Hi,
what experience do you have with last Stratos firmware (2.3.2.8)?
I do have bad exp. First activity (swimming) crashed after 14 pool lengths. Watches showed only zeroes at screen (time was OK). Step counter was reset. Restarted swimming activity does have gaps within measurements and was also bad (gaps at graphs). This leads to nonsense saved to Amazfit phone APP.
I do not know if it will be OK after restart (not tested yet).
I hope that it is not hardware (sensor) problem..
Notice: I found out that during swimming are also recognized (added) steps (also with previous firmware).
haven't been swimming so far but everything else seemed to be just fine.
no problem whatsoever
I noticed only lower battery life (50% used after one day and a half of use). Battery life is most important to me, so i wonder if i can uninstall last update? Can it be done?
I also experience low battery life with this FW. I just got the watch, so i dont know how it was before, but it only lasts one day from full charge as it is now.
This is with continous HR off, and no workouts.
No battery issues here. 2 days 14 hours since last charge, still 51% battery left (no continuous HR, no activities, lots of notifications). I have some occasional stand-by issues, where selected whatcface switches to some other watchface when switching to stand-by (changing the watchface usually helps but sometimes a reboot is needed). What I do not like is GPS accuracy. It is often 10 or more meters off compared to more than 3 years old Garmin Vivoactive 1. E.g. it shows I was walking in the forest while I was actually walking more than 10 meters away from it. But total distance is very similar to what Garmin shows.
Hi,
I upgraded it immediately after installation, so I don't know the earlier version. But now I noted a huge problem. Without GPS usage the Startos battery life brings the specification, at least 4 day working. But if I start the walking/swimming mode the battery discharge more then 10% every 10 minutes, so less then 90 minute the battery life instead of 35 hour. I hope it is not hardware problem.
I did a factory reset. This seems to fix the problem for me, Battery consuption is now normal. 1 day 12 hours since last charge, and 81% remaining. With Contineous HR on.
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Hi, I have received a new Xperia Mini, since my old one was giving me some troubles.
I got it about 3 days ago and its working pretty well, but the battery its going very very fast, I have to recharge twice in the same day in a normal/medium use. And the battery temperature, in stand-by keeps around 35~36°C on 23°C ambient. Using it, the temp reaches easily 40~42°C.
Oh....I forgot to mention that I have updated it to Android 2.1 as soon as I got home after getting it on the repair center.
Is that normal?
Cause I have 7 days to exchange it for another one.
Thanks!
EDIT: Oh...My Data Traffic is off, GPS off, Wifi off, Bluetooth and Background Data off too. And its lasting only 5~6 hours. After pull the charger off, with 2 hours, I was with only 67%. Its normal?
I also have mini., Check these:
1- background Data off
2- 3g/wifi/bluetooth off when not in use
3- Brightness around 25%
4- Data Traffic off when not in use
5- Use helix launcher
6- Charge when around 25-20%
They will improve battery life
Its everything off. In the same conditions, my old one lasts 2 days with a single charge, and the operation temperature, when on stand-by, was about 25~27°. With the new, it don't get below 35°.
I have let it charging all the night, and pulled it off at 10:51 AM, at 13:00 I was with only 67%, and the phone was in stand-by, with absolutely NO USE.
Hmm
Newer phones tend to have low battery
Also if you have updated it recently to 2.1 thenlet it undergo a few charges and do one or 2 restarts
I did the same and get 2-2 and half days
Earlier with 1.6 1 day-1 and half day
I'm letting it shut down for itself then charge till 100%. How many this will I need to do that?
And I have updated to 2.1 since I got the phone. I got home after getting it with the dealer and updated, in the same day.
Please, help me people.
Never let the phone shut down on its own dude
Just charge it when it is around 205
And switch it off yourself one a week
that will improve battery life a lot
I was also on the same boat until i followed all this
Now my phone lasts 2 days or so
Problem solved!
Was the network mode, that was in WCDMA and the signal was very weak, so I think that the phone was constantly searching for it. I just changed to "GSM only" and at 2:40AM was with 26%, now, at 9:38AM its with 22%, but I have already use wifi, when I woke up it was with 24%.
Thanks for the help bro!
Hi,
I got an I9108 recently (from China Mobile). Found a very serious and strange battery drain issue. The phone works normal at day time. but at night, 8 hours stanby can eat 50-60% of my battery, for both of my batteries. Had a check by the service center, they siad the phone has no issue, and gave me two brand new batteries, problem still exist. I turned off almost everything: Wifi, GPS, background update, GSM data, etc. Battery usages shows Android OS is eating >80%.
One funny thing I noticed is: if I put the phone in a warm environment (say in quilt when sleeping), the battery drain seems to be normal: around 5% for 8 hours stanby.
I installed Battery Monitor Widget, and set current monitor to be every 5 minutes. I noticed that normal standby (day time, it is normally warm as I will put the phone in my pocket) current is around 5-10ma. When making a call, the current is around 25-40ma. But at mid night (realtively cold, may 10-15C), the current can easily be 50-60ma (not evry minute). So basically night time stanby is consuming more battery than a call.
Anyone see similar issue before? Any solution? Help is great appreciated.
Find/install BetterBatteryStats (thread on here or Market). Allow your phone to run overnight/for at least a couple of hours with it installed.
Read the first 10 pages/last 10 pages of the BBS thread on here so you have an idea of the info the guys on the thread will need from you in order to identify what's causing this drain & help you possibly improve this battery drain issue.
Ok, I've download BetterBatteryStats. will let it run for today and send updates tomorrow.
Looks to me the issue does not seem to be App related. Since it goes with working temperature, may it be possible that at night CPU just could not down the frequency to 300MHz but just keep working at 1200MHz?
anyway, will see how it goes for tonight.
Had it run for a night. Found partial wakelock: RIJL, ActivityManager and Alarm Manager are the tops 3, but all below 1.5%. AlarmManager seems to have a lot of count though (>2000)
For Kernal Wakelock, found samsung-battery is the one using 35%.
How should I fix it?
Ask in the BBS thread on here (search for it).
Got my issued solved by replacing the MB. Now stanby battery drain down to 5-8% for a night (8-10 hours).
Thanks for help anyway
So I have a Galaxy S III which I absolutely adore. Some time ago, though (2 weeks maybe?), one of its biggest cons - the battery life - disappeared. Earlier, I could be sure that the battery held around 3 days of my regular usage (some emails, games, web) being left with around 20%. Some time after the update to 4.1.1, the battery started to have good and bad days - sometimes it holds just as it used to, other time it's a half of it (15% after 1 day and 7 hours with no games and almost no web? Come on!). I thought it was because of Google Now so I disabled the geo-locating options but it's no better. When I go to the battery usage in the menu, it shows me that Android takes 38%, idleness 24%, the network 21% and system core 6%. The screen or Wi-Fi are just 5 and 2 per cent! What's wrong, then? What should I try to do to get back to normal with the battery?
Just received my stratos last night and everything still stock. Went to sleep at 92% at around 1am and now 12 hours later it is at 61% with no music, gps usage. Only notifications and barely any interaction. Rebooted both phone and watch just in case that worked, but no.
Kindly advise why this 5 day battery watch is gulping away my juice?
So i read that bt is likely the culprit. Mine also constantly disconnects and reconnects even when watch and phone are with me.
I just changed setting to keep amazfit app always running and not to optimise bt tool, bt and amazfit app. Think this will prevent disconnect/reconnect? Let's see if this will stop the draining.
Or am i fighting a futile battle against a bug?
1. A few phones, notably Huawei models, have a problem where WiFi interferes with Bluetooth and you cannot get a stable connection, you can test this by putting phone in Airplane mode and enabling only BT and mobile data.
2. The watch may have bad antenna, to test this, pair it with a BT speaker or headphones and see how far you can get from the watch with the speaker/headphone. If it disconnects after only 30-50cm them probably it has bad antenna (normally GPS doesn't work as well in this case) and you should ask for a replacement.
More tips here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/smartwatch/amazfit/ultimatre-guide-battery-drain-issues-t3791829
It actually got disconnected after about 120cm away. Do i have a bad antenna?
JJ
lfom said:
1. A few phones, notably Huawei models, have a problem where WiFi interferes with Bluetooth and you cannot get a stable connection, you can test this by putting phone in Airplane mode and enabling only BT and mobile data.
2. The watch may have bad antenna, to test this, pair it with a BT speaker or headphones and see how far you can get from the watch with the speaker/headphone. If it disconnects after only 30-50cm them probably it has bad antenna (normally GPS doesn't work as well in this case) and you should ask for a replacement.
More tips here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/smartwatch/amazfit/ultimatre-guide-battery-drain-issues-t3791829
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120cm isn't very bad, can be interference. Bluetooth and WiFi use 2.4GHz frequencies. Any improvements when away from both your phone and router?
Non that I could notice.
Right now, the watch is in airplane mode and it barely lost 2% over the last 3hrs. I noticed when it was draining battery earlier on, bluetooth on my phone depleted 84% and almost killed my phone.
JJ
lfom said:
120cm isn't very bad, can be interference. Bluetooth and WiFi use 2.4GHz frequencies. Any improvements when away from both your phone and router?
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On average my is loosing 6% per night with continuous heart rate on and one alarm in the morning. I am on latest international firmware. Make shure that you do have a watch face which is updating only once a minute. Auto back light should be disabled at night.
My watchface has weather, calories and steps. I woke up with 93% at 6.30am. Auto-airplane mode off at 7.30am. It is now 79% after 7 hours just using notifications. Not very impressed with battery life. At this rate, I have to charge it daily or it will go flat in less than 3 days. I don't even dare to turn on continuous HR.
SteffenBerlin said:
On average my is loosing 6% per night with continuous heart rate on and one alarm in the morning. I am on latest international firmware. Make shure that you do have a watch face which is updating only once a minute. Auto back light should be disabled at night.
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You are probably receiving a lot of notifications. I don't need notifications on my watch. It is for sports and I have a smartphone. Comparing to Garmin Vivoactive 3 I can say that battery life for me is the same. One exception is during long duration cycling it is consuming more energy because of the bigger display which is always on.
So far maybe about 30-40 Whatsapp messages/notifications. Is this a lot?
SteffenBerlin said:
You are probably receiving a lot of notifications. I don't need notifications on my watch. It is for sports and I have a smartphone. Comparing to Garmin Vivoactive 3 I can say that battery life for me is the same. One exception is during long duration cycling it is consuming more energy because of the bigger display which is always on.
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I lost 10% within an hour that was when I noticed it was disconnected and failed to reconnect back. At this rate, it isn't even going to last me 2 days. This is really disappointing.
Try doing a factory reset on the watch. This fixed battery issue for me. Before it ate the battery in 24hours with nothing enabled. Now its 1 day 12hours since last charge and 81% remaining.
Worth a try..
Why would a factory reset be necessary on a new watch? It is less than 48 hours out of the box with nothing installed. Would a factory reset even be useful in this case?
JJ
mleteng said:
Try doing a factory reset on the watch. This fixed battery issue for me. Before it ate the battery in 24hours with nothing enabled. Now its 1 day 12hours since last charge and 81% remaining.
Worth a try..
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Anyway I went ahead and factory reset the watch. Hope it clears this battery drain issue.
JJ
moviezzz said:
Why would a factory reset be necessary on a new watch? It is less than 48 hours out of the box with nothing installed. Would a factory reset even be useful in this case?
JJ
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i went ahead and factory reset the watch. Hope it turns out well and battery works as long as advertised.
JJ
moviezzz said:
Why would a factory reset be necessary on a new watch? It is less than 48 hours out of the box with nothing installed. Would a factory reset even be useful in this case?
JJ
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Beats me. Should'nt be necessary. But it worked for me. Hope it works for you too.
It's gone crazy after a reset. The charging will disconnect/reconnect non stop, even when attached to a PC via usb outlet. Stratos' drive will connect/disconnect non-stop as well. The only way I can charge the watch now is if I switched the watch off, if not it can't charge. It doesn't appear to be a charging issue since it can charge when watch is off. Factory reset multiple times and updated to latest fw still the same.
JJ
mleteng said:
Beats me. Should'nt be necessary. But it worked for me. Hope it works for you too.
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Until today i havent even gotten 2 days of usage out of the battery. this is depressing.
Battery drain issues
My new Stratos also facing battery drain issues here, at first when i pair my watch to my phone (Samsung Galaxy Note 3) is was fine. Battery drain percentage was not too horrible. On the next day, my watch started to received notification regarding my phone is too far away from my watch, but i notice that my phone is just nearby my side. Plus, this notification can be received a couple times a day. Then i notice that my watch is drain battery very fast, about 10% per hour.
On the same day, i unpair my watch from my phone (Samsung Galaxy Note 3), and pair my watch to another phone (Samsung Galaxy Note 4). *Note, please backup your data from your watch if needed, because once you unpair the watch from phone it will do a factory reset. (Is a pain in the ass that i have to re-download the watch face again). And charge up my watch to full 100% at 10PM at night and leave the watch bluetooth continue pair with my phone over night. On the next morning around 6:30 am, when i check on my watch battery percentage, its only drop 1%.
Still unable to confirm whether the issues is it cause from both of my phone having different BT version (Note 3 is BT 4.0) and (Note 4 is BT 4.1), or my Note 3 is already old and the circuit board are having problem. I still need to monitor this battery drain issues on my Note 4 to confirm the result. Hence, I'm not a heavy user, i don't received a lot of notification everyday.
Hello,
new product came out, and that is Amazfit GTS 2. Anyone already have the watch? Can 1 week battery life still be achieved if all features are turned on?
Thank you for the answers, I really appreciate it.
CrazyCypher said:
Hello,
new product came out, and that is Amazfit GTS 2. Anyone already have the watch? Can 1 week battery life still be achieved if all features are turned on?
Thank you for the answers, I really appreciate it.
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This guy is a long term supporter of GTS and GTS2. He praised a lot for the old GTS and its amazing battery
But in his review of GTS2, after using for 10 ten days, he said the battery is really PATHETIC, only last like 2 days.
You may like to check out here:
https://youtu.be/0bI7V27yfcI?t=696 (time: 11:36)
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This guy is a long term supporter of GTS and GTS2. He praised a lot for the old GTS and its amazing battery
But in his review of GTS2, after using for 10 ten days, he said the battery is really PATHETIC, only last like 2 days.
You may like to check out here:
https://youtu.be/0bI7V27yfcI?t=696 (time: 11:36)
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I saw this video but this is the only one that is saying the battery life is 2 days...so I'm looking for more users that can verify this before I buy it...
Thank you anyway
I found two more review on battery test for you.
https://www.igeekphone.com/amazfit-gtr-2-in-depth-review-2/
In terms of battery life, according to the official statement, Huami Amazfit GTS 2 has a battery life of up to 7 days in daily use mode. I turned on the active heart rate detection + sleep assisted detection mode, turned on the sleep breathing quality test, and used the watch according to my own habits. The power consumption was 29% for 28 hours and 12 minutes, and the battery life was about four days. If you follow the official daily use mode instructions, the battery life will be further extended, and 7 days does not seem to be a problem.
https://www.androidcentral.com/amazfit-gts-2-and-gtr-2-review
What's honestly most impressive of all is that the developer's battery estimates for these smartwatches don't appear to be overblown, a rare thing for smartwatches or tech in general. After a week of use, including using the always-on feature sporadically, tracking my sleep cycles, and going for several workouts with GPS activated, the battery only recently dropped below 50%. Keep in mind that it would drain faster if I had continuous heart rate / SPO2 tracking enabled, but for most users, the GTR 2 could easily last you up to two weeks per charge. For comparison, the GTS 2 has a 7-day battery estimate.
Hope it helps, bro.
Personally, i'm using GTS and see no reason for the upgrade to GTS2. If you haven't bought GTS before, then maybe it's worth it.
No me llega las notificaciones del WhatsApp,
Alguien le llega?
Ya ta solucionado.
I have the gts2. I've had it about a week. Battery with usual use is about 4 days. I have wrist flip detection on high and get about 3 days. Overall I really like the watch. Waiting for Alexa update to come in the future.
I have the GTS 2 since the day it launched in India. Love everything about the watch except battery life.
Battery drain is too much. Hardly getting 2 days. I find it absurd to first purchase smartwatch for its features and then keeping most of them off to get battery life.
It is possible to turn WiFi off and bluetooth on?
Hello, I have it and only two days of battery life. I have a week with him and the clock is not bad at all. Taking advantage of the thread, you know how I can activate the extra functions of the watch.
I bought a few days ago GTR 2, and all is almost perfect except for the battery... firstly from 48% to 10% within 24h, . After fully charged, 3 days and 50% has gonewith one, 1h training per day without GPS.
I like multitasking, wifi (fast watch faces synchro), but AOD drains battery a lot I decided to disable AOD, sleep tracking, switched heart rate to 10min. interval and after 24h battery decreased from 56% to 44%, while I know that people with GTR 1 have 1% per day with almost the same settings...
so I'm really disappointed with such battery life...
Do you have any advices?
@Redmundek, my girlfriend has the same problem. I bought GTS2 for her and GTR2 for me and with the same settings I get ±10 days of battery life and she gets ±3! Did you find any solution?
Have you checked the settings for detection method? Try different option and see:
- automatic heart detection - for me it is Ok
- Sleep assistant - may be the root of possible more draining
- Automatic heart detection & sleep assistant - potentialy draining battery a lot (as far as I remember)
Then other options below: activity detection, heart rate alert, all-day stress monitoring, sleep breathing quality.. I have ticked most of them after different tests. No issue with battery draining (I guess)
I'm using a GTR2 but I remember having seen a big change in the battery draining here when I tested different settings.
Good luck.
Hi, I amended sleep monitoring and stress detection and the battery is quite good, even with AOD from 7:00 till 22:00 (which I prefer) it can works c.a. 5-6 days