high battery drain with every new update

Former Member over 5 years ago

Dear Garmin team. Why many users still experience high battery drain with every new update? Can you officially give us any reply what shall we do?!

i am about to switch to suunto which is very very stable!!!

0 Former Member over 4 years ago

I agree with you, the battery problem with the latest version is one that many users have. I hope that Garmin will soon release a new version correcting the problem.

0 theseb over 4 years ago

I see the same. This is why I disabled the auto update on my fenix five, and I let it on FW 19.10

At least with that fw I don't have any issues and I am done with updating, I don't want any problems.

0 2509619 over 4 years ago

I am experiencing the same battery issue and I am very disappointed.... :-(

0 JM_Zogg over 4 years ago

It is my third Fenix 5x. I have done about twenties firmware updates. Never I had problems with high battery drain!

I do not use:

- Foreign APS (only Gramin native APPs)

- No Bluetooth

- No connection to smartphones

- No music

The main purpose of my watch is to record activities and to show me my way for courses.

0 2509619 over 4 years ago in reply to JM_Zogg

Same for me but battery life is still very poor and battery drain is insane.