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Enduro 3 Battery Life

TomPoyntz
10 months ago

I have been using my new Enduro 3 for just under a week now.  Previously I'd been using a Fenix 7x Pro Sapphire Solar. 

With the same usage pattern, the Enduro 3 is using about 5% battery per day, whereas the Fenix 7x Pro used about 4%.  Even though the battery percentage ends up lower at the end of the day on the Enduro 3 than the Fenix 7x Pro, the predicted number of days remaining is still much higher on the Enduro 3.

I'm interested to know how others are finding the battery life on the Enduro 3, but so far, if the reported battery percentage is to be believed, I'm fairly disappointed with the battery life on the Enduro 3.  If the reported battery life is incorrect and the remaining days is correct then it's awesome and I'd be very happy with that.

Is anyone else in a position to comment on their experience with battery life on Enduro 3 as compared with Fenix 7x Pro?

  • 0 9 months ago in reply to trux

    Took more than 2 weeks for me .... I must reply to them.

  • 0 9 months ago

    The battery on the Enduro 3 is nowhere near Garmin's estimates. Mine discharges at about 4.5% with about 4-5 indoor workouts per week. Minimal backlight only after sunset. No SPO2. I am on 11.84b.
    My previous Fenix 7X SS was close to what Garmin said right out of the box. It consistently gave me 26-32 days with similar usage patterns as above!
    A lot of people buy the Enduro for the features as well as the longer advertised battery life, so Garmin should do something to get it in line with their advertisements!

  • 0 9 months ago in reply to SH

    Yes same here. I’ll be looking at around 15 days with very minimal activity and minimal settings i.e. pulse ox night only. Worse now than my 7X SS. All the enduro 3 reviews said battery was as per Garmin claims but that was GPS usage battery not daily non gps non activity background drain.  I’m using a ciq watch face so expect a bit more drain (no seconds on) but I’m at a 7 percent a day average now according to my battery monitor widget. This is with next to no activity aside from some walks. 

  • 0 6 months ago in reply to PoHq
    PoHq said:
    but that was GPS usage battery not daily non gps non activity background drain.

    What you are looking for is smart watch mode battery life. 

    I repeated it many times, but only Enduro is the real endurer in smart watch mode and it did meet the specs. When I was ill and recorded no activity, my Enduro worked for more than 40 days without reaching one digit battery level.

    Enduro 2 dies a bit faster compared to what specs say. I have no experience with Enduro 3, but based on these posts in this forum it seems that Garmin is gradually sacrificing smart watch mode battery optimisation and focuses on gps battery life.

  • 0 6 months ago in reply to PoHq
    PoHq said:
    minimal settings i.e. pulse ox night only

    That's not "minimal settings". PulseOx is the biggest power consumer, so unless you really need the SpO₂ data for something specific, I highly recommend disabling it completely. The PulseOx data is not needed for anything else than the altitude acclimation.

    PoHq said:
     I’m using a ciq watch face

    That's practically the same case. Many CIQ watchfaces consume considerably more power than the stock wf. So if you experience high battery drain, that's the first thing to disable (after the PulseOx), and see whether it helps or not.

  • 0 6 months ago in reply to trux

    You're right, but Garmin clearly forces people to use CIQ watchfaces as they provide less  watchfaces on the new expensive F8/Enduro 3 now than on the F7/Enduro 2.

    Pulse Ox on Garmin watches is pretty unreliable in its measurements in respect to a 15 bucks PulseOx from Amazon which measures on the finger tip. 

  • 0 6 months ago

    I have the issue started to reproduce after using PulseOx for a couple of night. After disabling it my baterry drain even increased... Was charged yesterday noon and before sleep there was 93% last(durind the day: one activity - 40min jumprope and update to 13.18). Today mornig was 89% so 4 pure percents in night mode without PulseOx! 

    I tried hard reset couple of times last days but not helped.

    I use stock watchface. Before, I have drain about 5-6 %/d what is also more than from the start using E3(<4%)