Battery usage with Spotify

Good news, finally got Spotify installed on this APAC model, and it works great.

Bad news - so far, it seems to really chew threw battery life.

I’ve done numerous 3+ hour events (running / biking) and only had my Fenix 5 Plus lose 5% or so of its battery charge during the event. I usually only need to charge the watch maybe once a week, if that.

I’ve now done two runs with the Fenix 5 Plus using Spotify. On the first run, the battery went from 65% to 35% in about 45 minutes. This morning it went from 45% to critical battery save / shut down in 70 minutes.

Anyone else noticed any abnormally fast battery usage using Spotify?

0 surista over 6 years ago

The high battery usage updating the offline tracks on the watch is normal and why it’s recmendeed the watch is on charge when you do sync the watch with the Spotify servers. What is not normal is getting any higher drain outside of this when compared to playing any other music source on the Fenix 5+. My typical observation is that a 1 hour and 15 minutes of an indoor Strength Training activity without music consumes about 4-5% battery and with music (in my case Spotify) this goes up to 12-14%. So Spotify, for me, seems to consume around 6-8% per hour when playing.

Previously, I'd lose 4-5% *with music* during a 75-90 minute workout.

Using Spotify, I now lose over 40-50% in about an hour or so. The battery didn't magically get worse, so something's definitely up.
Hopefully will be a firmware fix.

0 Reece Hart over 5 years ago

Same thing with me and the Vivoactive 3 Music. I don't have careful measurements, but I estimate battery use is at least 2x of pre-spotify rate (3-4 days before spotify, now about 1.5 days with spotify.)