Fenix 6 "14 days officially" vs. "9 days at 100 percent"

PSteinlech over 5 years ago

The F6 officially has 14 days in smartwatch mode. However, my model says 9 days when battery is at 100 percent.

This seems way too much for normal fluctuation. Any ideas what might be behind this?

Cheers

Peter

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thewaffle over 5 years ago +8 suggested

It's because you have Pulse Ox on 24/7/365. Garmin never has that on out of the box. The Pulse Ox Sensor definitely takes more battery. 21 Days is with no Pulse Ox, 14 days with Sleep Pulse Ox, 9 days…
nmyeti over 5 years ago +1

Pulseox drops the battery quite a bit (more than half). If you disable the connection to the phone you can get additional battery life beyond the claimed "smart watch mode" specs.
C.sco over 5 years ago in reply to Leong Sem +1

Leong Sem said:
battery left 53.9%, should remain 4.3days

but system battery show left 6days, not sure how they calculate, haha

The "days remaining" calculation is not based on your current, or average…

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0 Juice over 5 years ago

Same on my 6X Sapphire, 9 days at 100%

0 Former Member over 5 years ago

Yes, it's 9 days at 100% is what my 6X Sapphire too, I think once the device has been used and drained and then recharged a few time the true 21 days figure in smartwatch mode will be seen

0 NemoSandman over 5 years ago

IMHO it's a learning program following the use of your watch. Not a linear rule of three.

I got 14 days on mine though.

0 thewaffle over 5 years ago

It's because you have Pulse Ox on 24/7/365. Garmin never has that on out of the box. The Pulse Ox Sensor definitely takes more battery. 21 Days is with no Pulse Ox, 14 days with Sleep Pulse Ox, 9 days with Full Time Pulse Ox

0 Former Member over 5 years ago

When I first unboxed my Fenix 6x Pro Solar, it showed 19 days. After I set it up, it has been showing 13 days when I fully charge it.

0 Volker over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

Are the 13 days shown for normal watch mode? I am on 84% and get 35 days.

Which is strange, because the maximum is 21 days + 3 days.

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to Volker

Wow! Do you have maybe some power saver mode on? I just have the normal watch mode and nothing special setup on my watch and shows the 13 days. I do have sleep tracking on, but don’t use it for sleeping. I thought I would try it but only used it once.

0 Volker over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

No- no power saver mode. Full charged it is showing 41 days. Seems to be an issue...Soft reset didn´t fix it.

0 Gr4z over 5 years ago in reply to NemoSandman

What watch strap is that? Thanks

0 Volker over 5 years ago in reply to Volker

One hr later, my device jumped down to 26 days (still a little bit to much).