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caesar327
Prodigy I
November 16, 2021
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New Battery Saver Mode Not Working?

Anyone else get this to work?  It is part of today’s 13.4 update.   But when I try to toggle battery saver mode to the On setting -- it immediately toggles back to “off” on its own.   I can’t get it to turn on.  Am I doing something wrong -- or is anyone else seeing this? 

I’m using an iPhone X -- latest iOS updates applied.   I have a Roam I’m trying to apply this to.

Here’s what it says to do -- and I’m doing it (trying to):

Enable Battery Saver on portable Sonos products | Sonos

 

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AjTrek1
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November 17, 2021

@Airgetlam@Ken_Griffiths@caesar327 

I can confirm the issue @caesar327 was experiencing. Just updating the Sonos App (via download) does not auto activate the Battery Saver Mode for Roam and Move. After downloading the App the Battery Saver Mode button would go to “on’ and jump back to “off”. 

The second step appears to be forcing the “check for updates” which will update the Sonos firmware in the hardware. After the firmware is updated the Sonos App (download) on other devices (like my iPad) recognized that the hardware had already been updated and therefore brought back “no update required” when I forced the update check via my iPad. The Battery Saver Button was already turned on.

 

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Ken_Griffiths
Ken_Griffiths
November 17, 2021

@Airgetlam@Ken_Griffiths@caesar327 

I can confirm the issue @caesar327 was experiencing. Just updating the Sonos App (via download) does not auto activate the Battery Saver Mode for Roam and Move. After downloading the App the Battery Saver Mode button would go to “on’ and jump back to “off”. 

The second step appears to be forcing the “check for updates” which will update the Sonos firmware in the hardware. After the firmware is updated the Sonos App (download) on other devices (like my iPad) recognized that the hardware had already been updated and therefore brought back “no update required” when I forced the update check via my iPad. The Battery Saver Button was already turned on.

Thanks @AjTrek1, so just to clarify was this after you had installed the App software, but before updating the device firmware, or was it after doing both those things? I just had to do the App install and then the firmware install once only and all seemed good, no further prompts for updates after that in my case.

Admittedly, I did not try to switch on the battery saving feature in between the ‘App software update’ and the ‘Device firmware update’, but after doing both those things, it then all worked ok here. I was able to toggle ‘on’ the feature and it stayed ‘on’. I just assumec it needed both the software and firmware fully updated for the new feature(s) to work. 

AjTrek1
AjTrek1
November 17, 2021

@Ken_Griffiths

@Airgetlam@Ken_Griffiths@caesar327 

I can confirm the issue @caesar327 was experiencing. Just updating the Sonos App (via download) does not auto activate the Battery Saver Mode for Roam and Move. After downloading the App the Battery Saver Mode button would go to “on’ and jump back to “off”. 

The second step appears to be forcing the “check for updates” which will update the Sonos firmware in the hardware. After the firmware is updated the Sonos App (download) on other devices (like my iPad) recognized that the hardware had already been updated and therefore brought back “no update required” when I forced the update check via my iPad. The Battery Saver Button was already turned on.

Thanks @AjTrek1, so just to clarify was this after you had installed the App software, but before updating the device firmware,

Yes. I figured that downloading the App software would have auto triggered the firmware update. Obviously not. I was doing two things at once and just went to check the Battery Saving Feature without forcing the firmware update. I guess the auto update feature (that I like) has spoiled me LOL. Just goes to show that one should never forget the basics.

Next I’m going to check out DTS. I have a few discs that are encoded as such. Alien 40 Anniversary set. 

 

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    buddyrich33
    Renowned Enthusiast I
    November 17, 2021

    Any idea if this actually fixes the self-discharge issue?  I really hope it does.  From my own testing when I first got a Move it was 5-6% a night when supposedly completely off.  Just enabled Power Saver and am taking my Move off the stand and hard powering down at 100% battery.  My Battery is no longer new compared to when I did the test close to a  year and a half ago but lets see if this fixes it.

     

     

    nevvob
    Lyricist I
    November 19, 2021

    Hi there,

    This feature is a great usability enhancement however I’ve not left my speaker (Roam) on for 30 minutes to test it out but am sure it does work as described. It just seems like a waste of battery power to leave it idling for that long.  I always turn it off by holding down the power button for 5 seconds, however it always feels like that you have to apply a lot of pressure to turn it off and over time I am concerned that the button will fail to function.

    My request would be to be able to actually specify how long in minutes after it is idle that the speaker will go into sleep mode.  I realise that this feature has only been introduced and am not complaining over a clearly improved feature, but at the moment there is no value in me using this.

    My use case is like a bunch of others it is a speaker in the bathroom that gets 15 minutes usage every day.

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