Enduro 3 Battery Life

GorminUser said:

Of course I played a bit with customizations the first day

I'd recommend resetting the watch to factory defaults, and then customizing it slowly step by step, one option at a time, and observe its impact on the battery for a day or two, before proceeding to the next step. Some features may have a dramatic impact on the power consumption (i.e. various CIQ watchfaces, PulseOx, Always On Display, ...)

The biggest impact on battery life will be the solar panel – I recommend trying to find someone who has access to older models like the Fenix 7X or Enduro 2 to compare the effectiveness of the solar panel in sunlight. Unfortunately, I had to sell the Fenix 7X Sapphire Solar before conducting detailed testing, but I can quickly say that the Enduro has a really strong Lux reception on the new solar panel. During an hour of testing on a cloudy day, I recorded 0.1 Lux on the Fenix 7X Sapphire Solar and 1.3 Lux on the Enduro 3. Please, someone try comparing with activities in different light conditions – I have a feeling the difference will be significant. After all, these are outdoor watches, not watches meant for indoor use, so a week-long comparison of battery consumption indoors may not be as relevant.

Seatanus said:

The biggest impact on battery life will be the solar panel

Not really. The solar charging, in very ideal case can increase the battery life by the factor just slightly above 2 (in the low-power smartwatch mode with no options modified), while the GPS (in highest accuracy settings) will reduce the life by the factor of 14.4 without solar support, and by he factor of 24 with the full solar support. Add music to it, and you get the factor of 40 - 100. PulseOx or some Connect IQ watchfaces or apps may discharge the battery even faster than that.

Yep I’m also not getting the battery I expected. I’m hoping it’s a bug and can be fixed with a software update.. can we get one of the mods attention on this issue?? 

4518020 said:

can we get one of the mods attention on this issue?? 

I recommend reaching out to the Product Support through their website at https://support.garmin.com. Use the Phone or Chat options for an instant response. Email exchanges usually take a few days. 

I'm on the opposite side of the spectrum, I'm positively surprised with the battery life.
It's going to be exactly 1week in a couple of hours from my first battery cycle. Left it on the charger for 1h,. Did most of the updates and setup while on the charger.
Battery is currently at 76% with 27days left on the bank.
First couple of days went through about 10% with a lot of playing around and setting up podcasts, etc....
Only on the last 2 days had a bit more of sun to slow down battery. The rest of them have been 100% cloud coverage.
I've done 2 10km runs with AutoGPS, a 1h indoor run, 2 4h hikes using GPS ultratrac mode, one of them with navigation..
Watch face is always on as normal, but I turn off all the automatic backlight, only use it when I press the button or touch the face after sunset.
WiFi is always off unless when I need it.
I've got smart notifications off, and phone connectivity is off most of the time, turn it off a few times a day for Garmin Connect Updates.
I do most of my messing around on customizing Activities and Data Fields on Connect.
Again, this is just based on the consumption, it's my first charge and don't know if it will shutdown when it gets to 20%, but if the level is accurate, this is slightly better than the official numbers.

Yep, that's a good point. This is what I've done. Will monitor the evolution. Thanks

Garmin-Laurie can you confirm whether this background battery drain issue is something the engineers are looking into?  Might we have a fix in a future software update?  Currently it’s looking like I’ll get 22 days in smartwatch mode.

• ok. I went off on MTB bike ride. 2h without phone notification, all satellite system plus multi band without autoselect, wrist HR. During the ride i used for 15 minutes navigation, I mean I navigated to the point on map. Battery usage 5% Is it normal? I am considering to change E3 on 7xpro. I am not sure how the battery consumption looks like on this 7xpro. Any thoughts?