Messenger AWFUL battery life

I'm almost sure I have a hardware problem here, but I want to confirm.

I have a brand new inReach Messenger (<1 week). I charged it to 100% and the battery drained fully in 10h.

So I repeated the test under the best conditions:

- backlight off

- tracking off

- bluetooth off

It was just sitting on my desk, indoors. The battery went 100% -> 59% overnight and by 4pm it was at zero. Less than 16h life.

A hardware issue?
Cheers,

Kamil

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7923619 over 1 year ago +2

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I've repeated the experiment…
Volker over 1 year ago in reply to skyeye +1

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0 skyeye 4 months ago in reply to 6591085

first all batteries have some value of selfdischarge, often depending on temperature.

Often 100% is not very meaningful it is just some point where it can not be charged any more.

Then current electronic devices, seldom have real mechanical switch, but rather the device is in deep sleep and the ON switch will just make it wake up.

Try with your smartphone, this will behave very similar