'm just using the Qi charger that came with the Moto 360. I also had the USB plugged into my laptop docking station so maybe that's why. I'll check it here just on the laptop itself in a bit.
[Moto 360] bakaz:
Same here. After the 5.01 update I was shocked to see my watch at 39% at 10:00 at night. Right now the watch has been off the cradle for 8 hours and I'm at 67%.
[Moto 360] DanRyb:
My battery life seemed to have taken a nose dive after 5.0.1! I work 8:45 to 5:30 Mon-Fri. Got my 5.0.1 update, I think Friday after work. If it was Thursday after work then I'm not sure what happened lol (I am thinking today is my first full work day on the upgraded software).

Anyway, took my watch off the charger at 8:10 when I left for work this morning and by 3pm my watch was dead! Usually when I get home around 6pm I still have between 50%-60% battery life left! But I didn't even make it through a work day today. I'm using one of the built in watch faces and got just the normal amount of notifications like texts and emails and what not that I always do. I'm hoping this is just a fluke. Anyone else have much worse battery life on 5.0.1?
[Moto 360] nmoline:
I started to day getting about 3.9% with tilt to wake off and 1 notification in the hour. How does this eat 4% of the battery when not in use? I don't use Facer, I don't use any other apps. I have MiniLauncher installed but rarely use it.
[Moto 360] digthemlows:
still haven't moved to 5.0 yet, but Facer used to be fine for me.........last night I started using a Facer watch face at 6........

[IMG="battery stat with facer"]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7567/15840437818_8210cfbb30_z.jpg[/IMG]
[Moto 360] digitard:
I actually emailed the Dev, and he said that he was asked to work on AW5, and cut support for 4.4 because of the push this week so there's apparently something he updated that's killing the device. Once you move to AW5 he said it should be fine.

I just got the AW5 T update so I'm going to try Facer again tomorrow or Thursday. I miss my watch faces...lol
[Moto 360] sky high:
I'm sorry but that might be the funniest battery chart Ive ever seen. I dont know why I find it so funny but it just litterally falls off a cliff.
[Moto 360] Boiler_81:
Battery with 5.01

I am on 5.0.1, build LWX48T. I have a Nexus 5 with Lollipop. I'm running stock faces and get few notifications. The watch is draining about 4.5% per hour. This seems like a lot of battery usage.
[Moto 360] digitard:
Right now I'm at 2.62% per hour today so far according to Wear Monitor. It's about in line with what it was for me (about 3% per hour) prior to 5.0.1

Right after the 5.0.1 T update I got HORRIBLE battery usage for about 5-6hrs, but then it started to stabilize. I don't know if it was some type of internal software optimizations, etc, that needed run time or if it was just "new software doing new software things" for a bit. I dunno, but so far so good today.

I plan to let it run normal until EOD today, check the daily overall with normal use, and then load FACER again tomorrow and do the same.

Just want to have a baseline before I start tossing any AW apps into the mix.
[Moto 360] Colchiro:
That's par for the course any time you reset a device or take an update. Installing the update also uses a bit of battery, esp. when the screen is on for much of it.
[Moto 360] digitard:
I know that. I meant even after. It pushes the processor andscreen on time with an update so 10-20% on a big one is expected.

I had my charger with me so I charged it to 100% after I updated it and reset it. I had about 8-10% per hour at first. But since overnight its stabilized to about 3-4% which is what I got with AW5.
[Moto 360] Colchiro:
Factory resetting usually fixes that, but it might have been an app that doesn't play nicely with Lollipop.
[Moto 360] bean_ian:
my battery life has fallen off a cliff since I got the 5.0.1 update last night.Has anyone else had this issue? I normally am going to bed with 34-40% (that equates to 14.5 hours off charge with ambient mode on).

Post-Update it is dying after 11 hours. this is with the same apps, same watchface etc. I did a factory reset this morning and there was no noticeable improvement
[Moto 360] HuStLaZ:
I've noticed a jump in battery life after the update.

Previously I'd be around 5-6% drain, with a massive hit when I'd use Runkeeper (usually lose 20-30% in a 1 hr jog).

Now I'm getting 2-3% drain and when I used Runkeeper last night, I only lost 10%. I do get quite a few notifications regularly.
[Moto 360] gsusx:
Battery life is markedly worse for me, not happy at all. At this stage in the day i'd be at about 75%, not i'm down to 55%, no changes to watch other than the update. Not best pleased
[Moto 360] robber:
Battery life has gone to complete **** for me! I am at 38%, off the charger at 745am! No ambient, stock minimal face!
[Moto 360] ttown:
Battery life is the same for me with 5.0.1. It's 1:15 pm and my watch has been off the charger since 8 am. Battery is at 80%.
[Moto 360] ekms:
Seems like the battery life improvement/degdregration is pretty mixed on the recent update. I'll wait on my purchase but I was really looking forward to this watch for Christmas.
[Moto 360] robber:
I take this back, I had some sort of GPS issue this morning where the watch remained in GPS mode after maps was closed on the phone. I had forgotten about this but after viewing battery stats on the watch it was clear the times coincided. Verdict is still out for me. Sorry for misleading post.
[Moto 360] schewie:
I'm having exactly the same experience with the same phone, android version and android wear version.
[Moto 360] kenhicg:
Would you share your settings to get this performance? I just picked up mine yesterday and would love your input.
[Moto 360] jco23:
I have noticed that quite often ambient screen gets checked - not sure how, but I usually keep it off.

Anyhow, battery life is still quite good for me:
[Moto 360] lifenexus:
My battery life story is a little different. My usually day on the 4.4 version got me a battery drain of about 3.8 to 4 percent an hour. And now after the update, the first day, my drain was really bad. It was close to 7 percent. But after about a day it's settling to around 3.8 ish. I'll see how it gets over time. Maybe you guys should wait for a while and see if the battery life improves. I have also read about certain versions of facer causing a lot of drain
[Moto 360] N3w_Typ3:
Sounds like you are right. Those facer which has a lot of functions seems to drain more power!

I am using the default stock and everything seems good!
[Moto 360] kenhicg:
Well I've reset and have uninstalled all apps and have tilt off. Is that about the best setup to get decent battery life?
[Moto 360] lifenexus:
I've also noticed a small additional drain on faces like oddessey etc. I'll update on my battery life in a couple days
[Moto 360] milanored:
have the watch 2 days and charged it 5 times, the battery last only~ 8-9 hours (10.51%/hour). is this normal that it don't last for one day? maybe there are different versions of the watch?
[Moto 360] jco23:
Not normal. Most folks get better battery without using facer.
[Moto 360] vickysud:
Battery life has been worse after 5.0.1 update.
[Moto 360] mikespe:
I use Watchmaker Premium and I can get 1.5-2 days on a chargeand I have tilt & ambient mode turned on.....I think anyone not getting at least a full day has something wrong with their watch...
[Moto 360] macropterous:
Watchmaker premium kills my phone's battery, though i did get reasonable watch battery life. Using facer I seem to get about 24 hours on the watch anyway.
[Moto 360] dpw2atox:
I currently only have a few apps installed on my watch and i've noticed improved battery life after upgrading to 5.0.1......now that said right after install it was quite bad and 1 day I had my bluetooth draining an excessive amount, a reboot of the watch resolved that issue. Excluding those 2 instances, i generally can get about 2 days usage (36 hours) before my watch needs to charge.

I think it's safe to say that some of the people experiencing serious drains are using apps that don't properly support 5.0.1 yet and are the cause of the excessive drains.
[Moto 360] nmoline:
I don't see why you'd like, but based on my experience and that of others I can't see job you get 36-48 hours with Ambient on with the Moto 360.

That's 2.1 to2.7%an hour. After a fresh reset my watch will lose2.5- 3% an hour in theater mode.
[Moto 360] metaldood:
All these claims of 12/24/48 hours are irrelevant unless you post wear battery stats screenshots. Boasting more than 16 hours of battery life is normal if you keep it in Theater mode or use it like a brick ;) . I have all 5.0 watch faces and I get 14 hours of battery life with regular to more than regular use. Regular use for me is answering work emails, use google keep, pick up few calls and changing 5.0 watch faces every 3-4 hours. Battery drain is 4-5% per hour. I can post a screenshot when my battery is below 10% :P

Ambient mode on and Tilt to wake is off.
[Moto 360] kenhicg:
How's this
[Moto 360] 335Deezl:
Major problem today! I took my 360 off of the charger at 4 o'clock this afternoon, hardly used it, maybe 20-30 minutes. While checking email notifications on it, it became really hot, and I noticed that the battery had drained from 100% to 37% in just over one and a half hours. At this point, i reset the watch. It continued to remain extremely hot, and the battery drained from 37% to dead within 15 minutes. The battery died in a total of 2 hours. I've only had the watch for a little over a week, with several complete drain and charge cycles, to help condition and calibrate the battery. At this point, I'm very tempted to return it, for a Samsung Galaxy Gear 2, or just wait for the Moto 360 2. Anyone else experience anything like this?
[Moto 360] Steve-x:
With both my phone and watch running Lollipop I have noticed improved battery life. Of course I do have the watch stop giving notifications once in a while which requires a reboot. I didn't get too many notifications over this time period but it is by far the longest my battery has lasted.

Just under 48 hours if use continued as predicted.
[Moto 360] jordy787:
I have the same problem..
[Moto 360] jeremiahw124:
I just got the moto 360 and with my battery life as it is, I might just return it. It was going too until some unknown drop in power? Tilt to wake on and ambient off. Is this even normal?
[Moto 360] supertoast92:
I just received my 360 yesterday. I was worried about the battery as well - ended up needing to charge the thing twice throughout the day. But that was probably due to a combination of going through 2 software updates and playing with the watch all day. Now today, I've been off the hook for 8 hours and am down to 70%. Much better than yesterday, and ambient and tilt options both enabled. Of course, that's after not messing with it nearly as much. Anything CPU intensive will suck the life out of the batt, even if just for a few minutes (i.e., software updates, syncing/installing apps, running apps other than basic ones or tending to notifications). I'm still a bit wary of the battery, but today's been proving to be a lot better than day 1.
[Moto 360] Erik1805:
I have a battery drain of 7% with facer. Now I have stopped using facer and just the stock watchface. Now it's around 4%. Much better for me.
[Moto 360] almostrodney:
Im so nearly sold on getting this watch, apart from the battery...

I need it to last me from 6 in the morning until 10 at night with medium to heavy use but iv heard such varying reports(even in this thread) i dont know what to think.

i just dont want to spend £200 use it througout the day and not make it back to the charger at night.

Can anyone shed some light onto this with some certaincy.

Thanks in advance guys
[Moto 360] jeremiahw124:
Apart from my past experience, I'm getting MUCH better battery life (around 2.96% per hour with light-moderate usage; about 1-1.5 days for me). This is the only watch that had actually sold me on Android Wear and apart from the first two days or so on the battery, its worth it.
[Moto 360] r000li:
The recent 5.0.1 update seems to have seriously impacted the battery life in my watch. The previous lollipop update (probably 5.0) was fine. I could get through the day (from 8 in the morning to 2 in the morning) just fine with about 30% of battery to spare. Now I am getting about 30% after just 8 hours. And since it's the holidays I get an email every 5 hours so I only really use it to check the time occasionally. I am running Android 4.4.4 on my phone. And I am not using any custom watch faces either.
[Moto 360] Scann69:
Just got the watch and been using it for 12 hours of which I've had to charge it 3 times. The battery drain is horrendous. I'm guessing it's due to the Facer app as its taking 22%. Going to factory reset the watch and see how it fairs.
[Moto 360] almostrodney:
Thanks for the quick and honest feedback guys. Tbh i think im gonna give this watch a miss based on all the feedback iv gotten, shame really because its a nice watch.
[Moto 360] roboots21:
Hmm. I have nothing but positive feedback. The first couple charges are obviously going to suck, but mine has settled in nicely and I charge it every night since it's not on my wrist. It's fast and responsive and I experience no lag on the 5.0.1 update. I give it a hit, also since I hate square watches and dislike the looks of the LG G Watch R.
[Moto 360] supertoast92:
This is what I have on day four. Not bad. I did a few voice commands, received a handful of notifications throughout the day so far. Ambient and tilt options are both on. I'm happy so long as I can get through the day safely!
[Moto 360] zAlbee:
Really, how do you figure? Based on the last few pages of this thread, it seems the majority are reporting good battery life. The few exceptions were people seeing a sudden unexplained drop, one-off occurrences, or new users that haven't settled the watch in yet. Myself I've been extremely happy with the device since I got it a month ago. (Posted my experience in another thread; tldr: avg 24 hrs with ambient on ever since I conditioned the battery on day 3).

Here is a shot from a few days ago where I had 7% left after 32 hours. I stayed overnight at my family's home and I forgot/didn't want to bring the charger. No problem. Charged it before I left at 5pm. See the relatively flat part of the graph between 11pm and 10am? That's when I turned on theater mode (or maybe airplane mode, I forget) while I slept. The rest was normal usage with ambient mode on like always. I didn't charge it again until 1am the next night (32 hours), but it would have lasted another 2 hours according to Wear app!

BTW this was in response to [MENTION=3389501]metaldood[/MENTION] who wanted a screenshot ;)

Sent from my XT1053 Moto X Dev Edition running Kit Kat 4.4.4
[Moto 360] zAlbee:
Hm, so I just discovered that the watch sips battery while I sleep *without* using any kind of special battery saving mode! Last night I just laid the watch sideways (on the dock but did not plug in the charger). Ambient is on, tilt wake off, as always, but because it's sideways the screen remains off. Check out the flat battery usage from 12am to 8am. 49% after 19 hours :D
[Moto 360] Frank_Dizzle:
I thought the same when I first got my watch 2 days ago. I fully charged it and it was down to 30% after a few short hours. Once the watch updated to 5.0.1 and I gave it another full charge the watch lkasted a full 12+ hours and had 36% remaining. This morning I put the watch on around 8am and have 92% as of 11:30am. To round that off to 10% every 3 hours (it's even better than that though) it would take roughly 30 hours before the battery is dead. Using it normally to check notifications, one or two voice commands (I still feel kind of strange talking to my wrist in front of people...plenty of Star Trek comparisons), scrolling through cards and emails and stuff. I have the OnePlus One 4.4.4, no lollipop yet. Also leave ambient mode off, that will kill the battery.

TL/DR - let it update, leave ambient mode off, charge it one or two more times and you're golden.
[Moto 360] nielsbrakel1998:
Can someone explain why third party watchfaces sip more battery than the stock ones? And if it is fixable!
[Moto 360] privy:
So it seems alot more people use ambient on and tilt to wake off. Does tilt to wake drain the battery faster than ambient?
[Moto 360] pakure:
New users... Please don't post your battery issue until you have used the watch for a week... No point complaining about battery issues until the battery gets enough charging cycles
[Moto 360] chrisnewton:
That's an old wives tale.. Modern batteries don't need to be calibrated.
[Moto 360] dlotters:
This one seems to like to settle a bit. Like a lot of others have said already, I also was worried after the first couple of days had really bad battery life. I didn't do anything unusual or different and have only a few apps on the watch. After day 3 my battery life improved dramatically and now I'm getting through the day with about 60% left by the time it hits the charger again.

I also use Sleep as Android and at first it was struggling to last the night but now it's only using around 20% through 8 hours of sleep tracking.

Ordinarily I'd agree with you entirely but this watch has definitely lasted longer as time has gone by. I'm averaging 2.75 to 3.25% battery drain versus almost 9% when it was brand new with no changes to how often I use it or what is installed on it.
[Moto 360] marctronixx:
the tech in this battery does not need to "settle". whats happening is as we get these new gadgets, we spend time playing with them, adding/removing faces, adding/removing programs, trying to root the darn thing, dev options, screen awake/off, etc.. IOW one is playing with the gadget the first day or two, then as the end user "settles" into a routine with the use of the watch and the apps (and as apps are further modified to be more efficient with lollipop) the battery life adjusts accordingly.
[Moto 360] rjohnstone:
Mine also took about a day or two before battery life seemed to settle in.

I also noticed a huge improvement when the 5.0.1 update hit. I typically still have about 40%-50% battery life left when I put it on the charger at night.
[Moto 360] pakure:
Unfortunately that doesn't hold true with the moto 360... May be an old stock of batteries or something, but ask anyone with a moto 360... It has been true
[Moto 360] chaco81:
thats placebo effect

Li-Po batteries do not need calibrated period.

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/charging_lithium_ion_batteries
[Moto 360] TheDom82:
It't not been true for me. As soon as I got the Moto360, I updated to the latest firmware, installed all apps I wanted, then let it charge over night. That's it...
[Moto 360] kejar31:
I was having terrible battery live until I turned off "tilt to wake".. Now I get between 3 and 4% battery drain an hour which more than I need :)
[Moto 360] dlotters:
I'll happily admit that I spent the first day playing with it and yep, it definitely sucked the battery life. But subsequent days weren't any better and that was with a watch without any additional apps, stock watch face and me no longer randomly playing with it. I used it minimally purely so I could measure battery life and it still sucked. Then, miraculously, it improved on day 3 and was awesome by day 4. I'm using it more now than I did early on and it's still great.

The only thing I did do after day 2 was completely restart the watch because the battery life was bothering me so much so perhaps something was running and it isn't anymore. Android Wear Battery stats app didn't shed any light on that though.
[Moto 360] jtl6060:
Got the watch as a present for christmas. First day it chewed up battery updating twice in about 2 hours. Had to recharge both times as it needed high battery percentage for each update. Didn't last too long the first few charges. After a few days I'm now getting great battery life. I only use it to check notifications, weather and uh, time :). Took it off charger at 9 this morning and currently have 70% left at 9pm. I have disabled the ambient mode and lift to turn on mode. Looking like I could get about 2 days on normal use for me. Overall love the watch and does what I expect it to do. Looking forward to updates and new features.
[Moto 360] N3w_Typ3:
It seems that Android wear, like it's partner Android OS, they seems to learn how user uses them and optimized the battery performance for them LOL
[Moto 360] Metah4 Genome:
I was wondering about that myself....this gal loves her watch lol

- Sent from this awesome S5...

yep!
[Moto 360] jeremiahw124:
Just a little update on my Moto 360's battery life. 3 DAYS left for a discharge? Amazing! With ambient off and tilt to wake on. And uptime is over 17 hours...