Opinion on R1s battery life

Mine has been acting up lately :confused: probably because it slept in the freezer one night.

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Freezer sounds kind of nice right now (with temps where I live). My battery life has been pretty consistent and very good.

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Story timeā€¦ Howā€™d your R1 end up in a freezer?

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No issues on battery life here! I get a day of usage usually.

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I get one day of usage for sure and sometimes even two!

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So I found out that the scroll wheel got like really stiff if it gets cold so I put it in the freezer and forgot about it.

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Oops :sweat_smile::sweat_smile::sweat_smile:

Poor R1

I charged my rabbit fully and then did not use it the following day. The day after I tried to turn it on and it was completely dead. Two days ago again I charged it to full, turned it off and now today it is at 0%. Is this supposed to be like this? So far ive gotten about 40 minutes of use out of it which was the first day I opened it.

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Mine has never lasted for more than 24 hours, when I havenā€™t touched it. Usually around 16. When it is used, i get about 2-3 hours. Itā€™s horrific.

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My standby battery is pretty good. With light usage it will last well over a day. With heavy usage is about a day. The update that improved the battery life really made a difference. Hopefully it can be improved further. Some insight into the battery usage from Jesse:

"the most battery consuming tasks are: 1. continuous music streaming. 2. camera 3. hour long voice recording sessions.

a good practice to increase battery performance is after you done listening music, five tap the ptt. otherwise the spotify is sitll standing by."

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I canā€™t complain about battery life as Iā€™ve been pretty happy with it. Multiple days of standby time or a full day of use.

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This sounds like a faulty battery. Mine runs for over a day with standard use (I donā€™t use it for music), sometimes even 2 days.

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Weird - maybe i got a bum battery. I put it in standby an hour ago at 89%, put it next to my router so that it wasnā€™t pulling too much energy for a wifi signal (which is strong everywhere, but obvs good next to the router) - and itā€™s down to 80%. Wait, just looked, since i started typing this it went down to 79%. Glad yaā€™ll are having a different experience than I am with batteries.

No complaints, really.
(tl;dr casual user uses casually and gets superb battery life)

Iā€™d say I use it fairly infrequently throughout a standard day.
A few magic camera photos dispersed throughout when things catch my eye, a few queries about Excel / some accounting-related quandaries at work (very helpful in this regard), and maybe terminal mode for random questions that pop up.

At home, usage is a bit more experimental, just exploring the capabilities and features, etc. Some music listening. Testinā€™ thangs, etc.

I charge it back to full from about the 15-20% range every other evening. The last few days, Iā€™ve been turning it off when not in use for a few hours or at night. This, naturally, has made my charge to usage ratio negligible.

Additionally, these restarts seem to keep the R1 ā€œfreshā€, as in the longer I leave it on, the more frequent instances of ā€œignoringā€ or hallucinations appear to be. However, this is speculative.

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i left the house at 9am today at 100%, used it a bunch for magic cam pics while I was out, itā€™s now 4pm and iā€™m at 69% still.

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Thats not bad Simon. Surprisingly good actually!! Are you mostly on Wifi?

Mine was fully charged at Midnight.
It only lost 6% during my sleep (1%/h), pretty decent I believe.

Currently at 34%. So I used 60% on 10 journal entries. Of those 10, 4 were magic cam and 2 vision entries.

I kind of was expecting closer to a two day charge. But I only have it since Monday, so still actively playing with it

Also, I think the Wifi is eating the most of my R1 Battery, as I quite often see ā€˜poor connectionā€™. Might force the R1 to use my 2,5ghz wifi to see it that improves it.

Finally, I feel that a fix for the sensitive settings menu will also benefit the battery. Couple of times now that I pulled the R1 out of my pocket in the settings menu.

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seems okā€¦ Havenā€™t had it under 33%, charging it daily since I got it.

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Today was quite an improvement over yesterday!

Currently 75% remaining, with a usage from 8am till 9pm. During again 10 entries and of those 7 were magic cam entries.

Will check how far Iā€™ll get without an overnight charge.

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Generally, itā€™s pretty good these days. There are some wonky days when it will be dead in the morning even if I didnā€™t use it much at the end of the day prior, but then other days with more use it will still have plenty of charge by the time morning rolls around :man_shrugging:

Overall though, way better now than it was early on, thatā€™s for sure lol

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Itā€™s usually pretty good for me. Currently, Iā€™m seeing about two days of battery with my usage

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