How many batteries are drained in one day?

I have 8 days now and I have 48% of the battery so I'm sure something is wrong.

Yes, I agree.

one of the garmine administrators wrote me this message:

"Thank you for reaching out. If you want to get the most life out of your Instinct Solar, go into Settings > Power Manager > Battery Saver and setup your watch to the bare minimum you want to run it on when you are not recording an activity. Avoid using the OHR optical heart rate sensor and PulseOX, since those will both have a large impact on your battery, especially the PulseOX.

When you are not recording an activity, keep your Instinct Solar on Power Save Mode by holding down your top left CTRL button to get your shortcut wheel. and change Batt Saver to On.

If you still using your watch for smart notifications and OHR along with other items and not only as a smart watch, you will likely not be able to hit the 24 days. There are always environmental factors that will come into play too such as the temperature of where you live."

only that I didn't manage to get 24 days without using GPS, once every few days I turned on bluetooth just to synchronize data, I had the alarm off, most of the battery-consuming options turned off, and my result is 17 days. Maybe I should turn off the heart rate measurement? but on the first generation, the garmin instinct keeps the battery even when I run, I have the alarm clock on, it synchronizes the watch with the application every day to have ongoing training. What do you think about all this? I'm afraid they want to get me off.

i used to turn off everything and it lasted about a month. Working..the best watch ever... 4 Days ago i got an update. Now it lasts 4 hours. Without changing any settings.This really is very very bad. I noticed HR going from 45 to 60 when sitting on couch. And going from 115 to 140 when riding bike. I want my battery time back! I did factory reset twice. i will try to find the error for another week. Otherwise i will send it back.

schoenc said:

I want my battery time back! I did factory reset twice. i will try to find the error for another week. Otherwise i will send it back.

Yes, the high battery drain happens relatively frequently after a firmware update, though just at a very limited number of Instinct owners. I suspect some kind of corruption of the data or of the software during the update, since the software itself is all right (works for the vaste majority of owners). If the Soft Reset and the Master Reset did not help, I'd try installing the latest version of the beta firmware, or downgrading to the previous one (including the downgrade of the GPS and Sensor Hub software), and if it does not help either, contact the Support immediately and request a replacement.

Thank you very very much. i will start searching for the versions....pretty new into all this.

ok thx again trux. I installed 3.00 of the sensor hub again. So i have 3.00 and System 11.00 running. i kind of got from 4 hours to 7 hours of battery life. still not satisfied, but. The Firmware update to sensor hub 5.00 also changed my activity settings and GPS Settings. So i checked out this and found GPS + GLONASS activated on all activities and also on non activities. I would never to this myself.

Anyway after 2 days of doing stuff, reseting and recharging, i am on testing to get this going again. My gut feeling is, System 11.00 also did something on HR wrist monitor. They reprogrammed it in a non-clean way or..they just use serious battery with that. Battery is still going down way to quick.

GPS+GLONASS is the default setting for Instinct Solar. Mine was like this on day one, when it was running v7.20 or so. The new GPS unit on it is quite efficient, so the difference between using GPS only and GPS+GLONASS is negligible. Personally, after a couple of tests, I decided to keep the default.

Also, that video is nonsense and that person has obviously never used the watch. I would never use Ultratrac mode for anything. When it is enabled, tracking is so inaccurate, that it is nearly useless, while battery savings are not impressive.

Also, changing the notifications timeout does not save battery. Because of the way the screen works it does not matter if it continuously displays a notification for 3 minutes or 30 seconds, because it does not consume any energy while displaying a static image. It does so only at the moment the pixels change state (when the image changes).

All in all, I was you, I would have just tried the latest beta, instead of playing with settings. Version 11.00 has proven to be unreliable for many people, so getting rid of it would be my first choice.