Thanks. My watch is typically 3% / hour including the watch face and notifications. So I’d hope the watch face itself is closer to 2.5% / hour. I’ll keep eye on it… Before the update, facer faces were definitely in the same range you quote. Would be great if there was little difference between facer and native faces…
@DaveS2 thanks for the note about the lack of indication that an update is available. We’re going to try and do a better job at communicating that out!
Regarding our battery usage, we’re definitely continuously trying to improve the battery and shooting to be as good as the Samsung faces, but not sure we’ll be able to get there immediately. Definitely let us know if the 3.0.8 version improves Facer’s battery usage, and if it makes it acceptable to you!
@DaveS2 Hi Dave - just following up to see if you noticed any improvements with the battery after the update to 3.0.8?
Ok so I saw most of these updates whilst I was on holiday so have been eager to try.
Running 3.1.1_1437 on Pixel and findings are as follows:
Gear s3 Frontier using TL Casual Golden God face
Flight mode using dark blue screen 100-0% in under 6 hours (on a plane so no ability use the device to any degree) 16.7% usage per hour
Normal use light blue screen 100-33% in 14 hrs 4.4% per hour
Normal use yellow screen (default colour that comes with face) 100-75% 11 hours 2.3% per hour.
As you can see very erratic usage and only one face. Will try another tomorrow but still have to pack a charger if I’m going away for the weekend which isn’t acceptable but can definitely see you guys are making progress. Keep up that focus on getting this nailed and you’ll be on to a winner
yes – it’s much better. I did some limited testing and was using about 3.3% - 3.5% per hour with stock faces on the S3 and now with 3.0.8 am getting about 3.7% to 4.0% / hour with Facer. So overall would still like to see Facer closer to stock, but at least now it’s very usable. (e.g. the extra 0.5% battery / hour over say 18 hours is about 9% total, which is easily within capacity for someone who charges daily).
That said, it’s not clear what the extra 0.5% / hour really buys … more faces, yes, but not clear whether facer is providing any more features over faces that are developed native. So, knowing those features or encouraging development using anything unique would help. But, Facer is now very usable so that’s great. Note that I did test facer with two different faces, including a lower burn face and one that really tanked my battery previously (Faster…with the red hands …).
One thing, the battery consumption rates above were for the watch as a whole…one thing I realized is that I should have measured only the watch face consumption for a true apples to apples comparison. I did my testing on days where other battery usage was about equal, however may not have been exact. If I test any further to isolate just teh watch face, I’ll post back.
Thanks for the fix.
Hi all…I´m new with Gear S3 and having a big drain of battery using Facer. Almost, 3-5% per hour. Stil is this normal?
I am using a Facer watch I created with blue and white on a black background. I have battery %, day of the week and date of the month and hour/minute/second hands. I disabled everything else (GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi, etc., to see a baseline. I am using only 0.63 percent per hour.
I intend to add different features back in one at a time to see how they use battery. You might do the same. It could be your Facer watch face or something else. Do some testing. Use another watch face and compare. Disable some apps and compare.
I had created a watch face that was very heavy on conditionals. Because of that, My watch went from 100% at 7 am to a full shut down by 1 pm. I had about 6 conditionals running, basically to make some graphics appear and disappear.
I am also having the same problem.battery drains in 30h.THEY HAVE TO FIX THIS PROBLEM…i stoped yusing it…
I have the exact same problem. I use Facer on the new lg 1 day of battery life. I use Facer on my Gear 3 classic, I have from 6am till about 1pm and the watch is completely dead!
i have the same on my huawei watch. i really like the faces better from facer but cant sacrifice the battery drain. i hope they come up with lower OPR for the faces. i have to use Watchmaker more than i want just for reduced battery drain
@Facer_Official S3 Frontier - massive battery drain even on dark faces with few conditionals, this got better in previous builds but now battery drain is making Facer faces a real issue, battery drains in less than 12 hours from 100%, I’m fearful that having to charge so regularly may impact on the battery condition/life of my device. Please update S3 users as to whether this is a known issue
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Hey guys! Sorry for the late reply.
@hayden which version of the mobile and companion app do you use? which version of the S3 do you have -LTE model or non-LTE? Any usage of more than 5% per hour on any watch face is definitely a bug somewhere.
@Ghostvdub hi there! same question on versions of the mobile app and watch app. Which model of the huawei watch do you have?
Cheers!
Hello i have the same problem! Full charge at 9:00 am and now 16:28 just 14% ! Help please! I love facer but the watch dont last the full day😞
Thank you
Hi @brunomassuncao, have reported this to @Facer_Official, whilst this is not a solution have you tried turning off Samsung Health APP? You can force it to stop in APPs or uninstall it if you don’t really use it. I’m not convinced that the battery drain is solely a Facer issue although I can confirm, in my experience, that Facer faces are depleting the battery more than they should.
Ok thank you so much! Hope there is a fix for this issue, because some faces from the app are GREAT!
Any luck with the battery drain ? because i’m having this issue also with my Gear Sport.
Yesterday with 100% full battery starting using facer and around 16:00 i got 14% left of battery.
When using a watchface from Samsung store there’s no drain problem
I have the latest companion running
I have the same problem - latest app versions installed. Just started using Facer, bought a $10 bundle of watch faces, selected a fairly dark one - and so far watch faces are using 63% of my battery (for comparison, Samsung Health is 17%, notifications 1%) over the first four hours of the day.
Any suggestions?
I started using Facer last week and found it really uses a lot of battery on the gear s3. I ran several days with a couple different faces and then made my own and tried it. I run my watch about 12 hours a day and have had it a year or so. I have a non-lte version, i have wifi turned off, I have everything turned off accept for the step counter, auto turn on with arm movement is also turned off. I use bluetooth to connect to my watch, I use the weather, notifications for email and texting as well as call people from it and receive calls on it. For the last year after a 12 hour day I was sitting at about 92% battery on my watch. I turn the watch off every day when I get home and am in for the night. With the update that happened around Thanksgiving I am around 83% at the end of the 12 hour day so it is really using more battery after the update. Also after the update everything was turned back on and was really killing the battery. I tried facer for a week are so and the battery was around 68% at the end of a normal day and after a week I took it off. I am back to the better battery life now of being in the mid to hi 80’s at the end of the 12 hour day. For the past year I could go Sunday to Sunday turning the watch off basically running the watch from 7am to 7pm and at the end of the week I was around 25%. I can’t go a week any longer so that sucks.