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[Moto 360] kxhaz:
Do you have Google FIT installed and if so even if you are not using it is it set on High Location Accuracy (setting is in the app on the phone). I have know people who have google fit on their phone and don't realize that the watch is now tracking GPS while they are moving.
[Moto 360] drift333:
Hi everybody, I recived my moto 360 2 days ago and I'm having an huge battery drain. When I first unboxed it I tried to immediately turn it on but I did nothing. So I let it charge and scared of the simple battery indicator instead of the cool circular one that I watched on YouTube I suddenly took it off and tried to turn it on. After doing that several time I left it on the charger until it awakened. So I paired it with my phone and set up it all. Then I left it again on the charger until it fully charged and then I did all the 2 update that led me to 5.1.1.

After the updates the battery drained to 40% and so I let it recharge. Now after 2 days my battery life is terrible and I can't get through out a day. Is it abnormal or I just have to let it to settle down for few days?

Thanks
[Moto 360] JeffMD:
Your battery life span in a day is directly based on how many times you turn it on pretty much. Without knowing your habits, if you have ambient mode enabled, you do not give enough information to make any kind of assessment.
[Moto 360] Badelhas:
Since the update with tilt, ambient, gestures, wifi, and auto brightness on I can't get to bed with the 20 per cent of battery I used to.

Should I turn of the wifi feature?
[Moto 360] matthiastan5:
Android wear is the top of the list for battery use. What do I do about that? I don't use the watch often, just check notifications when they come in once in awhile.
[Moto 360] mohcho:
I have noticed that over the last few days, my battery usage has levelled out and it has been hovering at like low 2%-3%. I have turned ambient ON and disabled the tilt, which I think has helped it a lot so the gyroscope isn't always on checking my wrist movements. One question about the ambient mode, is it supposed to stay on ambient mode ALL the time, so you can still see the watchface at all times? I find that mine turns off the screen and sometimes it's on even though I'm not moving the watch.
[Moto 360] Badelhas:
Yeah it's not always on like the other watches since it's not an amoled screen. Should I reset the watch or re-install the Android wear app or something?
[Moto 360] mohcho:
I turned off my WiFi and set brightness to 1. The battery drain settled down after a few days and I didn't reset it or reinstall the android wear. I would suggest you try that first and go a couple more days.
[Moto 360] justjayhere:
I received the update on my watch to 5.1.1 but my VZW Note Edge was still waiting for the Lollipop update and battery life was just ok. Now that both my Moto360 and Note Edge are running Lollipop. . Battery life has improved.
[Moto 360] BartLuke94:
From 100% to 0% in 5 hours with very low usage. It's new, I'm thinking to send it back

Inviato dal mio HTC One M9
[Moto 360] Teyshablue:
It seems to take several days for the watch to settle in. My first 3 days were horrible....now I use 3-4%/hr and the watch easily makes it through the day. Battery stats tell me Im good through noon tomorrow.
[Moto 360] rockandchelle:
I completely agree with this. My watch is only a week old and when I first got it I was charging it by lunch. Now I make it all day and still have 20 to 30% left.
[Moto 360] Yoshi1221:
It varies, most days I end up with about 20-30% left, other days it completely dies (from 8AM-9PM). I did notice an improvement in battery life in the 5.1.1 update. First week was crap, barely lasted 4 hours on minimal settings.
[Moto 360] thebestiam:
Is the watch battery worth it? I'm thinking about purchasing one.
[Moto 360] robrob777:
So the guy at Reddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/moto360/comments/2fn66f/my_moto_360_battery_usage_near_real_time

Drained the 360 on moderate use and he got 16Hours Screen always on= OFF

So the early reviews were right, the watch won't pass 12 hrs on moderate use Screen always on=ON
[Moto 360] Secretcow:
With screen always on I get about 8-9 hours on battery life. Looks like I'm going to be returning this...
[Moto 360] RunNgun42:
Did you have it set to auto-dim (not turn off, but just dim)? Or literally the screen is just always on at full brightness?
[Moto 360] ogalix:
As i read from many forums, i think if you set it to always on and no dimming at all it'll die in just a few hours. :crying:
[Moto 360] geonahta:
Name one device that can go on a full day, with screen always on and no dimming.

Even the best phones can only do 6 hours of screen on time with dimming. Tablets max out at 12 hours.
[Moto 360] javispedro:
The MetaWatch, The Pebble, or other watches, which with this device is competing with.
[Moto 360] veryFATHAMSTER:
What is clear is that these wearable devices need some extra battery charge. Maybe solar panels in the watch or something like that.
[Moto 360] tauzins:
Anyone having issues charging? Mine doesn't wanna go past 95-97% area and its been charging overnight
[Moto 360] Character Zero:
Moto had a tough balancing act with the watch. A bigger battery would have increased price and thickness. A different screen would have affected price. It a beautiful watch that is really unmatched right now. I think there are creative ways to get the battery life needed. Do you really need it to be always on for a full 20 hours? Could you get by with stretches of always on and then setting it to "on demand"? I kind of like the "off" look, reminds me of the GNex when the screen was off. A slick black slab or circle in this instance. And just a simple touch of the screen works well.
[Moto 360] gammite:
i had no expectation of having a screen always on smartwatch. not sure why anyone would have that expectation at this point. smh....

and before anyone mentions that samsung or pebble those are completely different types of screens and hideous compared to the 360.
[Moto 360] spinedoc:
I also don't understand the pebble comparisons, isn't that just a monochrome e-paper display? I also agree it's fugly, I wouldn't put a pebble watch on my dog.
[Moto 360] Character Zero:
I have been playing around with the "lift wrist to turn on screen". When I shake my wrist around and try to get it to come on, it seems to be hit or miss. almost like there is "shake detection" or something. But if I natural flick my wrist like I would look at any watch, it works much better.
[Moto 360] kuronosan:
This, yes.
[Moto 360] pakure:
The problem is screen... The Samsung gear live has only 300mah and runs for a day. Because of amoled.

.. The new gear S with WiFi, 3g, GPS and big 2 inch display also has 300mah like all gear watches before and it will run for 24hrs on moderate use, because of amoled and tizen... Hope android wear can also take a leaf out of Samsung's tizen in this matter
[Moto 360] 2k4ever:
The 2 Android Wear watches already on the market - Gear Live and LG G Watch

of course the screen can and should be dimmed - the so called Ambient Mode, but the Moto 360 doesn't seem to handle that

I'm not sure to get a Moto 360 anymore, especially because the new LG G Watch R is also not looking bad and is going to have way better battery life

off topic:

about phones not achieving more than 6 hours sot: have a look at this kernel development community for the Nexus 5 - with the right rom / kernel, 13h of sot are possible on a phone that's really not renowned for its battery live

https://plus.google.com/+ChetKener/posts/jFppQyyfHjh
[Moto 360] knoxploration:
Sony Xperia Z2: Easily 10-11 hours of screen on time, and we're talking a huge, high-res, power sucking screen, not a tiny, low-res one.
[Moto 360] gammite:
imo, those screens do not compare to the moto screen.
[Moto 360] dpwhitty11:
If and when we can root the Moto 360, we could remove or stop the activities for the pedometer, wrist shake screen on, constant heart monitor, etc, and get (hopefully )good life with ambient mode.
[Moto 360] 2k4ever:
how comes?

I haven't seen any of the mentioned watches in person, but why should the screens not be comparable?

Granted, the Gear Live uses an AMOLED screen, but those are compared to LCD screens all the time when it comes to phones

and the ppi-wise the Moto 360 seems to be even worse than the competition (Moto: 205ppi, LG G Watch: 247 ppi Gear Live: 278 ppi)
[Moto 360] gammite:
enough said.....
[Moto 360] kxhaz:
I have no problem making it through a day 5 AM to 10 PM. I think most people will agree. When you first get your watch the battery life will suck for a day or two, just expect it.

I have also found that a restart of the watch about once a week is good as well. Monday I was sitting about 70% at 3 PM and then all the sudden the battery life started tanking to where I was down to 25% by 8 PM and when I looked at the graph it showed a sharp drop from 3:00 on. I restarted the watch and made it to bed with 19% still left at 10:30. I could not remember when the last time I restarted it.
[Moto 360] thebestiam:
Tfti ;)
[Moto 360] bolillo:
well i bought one yesterday at bestbuy and im testing out to see if the battery is good enough to last me a day, im coming from the lg g watch and i have to say why did moto go with the random specs instead of everyone else? But despite all that i am liking the watch and i lasted through my day today so lets see how we do tomorrow and im running everything on except the auto brightness, i have that set on 1 which is plenty. Also if battery life gets better after a few days then i think it will last and funny enough the g watch lasted more than 48 hours and it was connected to my phone at the same time as the 360 so even if it ain't that pretty that battery life sure is good.
[Moto 360] Traxex_:
I'm selling my Moto 360 again cause the battery life just isn't doing it for me.

Even after a week of use, I can barely get 10 hours with same usage as with my G Watch that lasts 24h +.
[Moto 360] bolillo:
Day number 2 with watch with brightness at 1, ambient mode on, wifi on, stock dials watchface, haven't taken it of since i woke up and i cut the grass with it and i went and did a bit of shopping so it must have recorded a bit of steps but nowhere near the stock step goal and this is how it is for now
[Moto 360] bolillo:
Ok i did surpass it by a lot lol
[Moto 360] Gage_Hero:
Here is something to try....

I decided to see what would happen if I used greenify on moto connect. So after 25 texts, couple of emails, lots of weather notifications (had a tornado warning) I took the watch off the charger at 1 am and at 4:25 pm still have 70% (picture included). I am using greenify rooted but I don't know if that would make a difference... still get all the notifications on the watch... might work for you.....
[Moto 360] GatorsUF:
Wow, what was your battery life like prior to doing this? I need to put xposed on my phone before I can try myself, but I am definitely interested.

How specifically do you "greenify" moto connect? I have a rooted vzw moto x.
[Moto 360] bolillo:
So what exactly is the use for moto connect? Just for the fitness? Cause i can go ahead and uninstall it and see, also do you have everything turned on?
[Moto 360] Gage_Hero:
To greenify moto connect, you install the app from the play store. Once installed you can select moto connect from the apps by clicking the plus sign at the top. As far as I know, moto connect is what is used by the phone to communicate with the watch so I don't think uninstalling it would be an option. That is what I used to get the screen shot for the watch battery. I also used greenify last night on a few other apps for the watch, I will take another screenshot latter this afternoon. It does seem to make a difference.
[Moto 360] Badelhas:
You can uninstall it, what communicates with the watch is the Android wear app, it only works to find the last place where the watch was, personalize the stock watchfaces and little more. I never use it.
[Moto 360] Gage_Hero:
Good to know, actually come to think of it... the screenshot was with android wear not moto connect...
[Moto 360] fwayfarer:
Lol, just lol. You either had (multiple?) defective device issues or there was some malfunction between the watchback and the band.

Used to just be issues that exist between the chair and the monitor, man I feel old.
[Moto 360] Traxex_:
Don't be that rude dude..

I know several people with a Moto 360 and the battery life just sucks in comparison with a LG G Watch/R or a Zenwatch.... no need to discuss a fact that has been proven many times :laugh:

Maybe the battery life is quite different with your usage, but I'm receiving many text messages that wake up the watch and my G Watch still lasts very long instead of the Moto 360.
[Moto 360] fwayfarer:
I didn't even think it was that rude. Maybe a little.
[Moto 360] arbitraryturtle:
I really don't see the point of having watches that you have to worry about the battery life. Imagine being in uni and worrying about your phone, laptop AND watch dying throughout the day.
[Moto 360] bolillo:
Well i have a g watch and since getting the 360 all i have to do is charge it every night and I'm not missing the battery cause it lasts me throughout the day and the watchfaces are sooooo good for cicular watches
[Moto 360] Alex9090:
I get pretty decent battery life for my use. Moto step counter, Calls, a few texts and Google now cards with wrist gestures on it's pretty good. I don't use wifi though.
[Moto 360] Ryan35310:
I get ~25 hours. Ambient off, tilt to wake on, wifi off, stock watchface, auto brightness, barely using it. Only have Weather Timeline, Wear Battery Stats, and Pujie Black (not actually using the watchface, it's just installed).

---------- Post added at 11:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:04 PM ----------

Interesting, with the screen on just pulling up and down the notification shade on the top to see battery, I actually burn through 1% in 42 seconds.
[Moto 360] Ryan35310:
Today it appears to be faring better:
[Moto 360] bolillo:
I always get a day's usage but idk how some got like 1 day and a couple more hours worth of battery life on it, yesterday i had a looooooot of notification (thanks whatsapp chat group) and i got like 18 or 20 i think
[Moto 360] SirDigitalKnight:
So is there a list of the best settings to use on the watch to get the most battery usage out of it? I searched all over the internet but nothing seems to pop up but this thread here. My 360 does not have a "always on" option though, so I can not use it as a standard watch? I have the "ambient screen" option under settings but this does not keep it on full time. It will fade to B/W for a few seconds then go completely off. Do some of you have the option to keep it on in the dim mode full time? I turned wifi off and I went into Google Fit App on the watch and turned it off. Also I think the brightness setting of "1" seems to help the battery more then the "Auto" setting? Any other pointers that I am missing?

Thx,

-DK
[Moto 360] punkboyinsf:
Theater mode turns off the wrist lift on function
[Moto 360] SirDigitalKnight:
Watch use

But I would really like to use it first-most as a watch and second for notifications.

I also use it a lot to control my music and TV (chromecast) as it works good controlling my Sonos player and also Google Play on my tablet.

As long as I do not get to many notifications I can make it thru the day and then put it on the charger for the night.

Just wanted to find out if I could eek out a little but more for the day I get tons of notifications.

Also hoping that they (Motorola) will release an update to truly disable the heart rate monitor all together??? It looks like some are hacking into the watch and already shutting it off?
[Moto 360] TwistyValhalla:
I don't know if it's the latest Android Wear update but I've been pretty happy with battery life recently. 12hr days (8am-8pm) still leaves me with 50-60% battery life with light-medium usage.
[Moto 360] mcfhsieh:
Bought me a used moto yesterday and this is my battery life.
[Moto 360] SirDigitalKnight:
How do you display the watch battery info information that everyone is posting?
[Moto 360] Alex9090:
Android wear app>settings icon to right corner>moto 360> watch battery
[Moto 360] Zammo76:
Ignore. Replied to wrong post.
[Moto 360] SirDigitalKnight:
Thank you! Now I can actually see what is using up my battery. Looks like some of the watch-faces programs use up as much as the Android wear program itself. I have Weareal installed and it is using 6%.
[Moto 360] solid009:
Am I the only one that gets terrible battery life? I have WiFi off, ambient screen on, and tilt to wake screen on, is there something I should be changing?
[Moto 360] Zammo76:
What setting do you have the brightness on?

Also if you notice the watch is switching on a lot when your moving your arms about it might be worth turning on Cinema Mode.
[Moto 360] solid009:
I had it on auto but I recently changed it to 1 and still haven't noticed a difference
[Moto 360] Badelhas:
You get 24h with everything on?! That's a great battery life. When I have everything on I sometimes don't get to bed with battery left. I use custom watchfaces with watchmaker pro, though.
[Moto 360] matthiastan5:
Any idea why my watch suddenly updates so many apps at once that causes a huge battery drain? It's the second day it happened already. The watch runs fine through most of the day till somewhere in the evening, as shown in the battery stat picture, when the battery just comes crashing down. I've never had this issue before until yesterday and today has seen the same results. I require some assistance please.
[Moto 360] solid009:
No, I get 10-12 hours out of it
[Moto 360] Badelhas:
Yeah, me too. This is why I stopped using ambient Mode :(
[Moto 360] solid009:
There's something wrong with this picture
[Moto 360] Zammo76:
I've switched off some of the apps that can send alerts to my phone and battery life seems better:

1. I switched off photos as every time I was opening this on my phone my watch was switching on so it could be used to take pictures through it. Instead I've installed the app Camera Remote, which only switches on when I run the app and also gives you a remote view of what your phones camera can see.

2. I also switched off my news reader (Pulse) as trying to read news on a watch is pretty impossible.
[Moto 360] reanel:
I can get it 24H when ambient screen is off and tilt is on, brightness set to auto.
[Moto 360] ext109:
I used to get 2-3 days with it but since a few updates ago I always end the day with 20-40%.. I don't know what they changed but it ain't good

Sent from the One
[Moto 360] wmoore:
+1 for about 24hrs. I think the most I got out of it (when traveling sans charger) was near exactly 24hrs but typically I take it off the charger at 7am and it goes back on there about 10pm with 25-40% remaining.

In part it seems to depend on if it gets separated from the phone. If it does, then the battery drains quicker.
[Moto 360] badboy47:
when i first received my watch; the battery was horrendous. In one hour it would go from 100% to 40%. After charging it constantly and updating to the latest version (5.1.1) its finally stable. Now it lasts for about 24 hours with ambient display off and i am using a generic text watch face. I am using it through Wifi and not Bluetooth. I noticed if I use a watch face with some animation; the battery drains faster.
[Moto 360] jco23:
What concerns me is that Android wear is at the top if the list in terms of apps that are using most if the watch's battery. Early on, it used to be Bluetooth or idle.

To me, the primary culprit over the recent (3-4 months) has been the Android Wear app.

Updates keep coming out, and I keep reverting back to the July release.
[Moto 360] krazyflipj:
Wish Moto 360 had the same battery life as my LG G watch
[Moto 360] dabizstan:
Hi

I recently bought a 360 and I am still playing with the settings to see what configuration fits to me best.

I was able to get yesterday (my third day with the watch) around 27 hours on one charge. This was with tilt off and ambient off. While I'm not impressed, I find it acceptable. You think guys that this will get better after some more power cycles?

What I found strange is the behavior at night. I just let it on over my desk without charging, so I expected the battery to drain at the same speed as the rest of the day. Maybe a little bit less because of less notifications. But it seems the combustion is much lower while not in my wrist as you see in the picture. What could cause this?
[Moto 360] matthiastan5:
The heart rate sensor is active when on your wrist if you use moto body because it checks how often your heart is active.
[Moto 360] Rickyzx:
Battery life is the main con of Moto 360. It comes with 320mAh battery. I was thinking about having a Moto 360 but due to its battery life, now I am thinking about having a Modular smart watch. Where I would be able to add block for extra battery life, which is not possible with Moto 360.
[Moto 360] bolillo:
Is anyone having issues with theater mode with this new update? Mine wont stay on it just turns off when i hit the aide button and i have to go back and turn it on
[Moto 360] SamuelBegui:
Same here, probably part of the update
[Moto 360] L0cke:
I don't really know what people are complaining about. I'm nearly at the end of my second day and I have 38% left. I turn it off at night, have ambient off and tilt to wake on. Maybe I don't get as many notifications as you guys but it does all I want and functions as a watch. No problem.
[Moto 360] marctronixx:
used theater mode last night and that sucker was as dim as a burnt out light bulb.. :p
[Moto 360] ShimaMiku:
Want to talk about weird; I just got a replacement Moto 360 (had purplish blotches on the screen and the back started to crack) and the battery life on this update has been terrible. I figured it needed to calibrate, so I just it drain this morning and let it charge for the day and this is what it did. Never even got past 82%.
[Moto 360] wmoore:
Wow that's horrible. Is this fresh out of the box or have you got apps on there? Any chance you have a really, really bad app?
[Moto 360] ShimaMiku:
This is fresh out of the refurb box on Friday. No apps that were different than on my prior one. These are the non-OEM ones:

Amazon Shopping

Calculator

Hangouts

Intellicom Watchfaces (I have not made any custom ones, I just have it still installed on my phone)

Maps

Shazam

Slumber

Solitaire Wear

Tales of Pocoro

Wear Mini Launcher

I did get it to charge up to 98% by the time I left for work this morning. In about 1 hour it is down about 15% with pretty much no usage. According to the Android wear app, at this rate it has about 5 hours left.
[Moto 360] Cst79:
It does this when the ambient temperature is very high. It doesn't charge fully no matter what. Mine stops at like 95%. But when the temperatures are more reasonable, it charges to 100% with no problems.
[Moto 360] ShimaMiku:
It didn't seem overly hot when I took it off the charger, not more than than my previous 360 did when that would continue to charge. I took it off the charger about 8:35am today, and it died as was (at least accurately) projected at 2:15pm. It lasted a whopping 5 hours and 40 minutes to very minimal usage. What the f**k.
[Moto 360] fendee1:
So has anyone have a app the can't block notifications like pocketcast. I blocked 6 apps but pocketcast getting off the block list. And no way to dismiss on watch.
[Moto 360] Cst79:
Does anyone know of a way to disable the power saving mode that kicks in at 15% ? I hate it.
[Moto 360] Badmama30:
After a week with 1.3, my battery life is incredible. with Tilt ON and WI FI ON, I go to bed (around 1AM) with 51% battery. freaking amazing!
[Moto 360] L0cke:
Not sure you can disable it from ever starting, but when it's activated you can swipe and turn it off.
[Moto 360] Zammo76:
Give it a few days, the battery then sorts of beds in and then starts lasting alot longer.