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 NemoSandman over 5 years ago in reply to Gr4z

An 22mm Archerband two piece zulu nylon "James Bond". Bought for my Samsung Galaxy 46mm and adapted on the Fenix 6.

0 nmyeti over 5 years ago

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.

0 PSteinlech over 5 years ago in reply to thewaffle

You're right, thanks for the hint. I'm getting 12 instead 8 days now on my F6 after completly disabling PulsOS, at 86 percent battery. I wasn't aware PulsOX needs that much battery even in "night only" mode.

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to Volker

That’s still very good if you do get the 26 days. Try and see what percentage the battery is at 24 hours later.

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to nmyeti

Thanks for the great tip!

0 Nam Doan over 5 years ago in reply to Juice

Yes, my F6X Sapphire 10 days at 100%

0 NemoSandman over 5 years ago in reply to Gr4z

Archerband.

0 DanielPribis over 5 years ago

Mine Solar Pro is strangely different. I have only enabled HRM, connection with my phone for appx. 4 hours per day and using GPS everyday for about 30- 40 minutes with 20% backlight (almost each day similar usage if above). It shows me at 100% charge 6 days, which is kind a strange. However my surprise is, that since I bought watch (3 week now), I´ve charged them only once so far and now they are on 57%. That means battery holds on for 14 days with above usage, which is fantastic! Why display shows me only 6 days I have no idea...

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to thewaffle

I get 9 days with Sleep Pulse Ox on my Fenix 6 Sapphire. The weird thing is that even in Sleep Pulse Ox mode it doesnt turn off apparently. I get Pulse Ox reading throught out the day as well, is there somehting wrong with mine?

0 Leong Sem over 5 years ago

i turn off pulse ox at night also cannot get 14 days (or even 11days)

i own fenix 6 sapphire