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[Moto 360] xishp117x:
The battery does get better progressively and all tech sites definitely jumped the gun on battery life. It's day 5 for me and this charge cycle is going strong! Took it off at 6:30 am on Saturday, September 13th, and right now it is 2:20 pm on Sunday September 14th and i have 15% left. That's 10 minutes shy of 32 hours with charge still left! Used for numerous text messages via hangouts, fb messenger, and a couple emails. This is definitely waaaay better than what i expected out of a 320 mAh battery!
[Moto 360] furiousgtz:
Someone will do a revisit review or something and I hope its that due MKBHD.
[Moto 360] RMXO:
I'm seeing the same thing as you. My next charge will be my 5th and I've had the watch since Tues, 9/9. So far battery life has improved after every charge. I took mine off the charger on Sat @ 9 am and I still have 29% today @ 625pm from a bunch of emails, alerts and playing around with it for a bit. IMHO, reviewers jumped the gun in stating battery life sucks after usage for a short period time.
[Moto 360] play2lose:
They really should have all those reviews updated/revised if the battery honestly get's that much better. The reviews almost put even me off from buying one, and I've been obsessing over it for months lol. I'm sure they've turned off thousands of prospective buyers.
[Moto 360] Bob Smith42:
People miss the big issue on battery life. How does the watch charge?

The fact the Moto 360 uses Qi charging means there are lots of charging options that do not exist for other watches. Someone can easily invent new Qi charging solutions for the Moto 360. The fact this watch has Qi charging was one of maybe three total reasons I got it.

(1) Styling

(2) Apps

(3) OTG charging with Qi

I already have a couple spare Qi chargers so OTG charging is simple.
[Moto 360] dannydeluxe123:
A smart watch hast to have about the same battery lifetime as a smartphone. I charge my phone every night. So i could even charge my smartwatch every night, see? And if i dont have a charged phone i dont need a charged SW...
[Moto 360] knoxploration:
That would be all well and good if there was a way to charge without the big, chunky charging stand. Unfortunately, there's not a good one if you're considering the metal strap, because Qi chargers aren't typically designed to accommodate a circular loop-shaped object where the loop can't (easily) be removed, and which places the inductive charging pad on the inside of that loop.

As-is, if you own the metal strap, you have no choice but to carry that bulky charging stand everywhere you go, even if you're only out of town overnight. In an age of airlines charging even for carry-on, that's dumb. A way to charge via a standard USB charger should've been provided -- perhaps a proprietary magnetic charging cable that would attach to contacts on the watch base or similar.
[Moto 360] diablonyc2:
I had my watch on all day yesterday and at night had 16% charge left. Today I took it to work and on the train used it slightly (to select songs and such)...I did feel it heat up. And now at work am left with 22% battery! Thankfully I have a Qi charger here. I wonder what was the drain? Did the heart monitor kick in?
[Moto 360] MuurHekker:
Here it is by MKBHD: fap
[Moto 360] jlouang:
I turn off pedometer count. 12 hours get me to 51%. I send around 8 text an hour and check the watch every 10-15 minutes for notification.
[Moto 360] jt3:
That big clunky charging stand is smaller than most USB Wall chargers. I don't find it difficult to travel with at all. That being said, I would like to be able to order an additional one for travel... or possibly an even smaller travel charger that maybe doesn't act as a stand, but simply sticks to the back of the watch somehow (although, I'm not sure how they'd accomplish that).

As for battery life, even on day one, with "new toy" usage (i.e. heavy), my battery still lasted the full day, and I don't think I've ever placed it into the charger at night with less than 30% charge, so I'm good with it. I am curious though as to whether anyone has determined just how much of a hit ambient "always on" mode will make to the battery. I'd like to turn that on, so that the watch is a bit more glance-able. All too often, the display doesn't come on when I raise my wrist the first time, and I've had to resort to tapping the screen. Ambient mode would resolve that, but does anyone know, does it knock an hour off the battery life (which I could live with), or more like 5-6?
[Moto 360] furiousgtz:
Any feedback? Did you see any improvement?
[Moto 360] Locklear308:
How can the battery life span from a range of 5 to 20 hours? Something is wrong
[Moto 360] iamkris:
First generation not worth it yet as it may seem.
[Moto 360] falconw13:
I think too many people were smashing the battery life before a couple good cycles had been tested. Out of the box on the first couple of charges the battery life was not good at all. I have been testing still. Right now im running the watch just as a watch without the android wear tethering. Results good so far. Running about 6 hours and down to 70%. Still using the Pedometer and Heart meter with a custom minimalistic face. We'll see how the battery does today. Tomorrow i will try the same test with a full day tether with the phone.
[Moto 360] Locklear308:
See that's not bad at all. I just don't see how it's range is so wildly different.

Like defective units or something
[Moto 360] Squeak22:
Got mine on Friday.

Had it charged up by 6 pm, went out until 1 in the morning with it on showing it to people the whole time, it was down to about 63%.

Saturday I took it off the charger at 8, wore it all day and night, it was at 53% when I put it on the charger around 2 AM.

on Sunday, Took it off the charger at 9, wore it until around 7:30 PM, and left it off the charger until midnight. It was at 63%.

Ambient Mode off

I have the minimalist watchface, pedometer, heart rate, an interval app, facebook and messanger, google+, email, SMS

Took it off the charger at 7:15 this morning, right now I'm at 84% at 12:30 PM.

I'm pretty happy with the battery life so far.
[Moto 360] tsy87:
On Saturday I was in a wedding so I pulled the phone off the charger at about 830am and was using it throughout the day.. some navigation and a decent amount of text and emails. I used ambient mode for a few hours total throughout the day. The battery died at around 230am I believe. Not too shabby, in fact, I was very satisfied with this.

As for charging, I bring my powerbot charger if I don't want to bring my moto 360 charger.
[Moto 360] mefm247:
Make sure you are running the latest firmware

From everything I read it's not caused by defective hardware, instead, make sure you have the latest firmware 4.4W.1, as that will dramatically improve your battery life. For some reason Google throttles the firmware updates, so even though the firmware is already out, not all devices have it yet.

When you go to the update firmware screen, leave it there for at least 30 seconds and it should update.
[Moto 360] skylenorman:
Had mine for about a week now. I take it off the dock at 8am every morning, and when I return home around 7pm it's usually got ~35-40% battery left. This is with me getting tons of notifications throughout the day, using the voice part to transcribe emails/texts, and constantly checking the time (new toy syndrome).

I usually mute notifications and turn off the bluetooth from my phone when I take it off at home, and when I dock it around midnight it still has about 20% battery life left.
[Moto 360] quietglow:
I am on the first day of my 2nd 360 (returned the first), and the battery life so far is more or less doubled over what I got last week. I too think there may be hardware issues at work here.
[Moto 360] guaneet:
I noticed even after my first charge cycle that the battery has improve dramatically. Can't wait to see it after a few more.
[Moto 360] menendez1293:
Have had my 360 off the charger since 7:30 EST this morning and currently I am at 71% battery.
[Moto 360] MRCANNADY:
I have had the moto since this past Friday, and I was honestly thinking about taking it back after the first two days, because my battery life was horrible for day to day usage. Today however, I took it off of my charger at 8:00 am, used it for a quick 10 minute navigation, received about 10 text messages and a maybe 5 email notifications, and a weather alert. I'm about 9 hours of usage, and I'm at 72%, which is not bad at all.

I still wonder how long this thing would last for those who receive lots of text messages/emails throughout the day. I still have two weeks before my return window passes, so i will see how it goes after a few charges.
[Moto 360] knoxploration:
I'm well aware of the size, thanks. I don't need an extra thing to carry just to power my watch; the watch battery itself should be sufficient for an overnight trip at the very least if it's well-designed, and if not, you should be able to charge from a standard USB charger. If I have to carry a separate charger for every device, I end up carrying a dozen of the things.
[Moto 360] kuronosan:
No. Just, no.
[Moto 360] RMXO:
How did you turn the pedometer off & can you turn off the heart monitor too?

I'm on my 5th charge and took my watch off the charger this morning @ 630am. It's currently 325pm and I'm @ 73%, got lots of work notifications today. For me it's getting better as time goes by, I wasn't so sure about this after reading all the bad reviews on battery life but I'm glad I gave it a chance. Can't wait for other revisions down the road.
[Moto 360] jlouang:
I dont think you can turn it off. I just have it not show my steps as the card pop up on the watch a lot. I assume it kills battery. Anyways say "ok Google" then "open fit" when it opens , swipe right twice and turn off "show step card" I have not done any testing to see if it effects battery life much. My battery has been better with the steps card off though.
[Moto 360] RMXO:
Ok gotcha and thanks. Was hoping there is a switch to turn it off but what you listed will do.
[Moto 360] xishp117x:
MKBHD did a complete review today, covering battery life if you guys are interested before buying the device!

http://youtu.be/X8DOUSGGw10

Enjoy!
[Moto 360] Shadowguy:
First day with the device. Charges it to 100% around 1pm applied update now 9pm battery on 18% with heavy use....this is on first charge cycle.

Paired with Bluetooth 4.0 one plus one.

Not a single complaint here.
[Moto 360] MRCANNADY:
Update: Ok guys update to my earlier post: another 4 hours have past since my last posy. During this time, I used the moto to control my music playback while on the train for about 20 minutes, I sent my wife 3 text via voice after I got off the train, used the navigation for about 15 minutes just for a fun walk home. Sent another 10 text messages via voice using the moto, and received about two emails.

I am now at 55%, after 11 hours of what I would consider normal usage. This thing definitely works better after a couple of charges!

I am pretty sure that I can make the 24 hours, since I will not be using it in another to hours (bed time).:cool:
[Moto 360] Mr Ian B:
After a week with the Moto360, I have decided to let it drain completely and recharge it to full. Now I am getting 20 hours a day of battery life and 10% still left. Give it a shot.

Ian B
[Moto 360] kronium:
After one week of use, I'm returning my 360 for a Gear 2. Google now is pretty good, but wondering if my watch is going to make it a full day has lost its novelty.
[Moto 360] RMXO:
You need to give it longer than a week, my battery started to get better after the 4th charge.
[Moto 360] kronium:
Yeah, it does get a little better. I've charged it about 10 times, and I still don't get a full day with my usage. I decided on the gear 2 for the three day battery life and the audio speaker. It's somewhat of an inconvenience to have to look look at the 360 for all notifications and info. Having audio feedback will be very convenient. The camera, phone calling, and IR will be gravy. I will definitely miss Google Now, but I find that SVoice returns 90 percent of the info I need it to. It will just be a relief to know that however I use the Gear 2, it's guaranteed to get me through at least a full day.
[Moto 360] RunNgun42:
Even my G Watch gets better battery life today than when I first bought it. Practically double it seems. While I never had any charge anxiety, when I first got it it was usually around 25% or so at @ 18 hours running ambient mode + full brightness. Now it's 50%.

Looking at the last swath of posts is it safe to say all of you are turning ambient mode off? Ambient mode is a must for me.
[Moto 360] Bladder61:
Agree, having to turn ambient off to ensure getting through the day is a step back for the smartwatch. Had the Gear 1 and Gear 2, biggest frustration was not always having the time showing. Had to rely on motion or touching a button to illuminate the screen. My LG G watch easily gets through the day with the screen always on and heavy usage. Love the Moto 360 for style, especially liked all the pre-release factory representative demonstrations showing it with ambient on. Did not realize that ambient on was not a part of the "will last the day" in Moto's marketing before it was released.

Also have a Qualcomm Toq. No comparison on software, styling, etc..., but the low power mirosol screen and small processor allow me 5 days of continuous use, even wear it at night. The 360 definitely leads the way in style, but manufactures need to find a battery/low power screen solution if they expect the masses to accept it. I am curious if the new iWatch will last a day with always on display. I will continue to be an early adapter to wearable technology, we are still in the beta/1st generation phase of these devices. I think the next 18 months will see rapid improvements/innovations, till then enjoying the 360 with ambient on and sneaking in a charge during the day when I can.
[Moto 360] bruceo:
My gear live with weather clock using white on black and always on lasts about 40 hours. With the same type of use on Moto 360 with screen off maybe 8-14. But I do notice when I put brightness on auto the screen is dimmed and after a while I'll notice the screen seems brighter than it should be then I go into settings and see that it is no longer on auto but set on a manual level that seems higher than it should be. Maybe this is another reason for poor battery life. As much as I like the 360, and the round screen the poor battery is making the styling of the live not look so bad anymore...
[Moto 360] ThePublisher:
My initial charge was only about 8 hours of life. Granted I was using it a lot and installing apps. I let it drain until it turned off, then full charge. The second day was considerably better lasting me almost the whole day. I turned it on at 650 and it was good until approx 930 that night. On the third charge I turned it on at 1015a and it lasted until the next day about 11am. I left it on connected to my phone all night. 25 hours is perfectly alright with me.

Today, I turned it on at 7am, and it is currently down to 80% at 940am with pretty strong use including ~45 minutes navigation, a dozen or so texts and a few emails. Also read an article on the browser app.

I don't have a final verdict on battery life yet, but as long as it will last me a day I'm good with charging every night. I don't think its got this dreadful battery life like a lot of the reviews say.
[Moto 360] gtdriver0036:
I picked up my 360 on Friday. After using it for a few days I have no complaints on battery life. Monday I took it off the charger at 8:30am and at 10:30pm it still had 56% left.

I think something important to keep in mind is the target audience for this device. None of the press materials I've seen have shown teens or twenty somethings tweeting and texting away from their wrist. Everything Moto has released has shown adult professional looking people wearing a stylish timepiece.

For me my android is not my work phone. My company provides a phone that is dedicated for work use and therefore the number of notifications destined for my 360 are cut dramatically.

Monday everyone in my office was interested in seeing my 360 and I must have pushed all the demo cards to the watch about 3 times demonstrating to various groups. When I got home from the office i had a couple of short conversations in hangouts that i handled through the watch. Throughout the day I dismissed any notifications that did come in as they came through. I also responded to some mail. I don't think this is heavy usage. I actually admit i'm probably a light user and I think that this is the target demo for the 360.

People who are attached at the hip to their phones and spend the majority of their day tapping away at onscreen keyboards should continue using their phones for that. People like me who only need to interact with the phone from time to time, well we wind up liberated from our phones. i'm pretty sure that I never needed to pick up my phone even once yesterday. I didn't miss any notifications. Everyone that contacted me got a reply and my hands stayed free the whole day. This Moto 360 is awesome!

Update:

7 hours off the charger and reporting 84% battery. I'm lovin it! This works out to roughly 43 hours to 0% from 100 at my current usage rate.... Like i said i'm a pretty light user. I'll update later if i can.

Update 2:

11.5 hours and i'm at 73%. Still puts me on track for roughly 42 hours although i'll have it on the charger in the next 3 or 4 hours.

For those that may be interested I'm paired with a Verizon wireless Galaxy Nexus running Shiny Rom 4.4.4 with Fancy Kernel R56
[Moto 360] liquid6908:
anyone notice poor battery life when phone is connected to in-car bluetooth?

I've had my moto360 for a week now, and I'm very satisfied overall. Hearing all the nightmare stories about battery life I was definitely worried, but it's been sufficient so far.

Except under one condition- in the car. I use my phone to stream music to my car audio on my way to work and on trips. The first day I had my moto360, I had to take a 5 hour drive. In that 5 hours, battery dropped about 50%. I was extremely disappointed, and was positive I'd be returning it. However, I noticed that once I got to my destination, battery life became much better.

I tested it again on my 40ish minute drive to work. My battery was down 11% in 40 minutes- again, unacceptable. The next day, I decided to switch my moto360 to airplane mode on the drive in. That same 40 minute trip to work only dropped the battery about 3-4% ! Overall the battery did great- taking the watch off the charger around 7:30 am, receiving many email notifications and text messages throughout my work day, as well as playing around with it a bit left me with about 20% battery when going to bed at midnight. Pretty good for my needs and usage case.

So my question is this- anyone else experiencing poor battery life while their phone is connected to in-car bluetooth, but great battery life otherwise?

If so, is this something that a future firmware update could potentially fix, or is it a hardware issue? Is this something that the affects other android wear watches? I don't mind manually changing my watch to airplane mode for a bit until a software update fixes it, but it will be pretty annoying to have to do it EVERY.SINGLE.TIME I get in the car until the end of time.
[Moto 360] aznpapaya:
After a couple cycle and updating to the latest firmware, the battery life is a lot better. I think I'm getting around 20hours with moderate usage.
[Moto 360] furiousgtz:
Thanks
[Moto 360] mk92595:
Just ordered a silver one. I hope battery life doesn't suck
[Moto 360] aznpapaya:
FYI, if you wear the watch while driving it'll drain the battery faster as the screen tends to come on when you're steering. It keep thinking you're looking at your watch when you steer.
[Moto 360] ChrisNee1988:
I just had an observation about battery life and watch faces. Watch faces that do not animate every second or do not have a second hand seems to drain the battery far less than the ones that do. Watch faces that have smooth second animations like Modern Classic seems to drain the battery significantly more. Here are my estimated battery life based on drain rates:

Standard watch face with second hand: ~24 hours

Digital watch face without seconds: ~32 hours

Modern Classics watchface with smooth second hand animation: ~14 hours

Just wanted to share my observations and see if any of you had similar experiences.
[Moto 360] smeiff:
I drive a stick and I notice the same thing (I don't drive with my right hand on the wheel (left handed)). Another annoying thing I found out is the navigation sends updates to the watch even if the phone screen is on! This is unacceptable. I don't want a vibration and screen to light up for every turn and change that is made by the GPS. It completely killed my watch.

I think the more active you are the more it kills it... I was using a sander and doing all kinds of manual work refinishing some wood and my watch was draining super quickly. I took it off and it was still paired with my phone... the battery hardly went down at all. I'm betting it's a combination of the steps and heart rate kicking off. The sander was driving up my steps like crazy and I bet my watch thought it needed to measure my heart rate constantly because it thought I was working out.

As an update I have experienced much better battery life after my first day (5 hours) and the software update. It took about 2 days for the update to come in but I am getting between 12 hours to 15 hours with ambient mode on. I switched it to off today along with turning brightness down to 1 and see what kind of results I get. Hoping it can at least last me from 8:00 AM to midnight... or 3AM if possible for the weekends :)

Ordering a Qi pad for work so I don't have to worry about it dieing on me...
[Moto 360] RMXO:
Be patient with it and the battery life should improve after a bunch of charges. Mine started to improve after the 4th charge. Most likely the battery needs to be calibrated with a bunch of charges like every mobile device with a battery.
[Moto 360] bruceo:
I think I figured out what was automatically changing my brightness setting. For my Gear live there was an app called display brightness which automatically switches brightness based on parameters you set which is designed for watches without sensors. Once I uninstalled that my setting is staying on auto and looks like my drain is on track for 20+hrs now.
[Moto 360] Poloasis:
The gesture feature is killing battery, i am very active at work and overtime I look at it it's on. Thats allot of battery power waste. at least 1% for every two screen on, not good.

I believe if we had the single tap or swipe down to turn on, it would make allot difference on the battery.

Motorola are you listening.
[Moto 360] nightfishing:
Just came here to post the same thing ;)

On a "normal" work day when I am very active, I am seeing 5-6% per hour (16-20hrs on battery) but when I'm in my office I see 3-4% per hour (25-30 hrs projected). The biggest impact on battery would seem NOT to be notifications or interaction with the screen but with the screen being ON due to the motion sensor.

A third setting for "Tap to activate" would probably be ideal for many situations or a more sophisticated sensor setting that prevents the watch from turning on due to random flailing of the arm LOL.

Either way the battery life isn't currently an issue for ME, but it does seem to be a shame to waste all that juice when I have no intention of looking at the watch.
[Moto 360] v3ngence:
I agree the gesture screen-on needs improvement, like making it only respond to an exaggerated flick/shrug of the wrist, but there are also plenty of times like driving or carrying something when tapping the screen isn't an option...

I think power usage is probably worst with things like browsing internet on watch and using pixtocam, but it's all relative because you're doing something that takes a lot of processing. I've only gone two recharges and I'm curious to see how the battery wears in, as my usage is extreme :D