Fenix 6 Pro - poor battery life

Former Member over 5 years ago

Sorry to create yet another battery life thread but I am unable to solve the poor battery life on my watch. The first thing I did is turn off pulse ox.

I am losing about a third of the battery in a day. And that is without recording any activity. Fully charged it shows 10 days but almost immediately drops down to 9 days. As I understand most people see 14 days on a full charge?

I have only installed Stryd Zones and the Amazon music app. I did the usual setup and pairing to my phone. Nothing I consider out of the ordinary. I did not turn off notifications yet as a test but really what's the point? The watch is on 4.10

My trusty 935 get over a week on the same setup. The only reason I chose the Fenix 6 is for the bigger screen with 8 data fields and the music.

To make things worse I have one button with the double click symptom. And the most unforgivable thing for a serious runner: Twice now it recorded one of my routes as 6.3 miles instead of 7. The stryd footpod can fix this issue but I don't always run with it. There's nothing like running <8/mile and seeing the watch show >12. Sorry, had to get this rant in!

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0 Former Member over 5 years ago

I got similar problem. It s more like software issue to me as the battery was oke out of the box. After doing some setting up, installation (nothing unusual), it started to drain at 1%/h.

I had to send back for exchange (taking me 10 days of waiting)

0 Klosnor over 5 years ago

Just replying to gain some attention on the issue. I am also having the same issues with my Fenix 6 Pro Solar.

+1 thewaffle over 5 years ago

Here's the deal. The forums are not support. If you complain about issues only on the forums, Garmin can't fix it. They need actual data from the watches to fix it. Talk to their support, they actually will have troubleshooting steps and ask for data to help you with this.

0 Jeremie ALL. over 5 years ago

Interestingly, my fenix 6 pro sapphire once fully charged shows a prediction of 13 dqys (not 10). Interesting to notice this discrepancy.

0 GTarg over 5 years ago

I was about to suggest turning off pulse ox completely but you've done it. Maybe trying a hard reset?

0 Former Member over 5 years ago

I would contact support to be honest. One thing is that in your watch when you are not running you can disable satelites. if I have a sat connection I typically get 24 hours on high accuracy mode. So when I log my workouts/runs I switch that on and then switch it off when I am not logging

0 C.sco over 5 years ago in reply to Jeremie ALL.

Jeremie ALL. said:
Interestingly, my fenix 6 pro sapphire once fully charged shows a prediction of 13 dqys (not 10). Interesting to notice this discrepancy.

The 10 day estimate is based on using very specific settings. You'll either get more or less depending on what different settings you use.

For example, if you use the new "battery saver mode while sleeping" setting, you'll gain a couple days.

0 LeoPac72 over 5 years ago in reply to C.sco

Hi C.sco, do you know what functions are deactivated when selecting the "battery saver mode while sleeping" ? Thanks and regards!

0 Dr Phil over 5 years ago in reply to LeoPac72

You can choose which to disable, leave unchanged, or have enabled.

0 LeoPac72 over 5 years ago in reply to Dr Phil

Got it!! Thanks sir!