Can I automate sync with my Smartphone

Former Member over 6 years ago

Hello,

My 5S+ is using a lot of battery while it is connected to my phone.I do not have any need for continuous sync as I do not have smart notifications on.

What I do today: Switch off Menu - Settings - Phone to Off
In such way the battery is not drained and I like the battery usage,
But I have to switch this on to sync the data from my watch with my phone manually.
There is a sync-button in the control-menu and there is a button allowing to switch BT to phone on and off.
This gives me the impression that manually syncing is used a lot. Is there any way to get this process automated to do the obvious f.e. every 30 minutes.
-connect to phone
-sync data
-switch BT off again

best regards,
Ruud

0 joshtee over 6 years ago

I wonder how the battery drain would be if you only used Wifi to sync to Garmin Connect and left BT off?

0 Former Member over 6 years ago

At the moment I am at BT off most of the time and WiFi off, at least I presume. I have deleted the WiFi network to make sure that it cannot be used. For now I would not call it battery draining, but just battery usage. That's why I am seeking to automate syncing on a regular base. This was available an age-old smartphones, at a time they were not even very smart :). It should not be so difficult to understand the use of such and to implement it here too (if not available already somewhere)