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Fenix 5 with 14.1 update high battery drain

I updated my garmin fenix 5 with 14.10. I still have problems with high battery consumption.
Consume 1% per hour. With software 13.1 I had consumption of 5% per day. I tried to reinstall 13.1 but now it continues to consume a lot, always 24% a day. What can I do?

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Garmin-Heath over 4 years ago +1 verified

We have identified a possible issue with software version 13.40 for the fenix 5 that can cause additional battery drain to take place. If you are experiencing increased battery drain on your fenix 5, update…
Ger Nijkamp over 4 years ago in reply to skyman +8

I got a response through Twitter - they recognize the issue. Stated to work on a solution for it: https://twitter.com/gernijkamp/status/1165276962635624449 No response on the support ticket that was raised…
drkglb over 4 years ago +5

Lots of users reporting the same with 13.40.
I thought Garmin pushed 14.10 to solve those issues but looking at the change log it seems nothing was done about battery consumption...

Sticking with 13.30 for…
Ger Nijkamp over 4 years ago +5

Tried the 'Turn off HR sensor and full charge'-fix wit no result. Still 1% drain every hour. No reaction from Garmin after three days on raised ticket although response within three workdays was promised…

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0 marcossaad_ over 4 years ago

Still not a single oficial comment

I'm holding back on 13.30

0 GarminNut over 4 years ago

I've been having this same problem. I charged my watch yesterday afternoon. Immediately after I pulled it off the charger I powered the watch on/off and then whet into the settings and turned the wrist sensor off and then on. About 21 hours later the watch has discharged 6%.

0 Subsub74 over 4 years ago in reply to skyman

what did they reply to you?

0 Ger Nijkamp over 4 years ago in reply to skyman

I got a response through Twitter - they recognize the issue. Stated to work on a solution for it: https://twitter.com/gernijkamp/status/1165276962635624449 No response on the support ticket that was raised more than six workdays ago. But that glimpse of acknowledgement through Twitter and the reply you got provides some hope, though...

0 skyman over 4 years ago in reply to Ger Nijkamp

Thank! Will wait..

0 6038363 over 4 years ago

I tried everything with no success until I turned of the BT connection from the watch. Now I have better consumption - about 0.2% per hour. But previously my battery lasted for about 2 weeks with everything turned on...

Hope there is a fix soon.

0 ricoli_falco over 4 years ago

I updated yesterday my Fenix 5 from v13.30 to v14.10. Before the update the battery could live for 7 days with 4/5 hours of GPS and 4 hours of indoor activities. Now, after only 24 hours the battery level has decreased for about 20% without any GPS activities!

I saw the same problem with many other previous versions, every time that a new version has released I'm afraid about this possibility!

0 OmeHenk over 4 years ago

Wish I remembered how to downgrade. Where can I find info of that for Fenix 5.

0 reittila over 4 years ago in reply to Fozzy

This definately seems to be a hw related issue but it shouldn't be because fw developers should of course be aware about hw changes at all time. Personally I hadn't have a single problem so far.

0 BenJS76 over 4 years ago

I went on holiday and forgot to take my watch charging cable. It lasted 9 days before it eventually ran out of battery. 3 days later I returned home, and charged the watch... since then it's only been lasting about 3 days on a charge!

The battery monitor shows 38.7% battery usage per day (No activities)!!!

Version 14.10.

I had wondered if it was in some way connected to the fact that I'd let the watch go completely flat (I've never let it go completely flat before), but judging by all the other posts on here I'm guessing that's just a coincidence (Unless everyone else suddenly realises that they'd done the same).