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[Huawei Watch] selayan:
Yea I notice that too. Hoping its a bug. I put it on the charger at 735pm today and took it off at 99% to do my factory reset and turn those fit apps off. I took it off at 830 and its now 9:45pm and its at 91%.

Wifi off, brightness set to 2, screen always on, gesture on and tilt wake off.
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
Its really bizarre I even called Google about it. They don't know what's causing it but they said it's being looked into. I'm at 62%battery not and its been on since 0550 this morning with ambient mode kn, Google fit tracking and WiFi on.
[Huawei Watch] selayan:
Where do you turn ambient mode on? And from 550am you are at 60%??? I was at 50% at 12pm starting from 6am so something is definitely up with mine. Google won't do RMA though we would need to return it wait for refund and re order.
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
Ambient mode is jsut when the face goes form full color to B/W so you can see if without waking the watch. I also have tilt to wake off if that matters.

The screenshot of my usage today is below. I don't know why it doesn't show 0600 on the graph because I leave my home everyday at 0600. I'm a engineering student so I'm always busy and I like to get work done early before my 0800 classes so I'm just a little crazy for getting at 0430 and leaving at 0600. I also posted a picture of ambient mode below.

Also yes the display is shifted slightly. This is by design to prevent burn in the ambient display shifts every now and then which is kind of cool

Useful tricks:

If you want to turn the display off double tap the button to put it in theater mode

Triple tap the button puts max brightness on for a few seconds.
[Huawei Watch] selayan:
Oh alright I use that mode too. I think it could also be streaming music through Bluetooth in my car on my way to work that may be draining it. Even though I don't use the watch to skip tracks, I use my car controls.
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
If you use navigation (Google maps) a lot while driving it will kill the battery life on the watch. I leaned this the hard way on my Urbane. I stream music via BT in my car every day for ~30minutes and it doesn't hurt my battery life. Here's a screenshot from my Urbane for comparison
[Huawei Watch] selayan:
I have yet to use navigation in the car with the watch. Its my first smart watch so I'm just going with the flow of things. The urbane looked alright to me but they didn't have it in metal like the huweii has the mesh or link band and I wish it looked better because the urbane battery seems good.
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
The Urbane has a bigger battery but in my experience the battery life was worse on the Urbane. I didn't take that many screenshots of he battery life but if wasn't as good as my Huawei Watch. K has the silver stainless steel one with the black leather band. I didn't like the gold colored steel becuase it looks tacky. I like the mesh Milanese hauwei band even though a lot of people don't like using it. I'm glad i bought the Huawei. The AMOLED display looks so much better than the POLED did.
[Huawei Watch] selayan:
I have the mesh band and I love it. Just hard to put on. The screen is so crisp that's why I also enjoy it. I was going to get the new moto 360 but the area with the sensors at the bottom bothered me. Hopefully my battery improves since this is my first day using it. Otherwise I'll gave to return it to Google and maybe reorder it after I get a refund.

I could contact huweii but I haven't had experience with their support before and I bet it would take longer to get an RMA than to return and order another.
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
The mesh band is the best one in my opinion. I don't think it's hard to put on but my wife begs to differ on that. I heard the new Moto display is mediocre so Huawei seems to have a big advantage here. If you reorder it I hope it's better the second time around.
[Huawei Watch] selayan:
Do you guys get notification with the ambient screen on? Seems like mine don't come in for texts unless I have tilt to wake on.

Here's my battery stats so far.
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
Yes I always get them with ambient on and tilt to wake off
[Huawei Watch] selayan:
I wonder if its because I'm using textra. I don't know why my watch is acting so random. The other day on the drive home it froze but if I held the crown button I could feel it vibrate. It eventually unfroze on its own.

Right now its always screen on and ambient on. If I get an email or tapa notification I get it on the watch.

If I get a text and textra is my default app, I don't get it on the watch unless I turn on the screen and swipe up.
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
That may have to do with how some 3rd party apps interact with AW. All my apps show notifications on the watch but some such as outlook won't let me do anything besides open it on the phone. They probably don't have support for it right now so only the notification shows unlike Google's core apps.
[Huawei Watch] selayan:
Yea that's odd. It was working yesterday with tilt to wake on. Textra api says it now supports android wear. Strange.
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
Maybe it's a bug? I use Google messenger and I've never had an issues getting texts.
[Huawei Watch] ruovr21mr:
Settings - Always-on Screen
[Huawei Watch] selayan:
So I turned on vibrate in textra notifications and now they show up.
[Huawei Watch] swamp7:
Note: I got the watch the first day it was out - tried it for 7 days, and never got more than 12 hours battery on it, with fairly standard settings: ambient mode on, WiFi off, brightness 3, some fairly normal 3rd party watch faces, normal usage. After a week of this, decided it was defective. Did an RMA with Google, they sent the new one, I returned the old one. New one has no issues - getting 1.5-2 days (indicated) on a charge.
[Huawei Watch] vvveith:
This is my first smartwatch, and I found out really quick how much of a battery hog the advanced settings app is. Uninstalled after one day. Ever since I easily get 1.5 to 2 days. Settings are as follows: bt on, wifi on at home and work, always on, on, gestures off, fit on.

My use of it is pretty heavy. Check email at least once every couple hours, receive and send text seven or more times a day, stop and start YouTube often, look at full watch face three or four times an hour. However, I'm sending it back because of the red tint issue. Hope new does not have this problem. Glad I got through Google, they said if this one also suffers, they will either refund me or let me try another brand!
[Huawei Watch] tomkins0752:
I've had mine for just over a week now, coming from the OG Moto 360 after using it for about a year.

Everything about the Huawei Watch is better. I can typically use it for about two days (from 8am-9pm) before charging. I usually have the display set at 2 or 3, I have it set to keep the display on, and I use the preinstalled "Dandy" watch face (which is mainly black.)

I had one day where the battery drained by about 40% in a short time. This happened with my 360 as well if I took it off the charger but didn't immediately connect it to my phone. If I took the 360 off the charger and didn't connect it to my phone, it would die in less than 24 hours, and that is not an issue I have with the Huawei Watch.
[Huawei Watch] selayan:
Mines been off the charger since 6am and it says it should last until 2 pm tomorrow. Did Google offer the RMA or make you go through Huweii?
[Huawei Watch] dmeadows013:
Running screen in all the time. Brightness on full, wifi on, etc...

13 hours exactly from 100 to 1%. Not bad. Not great, but not bad.

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[Huawei Watch] Badmama30:
I'm with brightness 4, WI FI on, Fit on, ambient on, gestures on - get a lot of notifications.

I go to bed with around 25% which is great for me.
[Huawei Watch] selayan:
Google fit for me was really killing the battery. I was getting close to 13 maybe 15hrs each day. Hopefully the next update will fix up some of these drainage issues.
[Huawei Watch] iggdawg:
I see a lot of people saying both tilt-wake off and wrist gestures off. If tilt-wake is off, doesn't that obviate most of the battery hit of wrist gestures? I can see gestures being handy for dismissing notifications that light up the screen but that I don't care about (and don't want littering up my dim mode). Does turnin on wrist gestures leave some kind of tracking on in the background even though it's not doing anything? If not, it doesn't seem there's much benefit in having these settings both off. Definitely tell me if I'm missing something, I'm from camp Moto so this whole dim mode thing is new to me :p
[Huawei Watch] vvveith:
I purchased through Google.

Got the replacement today, but I think I'll send it back. The number that appears next to it's name in Android Wear is actually earlier than the one I have by a very wide margin. Example: Current model number of one I already have is 356D and the one I received today is 224B. I don't know what numbering system they use but I would think that the higher the number and letter, the later it was made. Could be wrong, but I'm skeptical that this is a newer model watch. Suggestions needed.
[Huawei Watch] selayan:
Mine is 22A9. I have no idea about the numbering system.
[Huawei Watch] oldmanjenkins38:
Sorry for Noob Question

Sorry for the noob question but what is the advance setting app that you are talking about? I am having battery drain issues as well.
[Huawei Watch] brizey:
Just didn't my first real day where I was too busy to play with the watch...just used it normally like I will once the new wears off. I'm at 70% after about 10 hours. Always on, no gestures, no tilt to wake. Screen was at 5 most of the day because I was at a corporate every that was outside. Also had dim mode at 60 on SWapp Dark. I normally use 75 for indoors. I'm officially going to stop worrying about the battery now.
[Huawei Watch] vinz486:
Hi, I think that something cause battery drain. Happened to me two times.

I can't post my stats image because I'm a <10 posts user.

The graph starts to drain at 80% with no relevant app listed below.
[Huawei Watch] vvveith:
Rogue app or Vibrating to much?

Hopefully it's not defective, I had that happen with a rogue app I installed that caused it to do more than the simple default vibrations. That tore through my battery in about eight hours, removed that app, and everythings great. If that is not the case, either something is on in your settings that should not be on all the time or you may have a defective battery.
[Huawei Watch] selayan:
Any one ever get "no longer connected to network, a factory reset is required"?

I got this twice already.
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
That used to happen on my Urbane I still don't know what caused it
[Huawei Watch] vinz486:
Yes, maybe.

But, I was using a Samsung Gear Live before Huawei. Same phone, a Nexus 5, with same apps. Just removed the old one and added this. The Samsung never falls in battery drain during 1 year.
[Huawei Watch] Hanger4life:
I would die for 12 hours even 8. Im gettin about 6 right now.

Just finished 3rd reset. I have no 3rd party apps,no 3rd party watch faces,full stock. Tilt off,wifi off,screen on 2, gestures off,cards on,fit disabled. I live in Thailand,and got mine through Amazon. A return will be a nightmare. I have the stainless with mesh band,and the watch is sick. I may wait tillmim back in the states,buy one from best buy,then return this one in their box,explaining the problem,so they will not try and resell it.
[Huawei Watch] oldmanjenkins38:
So I have wifi off, cloud sync off, never had always (on) on, wrist turn activation on. Battery seems much better. Was at 64 by this time yesterday.

[IMG="Battery Discharge"]https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tpm88gt09wJLT99H7SpxpdAa_sK4bjxU1g/view?usp=sharing[/IMG]
[Huawei Watch] vinz486:
I disabled Cloud Sync, which is the only feature that Samsung doesnt have and turned off WIFI.

All ok, for now, 6 hours and 88% left.
[Huawei Watch] bailyc:
I'm not 100% positive, but I think it literally is an app for Wear called Advanced Settings. I am guessing you would know if you installed it.
[Huawei Watch] cdkizzle:
Heard skype was killing the battery. Is that still the case? I use skype quite a bit and would hate to have to uninstall it...the wear functionality is complete garbage too "open on phone"

It's my first day with the watch so it might just be me using it more than I would normally but I left the house at 6:30AM..currently 11:30AM at 57%
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
I've never gotten down below 50% after 15 hours of use so I don't know how people drain it so fast. I guess if I had tilt to wake and max brightness all day with a white watch face I could but that's kind of pointless. I hope they fix people's battery drain issues with M
[Huawei Watch] bailyc:
Out of curiosity, can I ask which watch face you use with yours? Thanks!
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
The stock blue 'moon phase' one its my favorite becuase the AMOLED really makes the blue pop. I also like how it has the step counter and battery front and center since I walk a lot. My other goto face is the blackish (not true AMOLED black) 'dark suit' or if I'm out at night I use 'dandy' but that's rare. I use moon phase 90% of the time.
[Huawei Watch] selayan:
Weird that my battery took a dive like this today.

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[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
I've had that happen before I think it's the AW app but its much harder to pin down battery drain issues in AW
[Huawei Watch] bailyc:
Thanks! I use dandy sometimes as well. Never paid much attention to moon phase but I do like showingnstep count.
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
It looks really nice in my opinion I usually gravitate toward cooler colors anyway
[Huawei Watch] selayan:
Weird. Its doing it again today. In one hour and 30 min its already down to 87%. So odd, it was great the past few days. Nothing new installed and same settings.
[Huawei Watch] swngdncr:
Went to bed last night with 65% at 11:30PM, woke up at 4:00AM, watch was dead :( Not sure if there was one of the fitness apps running in the background or something... but going to have to keep an eye on this..
[Huawei Watch] selayan:
So now its at 81%. I think only the first 8-9% drop so quickly.
[Huawei Watch] cdkizzle:
Pretty sure skype is a battery killer. Woke up this morning, left the house at 6:40AM. Brightness on 2, cloud sync off, wifi off, tilt to wake off, always on screen off, a black watch face from Pujie Black. My gf called me on skype while I was driving and my battery went from high 80s to low 70s in that 30 mins. Ridiculous really.

I'm now at 51% at 11:27 AM, 5 hours later. Kind of annoying because I actually use skype lol. Maybe I;ll see if I can find an APK of skype before the android wear was added in.
[Huawei Watch] Hanger4life:
Battery update

Update...

Since uninstalling every new watch face,and 3rd party app,im now getting awesome battery life. At one point yesterday I had 78% and the battery specs showed I still has over a day left in useage to go.....wow! Im not sure what app or watch face was causing my issue(only got 3 hrs out of battery day 1 of getting watch after installing 10 or so watch faces,and 10 or so apps.),but after deleting everything,going back to stock, wifi off,tilt off,gesture off,brightness 3, card prev.on,always on screen on, with dandy face,im good.
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
I wonder if other AW watches have the random high battery drain that you and some others are getting on the Huawei. My Urbane was hit and miss but I don't think the drain was ever that fast.
[Huawei Watch] vinz486:
Again, today, I picked the watch from charger and was warm.

Battery gone from 100 to 94 in 15 minutes.

I use Just a Minute face and I have cloud off, ambient off.

After one year of android wear usage, I think this is a bug. Should be interesting to know if other watches have this issue.
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
Charge it again to 100 then take it off and the drain will stop. I had this issue too but I RMA'd mine and the new one doesn't have the issue so far. I opened a ticket with Google about the issue as well. I think it's a software bug in the current 5.1.1 AW version. I hope Google pushes marshmallow out soon to all of the watches.
[Huawei Watch] vinz486:
That's interesting. The new one have same sw versions?

I have:

Wear 1.3.0.2176821

Play Services 8.1.20 (2283517-534)

Os 51.1
[Huawei Watch] Caio 73:
Guys,

After a few days with great battery life, I installed some third party watch faces yesterday and today I had abismal battery life. Dead at 3pm. After reading this thread, I am going to uninstall as much stuff as I can and try again tomorrow.
[Huawei Watch] selayan:
Yea something is randomly draining mine. It was fine yesterday. I was at 55% when I got home. By 11pm it was down to 23% just out of nowhere with random small usage.

Today it was off the charger at 830am. Had like 2-3 notifications, barely used it. Its at 72% already. I usually don't get to 72% until 3-4pm and that's on a day when I wake up at 6am.

So did Google send you another one and you sent yours back? Or did you have to send yours in first?

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[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
I only did a RMA becuase of the odd behaviour when it would rapidly lose 5-10% within minutes. I asked Google if there was a reason why but instead they said they would just simply replace it. If you bought it directly from Google you can request an "Advance RMA" which means Google sends you the replacement and puts a hold on your card. They also email you a return label so you can send the old one back. Once you receive the new one and mail the old one back they drop the hold off your card.
[Huawei Watch] selayan:
Yea sounds like that's what I will do. I'm going to send them a chat support now. I also have the 10-15% drain within minutes. Then,like now, a random 15-20% drop out of nowhere.
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
I guarantee its a software bug not a hardware one which is why I'm hoping they will push the marshmallow update out soon for Android wear.
[Huawei Watch] selayan:
Yea we will see. They are having me turn off screen and block app notifications, restart the device, remove the AW app and reinstall. Now they are checking with Huweii for any other issues.
[Huawei Watch] vinz486:
Ok, I have updated my N5 to Marshmallow, hoping in a resolution.

After two day of normal use, the HW become warm and I noticed a battery drain, 1% per minute. So I quickly enabled debug and discovered this, using TOP shell command:

11785 0 90% R 2 1303788K 82928K bg all_a12 /system/bin/dex2oat

Dex2oat is an ART tool so, in my opinion, this is not and hardware issue.

Something goes wrong in Android Wear OS and a RMA cannot solve this.
[Huawei Watch] profilerz:
I unfortunately returned mine to Google after attempting all the trouble shooting including factory reset, updates, and what I found most comical was eliminating all apps and using it sparingly..... That's like going to the mechanic and him telling you your car will be just fine if you don't drive it.

I'll keep my hopes up there are some improvements in the near future and maybe iI will purchase another down the road if iI see people on the forums reporting forward strides in battery usage.
[Huawei Watch] selayan:
Google is sending me out a replacement for my battery drain that happens right off the charger. Hopefully AW will be updated along when marshmellow comes to the watch.
[Huawei Watch] swngdncr:
The battery drain seems so inconsistent. At 11:00 it was 100%, dead by about 6PM. I wonder if some apps continue run in the background and suck battery, even if they don't show up on battery monitor? I had navigation running for a short period of time today, less than 20 minutes, but that wasn't until 3:30PM. It was at around 35% when I stopped navigation, but an hour later, it was down to 15%, and then that 15% dropped to 3% in about 10 minutes. But, looking at the battery report, the steepest drain was before that, and I didn't even have the watch on! We were working on a landscape project and I took the watch off so as not to damage it. Very strange...
[Huawei Watch] selayan:
Do you have Google fit enabled on the phone? Turn that off it was hogging my battery badly. Same with WiFi and tilt to wake.
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
I never have any issues with Google Fit here, but tilt to wake seems to be a big drain overall.
[Huawei Watch] modestone:
I have had mine for about 5 days now, and am struggling to get a day out of it for the most part.

Brightness at lowest setting of 1, tilt to wake on, gestures off, wifi off, google fit on, stock watch face, hardly playing with it at all, not an excessive amount of notifications, and if I am lucky, it will go from 7AM to 11PM.

My watch has the "red screen tint" issue, though it is very very faint, I wonder how much it effects battery life.
[Huawei Watch] myke66:
tilt to wake and wifi are the biggest culprits of battery drain aside from apps you are using.
[Huawei Watch] selayan:
For me fit was killing it as well as tilt to wake. I would RMA it if it has a red screen issue. My replacement is coming sometime this week I think.
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
I use for daily and get good battery life.

Here's today's:
[Huawei Watch] vinz486:
Regarding my previous post, that process run with background priority and it's an opcode optimizer. So, in my opinion it's just a first run issue: when all apk's will be optimized no battery drain will occor anymore.

Restore factory settings doesn't help, instead, will force that process to rerun on same apk's.
[Huawei Watch] selayan:
Happened again lol. An hour ago my huweii was at 83% now all of a sudden its at 53% lol. Glad my replacement is coming today.
[Huawei Watch] saanity:
My battery life has been fantastic. I never have to worry about it running out in a day. I don't get too many notifications and am a light user but this watch really fits my everyday lifestyle.

Tilt to wake: off

Gesture control: on

Wifi: off

Always on ambient: on

Brightness setting: 1

Red tint issue: yes :|

[IMG="light use"]http://i.imgur.com/8PKPb1W.jpg[/IMG]
[Huawei Watch] selayan:
My replacement watch has way better battery life than the previous. It will actually last 2 days if I let it. But I always charge it every night anyway. Odd that this replacement huweii is also much snappier than the last.
[Huawei Watch] bailyc:
The watches do seem to be a little inconsistent. I've had 3 total. First two were not bad (~4-4.5%/hr drain) and the third is significantly better than that (averaging 2.5-3%/hr). Same apps and everything have been loaded. Interestingly, the 2nd watch had the worst performance of the three overall, but the "best" screen (hardly any red tint). The third, with the best battery performance, has the worst red tint of the 3. I'm torn about the screen, but the watch otherwise functions really well.
[Huawei Watch] selayan:
Yea it is odd. Luckily this one is fine, no red tint, better battery performance too. I think I'll keep this one even though Google only lets you have I think one replacement?
[Huawei Watch] brizey:
My replacement's red tint is slight worse...just a tiny bit though...but the battery life after the first cycle is nutso. I'm getting 30+ hours with always on and wifi. First cycle was about 24, with crazy drops then long level periods. Now it's smooth. It's definitely better than my return. I'm not going to drive myself batty any more over the red tint...It's unnoticeable, and frankly, this is a smart watch. Two years max useful lifespan.

It's also slightly brighter...I did side by sides with my old one at the same brightness settings.
[Huawei Watch] Pilz:
It looks like this confirms issues with the initial batches of watches. Mine still gets great battery life with WiFi, ambient mode etc always on. I would take the Huawei over a Moto 360 gen 2 any day
[Huawei Watch] selayan:
Maybe the battery may be worse on aosp ROMs than stock. I currently switched to pure nexus ROM now to check that out.
[Huawei Watch] brizey:
I've only run the new watch on LightROM and Cataclysm. I had run the old one on Pure for most of the time that I used it. Today I will be using the 10/17 Cataclysm with EX 3.04 kernel. But I am working from home, so I may not wear the watch all day. Nexus 6 FWIW. Given that the screen dominates the battery stats, I doubt the phone setup makes much of a difference.