5x+ vs 5x Realistic Battery Life

Hello! First time Garmin user and new to the forums.

I posted this in another thread but figured I would ask here to get more opinions.

I just received a Fenix 5x over the weekend and was concerned about battery life, as the new 5x+ was released recently and boasted significantly more battery life. I was thinking of trading in my 5x for the 5x+. Does anyone own/owned a 5x and upgraded to the 5x+? If so, I am curious to hear the difference in realistic battery life between the two. I will be using the watch intermittently on the weekends for hikes and kayaking but mostly will be using it as a normal watch that counts steps, heart rate etc throughout the week with smart notifications off. I am considering paying the extra $200 if the battery life difference is actually significant. A rep for Garmin told me on the phone the extra $$ wasn't worth it if I was only considering upgrading for better battery life. He said he saw relatively the same battery drain on both his 5x and 5x+. Would be great to hear anyone's experience comparing the battery life between the 5x and 5x+!

Thanks for the help guys.

Bryan

0 Former Member over 6 years ago

hi all,
interesting indeed.
I use the official watch face with sunset/sunrise with seconds.
and I have 0.2%/hour (before the picture taken as I started to use the backlight)
- 6.51 beta
- HR continuous
- BT on permanent connection with the phone

(my data cable remained in da office yesterday evening, so I cannot download the screenshot taken directly by 5X+...please bear with me and accept iPhone pictures... :o)

let me try to remove these (sunset and second( to see if better.

initial:

consumption 0.2% (was just before the picture taken - I have screenshot with this)

let's try this:

keep in touch.
robert

0 Former Member over 6 years ago

yes!

0.1% last hour.

this is a good one!...thank you!

0 Gr4z over 6 years ago

0.1% compared to 0.2%. What real world difference does this actually make?

0 Subtleguru over 6 years ago

I don't think it makes any difference for everyday wear but what does make a difference is usage during activities because it is common for ultra running events to take > 24 hrs. This is something Garmin is is way behind Suunto, who get 120 hrs activity. It is not clear that the 5x plus does better than the 5x to to extent that you can forget about charging after 15 hrs of activity. I never get better than 7% per hour in real-life activity use with HR and gps track following.

0 MWBZ over 6 years ago

I have Acclimation: All Day, Sleep Pulse Ox: ON, oWHR 24x7, BT: 24x7, GPS + GLONASS: use it 3 times per week for walking ~60 min, Gym everyday 2 times ~150 min/day.
I do not use Music, my watch face is slightly active (only continuous HR is displayed), black background, Display ON: 15 sec with wrist movement, Brightness 50%.

I consumed from Monday Jan 7th @ 9:00 PM till Friday 11th @ 11:00 PM ~ 60% of the battery.

0 AllanOlesen67 over 6 years ago

0.1% compared to 0.2%. What real world difference does this actually make?

Errh.. that is the difference between 1000 hours of usage or 500 hours of usage on one full charge/depletion cycle. (Assuming that you only use it as a watch, of course.)

I am actually more worried about trusting this "Last hour" value in photo.

Firstly, it is a rounded value. We don't know if it changed form 0.249% to 0.050%, or it changed from 0.150% to 0.149%.

Secondly, that widget doesn't really show the last hour discharge. If it was used more than an hour ago the last time, it shows the average discharge per hour since the widget was last active. So if you had some workout sessions some hours ago and didn't activate the app after those sessions, you will see some kind of average of workout power consumption and standby consumption.