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Is there an ETA on MIP battery drain bug fix

HumpnDaPumkin
6 months ago

Does Garmin officially acknowledge the MIP drain on the F8 and E3 models and can or will it be fixed?

The F7 land E2 models are far superior in regards to battery life.

This is sad and contradicts the advertised specs and marketing. 

  • 0 6 months ago

    I'm getting approx. 36 days.  If you can't figure out how to configure your watch to not use the power hungry features- it's on you.  They have a manual that tells you how.

  • 0 6 months ago

    I'm running the latest beta v12.31 

    I fully charged my watch on Saturday 16th November and left it on the charger for about 15 minutes when it reached 100%. I removed it at 23:00 so it's almost exactly 14 days since I last charged it. 

    I've been unwell so haven't logged any tracked activities in that 14 days, it's just been used in smartwatch mode. 

    Right now, my Enduro 3 battery has literally just dropped to 65% so it's getting 2.5% battery drain per day. 

    It is currently predicting 25 days remaining battery life (making 39 days in total). Personally I couldn't be happier with it as that's better than advertised!!

    Settings I'm using for anyone who's interested:

    WiFi off / Pulse ox off / backlight brightness 20% / Backlight set to turn on only after sunset for all available options/ Watchface is Easy Round by MobileDriveway with all segments showing info that doesn't update every few seconds (no HR, no seconds, no Altitude)

    For Sleep focus mode I've scheduled daily from 22:30 to 06:15, watch face Sleep, notifications off, sound and vibe off, brightness 10%

    I hope that helps anyone struggling with battery

  • 0 6 months ago in reply to HumpnDaPumkin

    You're welcome Thumbsup 

     I'm really looking forward to summer with this thing, I've barely seen any sun this last few weeks, so with sun the battery life will be even better Sun with face Battery 

  • 0 6 months ago in reply to zippyioa

    Omg u turned off heart rate? Maybe u should just turn them off? Why i should buy 500 bucks watch, and turn all off??

  • 0 6 months ago in reply to 7456440

    I have heart rate turned on. but the heart rate data field is not used.

  • 0 6 months ago in reply to 7456440

    I didn't state that I've turned the heart rate function off.

    The battery use I got above is with the watch wrist heart rate monitor turned on 24/7, even during sleep (it is set to auto).

    That way I ge continuoust HR data for my body battery, stress and sleep data.

    My mention of "no HR" above referred to the fields I use on my always on watch face. I don't use a heart rate field on the watch face as that would be updating constantly, and frequent changes to the watch face drain more battery.

    I also avoid using other frequently updated fields like seconds, stress, altitude data fields on the watch face as the MIP screen doesn't have to redraw every second that way, again saving battery. 

    Like you, I totally agree about it being crazy to spend so much money on a watch then virtually turning it off!! BUT I haven't done that....... I have just set it up this way as I don't want it draining battery pointlessly when i don't need certain info. 

    I want certain functions at certain times PLUS amazing battery life. For me, the Enduro 3 does both AND it has the ability to give me more features (when i need it to)

    When I'm not ill, i usually hike or cycle several times a week. I use the Enduro to track all of those activities and have it setup so that it shows HR and Altitude data on my activity screens when i do so. During a hike or bike ride i want to know extra info and I'm willing to use more battery to get that but I don't need that extra info all day every day on my watch face. 

    I hope that my use case is clearer now? Wink Thumbsup 

  • 0 6 months ago in reply to zippyioa

    In my case what made a huge difference was reverting to the stock watch face endurance, along with installing v12.x

    drain is down to 2-2.5 per day from 4-5

    stock watch face is extremely efficient although displaying seconds constantly 

  • 0 6 months ago in reply to ajwms2222

    Exactly.

    As I have said before: the alleged battery drain is a myth!

  • 0 6 months ago in reply to 284a0d7360784a5ca52341c0f26c1d13

    The most important thing is not to have battery percentage on your watchface.  It's leads to an obsession.

    Also, with any lithium ion battery, one thing you can google is 'lithium battery initial discharge.'  In every picture of a graph on a web search, there is an initial discharge rate characteristic of lithium ion at about 5-6% for the first day and then leveling off at about 1-2% each subsequent day.  Every graph of a lithium battery simply sitting there shows a sudden drop and then leveling off, then at the end of a discharge cycle, it drops hard.

    So if you're someone who constantly 'tops the tank' because you have a battery widget on any device where you can see the percentage every time you look at it, you'll obsess about that first hour/day of after you unplug the device and think you're getting some massive drain without considering the characteristics of a battery.  It's not gasoline that is a constant at whichever amount of 'fuel in the tank.'

    Flying FPV drones, you talk about LiPo batteries a lot and are very sensitive to notice how batteries drain.  You can even store Lithium-based batteries at about 3.85v and they will hold a charge essentialy for a long time.  Store at a higher voltage and they will discharge to 3.85v or, if lower, drain until empty.

    In closing, I wish products would not put battery %'s on the home screens of their interface.  I purposely remove it if there is an option because my attention would always go to it.