3 days battery life with galaxy gear

Hi folks,

Yes 3-4 days battery life, is quite possible, with your Galaxy Gear!!!

As most of you knows, Samsung already declared that, new "gear 2" battery, will last 2-3 days and this was considered as an important improvement, compared to initial "galaxy gear".

So i have decided to check, what was this enhancement, in the battery of this new device and seen that, "gear 2" battery, is even less powerful (300 mAH) then the one which was coming with "galaxy gear" (315 mAH)

In fact, this was a confession from Samsung side that, the issue wasn't at the hardware, that is why, they have just made some fixes on the OS (tizen) and apps running on top of it.

Then i have loaded to my "galaxy gear" an application, which shows top battery consumers:) The result wasn't so big surprise, default applications, specially the ones which were dealing with my mobile phone, for handling data transfers between phone and watch were consuming almost all resources.

So, as these features, were nearly completely useless to me (because i was looking for a "real smart watch" not a phone accessory) i just uninstalled gear manager, enabled "Nova" as default launcher and VOILA; in a reasonable usage (you can still drain your battery in a few hours, if you continuously play subway surfer;)... or watch movie, on your "smart watch") it is lasting more then 3 days...

If you have rooted device like me, yes i also passed to dark side:) you can even rename/delete completely system apps, which you don't want to use at all...

Here i would like to open a small brackets for rooting; It's quite easy and gives you a lot of control on your "smart watch" (reaching it as a physical drive from your PC, installing apps by just running apk, without android developer kit, etc...), with tools like "root explorer", but without it also, you can still do a lot, as i have tried to show in the scope of this blog;)

Thanks for reading, cheers;)