Tips for achieving stated 36 day battery life on Enduro 3

After adjusting quite a few settings I am able to achieve actually beyond the stated battery life (between 37-38 days) in SmartWatch mode while still being highly usable. To do this:

1) Ensure pulse ox is set to on-demand only.

2) Gestures off; alerts set to vibration only,

3) Backlight set to lowest setting and timeout set to 4 seconds.

4) Disable music.

5) Using "data lover" watch face with seconds disabled, heart rate display disabled, and steps disabled.

6) WiFi, BlueTooth, and wrist heart rate monitoring are *enabled*.

7) On your phone, think through what notifications you really need and disable what is not relevant.

8) Expand sleep hours to the entire range where you don't need/want notifications - maybe 8pm - 7am of course depending on your needs.

9) Disable garmin share and sensor auto-discover.

10) Disable heart rate broadcasting.

11) Disable phone connection alert.

12) Disable voice alerts.

13) MoveIQ disabled.

During activities:

1) Backlight set to lowest setting and timeout set to 15 seconds. Gestures off. (Remember you can shine your headlamp on the display to see it at night).

2) Use regular GPS for road run and SatIQ for trails.

3) Alerts set to vibration only.

4) Stay off the map page unless you need it.

5) WiFi off during activity; bluetooth on; heart rate on; pulse ox to manual/off.

6) Make sure data recording is set to Smart and not "Every Second".

7) Auto scroll disabled.

Sleep:

1) Backlight set to lowest setting; timeout set to 4 seconds; gestures off.

2) Heart rate on; pulse ox to manual/off.

3) Battery saving watch face on.

4) No notifications at all during sleep - although I keep abnormal heart rate on.

Does this help anyone?

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0 c13e2c34ce2d4d739b00a758fa503d26 7 months ago

Can you please install Battery widget with automatic charge detection and see what your drain is on idle? You would like at the last seen view after a few hours of idle.

0 ajwms2222 7 months ago

That's way too many irrelevant instructions. The manual tells you what to toggle to extend battery life.

Steps 4,5,6,8,9,11,12,13 won't impact continual battery drain.

0 c13e2c34ce2d4d739b00a758fa503d26 7 months ago in reply to ajwms2222

You make some sense, but 5) will cause the screen to refresh less (less data request too). This has made a clear impact for me

0 5135968 7 months ago

I do not really understand why people care about battery time in smartwatch mode.

Why buy a high end watch and disable lots of features and appear not to actually use it for activities.

The only time that matters is battery time under GPS usage IMHO.

Anyone who actually USES the watch is not going to get it to last a month!

0 c13e2c34ce2d4d739b00a758fa503d26 7 months ago in reply to 5135968

For me when I'm idle is a waste of battery life as the watch isn't providing much apart from telling me the time and recording my sleep metrics. If the battery is consumed during idle then I need to think about charging it more before activities.

I also learned this way that having a constantly changing screen every second depletes my battery life. When I'm doing an activity im not constantly looking at my watch, so I flick it to the basic time screen to conserve battery (multiday hikes).

I personally dislike charging my devices all the time too.

You see we're all different, but I don't think many would complain about having a better battery life..

0 anonymous16 7 months ago in reply to 5135968

Same here. I only care about how long I can use All GNSS + Multi-band. Enduro 3 does perform better than my fenix 7X Pro in this aspect.

I don't wear watches during showers, so charging the watch during showers is acceptable to me. The problem with other smartwatches is that they need to be charged longer than my showers.

0 bellostom 7 months ago

I have tried all of these from a similar thread that is ongoing. The best I get is 4%
these are my settings

docs.google.com/.../edit

0 c13e2c34ce2d4d739b00a758fa503d26 7 months ago in reply to bellostom

Backlight on after sunset. I expect that'll cause a good amount of drain.

0 zippyioa 7 months ago in reply to c13e2c34ce2d4d739b00a758fa503d26

I'm intrigued to hear your thinking....

My take is that by forcing the watch to only light up after sunset for screen/button touches (or gesture which I don't use personally), you won't have the light turning on unnecessarily during daylight hours

This avoids wasting battery all day when it isn't needed.

Without "after sunset", the light either comes on 24/7, draining battery unnecessarily or it doesn't come on with screen/button touches or gesture at all which means you need to activate it using the backlight button when you need it (the best battery solution, but not that convenient....

Or am I missing something?

0 Marc Krawitz 7 months ago

Battery life is important because each full charging cycle deteriorates the battery and as I understand it, these batteries are not replaceable. These are high end watches and I want mine to last 2-3 production generations. So maybe next I will buy the Fenix 10/11 or Enduro 5/6.