0.72%/hour battery usage, Fenix 6s pro, is it normal?

Hi,

there are a lot of threads about battery life and the problems around it. I own a Fenix 6 pro and was also facing huge battery drain (0.5/hr). Recently (a few days back) there was a new beta firmware (5.74) and a Garmin Connect update for Android. The combination of both now made my Fenix to have a battery drain of about 0.3-0.4/hr. This is still not the way it should be, as for 2 weeks of battery life it needs to fall down to 0.28/hr, but I am still happy that there is some improvement. You can try to update to the recent beta firmware, maybe it will also have a positive effect for you.

Bye

Hi, 

Thank you for the reply. And yes, I viewed almost every thread about the battery life in the forum.

Not many of them mentioning the number of battery usage per hour, especially to Fenix 6s pro, so I posted the OP.

The theoretical usage will be 0.46%/hour according to the 9 days ideal battery life.

But in real world, I am facing 0.72%/hour, which is much further from the idea usage.

Thank you for the information, if the "problem"' is resolvable by firmware, it is cool enough.

Otherwise, if it's a specific hardware issue, I consider return or change a new one.

I will try for longer time.

But if there is more real experience about the battery usage can be referred, please post as well.

So that we will know the approximate usage per hour in real world.

Thank you.

One thing that may be very confusing when discussing battery life is that models have different battery capacity and sometimes the same thread has a mix of them all.

Other problems invovles CIQ watch faces, CIQ widgets, CIQ apps and CIQ data fields. The only way to really tell is to remove them all, but that leads to another problem. The most common way to track this is to use a CIQ widget.

To continue number of activities will have an impact, listening to music and BT/WiFi connection will.

In best cases (as a "smartwatch") a 6S should last for 9 days which is 216 hours which should be around 0.46% /hour.

I have a 6X which in best case should last 21 days (504 hours) which should be around 0.20% /hour. According to the Battery Widget I have a long term of 0.24% which includes activities a CIQ watch face (half time), WHR, no pulse ox and no music.

The "Data Lover" is the watch face on my 6s pro, no any other settings/widgets changed.

but I consider it's really far from the 0.46% comparing with the 0.72%/hour in my real case...

Plus: I am very confused what's running as "smart watch" model.

Does it mean only default watch face running, no HR monitoring, no bluetooth connecting, no any any other widget running?

Thank you for the reply.

Mine is f6x is about 0,15%/h really great.

"Data Lover" is your problem. This watchface drains the battery faster than the default watchface.

Set a default watchface ans your per hour consumption will  get better... ;-)

Thank you, but emm....I don't doubt a different watch face drains the battery faster, but I doubt it drains the battery close to almost 1.6 times faster.

Because I have a Fenix 5x plus as well, using same "Data Lover", the usage is about 0.3%/hours, close to the theoretical 0.21%.

Not like 0.71% vs 0.46%.

But I think I will try in the next week after this week test.

when I faced extreme battery drain issues some months back I also tried to switch my CIQ watch face to a native one. There was NO difference in battery usage. From what has been analyzed by a lot of people in this forum is that the battery issues are mostly related to bluetooth connection, and I don't think anybody is willing to give that up :) This is also why new beta firmware and Garmin Connect are giving better results I guess, Garmin is aware of the problem.

Thank you. It's really a question what function is included else in using under "smart watch model" in Garmin's advertisements....maybe only default watch face running without any other function/widget shall be used. like. HR, bluetooth...

Hopefully it's so called "smart watch"

I will try to upgrade the latest firmware days later.

Thanks again.

3910714 said:

I will try to upgrade the latest firmware days later.

If you use the CIQ Battery Widget to measure consumption per hour remember to reset the long term average to get fresh statistics.

3910714 said:

Plus: I am very confused what's running as "smart watch" model.

I think that is using it without any activities, without music, no pulse ox but with phone BT connection for notifications and GC sync. Default watch face and no other apps or widgets installed.