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Henrik Zetterberg posted:I sure as gently caress hope it fixes the battery issue with AOD. I just finished updating mine with no issues. Its weird that it allows you to update from the watch but the phone still looks like it was being used to update.
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I had no idea you could do updates directly from the watch until I clicked that macrumors link and read the comments. Neat.
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Oct 29, 2019 19:32
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:I had no idea you could do updates directly from the watch until I clicked that macrumors link and read the comments. Neat. ty
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Oct 29, 2019 23:22
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How’s battery on the S2 with the new update? It’s been absolutely utterly garbage for me since the phone updated to 13.1 so hopefully a new watch os helps.
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Oct 30, 2019 04:57
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:I sure as gently caress hope it fixes the battery issue with AOD. I’ve seen your posts in the thread but didn’t realize you still haven’t gotten it resolved. I haven’t had any battery issues with my S5 since coming over from an S0 profile. I’m still at over 56% with the info graph face and it’s end of day, hope yours gets fixed
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Oct 30, 2019 05:27
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Hed posted:I’ve seen your posts in the thread but didn’t realize you still haven’t gotten it resolved. I haven’t had any battery issues with my S5 since coming over from an S0 profile. I’m still at over 56% with the info graph face and it’s end of day, hope yours gets fixed 6.0.1 definitely helped, but I’m still falling way short of my 2-year old S3 with AOD on. If I turn it off, I get a lot more battery life. Going to give it a few days and see if it’s better on 6.1.
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Oct 30, 2019 06:00
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:6.0.1 definitely helped, but I’m still falling way short of my 2-year old S3 with AOD on. If I turn it off, I get a lot more battery life. Going to give it a few days and see if it’s better on 6.1. Well I wear my watch overnight and preciously I was losing 15-20% overnight and last night I lost about 6%.
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Oct 30, 2019 17:21
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I dunno, 6.1 doesn’t seem to be having a substantial impact for me. It is doing better with the brightness at two, but nothing mind blowing. But it’s the first day.
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Oct 31, 2019 16:41
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Yeah this latest update doesn’t seem to be improving anything on the battery side of things. From a full charge and wearing overnight I lost about the same (~15%) and now at lunch time I’m at around 60% which is what I’ve been rolling with since I got it.
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Oct 31, 2019 16:45
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Yeah this latest update doesn’t seem to be improving anything on the battery side of things. From a full charge and wearing overnight I lost about the same (~15%) and now at lunch time I’m at around 60% which is what I’ve been rolling with since I got it.
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Oct 31, 2019 17:17
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god this blows posted:So last night I lost 20% where the previous night I lost 6%. No clue why its different. Try putting it in theater mode overnight, maybe you were flailing around a bunch on the 20% night. I notice fewer inadvertent screen activations do a lot to preserve the battery.
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Oct 31, 2019 17:23
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Yeah no change for me on 6.1 with my 5. Bummer.
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Oct 31, 2019 17:33
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I use to have tons of problems with my Apple Watch 3 counting my hourly stands. I would be literally jumping around and sometimes it still wouldn't work. My theory was, it was related to me being sleeved (tattoos) and the watch was having issues recognizing my heartbeat. That said since I upgraded to the 5, I hit my stand goal everyday without even trying. I am not sure if it has a better heart rate detector or if my series 3 was defective. Either way it is nice to have it work finally.
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Oct 31, 2019 18:30
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Stand is just your watch detecting it's in a "arm down at your side" orientation. Walking/Running/normal swinging arm is OK but if you are standing with your watch arm up in the air or holding something up (like a phone or drink) it won't think you are standing. You can also cheat and get stand credit by keeping your arm straight down while you sit. Not that I've done that in overly long work meetings. 
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Oct 31, 2019 18:54
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Correct, but the watch first has to determine you have the watch on. From what I understand it is the heart rate light sensor that tells the watch it is being worn or not. Tattoos can block light from the sensor and the reason it doesn't work. So my series 3 would think I wasn't wearing my watch and even when I tried the 'arm down at your side' trick it wouldn't work sometimes. I am sort of lucky that the tattoo the watch covers has a mix of bare skin mixed in. That is the only reason it would ever work. Still I would be on runs and I would have to move my watch around to get the heart rate to work. It seems like since the series 3 they improved that light sensor, and instead of it working 60% of the time, it now works 98% of the time correctly.
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Oct 31, 2019 19:13
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xzzy posted:Try putting it in theater mode overnight, maybe you were flailing around a bunch on the 20% night. I have raise to wake turned off since my series 1, that is why I'm really confused.
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Oct 31, 2019 20:58
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Zero One posted:You can also cheat and get stand credit by keeping your arm straight down while you sit. Not that I've done that in overly long work meetings. Also the correct move for long flights/car trips.
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Oct 31, 2019 21:01
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I cheat my steps by tossing my watch in the dryer and pressing start. Who's got the time to exercise!
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Oct 31, 2019 21:09
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So the AOD just...uses a decent amount of power, I guess? I can still sleep track and last nearly to the end of the day, so I guess it’s still good enough.
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Oct 31, 2019 21:10
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Since my S2 updated to WatchOS6 this week it's hyper aggressive about taking over my airpods from my phone and playing music on my watch. How can I adjust this behavior?
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Oct 31, 2019 22:15
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Pants Donkey posted:So the AOD just...uses a decent amount of power, I guess? I can still sleep track and last nearly to the end of the day, so I guess it’s still good enough. I just have a Series 3 so I don’t have AOD but this is my impression. I think you’re not supposed to expect multi-day battery life any more with AOD, but it should work if you charge it every night or so. I would imagine this is the normal use case and considered a fair trade-off for most people?
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Oct 31, 2019 23:01
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I'm actually impressed with the battery life on my S3, and I even just scooped up AutoSleep for the sleep tracking a week ago. I thought I'd really envy the AOD but really for $200 the S3 is plenty good. I'm loving the ease of band removal. Now I keep the sport band on at home because it's super comfortable, but if I'm going out to like a party or something I'll jazz it up with my fancy Monowear leather band. Why I hesitated so long to get an AW when I've always loved smartwatches is beyond me.
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Oct 31, 2019 23:23
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Violator posted:I just have a Series 3 so I don’t have AOD but this is my impression. I think you’re not supposed to expect multi-day battery life any more with AOD, but it should work if you charge it every night or so. I would imagine this is the normal use case and considered a fair trade-off for most people? I'm curious on how much variation in life the watch faces cause. They all get dimmed or elements removed and whatnot, but there's still a lot of variation in the dimmed states. Protocol7 posted:I'm loving the ease of band removal. Now I keep the sport band on at home because it's super comfortable, but if I'm going out to like a party or something I'll jazz it up with my fancy Monowear leather band.  . I got a knockoff leather loop a few days ago, I like it. Slightly fiddly to put on cause it's two pieces with nothing to stop the one end from slipping completely through the other loop, but no complaints once it's on. More adjustable than any of the other non loop bands and looks nicer than the sport loop. Magnets hold on well too, feels solid like the other traditionally fastened bands rather than the Milanese which loosens slightly throughout the day (probably cause it's magnets throughout the strap holding on rather than just the end piece).
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Oct 31, 2019 23:44
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I can't remember if I read it here or on Reddit, but there were patent indications that Apple is working on a self-adjusting wristband for the watch. I'd buy one of those in a heartbeat, regardless of cost. I went back to the Nike sport band because my Milanese band would loosen up slowly over the course of the day. It was maddening. Yes, I'm a crazy person with OCD.
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Nov 1, 2019 02:35
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Pants Donkey posted:So the AOD just...uses a decent amount of power, I guess? I can still sleep track and last nearly to the end of the day, so I guess it’s still good enough. I’m coming from an S0 but I have 69% (Nice!) after a full day’s wear with a large number of alerts (for me) coming in.
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Nov 1, 2019 03:47
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Christ, the latest WatchOS update has halved my battery time. Watch was dead by 5pm yesterday, put it on at 6:30 am. Today, I've had it on about an hour and it's down to 86% and it went down 1% while I was typing this post! What the gently caress. Edit: 3.5 hours of desk job later it’s at 35%. Somethings messed up. CaptainCrunch fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Nov 1, 2019 |
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Nov 1, 2019 16:01
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CaptainCrunch posted:Christ, the latest WatchOS update has halved my battery time. Watch was dead by 5pm yesterday, put it on at 6:30 am. Today, I've had it on about an hour and it's down to 86% and it went down 1% while I was typing this post! What the gently caress. I had the exact opposite - something about iOS 13 killed my S2 dead in no time flat but the latest Watch OS seems to have fixed things.
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Nov 2, 2019 00:02
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dissss posted:I had the exact opposite - something about iOS 13 killed my S2 dead in no time flat but the latest Watch OS seems to have fixed things. I literally have no idea what to do. Unpair? Make a Genius Bar appointment? It’s unusable in the current state.
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Nov 2, 2019 03:54
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CaptainCrunch posted:I literally have no idea what to do. Mine got better (not back to normal but better) after I backed up and restored the phone with iTunes. I'd already tried resetting the watch and setting it up as new but that didn't make a lick of difference. Otherwise I guess wait for the next update
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Here’s a new one, my watch 5 went into the upgrade animation while it was on my wrist. And now seems to be stuck in a loop. Awesome. Edit: apparently it’s not the upgrade animation, it’s the initial sync animation, according to the Watch app. smackfu fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Nov 2, 2019 |
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Nov 2, 2019 05:37
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CaptainCrunch posted:Christ, the latest WatchOS update has halved my battery time. Watch was dead by 5pm yesterday, put it on at 6:30 am. Today, I've had it on about an hour and it's down to 86% and it went down 1% while I was typing this post! What the gently caress. This is usually just an app acting up, reboot the watch and see if it normalizes. If not, unpair then re-pair and that takes care of most issues.
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Nov 2, 2019 23:34
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GoatSeeGuy posted:This is usually just an app acting up, reboot the watch and see if it normalizes. If not, unpair then re-pair and that takes care of most issues. Ok thank you. Will try that tonight.
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Nov 3, 2019 02:19
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A few days after upgrading my S2 to WatchOS 6 and the battery seems to be back to normal. There were a couple of days where the usage was abnormally high, but it's totally settled down now. I guess the advice to let your watch/phone figure itself out for a while after an upgrade is accurate. Which is good, because it means the old thing can soldier on for another year. Love the idea of upgrading phone with each new model, have no interest in doing so for the watch.
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Nov 3, 2019 12:37
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Took my watch off the charger before bed. Woke up in the middle of night. Watch had lost 60% charge in five hours  Is this just a weird thing with daylight saving time?
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Nov 3, 2019 13:08
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Pants Donkey posted:Took my watch off the charger before bed. Why? Surely the best time to charge it is when you sleep?
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XBenedict posted:Why? Surely the best time to charge it is when you sleep? Unless you are sleep tracking.
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Nov 3, 2019 18:41
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Or you want to test battery drain while the watch is totally idle.
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Pants Donkey posted:Took my watch off the charger before bed. Woke up in the middle of night. Watch had lost 60% charge in five hours Jokes on you, it was actually 4 hours due to DST.
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withak posted:Jokes on you, it was actually 4 hours due to DST. Other way around. The transition from Daylight Savings to Standard gives you an extra hour.
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Pants Donkey posted:Took my watch off the charger before bed. Woke up in the middle of night. Watch had lost 60% charge in five hours Yeah, there was a DST bug with AOD. The watch face crashed continuously for the duration of the extra hour.
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