Hi All
So I've found Bluetooth is the biggest battery drain, turned on my watch lasts 2 days, turned off I get over a week. So I've found I'm normally running it in Plane mode, then manually having to switch it off to sync up each evening.
Could anybody suggest a means of turning this on and off automatically via a scheduler?
Thanks
EViL3666 said:
Hi All
So I've found Bluetooth is the biggest battery drain, turned on my watch lasts 2 days, turned off I get over a week. So I've found I'm normally running it in Plane mode, then manually having to switch it off to sync up each evening.
Could anybody suggest a means of turning this on and off automatically via a scheduler?
Thanks
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There is Auto Airplane on/off scheduler in the watch settings.
For your convenience, you may also use PaceOn app to manually control your Bluetooth/Wifi with ease.
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Perfect, thank you..
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1. disable auto sync'ing on all apps such as email. I'd rather manually refresh when I use the particular app
2. Force Stop Google Maps from the Downloaded Apps list, not just stop it on the Running list. This stops Maps from restarting itself
3. Set wifi sleep policy to "Never when plugged in". All battery tips say to set wifi sleep policy to "Never". I don't think it's right for tablet. Let wifi sleep when not using it, unless you are downloading movies or tv shows then plug in the power.
The change is I used to recharge every other day, now I recharge every 3-4 days. Hope you get good results with my suggestions too.
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1. disable auto sync'ing on all apps such as email. I'd rather manually refresh when I use the particular app
2. Force Stop Google Maps from the Downloaded Apps list, not just stop it on the Running list. This stops Maps from restarting itself
3. Set wifi sleep policy to "Never when plugged in". All battery tips say to set wifi sleep policy to "Never". I don't think it's right for tablet. Let wifi sleep when not using it, unless you are downloading movies or tv shows then plug in the power.
The change is I used to recharge every other day, now I recharge every 3-4 days. Hope you get good results with my suggestions too.
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thanks for the tip. another one is not to use auto brightness and try to keep brightness around 25% or less.
I actually froze maps with TiBu. I'll use it on my phone if I need it. It seemed to help a ton. Also, I turned ips+ on and turn brightness all the way down instead of leaving ips+ off and turning brightness up a little, I don't know if this actually helped battery or not but it kind of seemed to to me.
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I find that not using my prime helps to preserve battery life..... C'mon guys, android is not a day old, and all these tips are more common sense nowadays than acquired knowledge. Meanwhile, I commend OP for trying to help.
OP, point no2, it depends wherever you allowed Google to use location at setup (you can change it in settings), you can shut it down all you like, but as soon as you use an app that needs location service is going to restart.
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bklm1234 said:
1. disable auto sync'ing on all apps such as email. I'd rather manually refresh when I use the particular app
2. Force Stop Google Maps from the Downloaded Apps list, not just stop it on the Running list. This stops Maps from restarting itself
3. Set wifi sleep policy to "Never when plugged in". All battery tips say to set wifi sleep policy to "Never". I don't think it's right for tablet. Let wifi sleep when not using it, unless you are downloading movies or tv shows then plug in the power.
The change is I used to recharge every other day, now I recharge every 3-4 days. Hope you get good results with my suggestions too.
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If your WiFi turns off when your tablet is sleeping, I don't think it is necessary to disable auto syncing of apps, since they won't sync without a data connection anyway.
Also I don't know what force stopping Google Maps is supposed to accomplish. Again if there is no data connection it isn't downloading or sending information it most likely isn't using any CPU.
The most important setting here is to disable WiFi when the tablet is sleeping. That is the only setting I have changed and I also get 3-4 days of battery life with moderate usage between charges.
How I cut down battery drain when I'm not using my TFP:
- Power it off
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bklm1234 said:
1. disable auto sync'ing on all apps such as email. I'd rather manually refresh when I use the particular app
2. Force Stop Google Maps from the Downloaded Apps list, not just stop it on the Running list. This stops Maps from restarting itself
3. Set wifi sleep policy to "Never when plugged in". All battery tips say to set wifi sleep policy to "Never". I don't think it's right for tablet. Let wifi sleep when not using it, unless you are downloading movies or tv shows then plug in the power.
The change is I used to recharge every other day, now I recharge every 3-4 days. Hope you get good results with my suggestions too.
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I don't have the option that says "never when plugged in". Mine says "only when plugged in".
I still get crazy good battery idle when undocked. I wont lose a percent for over 10 hours of standby. when it is docked I lose 1% every 2-3 hours. I've tried every setting but it still occurs
d1ez3 said:
I still get crazy good battery idle when undocked. I wont lose a percent for over 10 hours of standby. when it is docked I lose 1% every 2-3 hours. I've tried every setting but it still occurs
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What standby setting are you using that you aren't losing anything in 10 hours???
I've been thinking about this for a while
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I still get crazy good battery idle when undocked. I wont lose a percent for over 10 hours of standby. when it is docked I lose 1% every 2-3 hours. I've tried every setting but it still occurs
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Same here.
Which got me to thinking, and this is only my common sense here.
On standby it's clear why the dock's battery shouldn't be draining, but when in use the dock needs some sort of power to run. The trackpad needs power, the keys themselves need power, when you push capslock it has a light that turns on which also needs power.
It seems that using it's own battery instead of the tablet's for power consumption while in use is the right way to handle this, and that would also make sense for a higher battery drain when not is standby mode as apposed to standby mode.
Just some of my thoughts.
Sorry you are right. "Only when plugged in"
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Hello I need some app that will turn on Airplane mode at night or atleast turn off Data connection. For specific time period. I found out that data are consuming too much of my battery at night.
Could you not just use a power widget to control data only? That way you are in control of when data is on or off, rather than a schedule as there might be a time where you are still using your phone and the schedule starts. Just a thought
Kik0o said:
Hello I need some app that will turn on Airplane mode at night or atleast turn off Data connection. For specific time period. I found out that data are consuming too much of my battery at night.
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Try Timeriffic
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Try Timeriffic
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Thank you! Seems that its working
Hi guys,
I can't seem to find anywhere in this device to force cellular off. I don't want to enable aeroplane mode because I use wifi and GPS.
Also, is there a way to force the device to power down when it's at, say, 8% power? It seems like it powers down when it's totally drained, which causes the device to stop tracking time when it powers back up. I imagine if it could force power down earlier, it would still keep time when I get around to recharging it...
You can enable Airplane mode THEN activate Wifi and GPS ... it's what I'm doing on my truesmart to save battery
BurnQc said:
You can enable Airplane mode THEN activate Wifi and GPS ... it's what I'm doing on my truesmart to save battery
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Thanks!
Any way to get the device to shut down based on battery %?
It doesn't matter how much battery is remaining when you turn the watch off. It doesn't keep track of the time when its off unless you have it automatically checking the mobile network for the time. Try it. Turn your watch off before the battery dies, wait 10 minutes, then turn it back on. The time will be the same as when you turned it off. Seems stupid but hopefully it will get fixed in a future update.
Use tasker to do it
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Here's a free app that should do it. I tried it on my phone and it worked great.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=AutomateIt.mainPackage
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biggest battery hog, which do you guys think kills battery more having the wifi on and connected or having the bluetooth on and connected? trying to figure out best way to save battery througout the night but with keeping watch on for time since i do not have an alarm clock next to bed and dont feel like rolling over to look at the phone all the time. but like to have watch bluetooth connected to phone with swapps link incase an important call comes in while im sleeping.
If i had a sim in the watch at one point but am now using the bluetooth rom if i turn off the sim card since its not detected anyway would that help with the battery life issue?
Would love to setup a tasker profile to auto shut off either bluetooth or wifi just not sure which is killing more battery.
Thanks,
There's ap App called Llama, not sure if it'll work on the Omate.
Try it out it does all sorts of tasker type stuff.
simple1i said:
There's ap App called Llama, not sure if it'll work on the Omate.
Try it out it does all sorts of tasker type stuff.
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Llama works fine on the TS
I use it to deactivate wifi when leaving home and set wifi policy to turn off shortly after screen is off.
However, leaving wifi on is not draining much, I have borrowed one it is on for many days when not used. Not sure about BT.
(Using Loki's tweaks.)
What drains the battery is using any radio or the GPS and of course the screen, so deactivating sync is helping.
Will be sure to disable the gps hopefully that helps turned off SIM card slot also. What's the difference between this llama app and tasker? Is it smaller or something? I use tasker on my watch and it runs awesome.
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So I've been using my Amazfit Watch for about 6 months.
I'm getting consistent Battery life of 7 days using WOS 2.6.2.0 with my Mi Max 2 on the Xtended ROM.
Absolutely impressed and wondering if there is any benefit or need to look at the Amazfit Stratos?
̃̃̃7 days without connect ?
Đặng Đình Ngọc said:
̃̃̃7 days without connect ?
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It made it just over 7 days from the last charge and got to 5% and wouldn't connect to sync again. With previous rom installs I only noticed around 5-6 days total.
Is this with or without connection to phone? What settings are you using? I'm getting 4-5 days (10ish% left) with connection to phone for notifications and sync manually 2 - 3 times a day by opening the Amazfit app on the phone. I have Amazemod installed on the phone(without the service apk on watch), music streaming disabled and auto aiplane mode from 23:00 till 6:00.
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Is this with or without connection to phone? What settings are you using? I'm getting 4-5 days (10ish% left) with connection to phone for notifications and sync manually 2 - 3 times a day by opening the Amazfit app on the phone. I have Amazemod installed on the phone(without the service apk on watch), music streaming disabled and auto aiplane mode from 23:00 till 6:00.
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Okay I'll lay out what I've done..
- Watch face is prototype source
- Brightness is on Auto
- Phone is connected to Watch via BT / No wifi / no notifications
- I don't do any routine manual syncs, just go into the app to check my performance occasionally
- Music streaming disabled
- I didn't even realise there was an airplane auto feature, so have just set that now for 9pm to 6am. Hopefully it still collects sleep data.
Not sure I've done much else, except on the phone I've turned off background activity for the Amazfit app and added the app to Greenify.
So you do not use music or notifications?
Honestly... You can set you watch to be in Always airplane mode and only disable it when you want to sync with app. It will still track your sleep and activities.
Your battery performance will be increased even more I think.
GrinFactor said:
So you do not use music or notifications?
Honestly... You can set you watch to be in Always airplane mode and only disable it when you want to sync with app. It will still track your sleep and activities.
Your battery performance will be increased even more I think.
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No music from the watch and actually the only notifications were weather updates. I def want sleep and activities tracked, so that's all good.
I can't get the watch to detect names when someone calls, so I guess I might set auto airplane mode to allow 30mins for updating in the middle of the night, otherwise I'll keep it off and see how it goes.