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I want to spend some time developing a 'sleep mode' for android wear. I often sleep with it on and would like a mode which keeps the light off while I'm asleep.
Has there been any effort in implementing this, and how would you proceed?
weardev said:
I want to spend some time developing a 'sleep mode' for android wear. I often sleep with it on and would like a mode which keeps the light off while I'm asleep.
Has there been any effort in implementing this, and how would you proceed?
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That would be really awesome.
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Bump to that!
thats a nice idea
Great idea. I'd suggest activating sleep mode either when the watch is placed in the charger, or give users the ability to set start and stop times for sleep mode.
I agree, thats cool. It would be great if the smartwatch 3 could stand in low energy mode without light all the time. Because the smartwatch 3 has a transflective display. You could read the time with display-light off.
The closest I've seen is the sleep as android app. I've tried with mixed results but I never seem to get the watch lighting up while sleeping
There seems to be a sleep mode on the next update wear 5.0...you can get the screen on by Double tapping screen or by pressing the crown button
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Bump!
Would really love this, an app that unchecks the ”Always-on screen” setting for selected hours of the day, so that the watch automatically turns screen of when you sleep for example…
Oh please..... We need this
I hate manually turning off the watch before bed and back on in the morning. But I did get 36 hours with 9% battery left on my LG G Watch using this method
Someone should write an app that can auto toggle the new theater mode at night/quiet hours
I usually turn the watch in airplane mode in the night... Burns 1% per hr battery overnight on my moto 360
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Some will say the battery is good others will say it sucks. I have hear them both for the Galaxy S6 so here is a few tips for increasing the battery life on your device. This works for any Android device.
1- Avoid Live wallpapers, instead set Dark wallpapers.
2- Set Brightness to " Auto " and lower Timeout Duration
3- Delete unused widgets
4- Toggle From 4G to 2G
5- Changing Application Sync Settings
6- Disabling Background Data
7- Close applications that you are not using
8- Turn off WiFi & Bluetooth when not needed
9- Disable unnecessary features & gestures
10- Enable power saver (Duh)
Here is a video guide on how to access and use these features on your phone if you dont happen to know how to.
So what you're saying is, buy another phone.
blackout720 said:
Some will say the battery is good others will say it sucks. I have hear them both for the Galaxy S6 so here is a few tips for increasing the battery life on your device. This works for any Android device.
1- Avoid Live wallpapers, instead set Dark wallpapers.
2- Set Brightness to " Auto " and lower Timeout Duration
3- Delete unused widgets
4- Toggle From 4G to 2G
5- Changing Application Sync Settings
6- Disabling Background Data
7- Close applications that you are not using
8- Turn off WiFi & Bluetooth when not needed
9- Disable unnecessary features & gestures
10- Enable power saver (Duh)
Here is a video guide on how to access and use these features on your phone if you dont happen to know how to.
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Apparently if you switch the phone off the battery will last for months.
MobileBritain said:
Apparently if you switch the phone off the battery will last for months.
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I'd just like to add, if you keep it plugged into the wall charger, you can achieve over 20 hours SOT!
In other words, turn off all smart features of Smartphone and use it like a 3310
Add this to your tips:
Switch it on only when you need to use it, or expecting a call.
Also you can use ultra power saving mode all the time.
Yeah, I am amused by all the battery life obsession these days. Folks strap on suitcases to their phones in the name of extended batteries. Reminds me of the old motorola star tac days.
I am one of those people that is getting outstanding battery life. At the end of a typical workday with frequent testing and browsing while on the bus etc., I have about 40-45% left when I get home. That's only marginally off the Note 4 I had which would be around 55% at the end of the day. Only things I have done are disable stock amazon app, disable wifi scanning, disable wifi calling and set screen brightness to auto. My BT is always on, as is VoLTE.
ra535i said:
So what you're saying is, buy another phone.
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No, to me the battery is good enough. Yes you can use ultra battery saving, but I'm not saying to use all of these at once. Using a darker wallpaper will help with battery. Thats something I do and not the rest. If I needed more battery and cant get to a power source then I do a few other things that don't require me to turn my phone into a dummy. These are just a few tricks cause some where getting a bad battery life compared to others.
Lol there's no way I'm using dark wallpapers with this amazing screen.
A true black wallpaper is my favorite battery saver. Maybe it's just me but I love seeing the deep black super amoled allows us to have.
mobilebritain said:
apparently if you switch the phone off the battery will last for months.
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hahahahaha
Thread Gone Off Topic significantly. Closed. There are plenty good (and better )Battery Saver Guides around here for those who want/need one.
Short and simple. I ordered from best buy, so I have a two week window to make sure I'm happy with my unit. The phone is doing two things that are bothering me.
1. Battery drain while idle. I was under the impression this phone was supposed to be a champ here. However, last two nights have shown otherwise. Last night after only 6 hours of sleep the phone went from 100 > 77. A significant decrease in performance over my note 4. The night before wasn't as severe, but no apps running, and nothing under battery management to notice. I should note that my drain while in use meets or exceeds my expectations.
2. Do not disturb. I swear last night, I set my alarm and noticed this feature was on, promptly turned it off, and went to bed. It was on again this morning. I HATE dnd features, never will I want to miss notifications in purpose, I'd turn my fracking phone off, or notification sound to silent. This turning on by itself is not going to work. Seems to turn on when I set my nighttime alarm.
Do I exchange or deal with it?
One is user error, the other is an OS issue that will likely be fixed
DND does not magically turn itself on. You're turning it on, accidentally somehow.
As for the first, it is more than likely an app, or wifi drain, of which there are many simple fixes for. If it's wifi.. turn scanning OFF, and change wifi to 2.4gHz only.. Then RESTART your phone. the restart is a must,
Arcaed said:
Short and simple. I ordered from best buy, so I have a two week window to make sure I'm happy with my unit. The phone is doing two things that are bothering me.
1. Battery drain while idle. I was under the impression this phone was supposed to be a champ here. However, last two nights have shown otherwise. Last night after only 6 hours of sleep the phone went from 100 > 77. A significant decrease in performance over my note 4. The night before wasn't as severe, but no apps running, and nothing under battery management to notice. I should note that my drain while in use meets or exceeds my expectations.
2. Do not disturb. I swear last night, I set my alarm and noticed this feature was on, promptly turned it off, and went to bed. It was on again this morning. I HATE dnd features, never will I want to miss notifications in purpose, I'd turn my fracking phone off, or notification sound to silent. This turning on by itself is not going to work. Seems to turn on when I set my nighttime alarm.
Do I exchange or deal with it?
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I don't understand why you would want to deal with it if it's bothering you , plus you're within that time period to either exchange or return. So id say exchange for another unit, if problem still persists then it's your decision to keep it or return it.
I've never used my nexus or any nexus I've ever owned not rooted but if you root and use naptime app to get aggressive doze going ... I get 7 hours to 1% battery drain on standby always. I use Pure Nexus & Dirty Unicrons roms. But if you are one who likes Note phones and whatnot then nexus probably isn't for you.
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And there's nothing I can do about it. I only have a gear s2 connected at all times and wifi and mobile data off whenever possible. Before I leave to the gym battery is at 44%. After the car ride there it drops one percent. I unlock the phone, connect my powerbeats, and open youtube and there go another 5%. After a YouTube video there is 7% drain. About a 10 minute video too. Leaving the gym and hour later and I see a maybe 20% battery loss. I don't know how people with regular S7s get 4-5 hours SOT because I get only 3.5 maximum. I bought the edge looking for better battery life but it's practically no different than my S5. If anyone knows a magic trick to this, I need to know now because this is extremely annoying.
IF you got the device from an official retailer, just return and get a new replacement. Losing 7% watching a 10' video is not right even with max brightness. You can fix the standby drain by using Forcedoze (which helped reduce my standby drain by 50% to about 1% every 2 hours). 3.5 hours SOT is terrible even with max brightness. Just get a replacement please. It's not worth the time and frustration.
IF you don't have the option of getting a replacement. Forcedoze can help with the standby drain. Factory reset, set up normally (personally, I just turn off bluetooth NFC location and turn them on when needed), and hope that your terrible screen on time is software related.
konoi said:
IF you got the device from an official retailer, just return and get a new replacement. Losing 7% watching a 10' video is not right even with max brightness. You can fix the standby drain by using Forcedoze (which helped reduce my standby drain by 50% to about 1% every 2 hours). 3.5 hours SOT is terrible even with max brightness. Just get a replacement please. It's not worth the time and frustration.
IF you don't have the option of getting a replacement. Forcedoze can help with the standby drain. Factory reset, set up normally (personally, I just turn off bluetooth NFC location and turn them on when needed), and hope that your terrible screen on time is software related.
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Do you think it might be my location by any chance? Maybe the service in my area causes this drain. I also have gps on because of my gear s2 but I can turn that off and see what happens. GSAM tells me the in the past 30 minutes the drain rate is 15% per hour. I browsed the Internet a bit and have been using it the whole time. I'll try to also do a full battery drain test on geekbench with full brightness and see what it tells me.
MarLap2000 said:
Do you think it might be my location by any chance? Maybe the service in my area causes this drain. I also have gps on because of my gear s2 but I can turn that off and see what happens. GSAM tells me the in the past 30 minutes the drain rate is 15% per hour. I browsed the Internet a bit and have been using it the whole time. I'll try to also do a full battery drain test on geekbench with full brightness and see what it tells me.
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It's a good possibility. I have a fairly weak signal where I am most of the day and only get about 4-5 hours of SOT. I have all radios off except WiFi and data when needed. Still with my usage I only charge every 2 to 3 days. I don't get the drain like you do from watching youtube though.
My battery life also sucks. I barely use my phone during the day and it almost dead when I go to sleep. Most of the day I am connected to wifi between my work or home. My old htc m8 one could last 40 hours. I think part of the problem is because I do not have root on this phone. I kind of regret switching because I cannot get root. I cannot use applications to adjust cpu or control my wifi, data and to turn off apps from starting automatically. I think tonight I am going to try and calibrate my battery.
I had horrible battery life after taking the 2 OTAs. BetterBatteryStats would not report the device going into deep sleep at all and I was losing about 10% per hour on standby. I did a Factory Data Reset and all the problems cleared away. BBS is reporting deep sleep after about 5 minutes of the display going dark. I have Wifi, data, Bluetooth, and high-accuracy Location services turned on at all times. I lose about 2.5% per hour now with AOD turned on on standby.
Guess my advice would be to due a FDR after every OTA....
Guys, I had terrible battery life when I first got the phone. Off the charger at 6am, under 20% by 5pm... Follow my steps below and I bet your battery will do a 180 and be very nice. Mine gets me 35-40+ hours on a charge.
Disable the bloat apps you don't want in app manager.
Turn off Google usage and diagnostics reporting for the Google app, and if you use the Google keyboard, there too. This and the next one were the biggest improvements by far.
Turn off Samsung "Send Security Reports," and in the same place, turn off auto-update Samsung security updates.
Turn off device/Bluetooth/WiFi scanning.
Set keep WiFi on during sleep to while charging.
In permissions, I turned off location for any app I didn't think needed it. I went from 30+ to about 15. If an app requires location to work, you will get a popup warning when disabling location for it.
Lastly, I did a Restrict Background Data on several apps I didn't think needed it.
My phone started dozing and the battery drain dropped way out.
I keep AOD and Bluetooth on at all times and connected to my smartwatch all day, and my car about an hours a day.
Hope this helps! Apparently out of the box the S7/Edge battery life is terrible...
gettinwicked said:
Guys, I had terrible battery life when I first got the phone. Off the charger at 6am, under 20% by 5pm... Follow my steps below and I bet your battery will do a 180 and be very nice. Mine gets me 35-40+ hours on a charge.
Disable the bloat apps you don't want in app manager.
Turn off Google usage and diagnostics reporting for the Google app, and if you use the Google keyboard, there too. This and the next one were the biggest improvements by far.
Turn off Samsung "Send Security Reports," and in the same place, turn off auto-update Samsung security updates.
Turn off device/Bluetooth/WiFi scanning.
Set keep WiFi on during sleep to while charging.
In permissions, I turned off location for any app I didn't think needed it. I went from 30+ to about 15. If an app requires location to work, you will get a popup warning when disabling location for it.
Lastly, I did a Restrict Background Data on several apps I didn't think needed it.
My phone started dozing and the battery drain dropped way out.
I keep AOD and Bluetooth on at all times and connected to my smartwatch all day, and my car about an hours a day.
Hope this helps! Apparently out of the box the S7/Edge battery life is terrible...
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I installed forcedoze and did the adb non-root command and now my phone's battery is holding up better. I think the phone was just sleeping.
It's ridiculous one has to do all this to get closer to acceptable battery life.
Google and SEC should be ashamed of themselves!
It's not just VZW devices either. AT&T are just as bad.
I've given up on trying to get acceptable standby drain and just let the device live on a wireless charger.
GeoFX said:
I had horrible battery life after taking the 2 OTAs. BetterBatteryStats would not report the device going into deep sleep at all and I was losing about 10% per hour on standby. I did a Factory Data Reset and all the problems cleared away. BBS is reporting deep sleep after about 5 minutes of the display going dark. I have Wifi, data, Bluetooth, and high-accuracy Location services turned on at all times. I lose about 2.5% per hour now with AOD turned on on standby.
Guess my advice would be to due a FDR after every OTA....
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You need to turn off all radios when you go to sleep for the device to enter deep sleep. I had the same problem and when I started turning off wifi and mobile data for the night GSAM reported deep sleep and I was only losing 3% per night.
MarLap2000 said:
You need to turn off all radios when you go to sleep for the device to enter deep sleep. I had the same problem and when I started turning off wifi and mobile data for the night GSAM reported deep sleep and I was only losing 3% per night.
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I keep all my radios on (BT, LTE, and WiFi) and BBS and GSAM Pro all report that my phone goes into Deep Sleep.
Hi guys, I have a little battery issue over night I'm loosing about 4-5% every night ..
I have a OnePlus 5 on open beta 4 everything stock.. and clean flashed when it was out (factory reset after updating with full zip)
When I look in gsam my phone is awake only 10 minutes over 8h of sleep.. so it's not a wakelock I think because the only wakelock I get is netmgr_wl which is a kernel wakelock
I only disable WiFi and Bluetooth and put my phone on DND when I go to sleep
Mobile data is on, NFC on, location on and that's all
I've read here like 2 weeks ago that putting the phone face down help with over night discharge .. but it didn't helped me !
How come that I lose this much compared to some here who are loosing only 1%
Do you know a fix or something that can help me ?
tlf55 said:
Hi guys, I have a little battery issue over night I'm loosing about 4-5% every night ..
I have a OnePlus 5 on open beta 4 everything stock.. and clean flashed when it was out (factory reset after updating with full zip)
When I look in gsam my phone is awake only 10 minutes over 8h of sleep.. so it's not a wakelock I think because the only wakelock I get is netmgr_wl which is a kernel wakelock
I only disable WiFi and Bluetooth and put my phone on DND when I go to sleep
Mobile data is on, NFC on, location on and that's all
I've read here like 2 weeks ago that putting the phone face down help with over night discharge .. but it didn't helped me !
How come that I lose this much compared to some here who are loosing only 1%
Do you know a fix or something that can help me ?
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Maybe the others that loosing 1% don't sleep so long, disabled cellphone, used other apps, using no location services at all, disabled Nfc, don't use Google app. There's a lot you can do. But for detailed investigation please do record that behavior with better battery stats and provide a dump file.
strongst said:
Maybe the others that loosing 1% don't sleep so long, disabled cellphone, used other apps, using no location services at all, disabled Nfc, don't use Google app. There's a lot you can do. But for detailed investigation please do record that behavior with better battery stats and provide a dump file.
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+1
Basically, you don't need to disable the cellphone (aka enabling Airplane mode) but if you disable Mobile Data it already helps a lot. If you disable Mobile Data and WiFi, you should get the same 1% battery drain others are reporting.
On a side note, I should add that I drifted away from trying to conserve battery drain because I became a fan of the Always On display app, which makes it convenient to see the time in the night or early morning without having to touch my phone.