Disappointing battery life

Bluetooth uses a lot of battery and my watch was lasting only about 5-7 days with all of these features on. So your battery life seems typical based on all of these activities. To get to 11-12 days of battery life with 3-5 hours of GPS activities, I turn off my Bluetooth and only turn it on once a day - probably extreme but I hate charging. :-)

Garmin says 12day With bluetooth?
now i charge my watch 3 times...probably now the battery is on top of your performance

I use DividedTime watch face, you? It’s too different the battery consumption?!

The specs say up to 12 days as a smartwatch. I would take that to mean with bluetooth, otherwise it's not particularly smart.

I would also take that to mean 'out of the box' without any additions. Once you start changing things by adding 3rd party watch faces or extra data fields, you can expect the battery life to decrease.

Garmin says 12day With bluetooth?
now i charge my watch 3 times...probably now the battery is on top of your performance

I use DividedTime watch face, you? It’s too different the battery consumption?!

I use the Crystal face with no seconds and no heartbeat showing. I enabled the Bluetooth (BT) icon so I know when BT is on or off. I did notice greater battery drainage for some face watches so watch out there (pun intended :-).

Possibly my bad as I am referring to a 5S+. I am aware there is a difference. I probably missed the reference to your issue being with a 5+. Either way, my point still stands. Why would you trust your life with a piece of electronics when failures occur all the time? Yes we expect manufacturers to stand by their claims. Garmin are hedging a little, but they do say up to x hrs, n days. They are not guaranteeing anything.

you are giving me strange points of toughs, i said that im not a pro and am not risking my life, just i should not babysit this watch, also every time you sit in your car, bus, train etc you are risking your live.
based on your words, about "up to" you basically say that up to means a variation in numbets between 1-100%, and if they dont guarantee anything at all why the are in that business at all? i think that garmin are not som second quality company, so they can afford such buggy device, i thought of buying a camera and second display from them .. not anymore. i will try to get back my clean old 5 saphire, i dont want my money back even.
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Bluetooth uses a lot of battery and my watch was lasting only about 5-7 days with all of these features on. So your battery life seems typical based on all of these activities. To get to 11-12 days of battery life with 3-5 hours of GPS activities, I turn off my Bluetooth and only turn it on once a day - probably extreme but I hate charging. :-)

long time ago was when bluetooth used a lot of baterry, nowadays there is a low energy bluetooth ...

@zetx I'm not quite sure what battery life you expect - as per philipshambrook it is "up to" and in mountain conditions there may be all sorts of other issues that may impact battery life - especially temperature. I agree that you shouldn't "babysit" the watch but also most consumer electronics advertise one thing and deliver another - mobile phones for example where the battery life rarely if ever matches the advertised values and cars where petrol consumption is also very far from reality. Like with all these products as a consumer unfortunately you have to allow for this.

Quick update from me.

I turned it off at midnight at 11% as I wanted to get through today.

Turned back on at 7 and it was still 11%, but it is 5% now at 10am.

I'll turned it off at 1% and wait to get home to charge. I didn't bring the cable with me.

Other than the non linear drainage. I think I've easily exceeded the upto quote, but with the Bluetooth mostly off.

brand new F5+, began charging at 9.30am and went from 15 to 59% within around 2 hours. Checked a few mins later and now says 100%! So I guess the indicator is not very accurate at all OR it's lying and I'm still on around 60%. Not sure if I shoukd unplug or not as wanted to carry out a full battery cycle for first use

chatlow what was your initial battery level, 15%?

Mine was completely dead. 0. Wouldn't even start charging until it was kicked into life by plugging into my PC.

Mine went up 1 by 1 to 93. Then jumped to 100. See my earlier posts.

@zetx I'm not quite sure what battery life you expect - as per philipshambrook it is "up to" and in mountain conditions there may be all sorts of other issues that may impact battery life - especially temperature. I agree that you shouldn't "babysit" the watch but also most consumer electronics advertise one thing and deliver another - mobile phones for example where the battery life rarely if ever matches the advertised values and cars where petrol consumption is also very far from reality. Like with all these products as a consumer unfortunately you have to allow for this.

temperature cannot be such big problem because watch itself stays on your hand and you give him a heat from it. i barely can make 11h on activity ... previous fenix 5 managed to do over 24 h activities on the same trails/tracks with the same conditions, watchface, bluetooh activity.