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Battery life on series 4
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I put my S4 LTE on @ 6:00am and put it on the charger about 10:30pm with 46% remaining. Usage was about 3.5 hours, the rest standby.
Anyone notice that their watch is warm when taking it off the charger even if it has been sitting there at 100% for a while? I know that in the phones, once of gets to 100%, it'll stop charging. I'm worried that the watch is still getting a charge sent through it even when it reaches 100%. This could damage a lithium battery. I'm afraid to leave it on the charger overnight. I don't want to exchange the watch, because the display is perfect. Colors are vivid and I don't have that "ghost" ring that some were complaining about in another thread..
My aw3 used to hold 94% when I wake up.
My AW4 held 89% this morning even without pillow app tracking. Pillow is not available for AW4 yet.
Yes it is. I am using it. Works great.
Reporting in with some bad news. Yesterday morning I updated to 5.0.1 and then factory reset to start the watch fresh. For a refresher, my S3 could go three full days and have 10% left at the end of day three. Now with my S4 from 100% at 8:30a yesterday fresh off 5.0.1, I was down to 46% at midnight. I’m not sure the watch will make it to the end of this evening.
So to summarize, S3 got three full days plus a little extra battery. My S4 is barely making two days. Same usage, background app refresh and auto app install always immediately disabled after pairing.
So to summarize, S3 got three full days plus a little extra battery. My S4 is barely making two days. Same usage, background app refresh and auto app install always immediately disabled after pairing.
I checked on my iPhone and it did autotrack.
However, I can't install it on my watch.
Delete the app and reinstall it. That should fix the issue. I had some other apps that stated the same thing but after following someone else’s tip about deleting and reinstalling the app they work. Must be some OS5 bug. Or wait a few weeks for 5.1 and see if that resolved it.
just tried and didn't work.
I have a lot of apps that cannot be installed. The reason I think is that the phone doesn't recognize the version of my watch at all.
my watch in the watch app says, (null) - Aluminum.
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My watch is back in game!
1day 21hrs standby
4:20hrs usage
(2x workout, 2x sleep tracking included)
And I am down to 8% battery.
So my watch fully recovered from ~1 day battery life to more than 2 days battery life within a week of usage!
Ps: I have S4 40mm Aluminium space grey
1day 21hrs standby
4:20hrs usage
(2x workout, 2x sleep tracking included)
And I am down to 8% battery.
So my watch fully recovered from ~1 day battery life to more than 2 days battery life within a week of usage!
Ps: I have S4 40mm Aluminium space grey
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I’ll chime in. Just ran a full cycle from
100% to 0%. 44mm LTE
5 hr 29 min usage
1 day 11 hr standby
So about 40 hours including 1 workout, 1 night of sleep tracking, maybe 60 min on LTE (no calls during that time), walkie talkie-ing, lift to speak on, auto workout off.
Seems good but I’m pretty sure I was getting into day 3 on my 42mm LTE S3.
100% to 0%. 44mm LTE
5 hr 29 min usage
1 day 11 hr standby
So about 40 hours including 1 workout, 1 night of sleep tracking, maybe 60 min on LTE (no calls during that time), walkie talkie-ing, lift to speak on, auto workout off.
Seems good but I’m pretty sure I was getting into day 3 on my 42mm LTE S3.
Just picked up a SS 44mm Series 4 on Tuesday evening. Battery life has been all over the place and I tried to be patient at first. On Friday and Saturday I was finally getting to a point where the battery life was acceptable at about 2% every hour draining. But today it started draining at about 10% every hour from the moment I took it off the charger.
I'm a little confused about how usage works. I made a point to not put the battery symbol on the watch face so that I wouldn't be tempted to look at it all the time. But after about 3 hours, it was showing about 2 hours usage and 3 hours standby. I really had not used it at all. Maybe the occasional glance.
I did already unpair/re-pair and started it as a new watch, not from a backup. I have it on the lowest brightness setting, I've turned off background refresh on most apps. I've also turned off raise to talk and the exercise machines feature. Not sure what else to do. At this point I guess I'll just be patient and let it play out. Unless someone here has a better plan?
I'm a little confused about how usage works. I made a point to not put the battery symbol on the watch face so that I wouldn't be tempted to look at it all the time. But after about 3 hours, it was showing about 2 hours usage and 3 hours standby. I really had not used it at all. Maybe the occasional glance.
I did already unpair/re-pair and started it as a new watch, not from a backup. I have it on the lowest brightness setting, I've turned off background refresh on most apps. I've also turned off raise to talk and the exercise machines feature. Not sure what else to do. At this point I guess I'll just be patient and let it play out. Unless someone here has a better plan?
i'm at 5% now, 7h5min usage and 1d15hr standby, that includes 2 2+hr mountain bike rides each day. My S3 with similar usage would probably be ~ 15% now ... so i can still go 2 days and I assume, right or wrong, that battery life will improve with OS updates ... i'm happy with that
Several days now I get 13-15hrs standby time (and usually 2-3hrs usage) and 70-75% left.
Superb battery life.
Superb battery life.
I unplugged my watch on saturday at 10 AM and it lasted till 10 PM on Sunday with 11% battery left. I think it’s quite an improvement. However, I was mostly at home and will now monitor my battery life during a normal workday.
I used sleeptracking last night (Pillow & Autosleep) and lost 8% battery over 7-8 hours.
I used sleeptracking last night (Pillow & Autosleep) and lost 8% battery over 7-8 hours.
I have deactivated cellular for the last two days and my battery life is now reasonable:
2-3% drain every hour, no workouts, just messaging, siri, weather, activity tracking, connected to phone.
With cellular on, drain was 7-8% per hour, although also connected to the phone most of the time.
I'm living in an urban area with good LTE coverage generally (at least for the iPhone).
Series 4, Aluminum, Cellular, 40mm
2-3% drain every hour, no workouts, just messaging, siri, weather, activity tracking, connected to phone.
With cellular on, drain was 7-8% per hour, although also connected to the phone most of the time.
I'm living in an urban area with good LTE coverage generally (at least for the iPhone).
Series 4, Aluminum, Cellular, 40mm
Agreed, not sure why since the update didn’t change much, maybe it’s the new heart monitoring features?
I just got a S4 40MM on Saturday.
First day in the office, I'm down to 77%. Usage for watch shows:
Usage: 1hr, 26 mins
Standby: 5 hrs, 48 mins
I have raise to wake disabled, low brightness, turned off automatic workouts, etc.
This seems pretty poor, no?
First day in the office, I'm down to 77%. Usage for watch shows:
Usage: 1hr, 26 mins
Standby: 5 hrs, 48 mins
I have raise to wake disabled, low brightness, turned off automatic workouts, etc.
This seems pretty poor, no?