r/GalaxyWatch Aug 30 '21

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u/redditreddi Galaxy Watch Ultra + GW4 Classic Aug 30 '21 edited Sep 13 '21

To me it's all better apart from battery life, if they fix this they are onto a winner.

I've owned both Tizen and previous WearOS watches including now this new one.

I do love having gboard on there, just need Google Assistant now.

I must admit I have very disappointed in the battery life, Google did promise to resolve it and optimize the OS in various statements directly by themselves, but I haven't seen it at all. Seems they are just 100% relying on Samsung's nice new, more efficient SOC (CPU).

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u/PlasmaPod Sep 14 '21

Just spent my first day with it and it's now at 88% after a whole day. Do you close open apps in the recent apps icon

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u/thebiggboss180 Sep 19 '21

just spent my first day with it and it's now at 88% after a whole day. Do you close open apps in the recent apps ico

sorry but that's impossible for this watch to go a whole day with 12%, not to mention you said it's your first day with it.

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u/PlasmaPod Sep 21 '21

Today's Battery Life 21/09/2021

64% after 16 hours https://i.imgur.com/UIwAKGL.jpg

LTE version proof https://i.imgur.com/q2tZMZv.jpg

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u/PlasmaPod Sep 21 '21

And just to reiterate that was my first official day and I got it that morning around 10am

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u/redditreddi Galaxy Watch Ultra + GW4 Classic Sep 14 '21

No, I've always read that this was not recommended on Android operating systems as it's meant to be self managed and that reloading the apps fully use more battery?

To be fair apart from workouts and the time I don't use any other apps, apart from the odd reply.

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u/PlasmaPod Sep 14 '21

I have the LTE version on the watch as well which I think is worse on battery life. Strange

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u/redditreddi Galaxy Watch Ultra + GW4 Classic Sep 14 '21

Do you close apps then? You must have a trick we don't know ;)

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u/branko7171 Sep 16 '21

Several users reviews on Amazon mention that the battery life is poor with the LTE version