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jis4uk
over 3 years ago

DC Rainmaker says 6 days basically. I haven’t gotten that yet. I was close until this indoor track workout. I also have used Indoor track twice and each time it drained the battery- I can’t figure out why. I used half the batter life on a 1:30 brick indoor bike/outdoor run with GPS than i did on a 45 minute indoor track activity. Others experience with battery?

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    I played golf yesterday, took ~4 hours with GPS only. It used 19% of the battery, AOD was on. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    Hi all,

    I think the Epix battery is holding up pretty well. I have mine set on the lowest brightness of 33.3% (although I am considering upping that to 66.6%), with gesture on, and don't use PulseOx at all. Also, sleep mode kicks in between 10pm and 7am as well and I think I have everything on except for PulseOx.

    So, I have found that my battery has gone from 100% to 5% in 11 days. This is based on wearing it 24/7 and having done the following activities:

    3 hours 3 minutes of trail running with All Satellites + Multiband on, connected to a HR strap and with the watch gesture mode on 33.3% brightness.

    1 hour 3 minutes of walking with All Satellites + Multiband on, using optical HR and with the watch gesture mode on 33.3% brightness.

    3 hours 29 minutes of HIIT workouts connected to a HR strap with the watch gesture mode on 33.3% brightness.

    4 hours 42 minutes of indoor cycling connected to a smart trainer and HR strap with the watch gesture mode on 33.3% brightness.

    So just over 12 hours of activities, of which 1/3 were using All Satellites + Multiband, and 10.5 days on smartwatch mode (using stock watch faces) linked to my phone all the time and getting regular notifications throughout the day.

    All in all, not bad I'd say. Remove the activities and it would probably do 16 days in smartwatch mode, or near enough. 

    How have your watches fared?

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to boddijc

    That battery usage is very good, even without an AMOLED display.

    I have done 1 to 2 hrs of indoor and outdoor activities per day, and I am at 10% battery left on day 8.

    Similar settings to yours, but I changed GPS between GPS Only and All Systems, so I think yours is doing better than mine on battery.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    Went skiing for 2 days with 100% (Saturday morning). Went down to 67%, now after 1,5h workout (no gps) it is at 61%. It think I have to charge it on Saturday or even next week. For me that's enough. Without skiing it would last me 14 days for sure

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    Some experience on my end with SPO2 and battery. I was apprehensive to turn it on since I felt it would absolutely trash the battery overnight. However, I was pleasantly surprised it fared much better than I thought:

    • Bedtime: 9:55PM 58%
    • Morning: 5:30AM 55%

    I have the sleep watch face with touch disabled and SPO2 turned on with DND. I think this is quite good performance. 

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    My experience (after 1 month):

    100% -> 18% (first battery low warning) in 5 days.

    I wouldn't risk the 6th day. So in my case - it's a 5 day battery life watch with very light outdoor lifestyle.

    During those 5 days:

    • 3hrs of total GPS time (walking, running)
    • Wearing 24x7 (incl. sleeping, showering)
    • All default settings except:
    • Screen - AOD, stock watchface, lowest brightness with 8s timeout
    • Bedtime - 22:30-06:00, touch enabled
    • All metrics are ON (oxygen during sleep etc.)
    • Smart notifications (and I get them a lot) - ON
    • Many glances (aka widgets) - ON (structured in folders). Don't know if they drain battery or not

    Maybe it would last 7 days without GPS. I don't know.