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BUG burning through battery.

2572376

purchase new mini 3 plus yesterday, charge to 100%, update firmware, all ok.
place it in a location with clear view of the sky and it burns through the battery in 48 hours and it keeps saying "trouble sending"

The bug is that without an active subscription it should not be trying to send or receive anything and as its doing this continually its depleting the battery at 50% a day.
Once you get a subscription, this does not happen. !!!

This is a logic bug, it should NOT be trying to contact satellites when there isnt an active subscription, why would you ?.

The IR mini 2, does not suffer from this bug, it works as expected and has around 14 days battery life without an active subscription.

Garmin, please fix this, the device is meant to work properly without an active subscription.

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    2572376 said:
    it keeps saying "trouble sending"

    Just for clarification: have you tried to send something (without a subscription)? So maybe the device is trying to send it again and again and burning the battery? But anyway: the device should recognize that there is no subscription and stop trying to send something...(if that is the reason for burning the battery).

    Supplement: ok- just checked with a not activated M3+: if you try to send a message without activation; the device tells you" your device may not be activated...", so my thoughts above are not possible. The device is on sw 5.03, I put it outside with clear view to the sky now (81% battery; 9:45am).

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    No the device is not meant to work properly without an active subscription. The primary use of the device is to communicate via satellite. Without an active subscription it cannot communicate. You are creating an impossible situation that it cannot resolve and needn't be allowed for or acknowledged by Garmin. This is a nonsensical thread and really should be deleted...