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[Huawei Watch 2] http://:
I've got the 4G version. Every day I get vastly differing battery results. One day it might be 2% per hour, the next day it might be 15% per hour. I have a SIM card installed but I have it disabled as it kills battery when the watch is disconnected from the phone.

At first I was not happy at all, but as soon as I reached the conclusion that I would have to charge it every day, I stopped caring about battery life.

Not good enough really, but AW 2.0 is what it is.
[Huawei Watch 2] mcdull:
That's why I opt for BT version. Eventually you cannot use 4G at all. You need to keep your phone connected all day long and that make 4G version non-sense. The only regret is the lacking of Global rom for China BT version.
[Huawei Watch 2] giangishanghai:
hello,

I agree with you about every day differences and i have realized that my problem is when i forgot my phone and i move more than what BT can reach. I found better situation now after I got last samsubg s8 update, better bt better battery life for my HW2. ( by the way I wake up every morning a t 5.00am and i go to sleep normally around 23.00..)

As I wrote I dont have sim card, I think for a few money more you can have, eventually, opportunity to put sim card if needed, with bt version, if you need sim you have to buy new watch.

regards
[Huawei Watch 2] nomadbass:
I have the 4g, I get about 16 hrs battery life without sim, and with wifi and location disabled. I have tried everything i can think of because I know there is people getting 2 days battery life. Even wiped and flashed a full rom from this forum. But my watch just drains too fast, about 6% an hour in normal use and 3.5% with airplane and theater mode...

I am currently on a trip, but I think I will try to get my watch replaced when I get back
[Huawei Watch 2] http://:
It is probably an app that you have running on the watch. You can check via the 'Watch battery' settings on the phone in the Android Wear App. I found that Huawei Health was using about 6% of my battery. I didn't use it, so I disabled it on the watch. I have disabled all the system I apps I don't use like Runtastic and all of the builtin watch faces (I use a Google Fit watch face). Things got better for me immediately afterwards. I can get two days with everything disabled.
[Huawei Watch 2] giangishanghai:
thanks a lot,

I cant disable HHealt cause I am in China, but i have Fit and runastic disabled same as others I dont care.

To help all of us, do you mind to share your disabled apps and services? I think we can have good results discussing about this.

bdw.... I am trying to hit your thanks button but nothing happen..... please for the moment, accept my apologize....

regards
[Huawei Watch 2] http://:
Hi,

These are the apps I have disabled:

Chill for Huawei Watch 2

Elements Analogue

Elements Digital

Huawei Health

Huawei Member

Runtastic

Watchface

Wrist Gestures Tutorial

The apps the had the biggest positive impact on battery life were:

Huawei Health

Huawei Member

I have Wifi disabled, my SIM card is disabled (I just enable it briefly if I need it) and have always on display turned off. I have wrist gestures turned off but tilt to wake screen on.
[Huawei Watch 2] giangishanghai:
waiting for that f....g thanks button back to work.......... thanks a lot!!!

regards
[Huawei Watch 2] giangishanghai:
to all of you,

any services that can be disabled?

regards
[Huawei Watch 2] nomadbass:
I cannot be 100% sure but I don't think so. I tried resetting the watch and not installing any apps for a few days. I have tried that several times, same result.

I also tried disabling almost all apps in the watch. So much that it was the dumbest smart watch ever. That way I almost got 20 hours, but the watch was useless and still far from the 35 hrs some people is getting with regular use.

I also have updated play services in the phone (Mate 9) and the watch. Same thing.

This is what my stats look like on a regular day:

[IMG="stats"]http://ibb.co/cRD2Ca[/IMG]
[Huawei Watch 2] giangishanghai:
test

hello,

first day of test.

fit, runastic and wifi disabled, always on display turned off, wrist gestures turned off but tilt to wake screen on.

woke up at 5.30am, now 15.15pm, battery is 75%, received calls and usual notifications.

not bad compared to past days when at the same time battery was less than 50%.

regards
[Huawei Watch 2] dread123:
anyone advise how to disable those apps?? cant find how to on the watch? i must be blind missing the option lol
[Huawei Watch 2] giangishanghai:
hello,

setting

app

system app

click on the app you want to disable

click on disable button

done

not all the apps has the ability to be disabled...

regards
[Huawei Watch 2] spenstberg:
This was a pretty good Battery day. With 13 hours of use I still have 54% left. With always on display, WiFi on, Pulse on. I have the 4G version but no sim in it. I have a watch face from minimal & elegant. View attachment 4172332http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/59359f17dd673/Screenshot_20170605-200409.png?

Skickat från min HUAWEI NXT-L29 via Tapatalk
[Huawei Watch 2] spenstberg:
After about 24 hours of use. 8 hours was during the night with sleep tracking on and the display always on. View attachment 4173013

Skickat från min HUAWEI NXT-L29 via Tapatalk
[Huawei Watch 2] http://:
That's pretty good. For sleep tracking do you use Sleep as Android?
[Huawei Watch 2] spenstberg:
Yes I use sleep as android. I wish the sleep app were build in by huawei. I also have a Garmin 735XT and it starts the sleep tracking automatically. It would be nice if sleep as android could do that.
[Huawei Watch 2] spenstberg:
Went for a unicycle ride this evening. Put a sim card in the watch so that I could left the watch at home. I used the endomondo app for trackning and the watch was fully charged. The ride took 1 hour and 9 minutes. After that I had 57 % left of the battery. Maybe the huawei sports app drain less battery or is it the sim card that is the problem. I think that I have read tha Huawei says that the battery should last for 10 hours with a tracking with gps and puls on.
[Huawei Watch 2] http://:
From my experience it is the SIM card that drains the battery. I've seen the same 10 hour claim. It isn't true unfortunately.

If I have the SIM enabled in an area with no reception, the battery can drain in less than two hours. It's insane.

I just enable 4G when and if I need it.
[Huawei Watch 2] spenstberg:
I will do that the next time, enable 4G when I need it.
[Huawei Watch 2] minus1db:
I have the 4G variant I keep the cellular set to automatic as my signal inside building at work is non exsistant. Have to say I don't seem to have battery issues, I have location and wifi off, I've disabled the health aspects of the watch. I get up before 6.00am on workdays and go to bed at 10.00pm I've never dipped below 50% battery with mid to heavy use. I have an excellent 4G signal at home and regularly leave my phone at home while going out to shop etc. I charge my Sammy S8+ every night so really don't have an issue doing the same with my watch. My only real gripe is with the size of the screen I've come from LG Urbane 2nd edition LTE so missing the bigger screen but I've had the HW2 for two weeks and think it's great
[Huawei Watch 2] bobby133:
I have the BT version and get over 1.5 day with basic use
[Huawei Watch 2] thecarp1975:
I have the Bluetooth model. I get about 1.5 days as well. I thought disabling the apps that control the continuous heart rate monitor would improve that, but not so much.
[Huawei Watch 2] markdsmith:
Only use 4G and GPS when necessary

I have owned the LTE version for a week now and it seems the best way to utilise the phone and get satisfactory battery life is to turn gps and 4g (I have sim card) off unless really needed. BT and Wifi are fine so if you have your phone with you then just use the watch for its convenience on your wrist and make use of the phone facilities ... however if you do want to go out for a run/walk/cycle or gym, or leave the phone at home then ensure the watch is charged to 100% prior to disconnecting the BT and leaving the phone at home.

I played golf in the week with full gps and lte enabled, 100% when started and regular use of these watch features and it died short of 4 hours later which was disappointing. But with LTE and GPS off I regularly get 36 hours plus

It would be good if an app would turn GPS on and then off once it has location info rather than it remain on. Unfortunately the mobile signal must remain otherwise you cannot be contacted, unless you only want to make outgoing calls of course

update: since my original post I have golf again and this time with just the mobile signal off but with location on. The watch reduced from 100% to 74% in 4 hours. The area I was in both times has good mobile coverage but it seems whether set to ON or AUTOMATIC the radio for the mobile is draining the battery.
[Huawei Watch 2] adjuster11:
Running the Bluetooth version. Went for a bike ride, started at 10:30, with gps tracking, and watch went below 15% and automatic low battery mode kicked in. I still got my data, but I only rode 4:30 total time, to kill it off. Not impressed.
[Huawei Watch 2] Wagner.B:
have also the LTE version.

I'm very unhappy with the battery live when it's going to replace the phone for me. (for me the selling argument)

http://imgur.com/a/y2Ui2

Don't know why this isn't working...

probably at 9 o'clock, I took the OP5 away. so the LTE kicks in.

also the power consumption.

(Just wore the watch, no calls, no assistant & so on)

#edit

Heere with LTE turned off.

http://imgur.com/a/UbxDV
[Huawei Watch 2] lastguru:
Anyone using always-on? I see one potential battery-draining issue (at least on my watch): AMOLED display pixels are not turned off while in ambient (dim) mode. They are turned off in regular (active) mode. One can test it when charging the phone in the dark: black background is really black when the animation is shown, but later becomes brighter. I have made also a blank Watchmaker watchface (without anything on it - just blank black face) - it is brighter in dim mode than in regular mode.

Have anybody seen this issue? Tried resetting the watch - the issue is still there. Could be huge powersaving, if fixed...
[Huawei Watch 2] Alaadragonfire:
I think I'm getting a good battery life here
[Huawei Watch 2] glenner05:
For the ones on oreo already, 4g version. Has your standby time on 4g (wearing the watch standalone, no phone around) improved?
[Huawei Watch 2] valentin8709:
Hi! Very happy with the HW2 4G. I have disabled apps like:

- Elements Digital

- Huawei membre

- Talkback

- Runtastic

- Reminders

- Google Fit

I have 'always on' enabled with Ranger Watchface (you can dim the sceeen more than the minimum with Wear OS), WiFi and NFC disabled, 4G and GPS disabled (enabled only when I need it), BT connexion with a Nomu S10 or a Moto Z2 Play. Gestures are disabled too and in 'developpers options' I disabled 'automatically enable WiFi when charging'. No Google Sync but Huawei Health tracking sensors like heartrate or sleep.

I can hold 2 days without problem with one or two calls and ~ 30 notifications per day. If I need to charge the watch, it is when I wake up, so sometimes it is not full but only 85% when I go to work.

I can hike / ride with EVERYTHING (even BT) off except GPS by downloading maps before, using Ghost Tracer for GPS and HR tracking or Viewranger for route following for 4 to 5 hours without problem.

I never tried GPS tracking with Ghost Tracer for a long range hike like 8 hours per day, will do it soon and hope it will be ok for the day. I do not want to charge my watch while hiking...

Conclusion: I love the plastic for leightweight, the little Amoled screen for battery life, and the accruate GPS in France (much more than my smartphone). So I love this watch for my needs =P
[Huawei Watch 2] glenner05:
Is your watch already running oreo android 8.0?
[Huawei Watch 2] valentin8709:
Yes it is. I forgot to say I set the watch in aeroplane mode when I am sleeping, saving a bit of battery.
[Huawei Watch 2] fopoku2k2:
I do not get the disable option on my android oreo 8.0.0. Are you on oreo?

[edit] strangely enough i can now see the disabled option after upgrading from oreo to android p [edit]
[Huawei Watch 2] fopoku2k2:
how do you know which watch faces are google fit watch faces?
[Huawei Watch 2] Mir1189:
Anything that reports steps, and its not a Huawei provided app, but google provided app, which watch faces use complications from one or another.

To be sure you might either disable all complications, or use very plain watch faces. Look for "Blank" watchface.

to Valentin8709: Depending on the model, the watches should have ceramic body, not plastic.

However Huawei Watch 2 page is slightly misleading ...
[Huawei Watch 2] valentin8709:
To mir1189: yes indeed, but only bezel is ceramic.

I tested "long range" hiking, and the watch can only last 7h while GPS tracking with the previous settings (described in a previous post). It is ok but not as good as the Garmin / Suunto (not the same price too).

Nevertheless, I could try not to track GPS, only active for orientation on Viewranger. I compared GPS tracking with other sensors tracking (Huawei DailyTracking app) and it is surprisly accruacy! So I could imagine last 2 days with basic info (distance, altitude / elevation, heartrate, calories) and use GPS only for orientation.

If I discover a new route, then I can start GPS tracking but not for more than 7 hours, which is ok for my need.

So HW 2 can also be used as a little hiking / mountain watch =)
[Huawei Watch 2] gazza1888:
Hi,

I think I have finally got the settings right with much better battery life, the thing with these watches it can fluctuate daily with good or bad battery life.

I have the 4g variant and have a sim in the watch but just turn it off as the battery is that bad with it activated.

I charged my watch this morning at 8am to 100%, the time now is 11.30pm and I have 70% battery left.

I'm using a stock watch face, not a third party face. I have everything switched off, no aod, no NFC, no WiFi and no 4g, no location and brightness set at 2. The only thing I have running is Bluetooth, tilt to wake.

I also have battery data saver switched on, this is not the battery saver, I keep it on just if I want to switch my 4g on, I disabled the Huawei app and the Huawei member app and cleared the cache, re-enabled them both from the apps as it deleted my trusleep app, this app came back after turning these back on, so far so good. Give it a try, my model is the Leo dlxx running Oreo 8.0
[Huawei Watch 2] SeppGoPro:
Battery life not good!

My battery is empty after not even a Day. I dont use the watch All the time it's more a very light use. It's very disappointing... I had the watch for like 5 days and already thinking about selling it.

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[Huawei Watch 2] fopoku2k2:
anyone here running wear os 2.0?
[Huawei Watch 2] dersie:
Old version. Now it is V2.15 and named "Home App"

"Wear OS" is the new name of old "Android Wear" and current version is "1.5"

(Android Plateform is "8.x")
[Huawei Watch 2] Mir1189:
He might be referring to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFzTfYkQRPg

I have currently Google Wear OS 1.5. Battery consumption went down to 1% per hour, even with SIM model.
[Huawei Watch 2] fopoku2k2:
Yes. I meant the September update. Thought it was already out, just read it would start rolling out middle of September
[Huawei Watch 2] dersie:
It seem to be just an update for the UI = Home app (not system/OS/Firmware update (made by each constructor)), available on update in the watch Playstore like any other Wear app.
[Huawei Watch 2] Mir1189:
Well I should have linked a better video... "Google Wear OS 2.0" is to be released in few weeks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B6Yp-hBLe4

But "Wear OS" is basically only the GUI and master app on phone... nothing more. The underlying OS is and probably will be for some time Android.
[Huawei Watch 2] 0sAND1s:
Hi,

I want to ask if the watch supports switching from 4G to 3G or 2G like phones usually do, since I suspect it will improve the battery life a lot. Or even more, allowing to disable data traffic, and only keep the sim for voice calls.

I'm hoping to replace my work phone with the watch, if the battery life with the sim on will last 16 hours.

Also, can the watch be used for calls on the sim while also connected to the phone over Bluetooth?

Thanks.
[Huawei Watch 2] SeppGoPro:
@ those people with good battery life. Do you have got a Huawei phone? I have got a s8 and im getting the watch to pass one Day... Also my battery % do not sum up to 100%...thats very Stange.

Im not sure how people can get Google battery life out of this watch ?
[Huawei Watch 2] jco23:
i also have S8, and both devices are getting excellent battery life. for example, yesterday, I unplugged my watch at 6:30am (100%), and when I get home around 4:30pm, it was at 78%. So that's about 2.2% per hour with numerous notifications. I also have all gestures turned on, always on enabled ("ok google" disabled due to lag), vibrate on notifications (WiFi off). this is the classic version (BT only). to this point, I'm more than pleased with battery life.

for me, I take off my watch each night when I sleep, so I really do not need several days. but given that I can disable the connection, I should be able to get additional days of battery life if I'm ever in a pinch.
[Huawei Watch 2] SeppGoPro:
Ok thats very interessting. Is your s8 rooted or do you use a custom Kernel?

If make me happy and also sad, to know, that good battery life is possible. Maybe the battery of my watch is brocken ?.
[Huawei Watch 2] jco23:
Not rooted (surprisingly).

Check to see which apps are installed on the watch.
[Huawei Watch 2] SeppGoPro:
No Apps installed yet. Everything stock. Did already try to disconnect the watch from my phone but it does not change a thing :(
[Huawei Watch 2] jco23:
is the watch 4G or bluetooth only? how about WiFi setting? what watchface do you have?
[Huawei Watch 2] SeppGoPro:
I have the bt Model and wlan is switched off.

I use the basic Digital watch face.

Yesterday I unlocked the bootloader flashed twrp and flashed a Rom from here. Now i hope that this will help.

So far it's disappointing... over night with screen of the battery drained 50% (6h) already. ?
[Huawei Watch 2] jco23:
interesting. maybe a bad battery? how long have you had it? did you buy it used?
[Huawei Watch 2] SeppGoPro:
I replaced the battery. Old and New battery gives me Bad battery life.

It's a month right now and i bought it used?
[Huawei Watch 2] SeppGoPro:
I put the watch into airplain Mode over night with screen on always on. The watch Was empty this morning. I'll try to contact Huawei Support and see, what they advice me.
[Huawei Watch 2] jco23:
maybe the "new" battery was really a refurb? depends on where you got the battery from - but I've seen that happen whereby the "new" battery is just as bad as the previous one. best to get an OEM and spend the extra $20.
[Huawei Watch 2] SeppGoPro:
Yes, I know it's always a problem getting "original" batterys.

I will try to get one from Huawei. Lets see weather this will fix my battery problems.
[Huawei Watch 2] BobDunn:
Thanks for this, can't believe the difference it makes without dumbing the phone down.

Only on my first week with HW2 (replaced my 3-year-old HW1) and whilst I could barely get through a long day.

Now I'm 14 hours into my first full day with similar apps disabled and 'Always on' - disabled - 73% remaining.

Tomorrow I'll try it with 'Always On' enabled.

Thanks again
[Huawei Watch 2] BobDunn:
Update:

Using Pujie Black Analogue / Digital face with no widgets

Always on - enabled

Settings as before

Apps Disabled as recommended

averaging 3% per hour
[Huawei Watch 2] valentin8709:
I forgot to mention two little tips for battery life:

- Disable all gestures

- In 'developpers options', disable 'automatically enable WiFi when charging'

I edited my previous post with thoses settings, I used it when I reset my watch as a reminder =)
[Huawei Watch 2] 19darion91:
Hello. I have the Watch 2 Classic (Bluetooth version). Got it last December (as in December 2017). A week ago it finally update to Wear OS 2.1. TO be honest, so far I charge it around once every 1.5 days and when I put it to charge, battery usually has around 20% to 30% left. The only time I let it drop down to less than that is when I notice it is running low on power when I am going to bed (I use the sleep tracking function, so I don't actually charge it while I sleep). At any rate, the only things I have turned off are Wi-Fi (it is always connected to my phone, so I don't need Wi-Fi to be on), Always on (I use a digital watch face and in my opinion the Always on looks dumb with them) and NFC (I am a Braclays user, so unfortunately I can't use Google Pay to pay with my watch and I've been waiting since last year for Barclay's to finally release the update for their app with integration for Wear OS... hasn't happened yet).

In all honesty, I would recommend this watch, because it has a good battery life (at least with my usage) and functionality. The only downside that I have is because I have a Galaxy S9 + and I really love the Samsung Health app, so cross syncing is a bit of a pain - (Huawei Health syncs with Google Fit as a native future but from then on I have to use a third party app to sync Google Fit with Samsung Health).

P.S. The leather strap that the watch came with is really high quality. I wear the watch every day for a year now and there is no tear on it and the only sign of wear is on the hole that I use.
[Huawei Watch 2] Lolpoppa:
Just got the watch yesterday and I'm wondering, where are you getting the battery stats screenshot from?
[Huawei Watch 2] Hemant:
If i am not wrong you get the battery stats from watch connected with Android phone only. I am unable to find such stats on my iphone. Also another thing i would like to find is how much storage i have which again cant be see on iPhone. :crying:
[Huawei Watch 2] Lolpoppa:
Hi

Managed to answer my own question (and yours) by digging around.

The Wear OS app is our friend. Open it, connect device and then under advanced settings you'll see the option to view batter stats and storage on the watch ?

---------- Post added at 06:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:30 PM ----------

*battery ?
[Huawei Watch 2] Hemant:
Again i believe its only on the android app which i understand. Iphone its missing :(.
[Huawei Watch 2] basimzanaty:
Hi All,

Has anybody tried the eSIM version?

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sberla54:
Good afternoon everyone,

I'm pretty sure this can't be done, because is blacklisted server side, but I'd want your opinion before giving up.

Is there any way to run the Netflix apps version for Android TV on non Android TV devices?

I've downloaded "Netflix (Android TV) 4.0.4 build 1716" (com.netflix.ninja_4.0.4_build_1716-1716_minAPI22(armeabi-v7a,x86)(nodpi)_apkmirror.com.apk) from APKMirror, it installs itself well, i can login, it starts but as soon as i play a movie i get this error: We're Having Trouble Playing This Title Right Now, tvq-pq-103 (1.10.5005.CODE_NOT_AVAILABLE).

I've searched in a lot of forums and it seems like nobody has been able to find a workaround.

Netflix understand that it's not running on a "certified device" and it blocks the playback.

Is there a way to bypass this?

My device is rooted so i could even change some system files, to make it look like another device.

I've got a Probox2 Air with regular Android, which is great for me, but it's a too difficult to use for my parents, with the smartphone version of Netflix and the air mouse.

In this forum the app modder simply says "Problem - Non-android TV boxes are blacklisted": http://www.wetekforums.com/v/index....ndly-apps-modified-to-work-on-regular-android

In the thread, a lot of people are in my same situation.

I've alredy tried to uninstall all the Netflix app, clear data and cache, logout and login, but it has been useless.

I really hope you can help me somehow.

If not, i think i'm going to sell the Probox2 Air and buy a Xiaomi Mi Box 3, but i'd really like to save the money and the time.

Bye!