‘Looks at perfectly functional Galaxy Watch 3 on my wrist’

  • octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    46MM Galaxy Watch here and I can get 24H or sometimes a bit more provided I switch it to night mode when I’m sleeping. Still using AOD, cont HR monitor etc. Yeah, this old thing is getting long in the tooth, but I came to it from WearOS, really don’t want to go back.

    Not a lot is appealing to me in the smartwatch market currently. Good for my wallet, I suppose.

    • itstoowet@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Is this the norm for smart watches? I just bought my first one, a Redmi watch 3 active, 6 days ago and still haven’t charged it yet (just got to 18%.)

      There’s no way I’d put up with another device that I have to charge every day.

      • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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        5 months ago

        Depends. My Garmin goes for close to a week but my galaxy 6 barely makes 20h. I don’t run anything fancy on it other than enabling always on screen. I won’t compromise on that as I think it’s ridiculous to have to shake your arm to see what time it is.

      • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
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        5 months ago

        It’s normal for most afaik but that’s because manufacturers make a trimmed down phone to go on your wrist which means you have to charge it daily, without realising it’s on your wrist so it doesn’t need to be super slim with huge cuts to battery size to go in your pocket.

        My garmin has an always on display, heart rate, steps, blood oxygen, thermometer, barometer and whatever else and yet still manages a 4 week battery life, 3 weeks with normal use (1h gps per day, using the touchscreen and higher brightness) or even around 50-60h of GPS/more frequent heart rate/active maps activity tracking

        It’s on 7% now and is giving me an estimated battery life of >2 days, which just shows how abysmal many smart watch battery lives are

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        5 months ago

        To a degree it depends on settings. But consider that I’ve been using this watch for 5 years or so, and I have all my settings more or less “maxed out” regarding consumption. I don’t even have auto-brightness on because I always found it annoying for it to adjust when I flicked my wrist - I just have it locked at about 80%.

        But yeah, most smartwatches that I’ve ever been familiar with are getting a couple days when new unless you turn off features. (Bear in mind the newest thing I have first-hand experience with is my original Galaxy Watch, and which I am currently still wearing) I want to say I was making it 48h + when new, but that was so long ago…

        For typical smartwatches when I see impressive claims regarding battery life much longer than that, it usually turns out that the person has turned off one thing or another that I don’t want to turn off.

        Look at Hybrid smartwatches in general, and in particular some of the Garmin models (pack a lunch, there are a LOT of Garmin models, some very similar to each other) for super long battery life, I think.

        All this is just IME, and I don’t pay really close attention to smartwatch tech except peeking every couple years to see if there’s anything that might convince me to move on from my Galaxy Watch. I do like some of the Garmin hybrid models, but I’m not sure I’d like them longterm.

      • ShepherdPie@midwest.social
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        5 months ago

        I have a Galaxy Watch4 and it would last me about 3 days new and is down to around two days now. I’ve already bought a replacement battery but haven’t bothered to put it in yet.

        This is with the always on display off and everything else on including wifi.

      • pycorax@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        It depends. Wear OS is heavy because it’s much more feature filled. I switched from a Garmin to a Galaxy Watch 4 because the feature set of Wear OS fits my use case much more than the Vivoactive 4 I had.

      • Bob Smith@sopuli.xyz
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        5 months ago

        Agreed. My old pebble lasts for over a week, not that I use it for much more than an alarm clock/metronome nowadays.

        It does those jobs extremely well, though.

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      A used watch 5 pro (or just buy a new one) can be had for like $160. I can leave all my stuff turned on and I always get over 48 hours. Plus WOS is just better than tizen, hands down.

      That said, I had a ticwatch pro 5 for a bit and it was better in every single way but one, so I had to send it back. It had a couple bugs they couldn’t figure out how to get rid of with my Note 20 Ultra compatibility.

      Still sad I don’t have that watch anymore. Awesome dual screen set up, better processor, more ram, faster ram, more storage, bigger and longer lasting battery, Smoother navigation. It would be the go to android watch if they could get their software compatibility up to snuff and support their devices longer.

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        Plus WOS is just better than tizen, hands down.

        It’s changed a lot since I moved off my Huawei then. And the primary reasons I went Tizen when I did were the glacial pace of software improvements and the shitty “upgrade” they announced to the SoC all the WearOS devices were using at the time. I don’t recall the details of the crappy qualcomm “upgrade” aside from remembering that it really wasn’t one in practice, and solved neither the battery life nor performance problems of WearOS at the time. (not even sure they were calling it WearOS then, IIRC they changed it from the original name around that time)

        A used watch 5 pro (or just buy a new one) can be had for like $160. I can leave all my stuff turned on and I always get over 48 hours.

        I’m not surprised a watch several gens newer is going to get better battery life than my original GW, but I don’t find I’m fussed enough about anything about it to spend money on an upgrade currently.