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230 Battery Life

I'm really curious about the battery life estimates on this watch. 5 weeks is obviously on the high side of what it's capable of. Meaning no GPS usage, no backlight, no bluetooth notifications/syncing, and likely no activity tracking. However, I'm curious about real world usage.

If you've got this watch detail what you have turned on, and how long it lasts.

Hours of Training/GPS per week?
Bluetooth notifications? yes/no
Activity Tracking Active? yes/no
Backlight Settings?
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Total battery life?

0 Former Member over 9 years ago

Maybe use "wrist turn" and "key press" as options instead of "always on"?

That's an idea, I will try.

0 vanbojp over 9 years ago

Received the 230 for xmas... charged it fully on Dec 26th. Since then, 4 runs (~20 min each), and 5 workouts (non GPS, ~45 min each). Have notifications on, activity tracking on, gps+glonass enabled, 1-second recording, wrist-turn backlight enabled. I'm at 23% today (12 days).

Given how much I messed around it with the first week (installing apps, tweaking settings, etc.), I expect to get about 3 weeks of usage... Very pleased with that overall.

0 Tioz90 over 9 years ago

Battery life doesn't seem so good with 3.30

0 Sergey_Kessel over 9 years ago

Full charge on 5th
Most time on my wrist, but no sleep tracking (one night I think). Paired with smartphone all the time

4 runs at low temperatures (-18, -21, -23 and -14), 3h55 mins in total
Backlight always on during runs
Recording 1sec
GPS+Glonass
Watch weared above the glove (in low temperatures)

Last run turned light off and put the watch under glove to save battery

Watch turned off right after I pushed stop after my 4th run yesterday.

That is 6 days with 4 hours of activity.
One activity takes around 15-25 percent (days without activity - around 5% a day)
Expected a bit more (610 with dead battery and similar settings (backlight on, 1sec recording) also took around 25% per run), but I can live with that
(Still wonder how they advertise 16hrs)

No chance to compare how it behaved before 3.30 (did just one run with stock and then updated), so cannot comment if it became worse
PS, maybe they changed level of light? There are many complaints but at night it is perfectly visible (again, cannot compare with previous one)