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Marq Aviator: Extensive battery drain on a new watch

I bought a new Marq Aviator about 2 months ago. Optically and functionally it's a great watch, no doubts. I'm a private pilot and noticed several improvements compared to my previous D2 Charlie in terms of flying functions. However, I think that something is off with the battery or hardware of my Marq Aviator.

Since the beginning I noticed that the battery endurance was lower compared to my D2 Charlie. Initially I thought that it needs a few more charge cycles to reach the advertised values of more than10 days. However, after ~2 months the situation even worsened.

With the latest firmware 16.70, even after several factory resets and without any extra widgets, SPO2 etc., the battery drain is about 25% per 24h. 1h of GPS activity without music drops the battery by another ~10 percent.

I'm wondering what is the experience of other owners of Marq Aviator w.r.t. battery endurance.

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Vlad over 3 years ago in reply to 7828711 +1

Hi, the outcome was that Garmin replaced my defect item. The new watch now finally shows battery endurance of more than 12 days :)

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0 4543228 over 3 years ago

Long term average of 0.27% per hour. Not using Navigate function. O2 sampling only if I manually trigger it. No music.

0 aleksiz over 3 years ago

I have the same experience with my Athlete. Battery life is not good at all on the Marq, especially compared to Garmin Fenix 6x.

0 Backslashhh over 3 years ago

Not only do you have to remove the SPO2 widget, but you have to actively disable the SPO2 sensor.

0 Vlad over 3 years ago in reply to Backslashhh

SPO2 is disabled in the settings. I already contacted Garmin Support. They asked to try one more time soft and hard reset which I did. Unfortunately the reset didn't help. The next step would be a replacement.

0 7828711 over 3 years ago in reply to Vlad

Hi Vlad, what ever was the outcome from this?

0 Vlad over 3 years ago in reply to 7828711

Hi, the outcome was that Garmin replaced my defect item. The new watch now finally shows battery endurance of more than 12 days :)