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Battery Life

Got my Athlete on Thursday and charged it to 100% straight away. After 3.5hrs of non-GPS activities without music and a lot of playing around with it by yesterday (Monday) it was down to 8% so I started a 'pretend' GPS activity to let it run down to zero. I then charged it up to 100% and left it charging for another hour - so hopefully it would have had a good chance to calibrate between 0% and 100%.

It's now 24 hours on and with no activities and just normal usage, it's dropped 14% so I'd predict a battery life of 7 days - less than what I came to expect with my f5+. Of course the battery indicator might still be as vague as the f5+ and maybe I will still get closer to the promised 12 days out of it, but what's other people's experience so far over the first few days of ownership?

Neil

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0 psycato over 5 years ago in reply to buboy80

It's called "battery widget". Free and downloadable from the store

0 DerechteKlinke over 5 years ago in reply to psycato

And it doesn't tell the really 'battery life'.

The figures (even the long term avg) are changing all the time ... although the watch is used the same way every day ... !

So be careful using those figures ...

0 Sanlitun over 5 years ago

Another hard reset on 3.40, starting from scratch once more.... No pulse oxy, no activities, no notifications, stock digital watch face without seconds....averaging 2,4%/hour. Starting the hike activity and letting it just sit there, it takes about 15 hours from 100% to zero. So something is definitely not right with (my) expedition...

0 RickCain over 5 years ago in reply to Sanlitun

I charged mine from 4% to 100% yesterday at 7am with Pulxe Ox and Sleep Ox on (why have it if you can't use it).

90 minute run yesterday (no music, external HR, Stryd) and a 40 minute run today (music, external HR, Stryd).

The battery is sitting at 59% after 32 hrs of use.

This is the second full charge so hopefully will improve.

0 aleksiz over 5 years ago in reply to Sanlitun

Did you contact Garmin Support? I got a message last week (June 25th) that "they are looking at it". No further news since...My battery is better now (0,8%/h) but 2,4% is not acceptable

0 Sanlitun over 5 years ago in reply to aleksiz

What have you done to improve your battery life? Would be more than happy with such values...

0 Jan502 over 5 years ago in reply to Sanlitun

this issue happen also on the another watch FR945

0 RickCain over 5 years ago in reply to RickCain

Update: This is with Pulse/Sleep Ox on but no notifications or back light use

Fully charged Sunday by 8am

90 minute run Sunday (no music, external HR, Stryd)

40 minute run Monday (music, external HR, Stryd)

35 minute run Tuesday (no music, external HR, Stryd)

40 minute run Wednesday (music, external HR, Stryd)

The battery ran all the way down after today's run @ 2pm - the battery was at 14% battery before the run.

So just over four days of battery.

0 meste7 over 5 years ago in reply to RickCain

not that good I would dare to say Garmin!

0 aleksiz over 5 years ago in reply to RickCain

Almost exactly the same as mine (but with Pulse OX off). I use the stock Athlete watch face.