I’ve been puzzled for some time over why some users experience poor battery life while others have no issue at all. Naturally we hear more from the people who have the issue than the people without and I think some posts on this forum are less than fair to the garmin FW dev. team. There could be several reasons. All from a faulty device, FW bug, suboptimal settings, usage, etc.
But to get to the bottom of this, I think we as a community need to map this thing out. I think we all have a common sense and know what consumes more battery. But because of our difference in usage, variety of selected settings, and maybe even way of determining battery life it is almost impossible to find the root(s) of the problem.
Therefor I have been thinking of a tool for people to report all their settings, manner of usage, and battery consumption over a fixed time (a up to 12 day test is too much to ask of our active lifestyle ;) )
This brings me to my questions.
Before I create such a tool in excel, is there a way to read the settings file from the watch and interpret the settings used? I was thinking it would be easiest if people posted their settings file than having to go through all menus and posting a long thread of all settings.
Are people interested in this approach to the problem? It would also require people without battery issues to participate. Only then can we more easily find correlations with poor and good battery life and give the users with possibly a faulty device some “documentation”.
Post activity battery is perhaps it’s own issue, so I was thinking to only map out smart watch mode in this exercise.
Comments?
