Battery drain

Hi All,

I've looked in the forum and couldn't find a firm answer for this so apologies if I missed something.

My battery has drained over 20% each day for the past 2 days. It's been happening over the last few months and I am now just getting around to posting.

Is there any steps to fix here? I am using a third party watch display but it's always been very low in battery usage and I'm not seeing any complaints on drain on their page. I've been using it for walks and training for awhile now and haven't drastically increased my usage on the watch to warrant such a drastic drain. The heart rate seems to be off as well but that's minor compared to the battery drain for now.

Check out this app from the Garmin Connect IQ Store apps.garmin.com/.../d021d6e7-22d3-49e3-a626-4f687f6d1ddd

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Less than 3 years on a ~1k watch. Hoping this can be fixed.

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0 seilogramp over 3 years ago

Bryans14 said:
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Less than 3 years on a ~1k watch.

Which model do you have? At $1000, assuming some type of fenix, but not sure.

0 Bryans14 over 3 years ago in reply to seilogramp

Hey seilogramp. Thanks for your post. Battery drain on watch. Fenis 5x plus.

0 seilogramp over 3 years ago in reply to Bryans14

Moved thread to fenix 5 Plus forum. Thank you.

Some similar threads

0 eezytiger over 3 years ago

Try rebooting the watch (as you would turn off and on a PC) by holding the light button down for around 15 seconds, until it turns off. Wait a couple of seconds and then turn it back on. Sync the watch first to make sure you don't lose any important data. This might fix the problem if there is a faulty process in the watch hogging resources.

Also make sure that pulse-ox has not mysteriously turned itself on.

0 Bryans14 over 3 years ago in reply to eezytiger

Sorry for the delay. I let the battery die completely thinking it would work. Gave it a few days to test. Seems like when I go down to below 50% the battery drains very quickly and also the HR is not accurate. Sleep pulse x is off and acclimation is on manual. Any other ideas why it would be draining so quickly and the HR not working correctly?

0 eezytiger over 3 years ago in reply to Bryans14

I think by this point your options are to contact Garmin for support or bite the bullet and factory reset the watch and don't add back any third party apps/widgets/faces, at least to begin with. At least that way you know that any problem is in the Garmin domain and not elsewhere.

I know factory reset can be a pain, but if it's that or suffer a watch that is FUBAR then it's worth the effort IMHO. Of course, factory reset might fix nothing, but as troubleshooting steps go it must be near the top of the list.