Erm... not sure where you got the idea from of giving a “break” to inanimate objects. And rather than charging the device to 100% and turning it off, you can just leave it on charge. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ just saying.
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Do you ever turn off your watch?
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Erm... not sure where you got the idea from of giving a “break” to inanimate objects. And rather than charging the device to 100% and turning it off, you can just leave it on charge. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ just saying.
It's all preference I don't expect others to follow but what's the point of charging overnight when battery is full where you can just turn it off. Takes less than 20 sec to boot it. Just saying.
The reason was stated in my post "decrease the number of battery cycles so the battery lasts longer". Yes, it's a few percentage points overnight but some of us are frugal and feel like if you're not using something, might as well turn it off. Same reason why you turn off the light when you're not in the room... yeah.. i have LED lights in my house and it's probably like a 3 cents savings but some of us grew up making a habit of not wasting things that we don't need to, especially when it's easy to do.
So there's a reason for us... if you don't want to turn yours off, that's up to you buddy.
I restart mine once a week. I started with a series 2 and it would occasionally crash during a run, use MG either the Nike or Apple apps. If I restarted it, the problem would go away. In order to eliminate the issue, I started the weekly restart. I still do it now in my series 3, but judging by these comments, maybe I don’t need to keep doing that.
I never turn my AW off. Unless you count the occasions where I hard reset my watch.
I would not turn it off - it is not made to be "handled" that way. Furthermore - if I am not completely wrong: The boot-process itself is quite battery consuming.
If you want to preserve the battery, it might be a good Idea, just to swipe for a very simple watchface, which is doing almost "nothing", but showing the time.
My general experience: Using a watchface like the "Explorer", not playing around a lot: around 3 days per charge.
Using the new faces for the series 4 with all kind of complications, that update frequently (...in the background) about one day less.
If you want to preserve the battery, it might be a good Idea, just to swipe for a very simple watchface, which is doing almost "nothing", but showing the time.
My general experience: Using a watchface like the "Explorer", not playing around a lot: around 3 days per charge.
Using the new faces for the series 4 with all kind of complications, that update frequently (...in the background) about one day less.
Where did you get the idea that boot process consume battery? I turn on my watch every day with 100% battery from previous night and it's still 100%. If it takes more energy to boot battery percentage would have drop. Makes zero sense.
It does consume more battery but not significant enough to immediately drop a percentage when you restart the device.
It does not "eat up" the battery, but logically: letting the watch and its processor doing "nothing" consumes less power than booting it up, running (for a short wile) at full speed, getting everything running.
...furthermore the watch is never completely switched off, even if switched off. It waits for your "long press" of the side button, consuming battery (even less, yes...)
Switch your iPhone off at 3-4% - you will not be able to restart it without recharging it, but it will stay on for another couple of hours, if you just leave it on the desk.
...furthermore the watch is never completely switched off, even if switched off. It waits for your "long press" of the side button, consuming battery (even less, yes...)
Switch your iPhone off at 3-4% - you will not be able to restart it without recharging it, but it will stay on for another couple of hours, if you just leave it on the desk.
I’ve been wearing a S0 every day since July, 2015. I’m about to replace it with an S4. To the S0’s credit it is still functioning with hardly a dip in battery life. I never turned it off that I can recall. Only restarted it from time to time.
I wear my S4 watch during the day and at night, it sits on my nightstand so no, it never gets turned off. The only time it does get turned off is when there is an update and the watch reboots...
I turn it off when I’m putting on a screen protector because they say to, but I don’t think it’s really necessary. I’ll leave it on next time I put on a new one. I have to have a screen protector because I hadn’t worn a watch in over 40 years ‘till I got this one and I’m kinda klutzy so I bang it on things a lot. Otherwise I never turn it off.
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I can't answer your question....don't have an Apple Watch....yet. I've been reading and researching to see what I want to get (Series 3 vs. 4). I did want to say that I like your screen name. I was born and raised in the 'Cuse! (Not gonna lie though....do NOT miss winters up there!)
I occasionally turn off and immediately restart my series 0 just to refresh it. A couple of times I was having strange behavior and rebooting fixed it. I charge it every night and use it as my bedside alarm clock. I bought it in July 2015 so it has been through many recharges, but probably only a full charge cycle every couple of days on the average. It is still running great and I am holding off replacing it for that reason.
I don't remember the last time I've had to reboot any of my electronic devices due to poor performance. My Apple Watch, iPhone, iPads, multiple Windows computers.
I take that back. My cable modem had to be restarted a few days ago because in the middle of streaming something it just shut down. My network is usually so stable (never have to reboot router or wireless APs) it didn't cross my mind that restarting anything would solve the issue so I called up Spectrum and they had me reboot it and we were back online.
As far as all of my other devices, I think the only time a reboot happens is when updates get installed. I've got a server in the basement running Windows 10 Pro that hasn't been restarted in over three weeks. And it was probably updates that caused it to last reboot.
I take that back. My cable modem had to be restarted a few days ago because in the middle of streaming something it just shut down. My network is usually so stable (never have to reboot router or wireless APs) it didn't cross my mind that restarting anything would solve the issue so I called up Spectrum and they had me reboot it and we were back online.
As far as all of my other devices, I think the only time a reboot happens is when updates get installed. I've got a server in the basement running Windows 10 Pro that hasn't been restarted in over three weeks. And it was probably updates that caused it to last reboot.
