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Is there any way to record my bike ride without killing my battery?
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This actually sounds the same for me. I run and bike in the gym in the morning before work for an hour to an hour fifteen minutes while listening to podcasts through the AW and it usually drains about 25-30% of the battery. By the end of the workday I'm at about 35-40% and by the time I'm ready for bed I'm at 15-20% or less. I thought this was fine as I then charge the AW overnight. This gives me about 16 hours of use, including a 1+ hour workout, which I thought was pretty good.
when I get to work I am at about 80% thats about 40 minutes of riding, when I leave its around 30% and gets another 40 minutes use. so it looses 50% while working.
I guess mine loses 35-40% during the workday. For example, this morning I didn't work out and my watch was at 90% when I got to work and is at 54% now, at the end of the day. So a 36% loss. So it appears yours is a little bit higher loss than mine.
i think it is all of the notifications. but thats what I bought the watch for in the first place. I have hearing protection on but even with airbuds I don't always get notifications so the watch is what does that for me. I don't think the heart rate changes the battery much. maybe 5% or so at most.
The easiest thing to do is probably top it up on your lunch break or another break from work, if you can.
Even on long workout days, a quick tip up while I’m In the shower always gets me through the day.
Also, curious is you have the smaller watch (38/40mm)? That might explain the higher percentage loss over the workday vs some of the other reports here.
Last thought, you might try putting it in theater mode or try turning down the screen brightness to extend your battery life a bit.
Even on long workout days, a quick tip up while I’m In the shower always gets me through the day.
Also, curious is you have the smaller watch (38/40mm)? That might explain the higher percentage loss over the workday vs some of the other reports here.
Last thought, you might try putting it in theater mode or try turning down the screen brightness to extend your battery life a bit.
You could try an unpair and re-pair,
i had an OS update that screwed something up, battery would be dead in 3 hours.
doing the re-pair sorted it out.
It could be that a setting has gotten a little "off" and something is running more than it should.
When you unpair it will backup the watch, and you can restore that backup when you re-pair.
With the restore, you shouldn't loose any of your health data or other settings.
It does take a bit of time (up to an hour) so once you get home top up the battery, and leave it on the charger for this.
i had an OS update that screwed something up, battery would be dead in 3 hours.
doing the re-pair sorted it out.
It could be that a setting has gotten a little "off" and something is running more than it should.
When you unpair it will backup the watch, and you can restore that backup when you re-pair.
With the restore, you shouldn't loose any of your health data or other settings.
It does take a bit of time (up to an hour) so once you get home top up the battery, and leave it on the charger for this.
yes only the apps I need but the brightness was too high. I love how the watch will have setting change after updates. my helmet is supposed to connect to my phones it can log my rides but it often does not maybe that I have it connected to stravia it will. soon my phone will become my e bike computer and then it will log rides automatically. thats what I want.
ok this morning I used my phone to record the ride and the watch was on 1/2 brightness so instead of 83% it was 87% so ride tracking is not doing a lot of the battery drain.