Battery life with 21v

Former Member over 4 years ago

Since I upgraded my garmin fenix 5 to the latest version v21, my battery life is much shorter. Without doing any activity, just using my watch to check the time at home, it consumes me almost 20% a day. I used to have a much longer battery life. I tried resetting my mobile phone by leaving the light button pressed but the same thing keeps happening to me.

Please, Garmin, fix this error. Is there a way to go back to previous versions?

0 Zielzor over 4 years ago

I got the same error with this update, waiting for garmin to resolve it

0 Zielzor over 4 years ago

You can roll back to previous version here - https://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=11663 just skip to step 8 of instructions I did it to mine earlier will see if this fixes the issue.

0 JM_Zogg over 4 years ago

Any non original APPs in use?

0 Zielzor over 4 years ago in reply to JM_Zogg

I only use custom watchface, but I've been using this one since day 1 on previous watch (I got warranty replacement) and nothing like that occured ever.

0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to Zielzor

HI, have you notices improvements in battery life?

0 Zielzor over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

Not at all Battery widget even shows greater drain.

0 Manuel over 4 years ago

My Battery life is down to losing about 10% per Hr. the watch doesnt even last 1 whole day, even on a standard watch face

0 Zielzor over 4 years ago in reply to Manuel

I contacted garmin about this issue, they just accepted It on warranty and claim that there is no ticket about this issue on any device, Iam waiting for a replacement unit.

0 Manuel over 4 years ago in reply to Zielzor

How did you contacted them?

0 Zielzor over 4 years ago in reply to Manuel

Customer support via phone, they should've contact info on their site for your country.