What are the best settings to extend battery life?

I'd like to extend the battery life of my Mini for as long as possible while making sure I'm trackable and safe. It's used mainly by my family to check I'm ok - I don't use it to send messages or look at my route/pace. I have it on 30 min Send Interval. Log interval, Auto track and Ext tracking are all Off. Any ideas of how to extend battery life?

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twolpert over 1 year ago +1

General tips for all iR devices: https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=FrvUD8cBa53K4MRV1f75g5&productID=592606&tab=topics&textPage=1&topicTag=region_batterycharging

From the M1 manual, specific…

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0 skyeye over 1 year ago

30min ist OK, but I would switch on the Ext Tracking, this might give you some more run time

0 twolpert over 1 year ago

General tips for all iR devices: https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=FrvUD8cBa53K4MRV1f75g5&productID=592606&tab=topics&textPage=1&topicTag=region_batterycharging

From the M1 manual, specific to M1: https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/inreachmini/EN-US/GUID-47AF89E8-43F5-49C4-8017-2DEDEEEA73C7.html

Read the description of extended tracking to be sure that neither the lack of message checking nor the lack of detailed logging ("logged points") impacts your use case.

Just in case, comparable info for the M2: https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/GUID-802DEF62-EBB2-463C-8C51-C58FB29F89E3/EN-US/GUID-47AF89E8-43F5-49C4-8017-2DEDEEEA73C7.html

Note that M2 does not have some of these settings/features. In particular, no extended tracking. I guess the theory is that it does not need them given the longer battery life in general.

0 Volker over 1 year ago in reply to twolpert

From your first link:
Hardware and software improvements have eliminated the need for Extended Tracking or Expedition Mode settings on the inReach Messenger and inReach Mini 2.

0 Garmin-Leslie over 1 year ago

Hello 5693327 Please see the following link for help with this! Improving the Battery Life of Garmin inReach Products