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[Moto 360] xVallex:
I've only had the 360 a couple weeks but I've noticed a decent battery life. I can only wear it on weekends because I'm a UPS man and don't want to wear it to work. I smack my hands on all kinds of things and really don't need to worry about scratches/chips on the watch. When i do wear it I'm seeing 12 hours of use with about 35% battery left. My only concern is I'm noticing the battery not charging to 100%. It stays on the dock when not in use and I've noticed it charging to about 96% and actually dropping while on the dock.
[Moto 360] alexdiaz:
Mine left the charger about 37 hours ago and I still have 25% with low to moderate usage.

Phone unplugged at the same time and has 30% with moderate usage (HTC One M8 with custom rom).

Disabled step card,step goal,and save fitness data.

I got pretty bad battery on the first day(Friday), so I left it to fully discharge and then fully charge after the latest update.

Can't complain now...
[Moto 360] kevinlevrone:
15 hours today from 100% to 2%, with Ambient Mode ON.
[Moto 360] madpete:
I've just taken mine off my wrist after a 14hr day, it had 61% left. I've turned it off but haven't put it to charge, want to see if it can make it through tomorrow too. Ambient mode off btw.
[Moto 360] HuStLaZ:
2nd day using it now (ambient off - no custom watchfaces)

yesterday (day 1), off charge at 6:30am. By 5pm it had 40% left. 40min jog using Runkeeper, battery dropped to 20%.

will see how long it lasts today.
[Moto 360] Steve-x:
Ambient mode and Facer do not play well with each other. With minimal use battery lasted 9 hours. I'll go back to ambient off and stick with Facer for now which does fine.
[Moto 360] dangreene1:
Can get 12 hours using Facer and Ambient - probably should go back to stock face, because I need the ambient for sure.
[Moto 360] lanwarrior:
Same here. I need the ambient mode more than a pretty watch face.

The flick-your-wrist thing didn't work for me half the time, but with ambient mode, this work most of the time. Not to mention that I now can GLANCE at the watch, just like a real watch.
[Moto 360] madpete:
Well another 14hrs of run time today, making it 28hrs now off the charger....and I still have 24% left! Gotta say I'm impressed with the 360.
[Moto 360] knoxploration:
These numbers read as pure fiction to me. Short of disabling step counting, there is literally nothing else I can do to extend battery life now.

I have no apps installed, the watch is on the latest firmware, has been reset, has had several days to relearn its battery life, has the default watch face, has ambient mode disabled, is on Auto brightness in a dimly-lit room all day (Auto is actually *less* bright than the lowest setting in this condition), the watch is fully charged in the morning.

I'm still getting 3.8% power consumption per hour with very light use. (3 or 4 notifications, two Hangouts replies by voice, and the time checked maybe twice in five hours). Your figures are 2.7% per hour, and others are claiming as little as 2%.

I can only assume those claiming these features have literally disabled every single feature and are using their watches barely if at all. That's not helpful to brag about online, if so -- these are smartwatches and using them as dumbwatches and then bragging about the battery life is just plain annoying to those who can't get close to your figures.
[Moto 360] madpete:
I dont have anything turned off dude, I have step and heart notifications turned on...it gives me daily updates. Plus im constantly getting emails etc. I have auto brightness set, and ambient mode off.

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I dont have facer installed, but I do have a few watch faces installed from the market. I also have audio recorder, browser, calendar, calculator, endomondo, flashlight, lyft, mini dialer, pixtocam, wear messenger, wear mini launcher and bit defender notification. I have been running on the built on "minimal" watch face the last couple of days.

Just a thought...people with poor battery life, could it be their phones causing the issue? I use a Galaxy Note 3 for ref. Just wondering if maybe the watch doesn't play as nicely with some phones as others?
[Moto 360] knoxploration:
Xperia Z2 here (which supports Bluetooth Low Energy).
[Moto 360] madpete:
Well I think it would be interesting if we could see who is using what phone with their watch, and what battery life they are getting. Are you on a stock or custom rom?

The only other thing I can say is that i factory reset my phone right before I got the watch, not because I was getting the watch...just because it was over due.
[Moto 360] knoxploration:
Completely stock and not even rooted on both phone and watch.
[Moto 360] CandyAndy:
I also have great battery life and usually my day is from 7AM to 11PM and I then have about 30% battery left. I haven't disabled anything and I do get quite a lot of notifications. Using minimal watch face and Sony Xperia Z3.
[Moto 360] dproldan:
Try to get the power and battery stats from adb. Let's try to be scientific here. :)

Connect with bluetooth adb to your watch and issue these commands:

adb -e shell dumpsys power > dump_power.txt

adb -e shell dumpsys batterystats > dump_battstats.txt

Upload those two text files somewhere so we can compare with some other watches.
[Moto 360] francois200:
large improvement of battery life

Just sharing my experience: I've impoved my battery life by charging only about 1h on the morning, and not all the night like I did before.

With same use, same face, it lasts 50% more... (20% after 28h use) :)
[Moto 360] cbowens:
Interesting. I've been doing the typical charge all night, and I currently average about 30 hours.... I'll attempt your method for the next couple days and see whether it makes a difference.
[Moto 360] tacosrdelicioso:
What is the phone you have it paired to? I have a moto x and its always been great battery on my 360 as well
[Moto 360] knoxploration:
Sony Xperia Z2. Near-identical to the Xperia Z3, which I have seen somebody else saying their 360 works great with in terms of battery life.
[Moto 360] tyraelasd:
knoxploration..

I bought a moto 360 from another guy that used it for a week and then he decided to sell it ( it seems brand new ). The thing is that it's already running the latest firmware but I'm also getting really bad battery life, today it's my second day of testing, woke up at 9am now it's almost 8pm and I'm at 30% with really low usage and ambient mode off. Got a nexus 5 running lolipoop.

I really do hope that battery life gets better with more cycles of usage. But at this point this isn't what I was expecting from the long lasting new moto 360 firmware.

Update: Did I get a deffective unit? I thought with ambien mode "on" the screen will stay dimmed the whole time, but when I activate it it just stay dim as long as I have my wrist near or half way through reading position and after this it goes off. I reckong that is way more sensitive to the wrist gesture to fully activate the display, but hell what is going on here?
[Moto 360] jayr04:
That's normal. The way I would describe ambient mode is that it's just more sensitive of the screen turning on. With ambient off, you have to have it just at the right angle for it to come on.
[Moto 360] irmatt:
I try my best to keep it of the charger, and I get around 30 hours use, if I forget to charge it after i wake up.
[Moto 360] marcochapita:
I have to say i was afraid to all the things that people were saying about battery life,but i decide to give it a go to the watch i receive it on last thursday, after i connected and update the watch to the latest firmware i use it a lot on the next day, i take it off the charger around 11h i use it until the battery drain out around 20h , but as all people say i gave it a few days to the battery and today i have to say in a normal day of use a lot of notifications because of the hangouts and reply through the watch.i took the watch around 9h and its 23h and i still have 32%

I guess depends on the usage because on Saturday i took it at 10Am and at 00H i still had it 21%

I use ambient screen on and brightness on level 1. I use facer and i switch watch faces like 2 a day lolol because its all new. :p

My Phone is a Galaxy S5 all Stock
[Moto 360] distortedloop:
Well, I wonder what I'm doing wrong after reading so many reports of 20-30 hours of battery life.

I was getting about 13-14 hours per day with ambient off and auto brightness on. Did that for about a week.

Yesterday I got a whooping 10 hours and today just over 9 and the watch actually died on me.

I hate that there is no way to check battery usage stats to troubleshoot this.

What could have changed the last couple of days?

Sent from my XT1095
[Moto 360] erikiksaz:
Depends on your watch face and if you have a lot of apps installed.
[Moto 360] ChrisNee1988:
Also I think that swiping away apps doesn't really kill them. I feel like I get better battery life after restarting the watch
[Moto 360] dproldan:
But there is!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=56062279

Battery Life Discussion
[Moto 360] distortedloop:
Yikes. Just one page back in the same thread... How the heck did I miss that?

I'll give it a try if battery life sucks again today.

I wore the watch to sleep last night. It's down to 70% in just five hours. I guess that 6% power hour could get me 16-17 hours, but only if I don't do anything with the watch.

Certainly nowhere near the 30 or 50 hours some are reporting.

Sent from my XT1095
[Moto 360] kevinlevrone:
This is not normal. But if you receive many notifications and calls (screen time and vibration) it could have a shorter battery life.
[Moto 360] distortedloop:
And in the 70 minutes since I posted that, it's down to 53%. WTF? I guess the adb debugging session really ate up some battery(?). (Edit - and in the 10 minutes it took to write this post, it dropped down to 48%.)

I've attached the two battery stats files pulled. I scanned through them, but nothing really stands out to me, but maybe someone smarter than I am can take a look and find something those of us suffering poor battery life might have missed.

For reference, the watch is on the brand new latest update which came out yesterday.

Connected to a 2nd generation Moto X.

The only app I've installed on the watch is a tip calculator.

Apps on the phone that attached themselves to it: Endomondo Sports, IFTTT, Lyft, Keep, iHeart Radio, Google Maps, My Tracks, Play Music.

I use the stock "Digitial" watch face customized to black screen with red hours.

Ambient OFF

Auto-brightness.

Attached.
[Moto 360] qualitymove13:
This battery monitoring app was just recently release and I have been using since yesterday. So far so good.

http://goo.gl/w0Fp76

Description

Wear Battery Stats helps you monitor your Android Wear device battery life.

It's the perfect companion for your watch when you want to know more about your battery life.

With this app you easily can:

► Track the battery level and predict when you will be out of battery

► See your apps activity to determine if an app causes a battery drain

► Be notified when the battery percentage or the remaining time are below a level
[Moto 360] distortedloop:
Wow, off the charger no more than 2 hours and it's down to 68% already.

I've also been noticing it takes a very long time for the watch to wake up and show the time when I raise my wrist. Feels like maybe something's running amok.

Will try that app posted above I think.

Sent from my VS985 4G
[Moto 360] ChrisNee1988:
Try rebooting the watch
[Moto 360] distortedloop:
Freshly rebooted this morning.

Just six hours off the charger and down to 44%.

Nothing interesting revealed in that Wear Battery app.

Maybe a reset in order.
[Moto 360] steveliv:
Try rebooting your phone after you take it the watch off the charger each morning. I have been doing that each day except for the first day i got it and have gotten decent battery life. Also make sure to restart the watch every few days. I installed the newest update yesterday.

Here is a chart showing my battery life ever since I got my 360.

http://imgur.com/9xX7LSC
[Moto 360] distortedloop:
I'm really at my wits end now.

Went from 70% to 46% in two hours. This is after resetting and rebooting the watch. I even removed Lyft app for good measure. That silly battery monitor app shows nothing useful, either.

Sent from my XT1095
[Moto 360] Wiley_11:
Try this at your own risk. :D The (??) could represent any app/apps you think may be causing problems. Clearing data worked on my watch after multiple resets/app uninstalls with no resolution to the problem. Good luck!

- Uninstall(??) app from phone

- Clear Google Play Services / Wear companion app data

- Go into phone settings

- Select “Apps” from under “Device” section

- Swipe right to “All” apps

- Find “Android Wear” and select

- Tap “Clear data”

- Find “Google Play services” and select

- Tap “Manage space”

- Scroll all the way down and tap “Clear all data”

- Reset Watch - (On Watch) Settings > Reset device

- Launch Wear companion app and re-pair watch

- Install(??) app
[Moto 360] PsymonDK:
I've been getting pretty god batterylife with 20 hour days with over 20% left no problem. Got the OTA today and installed it and recharged the watch before leaving at 8 AM, it's now 2 PM and I'm down to 38% battery :(

Anyone else experiencing terrible batterylife with the new OTA?
[Moto 360] kevinlevrone:
With the new KNX01S update received yesterday, I have managed a power consumption of 2.31 percent / hour, a record low for me (Ambient Off, stock watch face, some applications installed). It may be possible that they improved the battery life even more.

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For me it's the other way arround, it seems the battery life is improved.
[Moto 360] PsymonDK:
Hmm, mayby it's just Facer being a battery hog. Been running with the same simple watchface through facer for quite awhile though.

Gonna test it with a stock watchface and see if i see any improvements.
[Moto 360] mmx6688:
It happened to me as well just after upgrade. Then restart the watch and charge again. It shall be fine after that.

But I found mini laucher get crushed on watch. Maybe some app not compatable with new upgrade.
[Moto 360] mk92595:
My battery got worse after the upgrade. Battery used to last me 18hrs. Now 5 hrs later and its 55%
[Moto 360] alexdiaz:
This is for some people who said it's impossible to get 20+ hours with ambient mode.

I have stock watchface and some apps. Medium usage.
[Moto 360] gtdriver0036:
My best day since the latest update was 8:30am to 10pm with 82% still on the watch. I will freely admit i am a light user and work at a desk. I've never ever had a day where the battery even came close to dying before i could get to a charger. Even a 7am to 2am day where I went to six flags and rode roller coasters all day left me with plenty of juice. I just check the time a few times a day and dismiss whatever notifications come in. the odd reminder here and there and the occasional text reply when my phone isn't handy.

Paired with a VZW Galaxy Nexus running 4.4.4 Shiny ROM with Fancy Kernel R59
[Moto 360] distortedloop:
The Lyft app may have been my problem. I uninstalled it yesterday and today battery life is much improved.

10+ hours and still at 53%. Hope it holds.

Whatever apps you've installed haven't been used at all according to that screen capture. Nothing but the battery tracker showing in the used apps portion.

Sent from my VS985 4G
[Moto 360] bustanut666:
i have to charge my watch like 3 times in a day because its so cool and i can't stop playing with it.. best gadget a have bought in a long time.. :good:
[Moto 360] kloan:
I don't know how you guys are getting such great battery life.

Mine's down to 60% after only 5 hours. I don't use it a lot.. receive occasional email notifications and that's about it. I have a custom watch face, but that shouldn't affect the battery life this much.

What am I missing?
[Moto 360] madpete:
Test it with the stock minimal face for a day just to see.
[Moto 360] mmx6688:
Set brightness to 1 instead off auto. Try to test is for one day.
[Moto 360] kloan:
I'll set it back to a stock watch face tomorrow and see if it makes a difference. I have the brightness set to 3, not auto. 1 is way too dim to be useful IMO.
[Moto 360] dukat0s:
Hello,after a couple of days and few charges + the update my battery life is amazing ! Last night gms(google play services ) got update in to my watch and looks much better till now .here some screenshots .auto brightness gps always on.
[Moto 360] dukat0s:
Getting better and better 14hours still 50% . new update impress me a lot
[Moto 360] tyraelasd:
I'm also one of the unlocky dudes that have terrible battery life, I can barely make it though a day. Don't know that the hell.
[Moto 360] pierrekid:
Going on 26 hours and 58% left. Sorry but this watch battery is awesome. Along with my note 4 I'm a very happy camper
[Moto 360] PsymonDK:
After reboot of my watch the other day when I experienced terrible battery life, the problem is gone. I'm at 49% after ~24 hours.
[Moto 360] foneal3:
What apps do you have installed? Maybe we can see if it's any of the apps causing the problem.
[Moto 360] fastnfurious8:
Can you list all the apps that you have installed with your watch?
[Moto 360] PsymonDK:
Sure

For Wear specific apps i'm running the following:

Wear Mini Launcher

Facer

Apps that interact with Wear i'm using the following:

Facebook Messenger

Hangouts

Yatze

My Tracks

Wimp

Netflix

Facebook

Gmail

Tasker & Autovoice
[Moto 360] fastnfurious8:
Are you using a stock watchface? Or facer? And are you a heavy user? Thanks again!
[Moto 360] PsymonDK:
I'm running a minimalistic Facer watchface. With no animations and just the clock, date and battery %.

I'm a relatively light user at the moment, so probably between 10 and 30 notifications during a day. Using the watch with My Tracks for running and as a remote for Wimp playback. Also i use the watch heavily as a watch, so i look at the time quite often instead of checking phone of PC.
[Moto 360] lemonov:
battery life

Have the last update. Took mine off the charger at 6:30 AM. I'm down to 10% at 4:20 PM with light usage. Heavier usage would probably kill the battery in 5-6 hrs.

Waiting for 4.4W3 lol
[Moto 360] bruceo:
I'm getting about 12hrs with ambient on with the latest update and stock watchface
[Moto 360] HankB:
How is the battery life with My Tracks? I was using My Tracks to record how slowly I was going in traffic the other day and the constant notifications really sucked the battery dry on my watch. Most days I finish near 50% but that day after a couple hours of My Tracks my watch was dead. A couple days ago (and after the most recent Wear update) I used Endomondo for a 3+ hour run and the watch went from about 90% to dead. (It shut down while I was cooling down.) Endomondo didn't used to be that heavy a drain on the battery. My take away from this is that (1) this is not a fully mature product and app developers need to learn how the things they program can impact battery life. Part of being on the leading edge I suppose. (2) I was also surprised by what seems to impact battery life and what doesn't. Some days when I run shorter distances I leave the app open (which means the screen remains on) and the battery is not impacted as much as I expected. Other times (like the two I describe above) I leave the app closed after starting the activity and rely on notifications to monitor progress and the battery impact seems very high.

If battery life is a problem I would start disabling unneeded notifications and uninstalling apps to try to see which ones are the hogs.
[Moto 360] bruceo:
Actually 13.5 hrs with 11% left as it went back on the charger at bedtime
[Moto 360] kevinlevrone:
24 hours with Ambient Mode ON, auto-brightness ON and 10% battery left. This is after the last update. There were quite a few notifications during this time. I'm quite happy with this result.
[Moto 360] PsymonDK:
Tbh, it seems fine, i'm using it for short 5km runs of about 30 mins, and it uses som battery but i think it's around 5-10%. Haven't checked it thoroughly.
[Moto 360] MikeLibbey:
Can I ask how many wear apps you have? and if you use a stock face or facer or something? I get about 12 hours with ambient off and im real confused as to what im doing wrong...

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I have yet to make it a full 12 hours with ambient off, what the fuuuuhhh are we doing wrong??

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WHAT! are alerts off and you have zero apps or something? my idle is worse than that with alerts off no joke

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Like that guy, i have horrible life. I only get notifications from my texts, google now cards, pushbullet, and that's really all i can think of. I have these Wear apps...

android wear

facer

wear mini launcher

connect

find my phone

wear volume

reddit for wear(syncs once every 6 hours)

wear camera

smart wearable(all turned off except twitter)

wear battery stats

Am i doing something crazy? If i'm lucky I get 10 hours with ambient off. I do get a lot of texts during the day, is this a sole reason for it to be horrible battery? I've tried stock faces and Facer faces, honestly didn't find a huge batt difference
[Moto 360] pierrekid:
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Alerts on, ambient sensor off and auto brightness on. I actually got to a full 2 and half days this weekend with 11 percent left.

My battery weekend- Took it off the charger Friday morning, ended up sleeping at a friends place Friday night. Went to the beach Saturday morning and brunch. Came back home to change and went to a party Saturday night. Woke up at friends place Sunday midday and went home around 5. Probably could have made it to Monday honestly. I used GPS a couple times( to and from beach, restaurant, party location etc...), read all my work emails ( notifications), text messages and fitness alerts ( samsung). Changed my watchface a couple times for work and for the party. Also check my heart rate a couple times to show off to a couple friends. This thing is a true beast and with the note 4 I'm set for the next 2 years.
[Moto 360] MikeLibbey:
NOW YOU'RE JUST LYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but im jealous as ****.
[Moto 360] 640k:
on weekends i get substantially better battery life than i do during the normal day. i've attributed this to two things:

1. when i'm typing, my wrist moves, therefore often engaging the watch face.

2. i get way more emails/notifications on my normal 8-5 than i do when i'm home.

my watch has been off the charger since 7a this morning and is at 58% (it is now 2:02p EST). that's about a 6% discharge/hr. if i could access my battery stats, i could see what my actual screen time is during those periods.

my watch is completely stock, with stock watch faces.

on the weekend, i can go 14hrs and put it on the charger with 65% left. on the weekdays i'm often putting it on with about 25% left.
[Moto 360] SwissAndroidX:
I have to say: battery live is really good!
[Moto 360] pierrekid:
No reason to lie. I love this thing. What phone are you paired with?
[Moto 360] MikeLibbey:
I know im kidding lol Nexus 5 w/ Lollipop. Do you text a lot? I text A LOT and attritbute battery to that
[Moto 360] pierrekid:
Put it like this. In the hour and change I've been on the forums I have 34 messages from 8 clients pending response ( on lunch). I never track my messages but if I have to guess I send 4500- to 5000 a week? Just guestimating. I have 40 private clients that text on a daily basis plus family and friends
[Moto 360] MikeLibbey:
****. this. ****. whats your magic trick
[Moto 360] pierrekid:
Lol I'm not sure. After the big update my battery life just went insane. I know a bunch of people on here have the same experience. Maybe you have a defective unit? Actually just checked my watch. Took it off the charger around 545am this morning and it's at 89% at 3:07 pm now
[Moto 360] 640k:
long sleeves?