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Battery drain and O2

Effepigi
over 3 years ago

I did some new tests with firmware 8.20 for understand impact about some functions.

In particular I test it with and without watchface with or without seconds and heartbeats indications, and I see that there isn't any relevant difference, it fill the same. 

I test it too difference from oxygen test all the day and only in the night, and here I see very big difference without change anything other and always in my normal use (with bluetooth, wifi and everything that I use): I go from 3 days and 10 hours to 6 days and 1 hour for 100% of battery drain (I did 3 test for everyone and with battery drain around 70-85%). It's possibile that oxygen sensor is soo relevant about battery? If I turn off in the night too oxygen sensor, I think that I can have 8-9 days for 100% of drain, but what change for data? I have not what? Adapt about clima?

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    i have detected the same behaviour in my watch, the oxygen sensor eat many battery

  • +1 over 3 years ago

    Yes, the Pulse Ox sensor (the red LED's) is a BIG battery drain. And it doesn't really affect anything apart from the Pulse Oximeter metric itself.

    The regular HR sensor (the green LED's) are a lot lower power drain, and this data affects a wide range of other metrics - eg. body battery, stress, sleep tracking, intensity minutes, recovery to name a few.

    TL;DR. Turn the Pulse Ox off, leave the regular HR sensor on.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to mcalista

    I will try to turn off in the night too for understand battery impact. It's strange that Ox sensor have more battery drain of HR sensore, because I know that red led is less power than green led for battery: maybe it need very more time on for read Ox.