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[Huawei Watch] str8spir:
Hi,

I use the bluetooth headphones linked with the watch and listen to music. I am using Google Music in order to sync offline music with the watch. I listen for about an hour of music on the watch while I commute every day. When I arrive at work after one hour of listening to music and constantly changing songs, going through the list and so on, the watch remains at roughly 80% battery. I am on AW 1.5 stock.
[Huawei Watch] Badelhas:
Those are excellent news, I've been trying to know that for a while now! I'm going to try and find a good deal on this smartwatch, then, thanks!

Cheers
[Huawei Watch] beren:
can you explain how did you get this?

have always on or not? wifi? twist to wake? bluetooth calls activated?

my HW loses almost 5% / hour even with screen off, so i suppose that there is some option that drain battery.
[Huawei Watch] duchian:
I've got it pretty trained. Watch drains battery when I have gestures enabled. Second thing draining battery is security (lockscreen). I've found that after some time pattern lock stops working and battery drain is very high (about 5% per hour).

Disabling both: gestures and security makes my watch can easily stands 48h
[Huawei Watch] beren:
thanks, will try to disable gestures as doesn't use lock screen...
[Huawei Watch] rene.m.castillo:
Is this battery consumption normal to you!? I've brought it second hand...

I've unplugged it at 6:30 am :/

I use watchmaker faces, replicas of luxury brand watches.
[Huawei Watch] RudeboyXL:
I've never had gestures or lock-screen enabled and get about 16-17 hours usage, and by usage I mean it sits in ambient mode 99% of the time and I get maybe 5 email notifications all day. Anymore suggestions? I'm about ready to sell this ruined smartwatch.
[Huawei Watch] Smacksmack206:
proably some SW issue i would just reflash and let watch update all apps first. after a day or so you should get at least 2 day battery and i keep gestures on and watch face always on. on my gold hwatch running stock 2.0 i get 2 days consistantly, on my first SS hwatch i use negamans android wear 1.5 rom and get 3-4 days with gestures watch face always on and using advanced settings app to increase ambient brightness to max at all times
[Huawei Watch] RudeboyXL:
Thanks for the suggestion but already tried that multiple times, makes no difference. the only way I can save power is enabling aeroplane mode and cinema mode together. I can go to bed and wake up with around 5% battery loss instead of 65% battery loss when doing this.

What I find strange is that wifi always seems to be on and connected. I assume this is the cause but I have no setting enabled for this, hell, the wifi section has no settings anymore even the "advanced" section under WiFi in 2.0 has disappeared.
[Huawei Watch] Smacksmack206:
Honestly I have no idea why it would drain like that on q.5 and 2.0 you should loose like 5% max over night with ambient. Wifi is usually always on for most people's Android Wear just because most of the time it's set to communicate to your phone thru wifi if it can't find it Thru Bluetooth. But idk can you get it RMA or something
[Huawei Watch] dscline:
I'm puzzled by this. I have my WiFi is off, and it stays off. Though I've never connected it to any WiFi, so maybe that helps.
[Huawei Watch] Rumbleweed:
Interesting reply from an app developer as to why AW2.0 has higher battery drain. "Wear 2.0 broke sensor batching which makes it more battery demanding. Sensor batching allowed us to keep the device in standby mode most of the time and still gather all sensor data. Now we have to keep the CPU on all the time, which means the battery drain is way larger."
[Huawei Watch] jeffc83:
I am at 2.13% drain an hour. This went down from 2.26% an hour the other day. (First day was 3.83% because I was adding faces to it all day) My Urbane does slightly better but not by much. Brightness 3, FIT OFF, WiFi ON, Tilt-to-wake OFF, Ambient ON.

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I'm having a different issue...the step counter is either broken or there is a software issue. First day, I took 313 steps, lol. Day 2 was 753 and on Day 3, I apparently didn't even get out of bed (0). How about you?
[Huawei Watch] swngdncr:
I hadn't been paying attention to steps. When I was walking I checked the step count while I was walking and it was right on target. It's showing 2101 steps for yesterday -- which is decidedly incorrect because I played 2 hours of tennis which is usually at least 5k steps. Monday was 9800, probably right.. Let's see what it does for today after tennis... will report back. -cjr-
[Huawei Watch] swngdncr:
Yup, step counter is off, way off... Only gave me 1445 steps after 2 hours of tennis. My Surge generally reported around 5000-6000 after a couple of hours of tennis. :crying:

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[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
Mine for today is sitting at ~13k steps for ~5.1 miles of walking. That seems about right
[Huawei Watch] swngdncr:
Well, same drill last night. Went to bed fully charged, and it was at 50% when I woke up. Again, I had it in theater mode. I'm going to try tomorrow not putting it in theater mode. Maybe for some reason theater mode uses up more power. Would seem odd, but who knows, worth a try. -cjr-
[Huawei Watch] c5d:
I'm getting about 2 work days on my watch...

I got my HW on ship day, and I've been very impressed with the battery performance. However, take this with a grain of salt, as I am coming from a first gen Moto360...

I get about two business days + one evening with it. Here's what I mean/the setup:

Brightness is set at 3.

Wi-Fi is off (In my experience, having the watch connect to WiFi is a much bigger drain than low power BT)

Always-on screen is ON.

Start of Day 1, take phone off charger and put it on after shower and getting dressed.

Go about my day.

Usually put watch on night stand (not on charger) and turn the Always-on screen setting to OFF. I know that this is probably overkill...but it's what I do. I think I could probably double press the crown, just haven't played with it that much. By the time I go to sleep that night, the watch has much more than 50% left.

Wake up Day 2, and put the watch after shower and getting dressed. At this point, it usually is hovering around 50%-ish.

Go about my day (2)

When I get home, and it's time for bed, usually I am around 10% - 15% battery left.​

So...that's it. I can tell you this, there was NO WAY I was getting any more than 10 hours out of my Moto360. Not a chance. This is much better. Again, this is my personal frame of reference, and I've never had an LG Watch R or Urbane, etc. etc.

Besides battery, I like the watch. I like the style and design (I have the stainless+mesh strap option). It runs smoother than the old Moto360, and it doesn't have the flat tire, which wore on me after a while.

What I don't like is the lack of a ambient light sensor, and the charging mini hockey puck is somewhat jank. I much preferred the Qi-based cradle with my old Moto 360. Oh, that and the clasp on this mesh band is somewhat a pain to deal with putting on. However, these are all minor things...not deal breakers by any means. I'm all in...I already "donated" my old Moto360 to someone that is very happy with their "new" smartwatch...
[Huawei Watch] TONY206:
On for 15 hours yesterday then powered off for sleep, no charging, then 6.5 hours into today and I'm at 22%.

Wifi off, brightness 5, Skymaster watch face with ambient brightness at 6, fit on, BT on and connected, gestures off.

I admit I didn't use it much yesterday. Just a couple texts and checked Tiny Cam a few times, but I'm really impressed with battery life.
[Huawei Watch] kermitdefroghere:
As an owner of the previous gen moto 360, I am concerned about lack of ambient sensor as well.

I assume the triple click -> Sunlight mode short-cut works just fine on the Huawei correct?

That would be a deal breaker if not the case.
[Huawei Watch] kerrhome:
Yep, the triple click works perfectly. I leave my brightness set to 3 all day and just triple click as needed outside.
[Huawei Watch] 0.0:
I just got my watch. The battery is so much better than the Moto 360. It's only been 3 hours and I am at 87%. Normally, my Moto 360 would already be near 70%. I will keep monitoring
[Huawei Watch] s2kpdx:
My battery life has been horrible. Wondering if it because I am using Watchmaker faces?? Wifi ON, always on ON, tilt to wake OFF, brightness 3. With that I am only getting 12 hours max (8+% drain per hour). Maybe because of watchmaker and wifi???
[Huawei Watch] c5d:
My slightly uneducated response would be that having WiFi on would have a sizeable impact on the battery. By spec, 802.11 wireless can max out transmit at 100 mW, while Bluetooth Low Energy transmits at 10 mW. That's why Wi-Fi has so much better range than BlueTooth. Now, who knows what level mWs the Huawei Watch is cranking the Wi-Fi radio, but I do know this...You can turn the Wi-Fi off, and only have one radio transmitting at 10 mW, or you can turn Wi-Fi on, and have two radios sucking power.

If I want battery life, I'll stick with 1 radio...thanks.

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Yup, learned that triple click thing today...go figure. I never needed to know that with my previous Moto360, as it had the light sensor.

Honestly, while not having the light sensor is a bit disappointing, I find it to be less of an issue. It face/screen is plenty bright as it is, and it doesn't have a huge impact on the battery, as I'm not tapping the watch face/crown button all day long. AMOLEDs (obviously) draw MUCH less power than LCDs in the "low power" setting such as the inactive ambient watch faces.
[Huawei Watch] swngdncr:
Seems to me too that Wifi would use up battery, but I'm not having great battery life even w/o wifi and with always on turned off. I was thinking it wasn't too bad today, then I did the math. It is down to 60%. I charged it this morning after I got up when it was down 50% overnight. So, it's gobbling up about 50% power in 8 hours -- and no exercise today. I'm wondering if some of these applications are running in the background gobbling up battery. -cjr-
[Huawei Watch] c5d:
You know...funny thing...when I set up the watch, I didn't think that I had Wi-Fi enabled...but when I went into settings on the watch, it must have grabbed my home Wi-Fi settings from my phone, and put them on my watch. It actually took me a little bit to figure out how to make sure that the watch doesn't connect to Wi-Fi. Annoying...

After I witnessed that situation, I always wondered if that's what was happening with my old Moto360. I noticed that battery life took a nosedive after the last OS update, and I'm wondering if Wi-Fi found it's way on without me knowing it...
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
I'll give mine a test this weekend because it's been a very busy week. I wonder what mine will do, either way I'll post a screenshot of the drain overnight
[Huawei Watch] jeffc83:
I don't get it. Mine has been draining at 2.23% and I use Watchmaker faces 100% of the time. (I make my own and share on G +) I have WiFi ON Tilt to Wake off, 3 brightness and FIT OFF.
[Huawei Watch] s2kpdx:
Hmmm I uninstalled advanced settings app on the watch and it seems to be much better right now. I will know for sure tomorrow. hopefully that was the issue....
[Huawei Watch] jeffc83:
Could be. I found that task manager was causing instability on my Urbane and LGR so I took it off. Haven't had issues with stability since...
[Huawei Watch] swngdncr:
I uninstalled Advanced Settings as well, and also Sports Gear Tracker. I put it wrist motions to "no", and put it in airplane mode last night. It only went down about 10% overnight. So that is a big improvement. Two hours of workout sucked about 40% of Battery, taking the watch down to about 50%. -cjr-
[Huawei Watch] s2kpdx:
With advanced settings uninstalled and Wifi off, I am now down to about 3.5% per hour. WAAAAYYYYY Better. I am a happy camper now, that is much better batt life than I need as I charge every night anyways. I can probly up the brightness now :)
[Huawei Watch] swamp7:
I'm still draining fast. What do you guys mean by "uninstall advanced settings"? Is that a 3rd party app you had on there?
[Huawei Watch] bailyc:
By FIT I am assuming you mean, Google Fit? Can I ask how you disabled it? Seems like a silly question, but no amount of swiping seems to get a disable option, and I don't seen an option in Google Fit on my phone to disable it either.
[Huawei Watch] swngdncr:
I"m guessing that he has "Activity Detection" off. Go into the app on your phone, settings, scroll all the way down to "Google Fit data" and turn off Activity Detection.
[Huawei Watch] bailyc:
That worked! Thank you. I actually tried to disable the phone app as well, but that didn't work either. After I turned off Activity Detection, I was able to swipe left in the wear app and disable Fit.
[Huawei Watch] jeffc83:
^^ Glad you found it. (my bad, I was out for a while)
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
I'm leaving my watch of the charger tonight in theater mode to see how it drains I'll post a SS in the morning
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
Here is the battery drain leaving it in theater mode all night. It started at about 50%and ended at 45% when I woke up this morning.
[Huawei Watch] swngdncr:
Thanks for the theater mode test, so it is probably advance settings or something else that was using the battery. . I did go exchange mine at BB today since some of the local bb's had them in stock. So far, the new one is continuing to monitor my HR and not freezing. That is just sitting hear and shaking my wrist, not while exercising, but that is an improvement. Keeping my fingers crossed. -cjr-
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
No problem, I charge mine every night anyway except for last night's test. It was interesting to see how it drains while idling because that's key to its longevity. My Nexus 6 only losses ~1-5% sitting at night in the M Preview so hopefully Marshmallow will improve it even more
[Huawei Watch] swamp7:
Still can't make it through day

I've got screen brightness at 3, I've turned off wifi. Don't really know what else to try. After a week with the phone, this is consistently my battery life. Do I have a lemon? Bought it through google - may have to return it.
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
Well you screen usage of the highest drain are you keeping it on constantly? I've used mine on 6 brightness for a few hours and I didn't lose that much
[Huawei Watch] swamp7:
Screen usage

I've got the always on ambient display - default setting. I've turned off WiFi on the watch and the wear app on the phone; I've turned off activity tracking in fit. I've turned off wrist gestures. Getting about 10 hours. Battery life.
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
That doesn't make any sense, I use WiFi on, fit tracking on, ambient on but I do have tilt to wake off. Something doesn't seem right for it to be that bad
[Huawei Watch] bailyc:
Can you list what apps you have on your watch? Does your watch face have weather or other interactive features?
[Huawei Watch] swamp7:
I'm using a face called "minimal elegant", which does show weather, but it's a mostly black face so I would think it's efficient. Looking at apps currently on the watch, I see the following, but I don't really use any of them. I have cards displaying, btw.

- Agenda

- Alarm

- Daily tracking

- Find my phone

- Fit

- Fitness tracking

- Flashlight

- Google

- Hangouts

- Heart rate

- Maps

- OneNote

- Play music

- Settings

- Stopwatch

- Timer

- Together

- Translate

- Weather
[Huawei Watch] TONY206:
How do you bring up battery stats like that?
[Huawei Watch] swamp7:
Through the Wear app on your phone, settings.
[Huawei Watch] bailyc:
Hm, I actually use the same watch face. I had high battery usage for the first day or two, and now it's been much better. I'm not sure if it's related, but initially I set up custom text to include location. I deleted that, and since then, much better battery stats.

Also, have you tried disabling (or totally uninstalling) any third party apps, and seeing how the watch runs with just a stock setup? That's likely to tell you if it is an app or just the watch. A battery app like Wear Battery Stats might help a bit too.
[Huawei Watch] swamp7:
Thanks for this. I don't think I'm actually running any third party apps. I've loaded a bunch of watch faces, but have left the same one on the last couple days, and haven't customized it at all. Am not showing location on the watch face.

I think for some reason I just have a dud watch/battery.
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
3rd party watch faces used to sim sometimes kill the battery on my Urbane. What app are you using for it (Facer,Watchmaker,Puji etc..) or is it a standalone face?
[Huawei Watch] swamp7:
Just standalone watch faces.
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
Maybe try uninstalling them for a day and making sure they are removed from the watch bely checking its storage from the AW app.
[Huawei Watch] swngdncr:
Edit #2: Looks like Endomondo may have been running all night because it reported a 7 hour work out. That would explain the fast battery drain overnight.

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I went to bed with 90% battery, woke up with 9%... not sure why, I thought I put it in Theater mode. But maybe I pushed the button sleeping, wouldn't be hard to do and took it out of theater mode. This one seems to have better BT range than the first one. My phone was downstairs, but when I woke up, the watch had text messages on it from overnight. So, maybe it was getting messages and doing notifications etc. all night long every time I got a email

Have you tried doing a factor reset? So far, my replacement watch seems to be functioning better than the first one. So, if you don't find something else that is the cause of your battery drain, it's worth at least sending back and getting a replacement.
[Huawei Watch] ruovr21mr:
My battery seems to last me 2 days of normal use. Here is my usage.

Day 1:

off charger at 7 am. Ambient mode on, gesture on, brightness 3, WiFi off. Went to work and normal usage during the day. Got home around 5. Turned on WiFi at that point so I can stay connected to my phone when I am not carrying it around in the house. At 9pm I still have 50% battery left. Turn off ambient mode before I went to bed.

Day 2:

Battery is at 45% when I got up around 7am. Since it is a cooler day and I am wearing long sleeve shirt, I left ambient mode off. I also kept WiFi on. Left for work with normal usage all day. When I got home around 5pm, battery is at 5%.

I figure if I leave ambient mode off, I can get more than 2 days of usage. Very impressed.
[Huawei Watch] brizey:
Today is my first real day, and I have been futzing with the watch all day. Off charger at about 7:15 AM. It's 5:30 here in the CST and I am at 54%. And I have changed my watch face like 20 times and just got done with a debugging session, used it to have a text convo with my wife, etc. Probably more than I would ever use it two months from now. I am calling the battery good.

BTW, ambient mode on, brightness on 1.
[Huawei Watch] profilerz:
Is the "watch battery" pics you are posting from a 3rd party app loaded to monitor your battery Stats? I'm looking at my phone and not finding any default one through Android wear or HUAWEI
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
Go into the Android Wear app then click the settings gear>click the Huawei Watch under devices>click watch battery
[Huawei Watch] profilerz:
Perfect, didn't realize that was there, thank you
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
I'm glad that helped, its not in the easiest place to find your first tune
[Huawei Watch] steelersmb:
I have tried everything and my batter life still sucks. I even turned off Always On so the watch display isn't even on most of the time and by the time I get home around 6PM, my watch is down to about 12%.
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
Did you do a factory reset?
[Huawei Watch] steelersmb:
Yes, I've done it twice. Under normal use, meaning getting alerts and messages, I would like to see who gets more than 10 hours of time on this watch. I get alerts and interact with my watch throughout the day. Nothing excessive but isn't that what a smart watch is supposed to be used for?
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
That's still weird if you still want the watch RMA it and see if your second one is any better
[Huawei Watch] bailyc:
Did you have another watch in the Android Wear app? I noticed that Wear Battery Stats reported a ton of Android Wear app activity yesterday/last night. Turns out that even though my other watch wasn't actively connected, Android Wear kept searching for a connection and wore the battery down at over 10% an hour.
[Huawei Watch] steelersmb:
Yes, I did but since that time I have a new phone too so it's the only one listed in the app. I am looking at my stats right now for Wear Battery Stats and it says "No App Activity" right now. Also, it says the discharge is 5.35% per hour. I am at 75% right now since around 7AM this morning so that's about 18 hours of total battery life and that's with the screen off, wrist gestures off, brightness set to 3. Not sure what else to try but this sucks. I do get several notifications throughout the day so I wonder if that's the issue. However, isn't this what a smart watch is supposed to be used for?

I have the following apps installed:

Wear Messages

Apollo Wear Inspector

Facer

Watch Maker

Wear Battery Stats

Tip Calculator

Wear Mini Launcher
[Huawei Watch] bailyc:
Wear Mini Launcher's latest update has a known battery drain issue. I think dev has acknowledged it and is working on an update/fix. I've heard that Facer also might be hard on battery but I'm not that familiar with that watch face app, so can't be sure.

Edited to add: I uninstalled Mini Launcher just to be safe. Right now: I can get

-1.7-1.9%/hr drain overnight with theater mode

-Anywhere between 3.75%-4.9%/hr during the day

When I had the latest Wear Mini Launcher installed, it was more like 5-7%/hr drain during the day. So I personally believe the app's drain is fairly significant.
[Huawei Watch] steelersmb:
I'm going to remove both now to see if that helps.
[Huawei Watch] bailyc:
Here's hoping you see better numbers!
[Huawei Watch] steelersmb:
Thanks. I will keep you posted. I appreciate it!
[Huawei Watch] acp5533:
I get around 1.5 - 2 days with this "always on" watch face.

I've noticed that watchfaces with a moving seconds hand drain battery faster.
[Huawei Watch] selayan:
Today with always on and WiFi off, gestures on and wrist wake on I got down to 15% from 100% from 6am to 730pm.

I think I left fit on and had no way to turn it off. Installed fit on my nexus 6, deactivated notification on the phone and tracking data. Then uninstalled fit from the phone.

I then did a factory reset on the watch. It said fit was not connected and I had the option to turn fit off finally on the watch.

I kept WiFi off, screen brightness to 2, screen always on, gestures on and tilt to wake off. I'll test tomorrow to see if it does any better.

I was expecting better, I guess if it doesn't improve I can return it to Google. If I tell them there is an issue they will make me go through huweii and I would rather not.

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Where do you turn on ambient mode on? I was at 50% today at 12pm from 6am. I stream spotify through Bluetooth in the car and I guess that also drains the watch? Or I may have a dud..
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
I've noticed that my battery sometimes drops 5-10% within minutes of taking out of the charger. The battery life is still great and I end with ~60% at the end of he day so it might be a bug. If I charge it immediately after that back to 100% its normal again which is odd. I don't mind because in both scenarios I get the same battery life.