First day after 8 hours I am at 49%
My last watch would last me all day and I end the day at 49%
I like dark watch faces, first day did not charge the default brightness.
I like to have an ambient watch face (I do not want to press a button to get time) last watch kept ambient watch face on.
Two questions,
Can it last a day (a day for me is 16hours) ?
What settings do you use ?
This is very annoying 3 years and android wear devices I am still concerned I can not make if from when I remove it from a charger at 6am to when I can charge it again sometimes 2 or 3am the following day.
Mine goes from 5:30 am to 9:30pm and still has about 40% charge left.
With screen off mode I usually end the day at around 48% 6:30 to 8:00
Try turning auto brightness off. It works for me.
Two suggestion:
- Always ON / Ambience Display + disable tilt to wake
- Disable Always On + Enable tilt to wake
It will last you more than 24 hours.
One last suggestion: Enable Always ON + Enable Tilt to Wake + Auto Brightness, but you use long sleeve shirt.
So when it was unintentionally awake because of your hand movement, auto brightness will keep brightness at minimum because it is inside your sleeve (dark).
Recently switched Always ON off
and more significantly Tilt to Wake off
Getting 4 DAYS battery life
(Projected, currently at 30 hrs)
Turn WiFi off as well. That drains a ton.
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Yeah you really don't need always on and tilt to wake on.
I had this issue as well; watch draining really fast, wouldn't even last a day. I tried a number of things and I found out what works for me. Some will say turn off Wifi, others will say turn off Gestures. I did both of those, but they did not really amount to any great savings.
I reset my phone a couple days back and was forced to do the same to the watch. Once I was back up and all connected, I went into Android Wear app on my phone, pressed the gear (settings), clicked on my Asus ZenWatch 3 name, and ONLY turned off "Tilt to wake Screen". I left ALL OTHER settings alone. THIS my friend is what did it for me. As I type this, it's 2:40 p.m. my time (AST). I unplugged my watch this morning at 6:25 a.m. and I'm currently sitting at 70% battery power on my watch.
I look at it frequently, do voice commands, change watchfaces, install new ones, etc... from this morning till now. Oh...I leave the "always on" alone too. The watchfaces do their ambient faces and I love it. Best watch I ever had. I hope this helps someone.
Not surprising that the watches are a lot like the phones. The same model/year phone can have greatly different battery life with similar uses. Since owning my first smartphone, the first and original Droid, rooting and altering widgets and such, I've always had an issue with battery life. I'd have a dead phone by 1pm with normal to low use, while a friend with the same phone plays with it and gets 3 days.
The watches seem to be the same, and I think I play with mine more than normal, yet am happy with the battery life. I joke with the wife that we both have "charging issues" in that she can't remember to charge her device (phone) and I constantly have to be plenty charged and have charging capabilities wherever I will be. With a quick 10 minute charge in the afternoon or evening (if that at all) I can use and play with the watch all day, sleep with it on to track sleep quality, and I charge it when I get up to shower and my normal bathroom morning routine. This gets it back to 100%.
Although happy with it, I've been adjusting my settings based on usage, and not with a high PITA ratio. Always On set to off, tilt to wake on, and screen on for 10-15 seconds. But I have often thought that the tilt to wake was using battery unnecessarily as my work alone has me moving my arm around all the time. I'm going to try the settings above and see if there's an improvement. It makes sense turning off the Tilt To Wake, and will see if the savings is more than the usage from turning the ambient back on.
I bought this to replace a broken LG G watch R, so far after using it for a week it seems to have half the battery life with the same settings / use
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The first day I had it, I woke up around 8:00 AM and got to about 6:00 PM when it ran out of juice. This was with heavy use, screen always on and brightness set to about 60%.
I changed the settings so that the screen is not always on and brightness is now set to 40%. This made a huge difference. Today, for example, I've already had it off the charger for 8 hours and it's still at 79% battery. I'm at work, and it's getting used as it normally would be.
The screen being set to always on will obviously burn through battery at a fairly quick rate, especially if the brightness is set high. It's worth noting that letting the screen turn off automatically does not impede its usefulness. The screen comes on automatically when your turn your writes to look at the device, and when you touch the screen.
100% @ 7:30 a.m. & @ 31% battery as of this post, 9:20 p.m. with heavy use throughout the day. I had the screen @ always on through the majority of the day; however switched to off @ around 7 p.m.
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The first day I had it, I woke up around 8:00 AM and got to about 6:00 PM when it ran out of juice. This was with heavy use, screen always on and brightness set to about 60%.
I changed the settings so that the screen is not always on and brightness is now set to 40%. This made a huge difference. Today, for example, I've already had it off the charger for 8 hours and it's still at 79% battery. I'm at work, and it's getting used as it normally would be.
The screen being set to always on will obviously burn through battery at a fairly quick rate, especially if the brightness is set high. It's worth noting that letting the screen turn off automatically does not impede its usefulness. The screen comes on automatically when your turn your writes to look at the device, and when you touch the screen.
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So which mode will you run daily? Screen-off?
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So which mode will you run daily? Screen-off?
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Screen off for sure. It comes on automatically when I go to look at it, and I want to conserve battery.
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Screen off for sure. It comes on automatically when I go to look at it, and I want to conserve battery.
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Undocked at 8 AM with 100% charged, used till mid night with heavy usage with 32% left when got to bed. Very impressed with battery performance. I am using default settings (brightness - 4, Always-on screen, showing cards on dimmed screen, alert on watch and phone when connected).
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Undocked at 8 AM with 100% charged, used till mid night with heavy usage with 32% left when got to bed. Very impressed with battery performance. I am using default settings (brightness - 4, Always-on screen, showing cards on dimmed screen, alert on watch and phone when connected).
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Unplug at 7:30am @11pm still 49% battery but my note 3 battery goes down, i have to plug it in the afternoon.
My battery usage on my phone shows android wear being the main culprit.
Before that, I could last all day in one charge.
unplugged at 8a.m. plugged back in around 1:30a.m. about 18% left.
Screen set to "always on", brightness set to "4".
I'm not sure what constitutes heavy usage, but I do look at my screen and do a couple of swipes about every 15 minutes or so, unless I'm expecting an email or something.
Why do you need the screen always on?
The screen on when you look at it functions really well, and saves a lot of battery.
I unplug at 6.45 am. Still got 60% by 10.30 pm
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Wow, guys, what am I doing wrong?
I take mine off charge when I get up at 5.30 AM.
It's down to 85% by the time I leave the house at 7am (it's maybe had the screen on for a total of a minute maximum).
I lose roughly 10% an hour (with maximum "screen on" time of a minute or 2 an hour.
It's below 20% by 3 or 4pm.
So I thought it might be that I had brightness on 4/5, so I've changed to 1/5, but still, it's little better. I might get an extra hour maybe.
I like the idea of it, and when it's alive, it's great. But for me, I'm struggling to get 10-12 hours, with low use.
i'm gonna try it tomorrow with Screen-off mode enabled.
I'd happily accept charging it every night, but I'm struggling to get half a day here.
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There's definitely something wrong there. I would try unpairing and resetting the watch (the only thing you'll lose is fitness data).
Then I'd uninstall Android wear from the phone, reset the phone and start all over again.
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There's definitely something wrong there. I would try unpairing and resetting the watch (the only thing you'll lose is fitness data).
Then I'd uninstall Android wear from the phone, reset the phone and start all over again.
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Thanks.
Gonna try that now..........
i agree, there's something not right in your situation.
i took mine off at 11am and it's almost 3am now and i'm at 43% screen always on and moderate use
Got mine on Thursday. Since then it's off the charger for 16h/day. Setting is always on. Indoor I usually keep the brightness at 1 since I really don't need more. Outdoor it's always at 5.
I always end my day with 20-30% left.
One thing I noticed is colourful watch face kill the battery. Specifically while driving since the brightness it at 5 at the screen come on often while driving or doing other activities.
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Having reset the watch as suggested, It does seem greatly improved for me.
It came off charge this morning at 7am, so by now I'd normally be down to maybe 30-40%, but I'm currently still on 82%.
Thanks for the suggestion - it looks like it may have solved it.
I'd normally end the day with about 50% left. Two days ago I installed Pinterest and Fancy to see what the interface is like. The next day I ended the day at 7%. Today by around 4pm I was down to 30%.
i uninstalled both apps, charged it up, and the battery usage seems to have gone back to normal.
On my watch the battery is not that great comparing to some of you. Have you activated some battery saving options ?
Mine comes off charge at around 7am. By 10pm I'm usually around 25-35% battery. Usage is light to medium, with screen set to always on at default brightness.
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On my watch the battery is not that great comparing to some of you. Have you activated some battery saving options ?
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i think it generally comes down to how much you interact with the watch. while i have somewhat moderate usage, the interaction time with the screen fully lit is fairly short, a majority of the day my watch is in the low power screen state (b&w mode) and i think that prolongs the battery quite a bit since it is a samoled screen and i'm sure the processor drops down to a low power state.
a lot of my use is swiping away notifications and navigation (but while in navigation the watch is mostly in the low power state since it shows my next step on that screen)
I'm not interacting that much with it, but each time I turn my wrist, the screen turns on, and I think that's the problem. The B&W mode is nice, when I just want to use it like a real watch the B&W mode is sufficient, is there a way to stay in B&W mode when I turn my wrist, but still have the vibrations on?
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Hello all,
Since the latest firmware update, my G Watch R no longer turns it's screen off when i leave it on my bedside table overnight (not charging) where as it does turn off if it's on the charging cradle.
I've always had the screen set to always on and it generally lasts 2 days easily before the update but now that the screen stays on ambient mode, the battery would drop from 60-70% to around 35-40% after several hours while I'm asleep. I've done a factory reset last week and it didn't help.
On a slightly related note, the battery seems to drain much faster when it reaches below 20% and most of the time it just dies at around 5-10% left even with battery saver on.
Anyone else encountered this?
go into the wear app on your phone and disable always on screen. u also need to do this from the watch settings as well.
But that would turn off ambient mode which I want on and had done so since I bought the watch in November.
I have the same issue as well. Would love to have it back.
How do you turn off WiFi ?
I do not know why it is on ? It is paired by bluetooth to my phone and Wifi is useless.
Lately last week I can not get through a day with my watch. Display is in ambient mode but is on 1 !!!!
Trying to find and way I can keep using the watch ..... it loses 10% an hour. My average day is 6am to 10pm it is dead at 4pm.
Used to be I turned if off and back on if would drain 3% an hour and easily make it through a day but now more often than not it is down 10% an hour.
If I turn of WiFi it may help.
Settings WiFi
WiFi automatic
Select this and it sets up an access point !!!!!! I want it off and I want it to stay off.
But how do I change it from saying WiFi automatic to disabled ?
When I tap the wifi-automatic icon, it asks me if I'm sure I want to turn it off. I'm not sure what you're doing differently. Maybe if you set up an access point, then the automatic icon will switch to turning off?
If it is connected to BT, your wifi isn't being used. By default, if it's on wifi because the BT isn't being used, it will shut off after 2 hours to save battery.
For me, I got about twice the battery life when I turned off ambient mode (why do I want it showing the time when I'm not looking at it?) and set screen timeout to 10-15 seconds. I think I use it a lot, or should I say, play with it a lot. After a day of heavy use, I can usually go from 6am to about 9pm (only once did it shut down due to heavy day and excessive text notifications).
Lately I have been trying to track my sleep on it every night and just to be safe, will throw on a charger for 15-30 minutes in the afternoon or evening to ensure enough charge. Last night with a quick charge I was able to have about 60% when I woke this morning.
Not sure what notifications come through normally, but I'm running Feel the Wear along side Android Wear for a variety of notifications.
Just curious, if having Motion Sense on hurts battery life much? I only have the minimal of Motion Sense enabled, just Reach to check phone only. Skip songs off. Silence interruptions off. Always on display off.
And my Display settings I have Reach to check phone On. Tap to check phone On. Lift to check phone On.
Do these settings effect battery much, or not at all? What do you recommend for best battery life for Motion Sense and Display settings?
I have my settings exactly like you do actually. I can only assume they are helping battery life vs having all the motion sense settings on. I have no need for the others for my usage currently though that may change.
It's a 10% drain overnight sleeping with literally nothing swinging above it. For me that's a huge drain that I will not put up with. I disabled everything just like you and it was the same, doesn't matterwhat's feature your enable or disable, if you have it enabled it rains cuz it's constantly trying to send motion above it. At least that's what my testing showed.
I have it disabled altogether because that function is literally useless. When you can enable "turn screen on pick up" or "turn screen on with a tap"
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I turned off Motion Sense couple days ago, but in my battery use, showing which things used the most, #2 on the list was Ambient Display. But with Motion Sense off, what's using Ambient Display?
I did turn AoD back on, so is it the always on display draining?
I was having great battery life yesterday, at end of day, bedtime I had like 5h 30m SoT with like 33% battery life left. I didn't charge overnight, and this morning checked the phone and it was at 19%. I was like, how the heck did the phone lose like 10% overnight, when not in use, but unplugged. It's on WiFi. Does Always on Display kill it?
I initially used it but eventually just turned it off. I have a couple of trusted devices set up (my watch and my car) so my phone is never locked when I'm near it. Also, since the screen touch to activate works so well, I can tap the screen to check notifications so having Soli turn on the screen before I can touch it, but still needing to reach for it, it just didn't seem to be worth feeding it electrons just for that. Perhaps when they work out some more useful functions, like volume or muting, I'll turn it back on.
My battery life is like Zorachus (though I keep it on a charging stand overnight so I don't care about idle drain). I did this in the first couple of days of owning the phone before battery usage stabilized so I don't really know if it drains it significantly or not. Maybe I'll turn it on one day just to see.
With motion sense off but always on display on throughout the day yesterday and evening I was getting really good battery life I think I was just concerned cuz I left the phone at like 35% last night before bed I purposely didn't plug it in just to see and when I wake up and it had like 20% battery life so it went down over 10% while I was sleeping and I have everything pretty much turned off no location finder no push notifications I've got it stripped down pretty good on Wi-Fi so not sure what happened?
Mine dropped that much overnight Saturday but that was also the weekend I went 46 hours between charges and got 5-something hours of screen time (the only thing shut off was Soli and NFC (WiFi, BT, data, Location services, AOD, etc. were all on). Idle drain of ~1-1.5% per hour doesn't sound that bad to me.
hmmmm after reading this i turned motion sense totally off and AOD back on and will see the battery life over the next two days and compare.
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hmmmm after reading this i turned motion sense totally off and AOD back on and will see the battery life over the next two days and compare.
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Seems Motion Sense is a drainer, but AoD not so much. So for me, using my Pixel 4 XL with no Motion Sense, my battery life lately;
My battery life on my 4 XL seems to be all over the board, but it's never less than 5.5h SoT, and that's at the 10% mark when battery saver kicks in. Some days it seems I can get close to 7.5h SoT if run down to 1%. So I'd say I get on average 6.5h+ SoT.
I get better battery life at work, where my mobile signal is perfect connection, never searching. So that helps keep battery drain down.
- 90hz forced on always ( too nice and smooth not to keep on )
- Motion Sense off
- AoD on ( always on display )
- Location off always. Anything GPS related off
- Lift to reach on
- Tap display to turn on
- Display set to auto brightness always
I've always had it on, so, not sure what the difference is. But, my phone lasts from 6am and still has 30+ percent of battery left at 10pm. Definitely getting a full 20-24+ hours.
I have Soli on full, AOD, smooth display forced on, location on full, lift to wake off, tap to wake on, auto brightness on.
Does anybody use their Pixels with AOD off and Motion Sense on..? How's that affecting the battery..?
And, with that setup, when you reach for you phone, does it turn on the screen when the radar is triggered?
Yes that's the setup I have with only reach to wake turned on. Yes, it does wake up the screen and start looking for your face. Need to check the idle drain overnight.
Cant really say destroyed. It is a little less for me but definitely useable if one really likes the features. And thats coming from a small pixel 4.
I currently own an original galaxy watch and love the 4 days of battery life . Don't like the random disconnects though. Thinking about buying the 45 mm bluetooth version of the gw3 but not excited about the battery life. How is the battery life now with the latest updates that promised better battery life?
My Galaxy Watch 3 is only a couple of months old, but so far a 17 hour day usually leaves me with about 70% when I put it on the charger at night.
With relatively heavy use, agree that battery life good. After 24 hours, still between 55-60%
GW3 Battery seems good. Definately better than my prior Galaxy Watch!
I use AOD, with a brightness hack, and constant heart rate monitoring. I'd say it's good for about a day and a half. Only minor complaint is it doesn't turn the display back on when you wake up, you have do that yourself (and sometimes a few times until it recognizes you're really up and active).
Workout tracking is a HUGE battery drain. Again with constant monitoring and screen set to not sleep, a 1-hr walk with heart rate and GPS will burn about 20% of the battery!
If it matters, it charges quite slowly. About 2.5 hours from 0 to 100%. So heavy use, and maybe an hour-long workout, and you're going to have to put it on the charger for about 2 hours every day.
So it seems that battery life is around 2 to 2.5 days then with normal use. About 1.5 to 1 day shorter than the og gw. Hmmm something to think about. I am also looking at the fitbit sense for the 6+ days battery life. Its a toss up.
As per my opinion battery life for Watch 3 is not good. Earlier i was using Huawei Watch GT2e, battery life was 9-10 days.
I do not use workout detection (or any workout function ) and a simple watch-face (weather, dual time, date and battery %) it takes around 3 days on battery! pretty good.
At the beginning I used to use complex watch-faces and the drain was huge like one day and half.
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I currently own an original galaxy watch and love the 4 days of battery life . Don't like the random disconnects though. Thinking about buying the 45 mm bluetooth version of the gw3 but not excited about the battery life. How is the battery life now with the latest updates that promised better battery life?
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Wanna buy mine? I had a few financial problems and need the money
My honest advice....if you're going to take advantage of all the features a smartwatch offers, then expect to live with charging every day or every other day. If not, there's really not much reason to spend the money.
If that's a deal-breaker, or if you don't want to use all the features, then maybe get yourself a nice non-smartwatch. Or get a fitbit that just tracks sleep and heart rate. Don't waste your money and convenience on a smartwatch just for telling the time. Or look into the Oura ring which is a pretty nice overall health tracker that gets about 5-6 days of battery life.
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I use AOD, with a brightness hack, and constant heart rate monitoring. I'd say it's good for about a day and a half. Only minor complaint is it doesn't turn the display back on when you wake up, you have do that yourself (and sometimes a few times until it recognizes you're really up and active).
Workout tracking is a HUGE battery drain. Again with constant monitoring and screen set to not sleep, a 1-hr walk with heart rate and GPS will burn about 20% of the battery!
If it matters, it charges quite slowly. About 2.5 hours from 0 to 100%. So heavy use, and maybe an hour-long workout, and you're going to have to put it on the charger for about 2 hours every day.
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What settings are you using?
I use AOD with stock watchface and brightness set to 6.
HR tracking set to every 10 minute.
Auto workout detection disabled.
The Watch barely make it through the day with 20% battery left when i put it back in the charger
Am i the only one getting such battery life? (maybe battery issue?)
My experience is different. If I do any exercising and have it continually monitor heart rate, speed, lap times etc, and its typically for 1 to 2 hours, then the watch doesn't make it through the day.
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My experience is different. If I do any exercising and have it continually monitor heart rate, speed, lap times etc, and its typically for 1 to 2 hours, then the watch doesn't make it through the day.
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How to you turn those features off? All I really want is heart rate.
I use
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What settings are you using?
I use AOD with stock watchface and brightness set to 6.
HR tracking set to every 10 minute.
Auto workout detection disabled.
The Watch barely make it through the day with 20% battery left when i put it back in the charger
Am i the only one getting such battery life? (maybe battery issue?)
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I have continuous heart rate monitoring. I have notifications (from phone) disabled. AOD with brightness set to 4 and no auto brightness. Wake gestures and Bixby turned off. Sleep monitoring enabled.
And with all that, and one of my brighter more battery eating watchfaces (with a dim mode hack)....I was at 25% after 22 hours. So had I exercised for an hour with GPS and continuous monitoring, I would have had @12% left and just made it 24 hours, except in reality it would be on the charger for 2 of those hours. Other watchfaces I have fair a little better.
Doing an experiment between continuous HR monitoring and every 10 minutes. I don't think it's more than 10% additional battery drain over the entire day.
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I have continuous heart rate monitoring. I have notifications (from phone) disabled. AOD with brightness set to 4 and no auto brightness. Wake gestures and Bixby turned off. Sleep monitoring enabled.
And with all that, and one of my brighter more battery eating watchfaces (with a dim mode hack)....I was at 25% after 22 hours. So had I exercised for an hour with GPS and continuous monitoring, I would have had @12% left and just made it 24 hours, except in reality it would be on the charger for 2 of those hours. Other watchfaces I have fair a little better.
Doing an experiment between continuous HR monitoring and every 10 minutes. I don't think it's more than 10% additional battery drain over the entire day.
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Hi, what is the Dim Mode hack you mention? Thanks
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Hi, what is the Dim Mode hack you mention? Thanks
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I posted a thread way back, it's probably one of the older threads on this GW3 forum.
You need to be using Watch Maker, and also Tasker. Basically, there's a glitch that tricks the display into being brighter. It probably costs about 1-1.5% battery life per hour. I've found brightness set at 4 with autobrightness off gives a very consistent brightness between active and dim modes. A lot of my favorite watch faces were otherwise barely readable in dim mode.
I have it with Facer app dimmed mode and not black screen, watch always-on is enabled, brightness set to 4, heart sensor is set to scan continuously, stays up to 20 hours which is more than enough, to be honest in my opinion...
I'm very unimpressed with battery life on the watch. Any day i excerise with continuous monitoring (for 2 hours), it's likely to run out long before end of the day. Occasionally I get a battery warning while running, and that's the worst. It's meant to be a health tracking device. Battery is too small IMHO
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I'm very unimpressed with battery life on the watch. Any day i excerise with continuous monitoring (for 2 hours), it's likely to run out long before end of the day. Occasionally I get a battery warning while running, and that's the worst. It's meant to be a health tracking device. Battery is too small IMHO
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I'd say get in touch with Samsung service center, 2 hours most likely your watch battery has manufactury defect, my watch has the heart sensor set to continuous auto-detect work out with wifi and GPS turned on and besides the other things I said, stays solid 18-20 hours, Samsung Health App syncs heart rate and shows me everything, it shows me even my sleep...
I do not see this anywhere, there are two different size watches and each has a different size battery. The 41 will not last as long as the 44.