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Terrible battery life
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I'm pretty sure the watch only syncs music & podcasts when it's sitting on the charger.
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Looks like you guys are correct. I think it may just be coincidence that my battery life has improved since I disabled background refresh for Music & Podcasts. I noticed that my music and podcasts synced overnight whilst on the charger.
Still great battery life today - 4 hours standby and battery on 97%, though tbf very light use (AOD on though)
Yeah mine is about the same. It stays on 100% for nearly the first two hours though.
Interestingly, I have the Apple Magnetic Dock tha I use for charging and if I charge the phone in bedside mode i.e Sitting up against the charging puck at 90 degrees, it charges to 100% overnight but the percentage reading starts to drop down from 100% after the first hour but if I lay it flat on the charger, it charges to 100% and seems to stay on 100% for the first couple of hours before the percentage reading starts to drop. Very strange.
I got the AWS5 last week and had the same issues with battery drain. With noise and background refresh off and AOD on it was losing >5% an hour doing nothing. When I tested doing an outdoor exercise for a 45 minute walk it took loads of battery off.
Last night I re-paired the watch (using back up- not from scratch) and this morning it is at 99% after three hours so it is looking like it has resolved. Woo.
Last night I re-paired the watch (using back up- not from scratch) and this morning it is at 99% after three hours so it is looking like it has resolved. Woo.
Give it a couple of charges and then do the unpair and pair again but right after do the phone hard reset followed by the watch reset. This was suggested by a different poster and has worked for me. Getting over 24 hrs standby with over 4 hrs of usage including 1.5 hrs workout with 18% left. 40mm SG gps Nike-AOD on, raise to wake on; auto refresh off, noise off. I do put it on theatre n airplane mode overnight while using 2 different sleep apps.
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I have raise to wake on, its not ideal, but its EXTREMELY rare that i have my watch on for more then 14 hours a day.
Got my Nike watch set up so will see how this one goes in a few days...
GPS only likely won’t make any difference so will see. Loving Nike faces though
GPS only likely won’t make any difference so will see. Loving Nike faces though
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That’s pretty much my exact normal usage too and am getting the 5% drain even after a repairing. I try to ignore the results from people who have either AOD or WTR off since that is “cheating” in my eyes and shouldn’t be necessary to get decent battery life.
completely agree, also feel it defeats most of the purpose of getting a S5 in the first place.
45 min workout it only dropped 9% which is impressive...will see how this nike watch goes in future testing. Hard to measure until it is fully charged.
Me too, loving this watch!
Nice, Got to admit to love the nike watch face with options for other apps think looks better with AOD
So today I took it off the charger at 7AM and I barely used it even though it says 2 hours of use age and 6 standby and already down to 75%. Bad in my view and since time is now 1 pm does that mean that use age time is part of standby time since i have used it six hours? If I add useage and standby I have 8 hours which is not correct. So far I have had it off the charger for 6 hours and no workout.
Yes but yesterday I got 15 h standby and four hour of use with 10% left. So it actually got worse!
In my experience, the battery life is been pretty good. I end my day with about 30% and i don't have battery anxiety. It wasn't anything that disrupted my flow of what I was doing for Series 4.
Mine does that too. Sometimes the Usage and Standby are blank. Did you find out why?
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Do you lose all the data when you unpair and re-pair the watch?36 hrs of use , more than enough. In the beginning was great if i could get to 12hrs of use. If anyone has a bad battery life just do unpair/pair and will get much much better.
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If yo had been a s3 user like me with 58% left at bedtime with 1.5 hours of bike riding registered you would have been frustrated with the s5 barely surviving the day.
Haven't been using the AW4 but fired it up, installed OS6, and used it for a couple of days. Battery life took a steaming dump on my head. It's about 50% after sleeping and coming home at 5:00, no workouts and minimal use. Working out, with podcasts, would probably put it in the 30's. No way this gets two days, much less squeaking into 3 like it used to do.
Meanwhile, my Fenix goes a week with multiple workouts and podcasts and still has room to spare. Granted it's rated at 21 days but Apple really needs to improve this thing. I used to be able to defend it's life for most runners / athletes but not any more.
Meanwhile, my Fenix goes a week with multiple workouts and podcasts and still has room to spare. Granted it's rated at 21 days but Apple really needs to improve this thing. I used to be able to defend it's life for most runners / athletes but not any more.
This in a weird way gives me encouragement that it can be fixed, as if I understand correctly-yours used to be good(ish) meaning it can be fixed.
will be interesting to see if AW5 can get the 4’s battery life (pre OS6)
6.1 definitely fixes my S5 44mm
I also did a re-pair the other day
AOD on
Raise to wake off
Noise off
45 min GPS and LTE walk
18 hours stand, 848 cals burned.