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[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GatorsUF:
I am skeptical of the signal strength of this phone for a few reasons.

1. Battery life is around 12 hours at best with 2+ SOT

2. Signal is almost 90% yellow in the battery graph.

3. Slightly different, but my Wi-Fi signal seems weak. I cannot pickup a strong Wi-Fi signal when I am about 30 feet from the router with 1 wall.

What speeds should I see with xlte on Verizon?
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cheeseraid:
Mine stays in the yellow as well but I get around 16 hours with 4-5 hours screen on time. Here's my phone and my wife's iPhone 5s side by side in my living room. This phone seems to get better signal than any I have used.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rekrap:
Im actually having this same problem on my gs4. Router signal awful and,battery life is horrible... Moto x comes in tomorrow though! Hope i dont,have this issue agaib... On verizon as well
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChristianPreachr:
I doubt this phone is even capable of xlte, but I'll do a speed test in better conditions. I've seen signal top out at 91 and dip back to 57. Mind you -57 dbm is perfect signal. I actually left the gs4 because of the signal issues it had, that's how I got this 10 months in my contract. I haven't had any Wi-Fi issues at all. Except that the cellular radios are integrated,I think the internals are top notch.
[LG Optimus G Pro] jason504:
Where can I find the apps on my phone through es file explore the apps that I have downloaded. Like system app I know where they are but not like the apps I downloaded
[LG Optimus G Pro] luisoman2000:
They are in data/app folder. Use a backup app like rom toolbox to back them up, works like a charm
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] JimInWoodstock:
I may be the only one that did not know this, but I thought that I would mention it just in case. There is a protective film on the Note 4 rear camera. In my case, I did not see it while using the camera for over 2 weeks. The film is hard to peel off because the edges of the film are inside the frame and it is very hard to get your fingernail under it. I was not really sure if the film was there or not. I tilted the back so that the light glare was shown. I noticed that the surface of the camera was not shiny and there were tiny scratches on it. After picking at it with my fingernail, it finally peeled off and all is well.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] rcobourn:
It has a hole in it so it doesn't actually cover the lens. I'm not sure what purpose it serves, but I've left mine in place.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] JimInWoodstock:
Yes, I see it now. Obviously does not affect picture quality. I had peeled all the other film off the camera so this is just the last.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] nautica2450:
Is there a place where we can order replacement film?
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] chong67:
I just left mine there. No idea what its for.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] DLovo313:
That little guy...
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] Kawaisa:
It's there to protect the camera lens. You can keep it on since it doesn't interfere with the lens but it's intended to be removed like the rest of the protective film.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] philliman:
Lol. This has been on every Galaxy phone I've bought. It's just the shipping plastic like around the sides of the phone lmao ? ? ?
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[T-Mobile HTC One (M8)] jjm232:
busybox

I was able to root my phone with this information.

but now I cant seem to install, find busybox.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] gs05:
SO I have had the SW3 for about 4 days now and the battery life is excellent! Here are my results so far

- Day 2- Took off charger at 7 am, some e-mails, texts, 4 mile (35 minute) run with GPS and Bluetooth on watch, by 9 pm, I had around 45% left

- Day 3 - Off charger at 7 am, some emails, texts, no workout, by 9pm had around 65%

- Day 4 - 7 am off charger, lots of voice interactions, music for 1 hour, 9pm at 59%

Update

- Day 5 Morning: 7 am off charger, noon, with 3 emails, 1 call, 5 texts checked, battery at 86%

- Day 5 Full Day: 7 am off charger, 10pm, 25 emails, 10 texts, 3 calls, battery at 57%

I am sure if you just use it for normal emails, basic usage and not the GPS/Bluetooth music, this will easily go 1.75-2 days. Plus with more tweaks from google, I expect this only to get better
[Sony Smartwatch 3] gusano38:
Thanks for your interesting remarks, I'm receiving mine tomorrow :D

What do you think about the accuracy of the SW3 GPS compared the GPS in your phone?. My Nexus 5 is accurate enough but only when I hold it in my hand... Once I put it in a pocket I get at least 10% more distance in Endomondo due to all the zigzagging.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] gs05:
I just checked my tracks and I have 4 saved runs (3-5miles each). They are pretty spot on GPS wise and as good as my garmin FR620 running watch. The Garmin locks to the sattelites much faster (10-15 seconds), while the sony takes 20-30 seconds. The biggest thing at the moment is the lack of app support...I need something with speed and laps...tracks only has time and distance.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] gs05:
Off at 8am, at 3pm is 86% with regular use. Going to try it overnight and see how long I really can get
[Sony Smartwatch 3] gs05:
It is better than my moto x, so the driving force will be my phone that needs a charge first.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] stamppot:
So how did you fare? Or is it still going? I'm interested as I'm on the fence for this watch as well...
[Sony Smartwatch 3] gs05:
24 hour report....

Off charger at 8am, normal usage, (calls, texts, voice), at 24 hour mark it was at 50%. . I did put it on night stand at night (off wrist) , but pretty good to me. I imagine you could easily get 36-40 hours on this until you charge it on the second night after work .

On another test, it seems music drains the battery at around 10% an hour if Bluetooth streaming.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] nCoder:
I sleep with the watch and charge it at the same time every day for about 20mins and it's at 50% in average - So seems reasonable to expect 48h of battery.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] cykoduck:
I sleep and run with it and only throw on charger when in shower and never have had it go below 30% yet. GPS will bring down much faster but quickly charges back up
[Sony Smartwatch 3] oddbin:
After a day of heavy usage, showing it off, playing with it, using voice commands and a bit of navigation I had 48% battery after 08:00 to 22:40.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] hectortse:
Mine can only last about 14 hours....
[Sony Smartwatch 3] nCoder:
Noticed that since a couple of days the battery use increased drastically (wouldn't last 24h now). I just upgraded my Phone firmware - not sure if it's related.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] dersie:
Be carefull if you use watchface like F03 from Smartwatch Bureaux, some have severe bug and drain 10% bat by hour even if you do not use it on watchface on screen but it is installed on your watch.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] Biffy:
My watch lost 20%+ over night (7hrs approx) in airplane mode. Anyone else monitored airplane mode loss?
[Sony Smartwatch 3] rickhuizinga:
The battery used to last about 2 days, but has recently dropped to less than one day.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] Powright:
what do you mean with "it last 2 days" ? Because at least this watch can last 36-38 hours. If you use it for 12 hour per day,ok, it last "2 days"; but if you are telling me that your sw3 live for 48 hour in a row :silly::silly::silly::silly: i cannot believe it x)
[Sony Smartwatch 3] gs05:
I got 36-44 in a row with normal use
[Sony Smartwatch 3] Powright:
really ? how many app do you have ? the screen was always off ?
[Sony Smartwatch 3] gs05:
You can see my posts on this thread about this. I have easily had 34+ hours on a charge without issue. I dont use facer and use itellicom watch faces, which do not eat up much battery. It is on always on mode (with ambient). I dont check my watch for the time that much and only for notifications.

I have these items installed

- Keep

- Calculator

- Runkeeper

- Mini maps

- Wear launcher

- Fit

- Audio recording

- Flashlight

- Play Music

I get maybe 10-20 emails a day on the watch, like 5-10 text messages and use it for running with runkeeper and playing music.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] Powright:
Well, i have: evernote, [MENTION=647927]here[/MENTION],fit ,wear mini launcher and MIB. Screen is always on with the minimun intensity. I use only stock watchfaces plus 30-40 whatsapp per day and i get 50% every 12 hours. Hope my watch is fine :(
[Sony Smartwatch 3] justkrem:
There's definitely something funny going on there. Screen was off? My G Watch will only lose a couple percent overnight in airplane mode. Even with bluetooth on, it'll lose <10% overnight, as long as the screen is off and notifications are muted. There shouldn't be a major difference between models for that.

I'm not sure how the auto screen on thing works on the SW3, but if I don't have my watch muted, the screen will turn on every time I move around in bed, so maybe that's your issue?

What I'm mostly wondering about is actual GPS on battery life. Has anyone spent any significant amount of time using GPS on a SW3? I'm definitely interested, but not if I cant, say, run a marathon or other longer events with the thing. That would mean battery life with GPS should be ~5 hours, so I don't have to worry about pulling the watch off the charger as the race starts. In addition, I would like to be able to use ~2 hours on GPS and make it through the day with normal use.

Anyone have enough experience with the GPS yet to say with any certainty what that battery life would be?

I fear this may not be my ideal device, but I would like to hear otherwise.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] dersie:
To compare, in Airplane mode G-Watch (screen Off) drain 1% by hour. My last use is 14% for a day at 14H30.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] XorZone:
BTW, one observation, I got some apps auto updated and was running lifelong and with ~25℅ watch was dead at the morning. Have no idea what did it. Disabled lifelog for now as I do not see much value in it atm, and it is back to normal, so might be app updates or lifelog.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] mcginns:
I have removed lifelog as it's an absolute waste of time at the moment.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] AstroDigital:
I want to see if I can go two days.

Yesterday 6am 100%, today 6:30am 60%

With my Gear Live I have no chance but 40% in 24 hours the battery life so far is great.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] djgodlike:
Just received my watch yesterday.. Over night had about 15% drain. Had only installed Facer, Mini browser, Mini launcher and F03 Watchface. And Runkeeper, Fit, Simple Calendar widget(which also seem to install on the watch) Uninstalled facer mini launcher and mini browser. Hopefully it drains less fast. It already feels like its doing better but maybe the battery have to settle aswell. BTW I do use Always on in settings..

Maybe it's good to fully discharge the battery to calibrate the battery?

How can I clearly see which app installs something on the watch?
[Sony Smartwatch 3] cykoduck:
No easy way until it appears. Agree I would like to see some battery shaming on what is using battery life on watch. I feel my battery life has dropped since day one and assume it's one of my apps
[Sony Smartwatch 3] djgodlike:
I give this app a try: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.npi.wearbatterystats

Just installed the app, very nice! Same developer as the super nice "wear mini launcher".

I think I have to return the watch cause it doesn't even last a day...

Can we all share a graph with an installed apps list?[emoji106] Will post mine soon!

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[Sony Smartwatch 3] dersie:
Caution with F03 Watchface. All my test (and dialog with smartwatch bureaux) show that this watchface (and some other from same serie) have serious battery drain problem.

F03 can drain up to 8% at 10% by hour. Even if you not use this face, wear pre-launch many apps. Only solution is uninstall F03. Try this ;)
[Sony Smartwatch 3] djgodlike:
Uninstalled F03... Thanks did not read posts above. [emoji15]

But there is still 12% drain in 9 hours, airplane mode and always screen on. Is that normal? Do you guys always have screen off?

I now have Task manager for wear installed. Running apps:

Android Wear

Bluetooth Share

Bug Report Sender

Calendar Storage

Clock

Fit (app)

Flashlight (app)

Google Maps Micro (app)

Google Play Services

Runkeeper (app)

Settings

Sleepwear (app Sleep as Android)

Sony Watchfaces

Task Manager (app)

Trello (app)

Wear Battery Stats (app)

Wear Mini Launcher (app)

com.android.lto

Apps I havent tried to uninstall yet:

Maps

Runkeeper

Fit

Trello

Flashlight

Sleep as Android (maybe a drainer)
[Sony Smartwatch 3] XorZone:
Try to uninstall all of them, reset device and test from morning to the night, I usually have >50% by night with pretty good usage.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] MirageDK:
I got around 16 hours of batterylife without "heavy" use....

Im suscpecting some of the faces showing weather info to have a big impact on the battery life.

I have now tried to uninstall FO3, InstaWeather and even Aviator Watch face to see if there is any difference.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] Powright:
aviator watchface and all the "faces" created by the same author drains a lot, infact i have unistalled them. Mine consume above 40% each 12 hours with always on screen. It lasts 34-36 hours maximum. Quite good timing but not 48 hours promised ;)
[Sony Smartwatch 3] XorZone:
Guys, Google does not have official APIs for watchfaces yet and warn developers not to publish them, what people doing is based on unofficial reverse engineering. I will not use and especially will not invest money in an faces on play store until official APIs released.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] djgodlike:
It is definitely getting better now [emoji29]

Uninstalled:

Trello

Simple Calendar Widget

Now the watch is using 28% in around 10 hours.

Maybe the battery had to settle and the Simple Calendar Widget (j4velin) was the drain problem. Not sure though..
[Sony Smartwatch 3] Powright:
Screen always off?
[Sony Smartwatch 3] djgodlike:
No always on!
[Sony Smartwatch 3] Powright:
Happy for you xD

Btw how much time to full charge?
[Sony Smartwatch 3] djgodlike:
Around 30min?

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[Sony Smartwatch 3] MirageDK:
My battery drain is now 4%/hour instead of 6-10%/ hour.

It helped uninstalling the new faces and the calendar app.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] Teacer:
GPS - Hours?

I ordered this one but didn't collect it.

I was worried about the battery.

My main purpose is to run GOLFSHOT on it.

A round of golf takes 5 hours.

How many hours of GOLFSHOT with GPS on do you think the watch can run?

2?

/Teacer
[Sony Smartwatch 3] XorZone:
I guess it should work fine 5 hours with GPS. But I never used it that much, more like an hour with GPS yet.

BTW agenda wear was sucking a bit of juice.

---------- Post added at 07:48 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:45 AM ----------

Wow just checked my wear battery stats and I've already surpassed 2 days mark:

1.81% per hour.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] XorZone:
So that would be 55 hours to 5% and i had to reset it to pair with new phone and it reinstalled all apps, otherwise light usage with some phone navigation and music (so only notifications running). Screen always on and notifications on all the time, and for sometime it was in a different room so at bad bluetooth connection. Pretty impressive! :good:
[Sony Smartwatch 3] djgodlike:
That's a long time! I'll try to get that aswell.

Which apps do you have installed at the moment?

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[Sony Smartwatch 3] XorZone:
Ohm... ok. doing it only once :)

Advanced task killer

Browser

Calculator

Calendar

My own alpha version call control

Fast tip

Find my Phone

Fit

Flashlight

Keep

Metronome

My Tracks

Pitch Perfect

Asus Remote Camera

RunKeeper

Scan My Watch

Stellio

StravaTrackID

Trigger

Watch Membership

Wear Battery Stats

Wear GPD

Wear Mini Launcher

And had wear agenda uninstalled in the middle of the usage
[Sony Smartwatch 3] XorZone:
Out of the curiosity and with many questions I decided to test battery life on GPS tracking, so I've got my watch from charging at ~8:30am, started My Tracks recording went to work. (GPS Location icon on the watch all the time, so it is not GPS recording on the phone)

Bluetooth on, mostly inside, a lot of notifications.

Result is watch died at ~2pm, which is 5hours 30 min of the GPS recording.

Not bad in my opinion!

P.S. The only thing is on my new Nexus 6 I've never run and accept terms in Fit or My Tracks, so after getting some juice in my SW3 I'm not seeing the track, so might be that I've never set it up upfront or might be that track will be lost with power, I'll try to confirm/reject it.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] Powright:
at the beginning my watch full charge in 30 mins ... now in 1 hour ... is always good but not the 30 mins promised by sony :good:
[Sony Smartwatch 3] justkrem:
Very nice. That would take care of the majority of my needs. It would definitely cover me for any running activities, and I generally bring a phone with on the bike anyway.

I wonder if watch apps that support in-watch GPS will give an option to start recording using phone GPS or watch GPS. Auto-sensing wouldn't be a good option because I know I would usually start with my phone in range.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] npompei:
I am amazed you guys are getting this kind of battery life - I am consistently at around 14hrs. Never more than that. I don't really have anything turned off though, maybe that will help?
[Sony Smartwatch 3] Shaady:
Wasnt that impressed with the battery life at first...but have done some playing around.

Now have the screen set to go off (I sit at a computer most of the day and just check the time on there) and found that didnt make a massive amount of difference though there was a definite improvement. The thing that did it for me though was turning off lifelog for the watch from the app. Its made a massive difference to my battery in a short amount of time. I will probs put it back on for when I go running but other then that its staying off now.

Also stopped using third party watch faces as I read somewhere that they can kill the battery. Thats made a difference too I think am going to wait for the official API to be released
[Sony Smartwatch 3] kane3262:
I have yet to see a definite feature list from the 5.0.1 update that is just beginning to roll out, but I have heard that there are supposed to be some changes for wear that greatly improve battery life. That was from an early rumor I read - http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/12/02/android-5-0-1-lrx22c-hitting-aosp-now/.

Can anyone comment on this?
[Sony Smartwatch 3] bobbydigital1987:
GPS Mode

Thanks for the updates. I have a MotoActv that I love for running due to GPS, bluetooth, WIFI uploads and even the occasional FM Tuner usage. I've been able to run about 4h/15 minutes on GPS, wired headphones and a heart strap and have about 30% left, . MotoActiv's run app allows you to set the measurement frequency to save the battery. For instance, you can measure every 1, 2 or 3 secs. I set mine to 3 secs to achieve the results mentioned. It is still very accurate ( less than 30 sec difference from my net time) since the marathon didn't have many turns. Please confirm if the running app (e.g., Endomondo) allows you to set the measurement frequency. Thanks for your feedback.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] mertzi:
I've had automatic battery saver when it gets below 10% (or maybe 5) prior to the update of the Android wear app, so I think this only affects earlier android wear devices.

Battery life is so so, I wish I could control the watch like my Nexus devices where I get fantastic battery life thanks to a number of factors e.g. Greenify and app ops. At least let me put it in some kind of sleep mode during the night. Last time I checked it went from 90% to 60% overnight. Now I shut it down before going to bed instead, that gives me 2 days of battery.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] gs05:
The google folks even posted their moto 360 now gets 1.5-2 days of battery life, up from 1 day, so I am hoping SW3 gets a nice bump as well.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] npompei:
I did a full reset last week and ever since then, holy crap! MUCH better battery life! I also switched from 'Weather Wear Watchface' to 'Pujie Black Watchface' and it has been getting super good battery life now. Not sure if it was the reset, the watchface, both or what but now I can go almost 2 days on a charge. That's awesome!

The new update to 5.0 will be so great for us! Cannot wait for Google/Sony to push it out. I hope it comes out today or tomorrow!
[Sony Smartwatch 3] dersie:
2 days with 2 watch (G and R watch) in 5.01 and I can say that there are zero improvement of battery life. Tested with original watchface to avoid false measure with bug in custom face.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] mertzi:
I have noticed that the last 5 percentages last way longer than before battery saver is activated. I wonder what battery saver does more than disabling "screen always on". I disabled always on the other day but there was no difference in battery consumption. You still get notifications, but the last 5 are still extremely durable.

I hope disabling tilt to wake screen makes a difference, it should.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] rvirga:
The only battery improvement I noticed was because I disabled tilt-to-wake, which 90% of the times was being triggered accidentally. Otherwise, there's no measurable improvement.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] dougi83:
My SW3 battery has 10% left since a full charge yesterday in 5.0.1

I've installed FACER yesterday and noticed that battery lost 12% because of this app.

(Will probably uninstall FACER. Pretty watchfaces but definitively a killer for battery life.)

The 2nd App has no name ? impossible to know which application has consumed 5%. Google Fit ? Wear Mini Launcher ?

Android Wear 4%

Screen consumption was only 2%
[Sony Smartwatch 3] djgodlike:
I have facer installed (and use it with my own watchface http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2956934 ) and took it off the charger this morning at 8, now 12 hours later 74% battery left...

I think you have to give it another try, I love the faces especially my own white one.[emoji2] I even use it with weather icons at the moment but no drain...

AW 5.0.1

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[Sony Smartwatch 3] dougi83:
If it's the Casio in white... it was this one installed on my SW3 today ;) Love this one ! :good:

But Facer stopped in the afternoon (bug ?) and SW3 automatically choose one of Sony's default screen.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] djgodlike:
Yep it is the White Casio face. [emoji2] Thanks!

I use facer since I own the sw3 for a month now. But never had a drain or an issue you mention..

Maybe a "resync apps" from the wear app, or a reset from the watch might help..

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[Sony Smartwatch 3] dougi83:
I've just "resync Apps" but didn't help.

Found something strange, if I add all applications consumption, total is 42% but battery life has only 6% left (94% consumption)

After a restart, now i only have 4% left. i will try a reset...