Hello got a few issues with my new Fossil Q Explorist gen 3
1) battery life is terrible compared to my gear S2 it doesn't even last 20% as long.
2) when using the watch and my phone connects to another Bluetooth device like car stereo the phone disconnects randomly like every 5 minutes and then reconnects stopping the music it's extremely frustrating and have not had this issue on the same phone without android wear or with my gear S2.
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I recall looking for something like this many months ago so I thought I'd try again.
Anything out there that would automatically turn BT off if not connected within a set period of time? Sure would be a handy battery saver.
Of course the perfect thing would be when a BT device is activated (like a handsfree car phone device) it would automatically turn the handheld's BT on.
It would be worth some $$$ to me.
Jack
It would be worth money to me too!
Bad idea...
Unlike WiFi, which is an awful battery drain, Bluetooth makes no detectable difference in the battery life and it's fine to leave it on all the time.
Unfortunately, the latest version of the Sprint ROM (with WM 6.1) turns it off at apparently random intervals, which has been driving me bonkers. I won't say that I would pay for a utility to keep it running, but what I would appreciate is a reasonably bug-free OS on a two year old piece of hardware... Obviously now that it's discontinued it's not something that stands a chance to happen.
My commitment expires in June, I'm so getting the new iPhone and never looking back! really fed up with WM.
sorry but I have to disagree on BT battery drain. My experience is that BT left on drains the battery very rapidly compared with it being off.
I got my moto360 about a week-and-a-half ago, but have noticed that the battery on my Note 3 is draining more quickly than before. When I check my battery stats, 35-40% of the usage is Bluetooth. This was never the case before I got an Android Wear device.
Anyone else experience issues like this and know what it might be? I have installed a bunch of watch faces (though I'm using one of the most basic ones right now). I also have Weather Timeline (set to update hourly) and LightFlow installed and sending vibrations to the watch when I get Hangouts/SMS messages.
This question was never asked.
Bluetooth does not register as a power drain on my Nexus 6.
I have no idea what lightflow is, I get messaging notifications without it.
I get really great battery life on my moto 360 normally. I never worry about getting through a day, routinely getting 20 or more hours. However, whenever I use google play music or pocket casts, the battery life tanks irrespective of whether I am actually using the watch. I do not use the watch for multi media controls however there is no way to disable them so they are always there. Today on a long trip I listened to over 4 hours of podcasts and my watch battery was dead within 6 hours. The same happens with Google play music. This has occurred on two different phones now and after a fresh reset of the watch and a re-pairing to a new phone.
Some days ago, I bought myself a nice smartwatch (LG G Watch) expecting 1 to 2 days battery life.
After some updating, it was finally running but not for long....
Starting from 100% loaded it took the watch just 5 hours to Switch off due to low battery.
My mobile phone did likewise (7 hours while it normally last >30 hours).
It seems, that in the end the Problem was the following:
The battery Drainage was only visible on the watch when the Connection to the phone was established
since both of the devices were doing something awfully exhausting, I figured, it might be the usage of a wrong type of Bluetooth Connection
I had paired 3 Bluetooth devices (2 headphones and a loudspeaker) that weren't active at that time
some of them surely lacking Support for the direly needed "low energy" scheme of Bluetooth 4.0
For half a day now, I have deleted the 3 pairings on the mobile phone and the Problem has gone since....
I hope, this might help some other poor soul with a similar Problem, slowly loosing ist temper over a really nice Gadget that just isn't usable due to the battery behaviour....
Hello!
I'm having an issue with the Wear App on my HTC 10.
I recently got a Huawei Watch (1st gen) and the Wear App is consistently the top battery draining app on my phone with 50%+ at the end of the day and the wake locks are crazy, my phone barely goes into deep sleep. Now, I know Bluetooth drains the battery and all that as I previously had a Pebble so I'm used to having Bluetooth on all day but I never saw this behavior.
I've tried factory resetting the watch, deleting the wear app and setting up the whole thing all over again but no dice. I only have a couple of apps on the watch (Telegram, Uber, Fit and Pujie) so the watch is probably not requesting a lot of data thus waking up the phone.
Has anyone faced something similar? how can I fix this?