V21 update battery drain

Christen2016 over 4 years ago

Friday night v21 upgrade for my fenix 5 installed. I had to charge my watch that afternoon. At about 5 pm the battery was full. The next morning at 8 am the battery was at 92%. I did a 30 minute strength activity. Upon completion my battery was at 24%. 2 hours later the battery was completely dead. I charged it sunday afternoon. It was full at about 5 pm. I put it on my wrist. My 1 am by vmbattery was at 20%, at 5 am when I woke up again the watch was dead. I plugged it back in. It was fully charged when I unplugged it at 6 pm. It is now 722 pm and I am already at 87%.

What is happening garmin? I havent been able to track an activity in 2 days because my watch is always charging.

0 JM_Zogg over 4 years ago in reply to Doktorko

Yes, during an activity I always use GPS (no GLONASS or GALILEO). You can check which APPs are on Board with "Garmin Express". Go to "IQ Apps" and you will see all loaded Apps. Of course, you have to connect you watch with your computer before you start "Garmin Express".

0 Christen2016 over 4 years ago in reply to JM_Zogg

Thanks for the reply. I dont use any third party apps on my watch. I keep it very basic. But garmin confirmed it's a glitch in the update for some of us.

0 Doktorko over 4 years ago in reply to Christen2016

OK, thanks, that one I know, those are installed apps, I thought you have some hint - kind of task manager where you see which and how much apps are used.

0 icemac over 4 years ago

i think the battery its not so good :( 23% per two days, no one activity, watch is lying on the cabinet. Laste beta was better.

0 jbkalla over 3 years ago

I have this exact same issue. Normally, I can leave my Fenix 5 sitting for a few weeks and still have more than 50% battery left. This time, I updated to v21.0 and the battery was dead a couple days later with no activity.

Am eagerly awaiting whatever update fixes this.

0 DraganTrkulja over 3 years ago

Same here. 30% per day in watch mode...and gps mode works fine (6% for 65 minutes running with HR and RD pod)

0 Peakbagger over 3 years ago

Same issue for me with Fenix 5x plus. standard battery life would last for weeks without major GPS usage, now all of a sudden it is down to 2 days.. horrible! I'm trying an update currently to see if that happens.

0 jbkalla over 3 years ago in reply to jbkalla

BTW, there hasn’t been an update, but now the watch is holding a charge. I would love to know what caused it to drain so quickly...

0 Cedricg_38 over 3 years ago

No problem of drain with my old Fenix 5 from march 2017 ... Still a ~6%/day without GPS and 6%/h with GPS.

0 icemac over 3 years ago

After hard reset of my watch. Battery is quite good, i mean normal drain. Indor training without GPS about 1% per hour.