The first round-faced smartwatch running on Android Wear, the Moto 360, is pretty sweet already on its own, but of course, as with most 1st generation devices, there might still be some bugs in it. The round smartwatch owners received a prompt to download and install a new firmware update.This has reportedly bettered the performance of the wearable, even if there are no major feature-based improvements.
It’s not exactly Android Wear 2.0, but more like 1.0.1.1448224 (previously 1.0.1.1387258) and build number KGW42R (previously KGW42N). As for what this has brought the Moto 360 owners, they’ve reported that the Google Now cards are more “fluid and responsive” on their smartwatch. But other than that obvious improvement, there are no major changes yet that can be seen after the update.
According to the official changelog from Motorola, the update will supposedly improve the Bluetooth connectivity between the smartwatch and the Android device it is rooted to, as some users have reported that there have been some “momentary disconnects” between the devices. Another minor improvement is that there is now a message that will confirm that your Moto 360 is charging, particularly when the smartwatch’s battery is fully drained.
If you haven’t received any firmware update yet, don’t panic and wonder if your Moto 360 is broken. Motorola said they will be continually rolling out the update in phases in the next few days. And maybe you wouldn’t even notice that it has been updated yet, so no need to rush or worry.
VIA: Droid Life
Still not totally fixed. My Moto 360 still looses connection, not as much. But with the 12 hour battery life(if I get lucky), and the connection still dropping. I am considering returning it
Have you turned off the ambient light sensor? So the screen is not on all day?
I’m also in the “sub 12 hour” battery life. Ambient Screen is off, sensor is on (get even worse with lowest battery since the sensor can dim the screen further than 1) and I’m lucky to get through a workday. I’ve realised that I’m very “animated” with my hands, causing the battery to be lesser. The Accelerometer in this thing is overly sensitive and actually gets triggered (turning on the screen) by my car driving. (MD Roads aren’t the best.) I picked up the LG G Watch just to see if it was my animated hand motions/car/roads and discovered it’s the 360.
Using Navigation on the 360 for 20 minutes will take approximately 20% off my battery. Using Navigation on the G Watch? 5-8%. Plain and simple, I suspect they attempted to make up for the lower battery and the screen needing to be off by making the Accelerometer overly sensitive, to the point that the lightest movement sets it off. Definitely not ideal, but what can do you? I love the damn thing, (though how is it lighter than the G Watch?) but I can’t deal with sub work day battery life.
Something is not right with yours :(….I get 33-35 HR on average at any given time of the day.
Initially my 360 would barely get me ’til the early evening, but now I put it on around 7:30 and by 10pm I still have about 40% left… screen is off most of the time and just a few notifications / SMS / email (30-50)… plus about 5 minutes of demo-time to those who ask what it is.
That said, Battery life is worse than the Gear Live which I also have… i’d say the Samsung will get about twice the battery life compared to the 360… but I just love the 360 more…