Why doesn't body battery decrease with activity?

Hi all I'm new to Garmin instinct solar coming from TicWatch pro 3 and generally loving it.

One thing I can't understand though about the body battery feature is why it doesn't go down during an activity?

For example.today I did a 22.75 km hike in the peak District which wiped me out. But my body battery flat lined for the whole activity.

As soon as I got home and hit the sofa apparently I was stressed (I wasn't) and body battery started dropping rapidly this makes zero sense to me.

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trux over 4 years ago in reply to 2953131 +1

2953131 said:
So I'm pretty sure this is a bug with the software.

Then report it to the Customer Support. They won't see it here on the user forum.

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0 2953131 over 4 years ago in reply to trux

I have only experienced it on the hike activity. I use the strength and cardio activities quite a bit and have not seen it happen on those.

The battery was full before the hike and finished with 17 days left. GPS was on GPS and glonass with no battery save or power modes enabled.

0 trux over 4 years ago in reply to 2953131

... as I wrote, I doubt it is due to the Hike Activity, but test it with the Walk profile instead - Walk profile definitely does not stop the BB to update. And although I doubt the Hike profile would behave differently than all other activities, I cannot exclude it, since I never used it.

0 2953131 over 4 years ago in reply to trux

Yeah I've already used walk a few times and that does decrease the body battery, just hike doesn't.

0 trux over 4 years ago in reply to 2953131

Then the solution is simple - use the Walk Activity profile. The Hike profile has no added value as far as I know. And report it to Garmin Customer Support and/or to [email protected] as a bug.

0 2953131 over 4 years ago in reply to trux

Thanks again.
I'm not on the beta, checking my software version it's at 11.00

0 trux over 4 years ago in reply to 2953131

2953131 said:
I'm not on the bet

Never mind - that's the email address of the Instinct firmware developer team. It does not matter whether you use a beta or an official release. It is still the same team that develops the software. Reporting it to the Support makes sense too, but it may take longer time to get to the developers, or may get lost (or may get misinterpreted during the transfer).

0 2953131 over 4 years ago in reply to trux

Thanks for everything, you've been very helpful.

0 2953131 over 4 years ago

Ok I've been testing this some more and can confirm that on my device this only happens on a hike, any other activity and the body battery does decrease as expected but on a hike it just stays flat for the duration of the activity.
So I'm pretty sure this is a bug with the software.

0 trux over 4 years ago in reply to 2953131

2953131 said:
So I'm pretty sure this is a bug with the software.

Then report it to the Customer Support. They won't see it here on the user forum.