Fenix 5 Series - 15.31 Beta Release

We have new beta software ready for your upcoming adventures!

Fenix 5s: https://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=11661
Fenix 5: https://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=11663
Fenix 5x: https://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=11665

Note: Please allow for the updates to propagate across all servers. There is no need to post that the link does not work. It will after a bit of patience.

15.31 Change Log Notes:

Added support for connecting to a shifting sensor (Sram Etap or Di2 bike) that supports up to 4 front and 12 rear gears.
Fixed an issue where steps were not being counted during a multisport activity.
Fixed an issue where one wasn't able to search near a waypoint.
Fixed an intermittent issue where the device may crash after connecting it to the computer. (Fenix 5X only.)

Please send all bug reports to [email protected], and indicate which model of the fenix 5 series you have in the subject line.

Please note, the beta updates released on these forums are not suitable for APAC region devices.

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0 Former Member over 5 years ago

Still no battery fix! What a joke!

0 Konttorininja over 5 years ago

Excellent, thank you. Should there also be a fix for active calorie counting ?

0 RonHi over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

Still no battery fix! What a joke!

I could certainly be wrong but I happen to think that it is a mistake to think that a battery fix must come through a firmware upgrade at all or solely through a firmware upgrade. That position assumes that the battery problem is firmware related. I suspect, but stress that I obviously don't know, the battery issues may lie elsewhere. One of my suspects is in the way the multiplicity of Garmin connect services use data and thus consuming power.

I also think it is a mistake to think that Garmin is not working on this, thought I will hardly defend their communication strategy or lack of one.

I think a debug file that existed in the 14.77 build that does not exist in the 15.10 build was in my view clearly placed there by Garmin to provide them with telemetry on power consumption under various scenarios. The file created debug on the state of the battery when plugged in and the time used by various sensors since the last charge. This file provided them with far more data than the posts in this forum. This is an entry:

1-27-2020 02:15:50 UTC

Software: 14.77

Time on since last charge: 2d:12:54:47 (219287 sec)

Time in low power: 2d:09:49:02 (208142 sec)

Time with backlight on: 00:45:52 (2752 sec)

Time with GPS on: 00:12:33 (753 sec)

Time with OHR active scan on: 00:06:09 (369 sec)

Time with WIFI on: 00:00:00 (0 sec)

Time with ANT active scan on: 00:14:25 (865 sec)

Time with BLE active scan on: 00:14:23 (863 sec)

Time with GCM connected: 2d:07:27:38 (199658 sec)

Device info when plugged in:

Battery percentage: 56.050785%

Current backlight mode: 3

Current backlight brightness: 20%

Finally, I think it is unreasonable to fail to recognize that all of the non-battery features that are being addressed in the successive upgrades are unimportant to people who experience the issues being resolved. The fact that many of them are not routinely discussed in this forum with the same frequency as the battery consumption issue doesn't make them unimportant. You can be sure they are seen by Garmin through support calls. I think the fact that these are being addressed should be seen as a positive. The forum is not the sole source of customer complaints nor bug notifications. and power is clearly not the only problem that users experience.