battery drain

I've never really looked at the battery monitors' detail other than putting them on to see how they affected battery drain. Anyway, I found these interesting results comparing the information from the CIQ battery monitor and what the watch is telling me. A little difference between 11d on the watch and 5.3 days from the app. Hmmm! Wonder which is correct?

And yes the screenshots were taken at the same time.

For me on F6Pro it seems, that the battery backup is getting worse and worse with every new firmware. I also faced battery drain from 60% to death in 6 hours on 12.20FW... The watch will never get to declared 35 hours of GPS activity...

since it auto updated into 11.10

I find it strange that this problem can already be observed with you with firmware that was still good for others.

For  some/many others, the problem didn't start until 12.20

That's why I find it strange that the problem cannot be limited to a specific firmware version. There are too many different reports for that.

I would be interested in what would happen if a collective thread were created in which everyone only reports the firmware version with which the problem started. How many different messages would we get?

So far there have been no noteworthy reports on the problem in the German forum. So far, a message about this that has been resolved for him after the device was replaced by Garmin.

and the problem started with him with software 10.10. Two month ago.

forums.garmin.com/.../akkulaufzeit-fenix-6x-sapphire-seit-dem-softwareupdate-auf-10-10-zusammengebrochen

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A brief check by looking at a CIQ app developed by a third party does not seem to be meaningful.

These apps or widgets were NOT developed by Garmin and are not part of the watch's main software.

Most of these apps are programmed by developers who have this as a hobby. They do a very good job, but there may still be errors or incompatibilities (SDK/CIQ).

This would then not be assigned to Garmin, since these Apps were not developed by Garmin. 

Should you notice an error in an app, which can be traced back to the fact that it is really due to the app, contact the developer via the "button contact  developer" in order to find a solution for the problem with him. The developers are very helpful and will surely work with you to find the problem.

The battery determination should be made through observation in real operation. How long does the watch really last?
(Without installed downloaded apps).

The battery consumption may be a problem for you, but please check by actually using the watch.

As a note, it should be said that EVERY downloaded app puts an additional load on the battery.

The battery life information officially provided by Garmin only refers to the delivery status.
As soon as you install an app / widget / watchface/data field, these no longer apply.

see here : 

Dr Phil said:

I've never really looked at the battery monitors' detail other than putting them on to see how they affected battery drain. Anyway, I found these interesting results comparing the information from the CIQ battery monitor and what the watch is telling me. A little difference between 11d on the watch and 5.3 days from the app. Hmmm! Wonder which is correct?

The trouble with software and having 2 different pieces of software giving 2 different answers is knowing which if any is telling the truth. !!!. Just because something tells you there is 9 days left doesn't actually mean its right. Software is a funny thing. Fenix software is written in a language called Monkey C as far as I am aware. I have been programming in Assembler/C/C++ for over 30 years and my first boss taught me a valuable lesson.

There is no such thing as a correct C program, just one that hasn't gone wrong yet. !!.............................very true.

Anyway, the best way to determine if what you are seeing is right, is to leave the watch alone, keep an eye on it and see exactly when it shuts down, then you will closer to the answer.

Then charge it for 30 mins, check both data sources and see if they agree with each other. Keep doing this until the watch is fully charged again and repeat a few times. After this boring but useful set of experiments you will be in a better position to judge which data source to believe..........hopefully.

I have a simpler method, one I’ve been following for years and without the need to use any other software...I simple consider how often I have to recharge the watch based on how much I've used it.

it may be simpler but contains way too many variable and random events you cant duplicate fairly. The whole point is to just compare the garmin battery counter with a downloaded IQ one. So you want to minimise all the random events you can. So don't do anything with the watch, let it stay idle on a table, just monitor the values every 30 mins or so. Then you get to build up a picture of what's going on and if there are any patterns to it. Same goes for recharging it. Do the values decrease and increase in a linear fashion, or by some other equation, do the changes correlate to each other in some way that can be predicted, etc, etc, etc.

Or do what I did, get so annoyed after trying for 3 months to find out "why", and send the watch back and get a replacement. Had it a week now and so far everything works as it should.

I have my Garmin 6x about 11 months and always had about 9 days with the watch.

When I used it for tracking over day (GPS)  it was about 3,5-4 days.
The last weeks I notice huge drainage with only using it as a watch.
I did not change anything on it in the last weeks.
I have haertrate monitoring on, but that is already on since 11 months.

Only thing I see is that with automatic updates on, it isn now on 12.20. This may indeed be an issue with this firmware update.

Very weird. I'll keep an eye on it in the next days, but this is frustrating indeed.

I am still on Software Version 6.0.... Still doesn't seem like a good idea or worth while to update....