SW 5.00 Worse battery drain and tracking

I was on beta 4.65. My GPS tracking on the beta was worse than the previous released version, and battery drain also got worse. I sent tracking results to Garmin like they requested in a post. Same thing happened with the 5.00 release - my battery drain is worse than it was on 4.65, and tracking didn't improve or maybe got a bit worse. My average battery drain started at about 0.215% per hour, and is now about 0.285%. That's about 1/3 less battery life, with decreased GPS tracking performance.

What are others seeing?

0 NemoSandman over 6 years ago

What I see ? GPS is working great now and keep going that way: no more drunk man syndrome.

Battery wise, this morning I got 0.146% by hour. Time remaining 28,2 days !! I have bought the 5X Plus exactly for that.

0 MOO5E over 6 years ago

My battery life and GPS have both improved on 5.0. It's a good release. Maybe a reset might help?

0 falconeye75 over 6 years ago

What I see ? GPS is working great now and keep going that way: no more drunk man syndrome.

Battery wise, this morning I got 0.146% by hour. Time remaining 28,2 days !! I have bought the 5X Plus exactly for that.

Hi Nemo ! Happy to see you again.

I returned my watch 2 months ago and ordered a new one when I read that GPS was improved by last version but what I read on other forum is that GPS accuracy is still very bad...

Do you have a KML file of your trace (instead of the relive) or a link to your Garmin connect trace to see how accurate it is ? On Fenix 5plus 5s, people are very disappointed...

Hope I didn't do a new mistake with this watch.

0 jylong over 6 years ago

What I see ? GPS is working great now and keep going that way: no more drunk man syndrome.

Battery wise, this morning I got 0.146% by hour. Time remaining 28,2 days !! I have bought the 5X Plus exactly for that.

Nemo, can I find out what your settings/usage are for that power consumption? And is that just after waking up from sleep (no activity), or throughout the day as well?

0 NemoSandman over 6 years ago

The usage on that power consumption was just BT and ABC. The watchface was OEM.