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Battery Saving Tips
1. Keeping mobile data (i.e., 4G or 3G) or wifi on all of the time uses battery. Ask yourself if you really need to be notified in real time about every new email, Facebook post, or tweet. If it isn't that important, then keep mobile data and wifi off until you really need it. Although most devices make it easy to toggle wifi off and on, it's a little more inconvenient to toggle mobile data with the stock controls. I like Power Toggles, which is very customizable and easy to use; another popular choice is Widgetsoid.
2. The biggest power drain is usually from the screen. The longer it's on and the brighter it is, the faster your battery drains. Adjust your screen timeout so that it turns off after 30-60 seconds of idle. Turn the brightness down to 50% or less, which is usually more than enough for indoor lighting. Automatic brightness may or may not help save battery--some think that constant sensing and screen adjustment may actually contribute to battery use.
3. Many apps (e.g., Facebook) by default will try to refresh their data on the web at certain intervals. In order to do so, they have to partially wake the device up from sleep, then try to access the web, and then refresh data, all of which uses battery. If you don't need realtime updates, you can typically change to manual refresh in the app's Settings, which prevents the app from waking up the device. For Facebook, all you need to do when you open the app is just swipe down, and your newsfeed will manually refresh to what's current.
4. Google Currents is notorious for being a memory and battery hog. Many people have reported that battery life improved significantly after changing its refresh setting to manual and/or disabling Google Currents completely. (Update 7/2014: Google Currents has since been replaced by Google Play Newsstand, which manages memory much more efficiently, without the same battery drain.)
5. Along the same lines, consider turning off the device's Background Sync. You can find the switch to turn it on or off under Settings/Accounts/Google, but it's easier to use the stock Power Control toggle or the better Power Toggles or Widgetsoid apps. Turning off Background Sync means the device is spending less time and energy syncing your Google account. If Background Sync is off, you can always manually refresh any of the Google apps within their respective menus.
6. Some apps partially wake a device up from sleep (called a "wake lock") numerous times a day to do things like trying to check the web for data updates as well as reporting location data. Install an app to detect wake locks like Wake Lock Detector. Let it run for the better part of a day, then open it and find out what apps are responsible for the most wake locks. (Update 7/2014: KitKat no longer allows apps like this to report wakelocks unless your rooted.)
7. #6 is how I discovered that Google Maps was burning up a fair amount of battery due to its Location Reporting (previously for Latitude, now used for Google+). If Location Reporting is turned on, then Maps causes very frequent wake locks to check location and report it. I don't think Latitude was that popular--I certainly didn't use it, because I don't really want other people to know exactly where I am, so I turn off Location Reporting by opening Maps, tapping Settings/Google Location Settings, and turning off Location Reporting. Note that this does not affect the ability of your apps to use your location to refine searches, for example.
8. Widgets are definitely a cool feature that makes Android unique, but some of them also contribute to battery drain--specifically the ones that need to access the web to update their information (think weather widgets). Review your widget use and remove the ones you really don't use.
9. Live wallpapers, another feature that distinguishes Android, can also use up power like crazy--typically the ones that are very graphics/animation intensive, or the ones that also access the web for information like weather. Use static wallpapers instead, but if they're too boring.
10. Vibrate uses a lot of power. Do you really need your phone to ring and vibrate at the same time? Do you really need the haptic feedback when you're typing (especially if you're using Swype-style gesture typing)? Turn off vibrate.
11. GPS is another big power-sucker. For most location-based apps, using Google Location Services (based on the wifi hotspot's MAC address or by triangulating your nearest cell towers) is enough, since it generally locates you accurately within about 100 meters. Use GPS only if you need a more precise location, like if you're driving and using Navigation. Otherwise, turn off GPS by changing the setting to "Battery Saving."
12. You never know what kinds of processes the bloatware on your device might be responsible for, but they might be contributing to battery use as well. Go to Settings/Apps/All Apps, go through the list, and disable any bloatware apps that you don't need. Be cautious that you don't disable an important system app--if you aren't sure, just post a question in one of the AC Forums, and someone is bound to know.
13. Understand how Android utilizes RAM, and resist the urge to use task killers. To understand how things work, read this article by the esteemed Jerry Hildenbrand here, as well as this guide by Ambassador extraordinaire Golfdriver97. Apps that you kill manually will often restart on their own, which in itself takes a little bit of CPU and battery power--so if it's happening hundreds of times a day, it can become significant. The main reason to use a task killer is if there is some runaway process that you know is bogging the system down and won't shut down on its own. It might still restart on its own--if the cycle keeps happening, it's probably a problem with the app, which should be uninstalled or disabled.
14. Poor cell reception kills battery, because the radio is working overtime to try to establish the connection. If you know you're going to be in an area of poor reception for a while, consider turning on Airplane Mode to temporarily shut off your cell radio. You can get some idea of how much time you're spending in an area of poor signal by going to Settings/Battery, tapping Cell Standby (if it's there), and seeing if it says how much time without signal there was.
15. If none of the above tips are helping, then try wiping the cache partition, which is the portion of memory where Android stores a lot of temporary data. It's a little different from clearing the cache of individual apps, because the cache partition also stores a lot of temporary data used by the system. You need to access your device's recovery menu in order to wipe the cache partition, and this process varies with the device, so the best way to learn how to do it is to do a web search for "wipe cache partition [your device name]."
Not really a fan of threads like this, basically they say turn the cool features of your phone off to save it's battery? Yes I still read them in case someone comes up with something interesting or innovative but generally all the same don't use some of the best features of your phone.
We're not iPhone users buy spare battery.
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Try a custom kernel
So is there a fix for battery drain? i keep reading all these threads about basically turning off everything no your phone. my problem is i used to have everything on my phone on and still was a good 50% battery life left at the end of the day. this was with heavy use as well. a lot internet surfing, youtube, gaming, location was turned on. I was loving my battery life. Now, seemingly over night my battery is horrible. i cannot make it to the end of the day with almost no use, i now have to charge it half way through the day to get it to last me until 9 oclock or so. my battery is now at 70-80% after a couple hours with absolutely no use. any idea or fix for what has caused this sudden drain of my battery?
Personally I use apps that close apps that automatically (autorun pro is my favourite) start block ad's etc I get a good days usage from mine.
It's a compromise but I carry a spare battery as well
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So I found out my issue was my email app. I cleared the data on it and now I'm back to having a 50% battery left at the end of a day with heavy use.
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So I found out my issue was my email app. I cleared the data on it and now I'm back to having a 50% battery left at the end of a day with heavy use.
Turning off all features that make a phone "smart" is like buying a luxury Mercedes and ignore all those functions and use it as if it's a cheap Chinese car! If I want to use my phone just for SMS and Call why not buy a Nokia 1100 and buy a tablet to check my emails, viber and all other apps!
I bought a Galaxy S5 to utilize those functions. Anyway, previously my phone used to drain its battery in 6 hours! by adjusting my setting to the following I could increase the battery life to 14 hours! (I know it is still low but way better than 6 hours!)
1. Decrease the BRIGHTNESS as low as possible. For casual use we do not need a bright screen! whenever you wanna check an important photo you may increase the brightness temporary. (only by this you can have extra 2 hours or more)
2. Turn off unnecessary syncs, I do not need to have my contacts synced with 10 servers! Allow your phone to sync them with only one account ( I did it for Google only and turned off Samsung acc. dropbox, ChatOn and ...)
3. Do not add so many email accounts to your phone! Just add those you use frequently ( I have 5 emails and only 2 of them are vital for me!)
4. Set your location to use wifi only, and turn your GPS on only when you want to have a turn-by-turn navigation ( built in GPS can drain you battery in less than 1 hour!)
5. Turn off Push notifications for Games. ( you do not miss anything if you attend to your games 1 hour late!)
6. Uninstall those communication apps that are not necessary, you do not need to have BBM, Viber, Line, Whatsapp, Telegram, Hulu, Wechat and ... Keep those that you use frequently (In my case I kept Viber and Whatsapp only)
7. Uninstall any Anti-virus app! The likelihood of getting malware or virus if you install apps from Google Store is almost zero, so you only allocate some RAM to an useless app for doing nothing! If you wanna have any I recommend "360 Security" as I learned it uses only 6 mb of RAM and you can turn off real time protection.
By doing the above things I could get 8 hours extra from my phone!
It also a good idea to check which apps 'Autorun' when your phone restarts. SD Maid (maybe PRO version) has an AppControl option that lets you toggle autorun on or off.
[HOW-TO][NEWBIE GUIDE] Optimize & proper set up your Galaxy S6 Edge (stock firmware)
As I've read across this forum and on several specific threads related to usage, battery life and so on, as well as discussing with some of my friends having a S6 or S6 Edge, I realized that most of the people don't really know how to properly set up their phones or how to use them efficiently.
OK, I get it, this is a fancy phone, not every owner is a developer or tech guy so it might be that many choose it based on the looks and don't really know how to optimize it...then they start complaining about different things like lag or battery drain not knowing that most of the problems are caused by miss-usage or improper setup. Of course there are bugs too, nothing is perfect. Of course there are many firmwares available and some are market or carrier dependent so some features or settings might be missing from some of them or even work differently.
What I will try here is to provide some guidelines and tips for setting up various things on the phone in order to maximize it's battery life and for a better usage. I will also make some recommendations based on my experience, tests and usage that might not apply to everyone. Use common sense and logic to apply similar settings in your particular case. Don't come screaming that you made that or that and now something is not working.
And YES, I know there are similar guides like this posted over the Internet and I'll probably make similar recommendations here too but I couldn't find such a guide here on XDA that is particular to this phone (if there is a better one than you might as well ignore mine).
All these things I'll describe below are applicable to any STOCK, NON-ROOTED 5.1.1 firmware and won't break warranty or your phone.
Now that was a long (and maybe unneeded introduction) but I thought to write this for everyone...let's start.
Model No.: SM-G925F
Android: 5.1.1 r2 (LMY47X)
Baseband: G925FXXU2QOI7
Kernel: 3.10.61-5672012
Build date: Fri Sept 4 2015
Carrier: Orange RO
DISPLAY
First I would like to say some words about the display. We have a great display, high resolution and it is most likely the biggest battery drain factor. There are two major things about it that you should keep in mind and will help you to get a better battery:
1. It's AMOLED...that means that the black pixels on it will consume no power because are not lit. Studies showed that even if not completely black, AMOLED displays use less energy if the displayed picture is darker compared to a lighter one.
2. The brightness level. Most people use it on "auto" or high level settings and this will be a major drain factor.
You can drastically lower the battery drain caused by your screen by selecting as much as possible dark (black) backgrounds and/or themes. There are some nice ones available in the Theme Store (my favorite is the Dalkomm Coffee Theme), that make most screens and menus dark/black. Also choosing a dark wallpaper for lockscreen/homescreens will help.
Don't use screen brightness at maximum...never. You don't need that in 99% of the cases. Also you won't probably need the automatic setting either since most of the people are spending most of the time indoors (either at work or home). A low manual setting will be fine most of the time, I have it set up at about 20% and only need a brighter one when going out. At that time I just tap on "auto" and it'll increase based on ambient light level. So you don't even need to tweak it alot every time. Find a low manual setting that's fine for your eyes and just tap on "auto" when you go out in sunlight.
CONNECTIVITY
Another battery drain factor is your multiple connection/radios features. In most cases you use just several: Mobile Data, WiFi, GPS/location and BT (when applicable). That means you should turn off all the others you don't use...NFC or BT (when not connected to a headset or car-kit or not listening to music). I don't listen to music and don't have a BT headset so I mostly not using BT (just when I'm in my car) and almost never use NFC so I have both disabled and I enable them only when needed via the Quick Settings.
WiFi
WiFi should also be properly setup otherwise it'll have impact on battery. It was incorrectly assumed or considered that keeping WiFi on all the time will drain battery faster. That was proven in different tests that's not true and in fact keeping WiFi on all the time won't make a big difference and in some cases was even better than to turn it off/on. I think is something similar with the car engines that suck more fuel when started that when running at idle. The major power drain is not when WiFi is running while is not connected to any network, but when the WiFi radio is powered up. When is on and not connected, it's going into a lower power state so the battery consumption is negligible.
I had a case with one of my friends that had WiFi setup to turn off when display was off...wrong choice, he got about 30% battery drain overnight because instead of having it connected to his home WiFi, the phone was using his 4G/LTE connection to make all the background sync/updates. That was eating his battery and also his data plan. After setting WiFi to "always" his overnight drain lowered to as little as 2-3%.
In some regions/carriers there are 2 other settings that were proven to help battery life: WiFi calling and VoLTE. I don't have either of them but based on different articles and what people say, they surely help with that so don't forget to turn them off if you don't use these features.
You might also want to try turning off "Always allows scanning" and "Smart network switch". I have the second turned off but I keep on the first one. Basically the first option tell the Location service to use WiFi for locating the device even if WiFi is switched off (by the on/off switch) so that means the radio is active. Second option should make you switch faster from WiFi to mobile data in case the WiFi signal is not strong enough or fluctuating. In my country there are plenty of WiFi hot-spots and they have mostly good connections so I don't use this feature.
GPS
Well here the opinions are split but I am currently having it ON all the time and Location Service is set to "high accuracy". I personally haven't noticed such a major difference with or without it so I preferred to let it on as it is used by many apps or services. You can try to set Location to "wifi and cell only" but don't think that will bring you a major benefit.
RUNNING APPS/PROCESSES
Well this is an important one. I've initially started to turn off/disable/uninstall everything I don't need or use. This can be done mostly from the Settings - Applications - Application Manager or if you want to go further, you can install Package Disabler Pro from PlayStore, about which I'll detail later.
Now why we should do that? There are lots of apps, processes and background services running on our devices that take care about all the things we do on the device. The problem is that ALL are using resources: processor time, memory, space and so on. In the end these are translated for a user in LAG or battery drain. Of course we cannot kill everything and I learned long time ago that installing Task or memory managers on Android it's the worst thing you can do. Android it's smart enough to take care better about it's resources and processes (at least to a certain point) and keep killing a certain process won't give you more battery life but will eat more of it in the end,
What I wanted to say is you shouldn't start disabling, killing or blocking everything cause you might end up with an unstable or not properly working phone (case in which only a factory reset might help). First of all look at the ALL tab in Application Manager and try to identify what you don't need or use. For example I'm certainly not using some things like: music, books, news feeds, Samsung's keyboard (I use SwiftKey), the TouchWiz launcher (I use Nova), health services or whatever, S-Voice, S-Health, S-Finder, I don't have any smartwatches so I don't use any Gear processes, fancy device wake-up functions (like wave gestures) or animated wallpapers either.
So after all considerations above, you decided that you can safely disable some apps/processes. All good but you'll quickly learn that some of them cannot be disabled via Application Manager (the "disable" button is grayed out). Now what? Well here comes handy that Package Disabler Pro that I've told you about in the beginning. That app is able to disable ANY apps/processes on your phone, including those that are protected and cannot be disabled via the normal way (and yes it can do that without being rooted). The downside of it is that you must be careful what you choose to disable not to have something that is needed for the normal functionality or the apps you're currently using. The app has also a backup/restore function (via an xml file) for saving the list with apps you have disabled and easily import them back after a factory reset for ex. I've added to this thread my list of disabled apps as it is exported by the application (just unzip and copy the file on the root of your internal memory and it can then be imported in the Package Disabler app)
Another important thing is WHAT apps you're using. I know that socializing and social networking are some of today's most trendy things but keep in mind that some of the apps used for that are not so well made. An example could be the Facebook app/messenger which are reported to drain alot of battery. RSS feeds, news feeds, multiple weather apps or widgets, all contribute to battery drain and lag. Don't install several apps/widgets for the same purpose (like several calendar apps or weather apps). Each will take resources and won't have an added value. Want to use another weather app/widget than the one coming with the phone? Fine, install it...but don't forget to uninstall/disable the built in one or others that do the same thing. Same goes for keyboard for ex; I use SwiftKey for years and got used with it. For me it's better than any keyboard that Samsung might put on the device, therefore I've disabled the standard Samsung keyboard. I also don't like TouchWiz launcher and use Nova that offers me much more flexibility so...I've disabled both the "easy" and "regular" TouchWiz launchers. I went to the point that I've even disabled the different embedded font types, you have 5 of them and I doubt someone uses more than one at a time.
So as you all can see it's not only a matter of setup but also a matter of usage. When you have a device you have to use it properly otherwise it'll not perform as you expect. Imagine a car that has a manufacturer fuel consumption value of 5.5 liters/100 Km....that's under certain conditions not on ANY type of driving. Fly with 200+ km/hr on a highway and I'll guarantee you won't have 5.5 liters/100 km consumption. That doesn't mean the manufacturer has lied or mislead you. Same goes with a phone, if you don't know how to use it and optimize it, you'll have a bad experience.
I work in the IT industry for years and I mostly laugh when I hear someone advising somebody to reinstall the operating system to solve a problem. Same goes for "factory reset" for a phone. Yes, this method works some times but that won't solve the root cause of an issues if you're using it the same way. After several days it'll perform as bad as before and you'll just say that "factory reset" did nothing. Of course it didn't...YOU have to do something different, not the phone.
Now I apologize for the long post and I do hope that at least some will learn to better manage their devices and to understand what they're doing not just running certain commands or procedures blind. Both S6 and S6e are great devices but we should learn how to properly use them in order to benefit the most from them...otherwise we just come here asking for help or mumbling about what crap devices they are.
Thank you, I will check to see if I get an improvement on the standby battery drain.
Your part about not setting the screen to Auto is flawed. You mention that we are mostly indoors, and you don't need a brighter screen for that. Auto mode also knows that and sets the brightness lower. It already does automatically what you do manually.
Tnx. And yes....keeping screen at 20% brightness and just switching to auto when in outdoors works great for the battery life.
ArmedandDangerous said:
Your part about not setting the screen to Auto is flawed. You mention that we are mostly indoors, and you don't need a brighter screen for that. Auto mode also knows that and sets the brightness lower. It already does automatically what you do manually.
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Not quite, I've tested it. If you're on "auto" and use a lower setting on the slidebar, in a dark room the screen is too dark, you'll have to turn off "auto" and the manual brighteness set on the same level will be much higher than on auto.
Now if you have such good eyes and you're able to use "auto" in all cases with the slider at 20% that's good for you...unfortunately I am not so that's why I use it as I've described. The point is that "auto" mode consumes MORE battery regardless of how it's set, than a lower 'manual' mode. So I preffer to have it like this than to use auto all the time.
Thanks for the awesome guide. I'll start disabling some useless processes and see how my battery life is working. Anyway without much editing the battery of S6Edge is pretty good. I can use it a whole day and still 19% remaining. As a comparison I wasn't able to do it with my S3 having to recharge it 2 or even 3 times at day.
Again, thanks for the guide!
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SHORT VERSION:
Lf a 1 or 2 smartwatch/es (or other wearables) mainly for sleep hacking/tracking, health tracking and suggestions on how to improve my health and sleep; and maybe another watch/wearable for BP/ECG (better though if they're the same device).
Budget: $100-$200
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LONG VERSION:
I'm looking for a watch with very good sleep and health tracking, preferably one that gives you suggestions on how to improve you sleep and urges you to move when you become a bit sedentary.
I've been doing some research and most people say that fitbit is the best when it comes to sleep, although my further research that huawei comes close and is cheaper.
I'd also like it if the watch has ECG and Blood pressure monitoring (I frequently get headaches and I think it might have to do with my breathing) but afaik, neither Huawei nor Fitbit has any device capable of such so I'm fine having a secondary device primarily for ECG and BP.
I don't mind wearing 2 watches.
Budget: $200 (I'll consider if it's a bit above but I'll prefer if it was within 100-200)
Features:
Sleep(crucial). Helps me get more deep sleep. I'm trying to experiment with sleep hacking.
Health(also crucial). Maybe something that notifies me if it thinks there's something wrong with me.
(Very desirable)I'm a fan of everything cloud so.. Should be very easy to sync with phone, computer (esp for sleep and fitness data)
(Very desirable)Comfy to wear
(desirable) Basic Fitness and encouraging.
(desirable)Good Battery life
(desirable)Headache advice, tracking, etc. (I get a lot of headaches)
(Huge plus but not necessary) Exportable/Importable data (sleep, fitness). i.e. has good support for exporting data should I change my watch to something of the same brand or even a different brand (is this even possible?)
(Optional) I use google calendar a lot so it'd be nice if it could display notifications from google calendar.
Replaceable band (desirable feature but optional)
Regarding smart watches, are they able to accurately read your heart data whether or not the watch is tightly or loosely fitted? I'm a bit concerned that I'll be wearing a watch but I'll have to wear it too tight (uncomfortable) for it to work.
Or maybe you guys could recommend other wearables? (on the ankle, or something to sleep with, etc.)
I'm also wondering if there was an app that's able to collate and correlate data from different devices, trackers, smart watches, etc., that supports manual input (e.g. of height, weight, BP, CBC, doctors visits, conditions/ailments at points in time) and generates recommendations from it.
Would also be good if it has infographics I can show to the doctor whenever I go for a checkup.
I hope if there is, it's free but I don't mind paying as long as it's cheap.
Results for your spec ? = nothing. Otherwise Fitbit Versa.
Which specs are too difficult to find?
It's only the sleep and health features I'm critical about, although it'd be really nice if cloud sync wouldn't be a headache.
Any reason though to choose Versa over Charge 3, Huawei Band pro 3 or Charge 2 (since I've been seeing a lot of negative reviews about Charge 3)?
Any suggestions about a separate watch that measures BP/ECG though?, I've seen some cheap ones online but they barely have any ratings and reviews.
Thanks.
No I think Versa match all your specs just lack of Always On Display. Maybe also export data ? do not know how export is possible with the Fitbit system but it is very complete.
Fitbit is maybe the only system I know with good sleep tracking, all other are not as good.
Versa is better than all other because it have many user faces and some app that others like Charge 2/3 or Honnor do not have. Very good apps for calendar event on versa.
For ECG -> Apple Watch 4, Withings Move ECG
Thanks I'll definitely take that into account.
Could you specify though which features aren't on the charge 3 but is on the versa? I've read that Charge 3 has SPO2 (blood oxygen levels) readings and has a longer batter life (7 vs 4 days).
As for ECG, Apple is too expensive for me and I don't have an Iphone (although I do have an iPad, but I don't carry it all the time), but maybe I'll consider it in the future.
Charge 3 Vs Versa
- No color display and Charge 3 smaller display
- No Calendar feature
- No Checklist feature
- No notes like Google Docs or GTask feature
- No setting Alarm on watch with Charge 3
- Limited Weather info on Charge 3
- No moonphase info
- No calculator
- Not the hundred watchfaces in Charge 3 just a few and not face with date HRM and steps together
and no all apps that exist on Versa....
maybe SPO2 but not active in Charge 3
Versa has little battery 4 à 5 days but normal for a watch with big color screen
Thanks!
Love the step counter... but don't love how inaccurate it is. I walked to work this morning and while the step count is about what it is with my fit bit (and maybe even more accurate), the distance it measured was nearly a mile off (short). I was hoping they had some sort of adjustment tool for those of us with longer legs so the stepper would be accurate. Not so, at least that I can find.... Also, it is measuring in kilometers and being a USA Luddite measurement-wise, I'm still using miles. Would like to switch that setting... but like the stride length, there isn't a setting (or even settings option period) I can find.
I'm running Android 10 on OnePlus 6T. In the middle of a city so no network provider issues.
This step counter seems non sense to me. No possibility to have an history, no settings available. Best is to deactivate it and use another way
I've had it for a couple of weeks now - unfortunetely Xiaomi decided to start over with the software for the Mi Watch line, which doesn't seem to be as open as the Mi Band and Amazfit lines. Still a lot of watch for the money...
Had to find the Mi Wear android app on Xiaomis app store or a mirror, as it wasn't available to me in google play
Most of the app is in english, and it easily found and connected to the watch
New firmware installed in 10 minutes after first connect (needed for english on the watch)
Switching the watch to english was easy
Always on display is nice
Starting tracking from the watch was fast
GPS locking take 2-5 minutes when in the city. 1 minute in the country side
App seems to be okay to navigate
App sync fast and doesn't seem to have problems connecting to the app
App doesn't seem to use to much battery
Translations could be better (distance is called "Mileage (Km)" which is just silly)
The Stress and body resource seems to be working great (same First Beat method as my garmin)
I need to test sleep more, but it seems better then garmin (who is not using first beats sleep feature), and hopefully on par with fitbit
The map display the app seems broken, the route is there, but no map, unless I zoom to display a huge area (like 100x100km)
It's not possible to manually add or edit any training data (in the app or on the watch)
It doesn't register naps
It have an auto max-heart-rate option, but it's doesn't seem to adjust it self. Mine is higher then the 175 suggested, which means it thinks I'm stressed all the time
Doesn't seem to be able to connect to any other fitness apps (like google fit, endomondo or strava)
It calls the watch "Mi Watch Revolve" (maybe it's just the translation)
There's a Chinese forum for it, that can sort of be read using google translate
I've had one instance of the always-on-display not updating (woke up at 7 and it said it was 5:50, until I turned it on)
heart-rate graphs are often empty in the app
There's no auto-detect exercise (like it will detect you are taking a walk), which I miss more then I expected
There was a new version the app release yesterday that didn't have any useful fixes for me, and the new firmware only seems to have swimming added, from what I can see in the forum
Can you turn off the bluetooth? When you do not use it with smartphone? Thanks.
Does the latest phone software version work for you? when i install it it doesnt show me the option to pair the watch color or revolve, had to roll back. New watch firmware is fine though.
My experience is pretty positive, sometimes takes a while to sync data into the app (well, sync seems fast enohgh, but not all data is showing in the app immediately, takes a minute or 2, especially sleep and heart. )
Would have been nice to link up to strava or something, but hard to beat the battery life of the thing. Only take it off for a shower and charge then, and its keeping up just fine.
p.s.: in the stress app it mentions that activities are not counted towards stress, but you have to manually start those.
tcdk said:
I've had it for a couple of weeks now - unfortunetely Xiaomi decided to start over with the software for the Mi Watch line, which doesn't seem to be as open as the Mi Band and Amazfit lines. Still a lot of watch for the money...
Had to find the Mi Wear android app on Xiaomis app store or a mirror, as it wasn't available to me in google play
Most of the app is in english, and it easily found and connected to the watch
New firmware installed in 10 minutes after first connect (needed for english on the watch)
Switching the watch to english was easy
Always on display is nice
Starting tracking from the watch was fast
GPS locking take 2-5 minutes when in the city. 1 minute in the country side
App seems to be okay to navigate
App sync fast and doesn't seem to have problems connecting to the app
App doesn't seem to use to much battery
Translations could be better (distance is called "Mileage (Km)" which is just silly)
The Stress and body resource seems to be working great (same First Beat method as my garmin)
I need to test sleep more, but it seems better then garmin (who is not using first beats sleep feature), and hopefully on par with fitbit
The map display the app seems broken, the route is there, but no map, unless I zoom to display a huge area (like 100x100km)
It's not possible to manually add or edit any training data (in the app or on the watch)
It doesn't register naps
It have an auto max-heart-rate option, but it's doesn't seem to adjust it self. Mine is higher then the 175 suggested, which means it thinks I'm stressed all the time
Doesn't seem to be able to connect to any other fitness apps (like google fit, endomondo or strava)
It calls the watch "Mi Watch Revolve" (maybe it's just the translation)
There's a Chinese forum for it, that can sort of be read using google translate
I've had one instance of the always-on-display not updating (woke up at 7 and it said it was 5:50, until I turned it on)
heart-rate graphs are often empty in the app
There's no auto-detect exercise (like it will detect you are taking a walk), which I miss more then I expected
There was a new version the app release yesterday that didn't have any useful fixes for me, and the new firmware only seems to have swimming added, from what I can see in the forum
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I m confused with Xiaomi Mi watches. Do you mean this model?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/313413751270?ul_noapp=true
The new Xiaomi Mi watch should be a candidate for Linux Asteroid OS:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/asteroidos-1-0-released.3791430/
Is it the one which can be bought on ebay?