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
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
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…
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.
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…
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 battery consumption rates. It's based on what you would get if you don't use any more widgets or apps or activities, don't get any more alerts or vibrations, don't get any more notifications, and use a factory watchface.
It's good that Garmin does this, because it tells you a FIXED datapoint. You don't need to make any assumptions or guesses about it. "This is how many days I'll get if (the factors I listed above) remain true. If I use the watch beyond that, the battery will drain faster." Pretty simple.
The CIQ battery widget is neat, but it makes a LOT of assumptions that aren't transparent, so it's difficult to use their "days remaining" datapoint. If it says there's 4.6 days remaining, that's great, but what is that assuming,? That I'll continue recording 30 minutes of activity per day? That I'll get 30 text notifications a day? Or.... what? If you don't know why it thinks there's 4.6 days remaining, and what you'd have to do (or not do) to stay at the average rate of consumption, then it's a useless piece of data. I'd much rather just simply know how many days would remain if I don't use the watch, and guesstimate in my head how much less I should expect when I do use it.
Average consumption means nothing, because none of us use the watch in exactly the same way every day, all week, every week. If you do, then my condolences for the monotonous lifestyle, but at least your battery widget estimate will be more accurate than everyone else's 
For the rest of us, the battery widget estimate is like guessing that your airline flight will be 15 minutes late because that's their average - more likely it'll really either be on time, or several hours late.