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Fenix 5 with 14.1 update high battery drain

I updated my garmin fenix 5 with 14.10. I still have problems with high battery consumption.
Consume 1% per hour. With software 13.1 I had consumption of 5% per day. I tried to reinstall 13.1 but now it continues to consume a lot, always 24% a day. What can I do?

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Garmin-Heath over 4 years ago +1 verified

We have identified a possible issue with software version 13.40 for the fenix 5 that can cause additional battery drain to take place. If you are experiencing increased battery drain on your fenix 5, update…
Ger Nijkamp over 4 years ago in reply to skyman +8

I got a response through Twitter - they recognize the issue. Stated to work on a solution for it: https://twitter.com/gernijkamp/status/1165276962635624449 No response on the support ticket that was raised…
drkglb over 4 years ago +5

Lots of users reporting the same with 13.40.
I thought Garmin pushed 14.10 to solve those issues but looking at the change log it seems nothing was done about battery consumption...

Sticking with 13.30 for…
Ger Nijkamp over 4 years ago +5

Tried the 'Turn off HR sensor and full charge'-fix wit no result. Still 1% drain every hour. No reaction from Garmin after three days on raised ticket although response within three workdays was promised…

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0 mbuurman over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

After the update to 14.1 I had definitely the same problems as many of you, battery drain of 1%/h.
I don't know on which version it ran before 14.1 because I didn't checked it before the excessive drain.

it is noticeable that the LEDs of the OHRM are no longer bright as on 14.1.

0 Fozzy over 4 years ago in reply to mbuurman

Thanks for verifying - hanging back from updating at the moment - currently getting ok battery life from 13.51...

0 ElToro over 4 years ago

Installed the 14.20 about 3 hours ago. After i was done installing i restarted the watch. 0% in 3 hours, the battery widget says 0,1 - 0,2%. Looks promising for me.

0 Doktorko over 4 years ago in reply to Evidenssi

Did you try soft reset? It helped me on 14.10, I have great battery consumption, like 7-8% per day on my 5x, which is OK. As I wrote before, soft reset may help - You need to hold left upper button Light/Power for longer although it looks it does nothing, then it switches off and you are still holding at least 20 seconds longer, then you release button and normally switch on with that button again, normal press. blue triangel for a while and watch is up after soft reset.

0 matko over 4 years ago

For now, it looks like that drain is fixed in 14.20. After 8 hours (no activity, 2 hours of regular wear) battery is still on 99%.

+1 Garmin-Heath over 4 years ago

We have identified a possible issue with software version 13.40 for the fenix 5 that can cause additional battery drain to take place. If you are experiencing increased battery drain on your fenix 5, update your software to version 14.20, or later. For more information see the following Support article: Increased Battery Drain After Updating Software