14.20 and Battery - looks promising.

ikim1967 over 5 years ago

So far 14.20 has been positive for me with the battery. Doing spot checks shows it back to .3 percent per hour and staying consistent.

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almighty over 5 years ago +2

Still 6% in 6 hours.

I can't believe it takes Garmin months to figure out the problem.

I even got a replacement a few days ago, when contacting the support regarding the problem.

With that performance…
Melegna over 5 years ago +2 suggested

Update: 100% at 8.00 now 95% at 16.00

Wiyjout any activity or GPS, only HR.

Not OK at all. Incredible.
almighty over 5 years ago in reply to skyman +2

Exactly the same as with everything turned on.

I tried every combination. Even hard reset and skipped coupling to the phone.

Always the same result, 1.3/h.

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0 1137610 over 5 years ago

Until now my fenix 5 has been got the update yet. I checked by Garmin Express on my computer. Please help.

0 MDeek over 5 years ago

Okay so mine was good. It was good on the old FW and was good on 14.20. For some reason it's getting worse. Watch was charged to 94% last night (about 9pm). It's 8.30am now and it's 88%. It used to drop 6-8% in a 24hr period and all of a sudden it's dropped 6% in less than half the time without any GPS or exercise tracking.

0 wizardcho over 5 years ago in reply to wizardcho

v14.2, fenix 5 silver, widget: Battery Monitor
From 90.3% - 43% = 47.3% drain for 7.9 days = 0.25%/hour
Yesterday for 24 hours i have 0.4%/hour. This is 9.6% drain without workouts.
This morning i have 0.5-1%/hour battery drain.
When calculate from screenshot and now i got: 27.5-21.8=5.7% drain for 10.73hours = 0.53%/hours
On screenshot i have 0.9%/hr drain or 2% drain for 2.2 hours with no workout mode.

0 MDeek over 5 years ago in reply to MDeek

Since posting this it's now 69% without any exercise tracking. So since Saturday night at 94% it's dropped to 69% without any GPS tracking. 25% in about 36hrs.

0 RonHi over 5 years ago in reply to MDeek

Your experience of a sudden deterioration in battery discharge rate is interesting. This matches my experience. Over the past two firmware updates, I read about people experiencing high discharge and i was running at about 7% per day. Suddenly, over the past 2 weeks and 2 charging cycles, my discharge rate doubled with no particular change in activity or settings. I recharged on Saturday and since then, before a ride this morning, I seem to have returned to 7% per day. I shall keep monitoring

0 wizardcho over 5 years ago

v14.2, fenix 5 silver, widget: Battery Gauge
61-54=7%, 0.29%/hr, no workouts
54-47=7%, 0.29%/hr, 56 minutes Strenght with ant+ chest strap HR sensor, no gps
47-37=10%, 0.42%hr, no workouts
37-21=16%, 0.67%hr, 41 minutes cycling(transport) with ant+ speed sensor and optical HR sensor, no gps
90.3-43=47.3% drain for 7.9 days = 0.25%/hour

0 Saulon over 5 years ago

Charged mine 100% at 00:00. Now at 23:12 - 83%. I had only 1 activity - 1,5h swimming indoor, no gps. 17% per day - terrible.

0 8236486 over 5 years ago in reply to Melegna

Having the same problem with my fenix 5 sapphire

0 arn01d over 5 years ago

I thought I would try a watch face with no second refresh. Switch to skytracker and it has improved battery drain a lot (even with the watch face periodic refresh). So far 9 days since last charged and still 46% left. This is roughly 0.25% per hr including 3 hrs of gps activities.

0 wizardcho over 5 years ago

again high battery drain bellow 50% i have 2hours walking with gps. 3 days with 9-10% batery drain and today 28%

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