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Is my S7 battery life below average?

Al Rukh

Al Rukh

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Been noticing this for quite a while, almost since day one, where my battery drops drastically at around 8-10pm daily.

I don’t use my watch to control music, stream music, take calls and such. In fact I never used it continuously with screen on for more than a minute.

Here’s my battery life today, charged to 90+% at 8am and it’s 8pm now:

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Is this normal? Would be helpful if others could chime in with their graphs too.
 
Mania89 said:
Been noticing this for quite a while, almost since day one, where my battery drops drastically at around 8-10pm daily.

I don’t use my watch to control music, stream music, take calls and such. In fact I never used it continuously with screen on for more than a minute.

Here’s my battery life today, charged to 90+% at 8am and it’s 8pm now:

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Is this normal? Would be helpful if others could chime in with their graphs too.
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So you lost around 30% battery in 12 hours? That is outstanding battery life. I wish my S7 could do that.
 
akidokraja said:
So you lost around 30% battery in 12 hours? That is outstanding battery life. I wish my S7 could do that.
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Not saying that I get bad battery life. But I’m don’t actively use my watch for things like texting and other on-screen usage. I use it for notifications, fitness tracking and my sensors are all turned on too like heart rate and blood O2. I thought I should get perhaps more out of the battery life. Although I’ve no comparison to make. Hope others can post their graphs too for perspectives.
 
appleiPhUser12 said:
How long have you had your watch? I too say the same as @jz0309 , it looks to be good to me too...
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I got it in mid-October last year. Current battery health is 97%. I only charge it when I’m in the shower and apart from that the watch is on me all the time even during sleep. I use the fast charge with a 35W power brick.

As mentioned, I don’t really actively use my watch to do things like viewing photos, texting and such.
 
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appleiPhUser12 said:
Where do I find that, and the battery health?
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Press the digital crown on your watch and go to Settings. Scroll down to Battery. It will open the page with the battery graph and below there is another indicator for battery health in %. Press the crown and the side button together to take a screenshot. The image will appear in your iPhone photos gallery.
 
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Graham Caracas said:
No AW gets anything near decent battery life. You don't get much power from a battery the size of an apple seed.
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Define “decent”. In 6+ years and various models of AW I’ve had no issues with “battery life”, always lasted all day or more
 
jz0309,

If you want to be a slave to a cheap toy watch, fine with me. All I'm saying is that everything on that watch is on your phone and if you strapped it to your wrist you'd be wearing a better quality and more stylish accessory.
 
Graham Caracas said:
jz0309,

If you want to be a slave to a cheap toy watch, fine with me. All I'm saying is that everything on that watch is on your phone and if you strapped it to your wrist you'd be wearing a better quality and more stylish accessory.
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Well, I rather have a habit of charging overnight than having to check whether I need to charge or not, but to each their own.
And no, no health sensors on the phone, so while that data is stored there, no new data can be collected on the phone, but if you’d rather have a phone strapped to your wrist, by all means, go for it.
And thanks for not answering my question to define “decent” …

And lastly, if you consider the AW to be a “cheap toy watch”, why do you bother to comment here?
 
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