Battery rapidly draining

[segaretroboy]

Verification

• I searched for similar bug reports and found none was relevant.

What happened?

I went to bed with the watch near half charged, woke up with no charge.

What should happen instead?

I was expecting the watch to make it through the night.

Reproduction steps

I have no idea how this happened.

More details?

Gadgetbridge shows the battery dropped rapidly at around 5:30AM

Version

V1.13

Companion app

GadgetBridge 0.74.0

[steinhmor]

Same problem here. With the Update to 1.13 my battery only last half a day compared to 3,5 days before the update.

[FintasticMan]

I think these are different issues. I think @segaretroboy's issue is somehow caused by a bug causing some component (like the display) to stay on when it should turn off.

I think that @steinhmor's issue is something else, but I'm not sure what. Could you tell me what features you've enabled (such as heart rate, raise to wake etc.) and what your display timeout is set to? I personally got just under a week of usage before the changes in 1.13, and get over 2 weeks with those changes, so it's really surprising to see such short battery life.

[segaretroboy]

@FintasticMan I think you are correct on my issue, that was my suspicion but unfortunately I couldn't tell which it was since it happened overnight, the watch was acting normal the night prior.
When I took it off the screen kept trying to turn on and I had to fiddle with the button, but it didn't come back on before I walked away from it after setting it down so that was probably unrelated. The watch has been acting normal since this as well.

[steinhmor]

My problem also seems to be solved. After checking and setting the shake calibration (which might have been set to 0), my pinetime-battery seems to last muuuuuch longer. Thanks for the help!

[JF002]

Thanks for the update, I guess we can close this issue, then.

[segaretroboy]

Update on this, I recently had the watch do this again, after taking it off the charger, with nothing unusual with the watch's operation (screen was not stuck on and nothing was misbehaving) the watch went through 20% of the battery in the first 20 minutes off the charger, after this it re-stabilized. But it went from 61% to 42% between 1541 and 1600
Images are attached below

[FintasticMan]

That's expected, the battery percentage displayed while charging isn't accurate and will always be higher than what it should be. After taking it off the charger, it'll update to the correct percentage within 10 mins. It's best to leave it on the charger until it says 100%, in which case it should be fully charged.

[segaretroboy]

Not sure what happened this time, but this seems to have reoccurred in 1.14, went to bed around 3, and at 7AM my battery tanked, where I found the watch, it was face up, on a flat surface, with nothing near the button.


Only wake option selected is shake wake and the screen timeout is 7 seconds.
I have weather in use, but on this boot hadn't used the watch for anything but notifications and time telling.

[segaretroboy]

Actually it went dead in 24hrs


Off charger nearly full at 1430ish, dead by 1300ish

[FintasticMan]

There does seem to be an issue here, so I'll reopen this. It's very unfortunate that it happens infrequently enough that it's very hard to figure out what's causing it. Had it completely died by the time you checked it in the morning? If it hadn't, did you notice anything like the screen being on?

[segaretroboy]

I don't think the screen was on, I was up at around 12 today and didn't notice it if it was. I noticed when I put it on, shook it a few times, and pressed the button getting no response from it. I'll see if I cant set it in front of a webcam to see if I can catch the next time the issue appears.

[segaretroboy]

Update on this, the issue occurred while the watch was on my wrist at work. The screen ceased dimming or turning off, the touchscreen completely stopped recognizing input, and the button was limited in what it could do, holding the button successfully brought up the system info screen, and double tapping let me see the last notification, single pressing the button also successfully returned me to the time screen, but I could not scroll in any of these since the touch screen wasn't responding. I was able to restore normal function by rebooting by holding the button down.
From 17:04 to 17:45 the screen did not turn off.