v9.36 Official Software Fast Battery Drain

UPDATE: few days ago I tried to uninstall the only 3rd party watchface I used for few months - Glance Watch Face. Then restarted watch by holding top left button and then fully charged. It's been 3 days, and battery drain got to normal values, aprox. 5-6% a day. It seems, that after the upgrade to 9.33 this 3rd party watchface caused the problem and doubled my battery drain, even when I did not use it. It was just installed on watch. Uninstalling this watchface finally helped. I'm in the process of observation, but I think that for now my problem with battery seems solved. 

Maybe this information will be helpful for you and other users with similar battery problems and help Garmin with future updates, to remove this bug.

I've never had any 3rd party watchface. 

After the reset, I got pretty good battery consumption for a couple of days, but then the drain has increased slowly. 

Now I'm from 100% - > 61% in 3 full days. That is 0.54% per hour i.e. 7.7 days with full charge.

That includes only 1h of GPS time. 

getting a new epix does not change anything i think IF you update it also to 9.33 :).  so if you do this then NOT update it. lol

Crazy this all:(

Thanks! I do actually have a non Garmin watchface on my watch, but not active. Forgot about that. Gonna delete it as well and see if that helps. 

Maybe you get luckier with the new watch(considering that not everyone is affected by the fast drain and i am among those...yes, i'm using AOD and gesture off but i tried for 1 or 2 days with AOD off and gesture on and the drain was normal) and having a new one is always better 

(this is if they can replace it quickly...but you still lose all the HRV data so it's tricky)

Just a quick update after removing all 3rd party watchface and app for a few days 

the battery drain is at 18% in 59 hours so it’s about 0.3%/hr.  I am happy with the result so far.  But you lost one of the function ConnectIQ 

anyways, I hope 9.35a helps the issue.

Hi Chris,

Any update on this? I’m starting to consider just returning my Epix. Something something “get a watch that works”…

I used the watchface Hexacurve. When changing to a new watchface the issue was gone. Now I checked connect IQ and it looks like Hexacurve is gone from the store. Might have been the issue, always searching for an update of the watchface or it has a programming issue and was removed by purpose.