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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you don’t need the new features, they have made massive improvements to battery life—they’re just hidden behind the new features a s5 owner might not care about or need.

When I got my S6, I disabled:

  • Pulse OX
  • Always on display
  • wake on lift
  • noise monitoring

I also set the vibration to the lightest/most subtle mode.

When new, I was getting 56 hours.

I’m down to about 48 hours after just over two years.

Caveat: I use a Bluetooth HRM when working out. When I workout with the watch as the always-on HRM battery life is shortened accordingly.

[–] Nurgle 3 points 1 year ago

I did not know you could disable noise monitoring, or as I like to call it ‘hand is outside the window while driving’ alert.