Bug in 13.10 - Battery drain on Fenix 6S Pro

Battery drain is horrendous after the 13.10 update! The battery drained 20% in 1 hour with no activities being recorded. I tried reset to factory settings. See how that goes. Very poor update. Garmin Fenix S Pro here.

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GregStrutton over 3 years ago +3

For years I've always found my watch will drain battery faster than usual (forerunners and now Fenix). A few years back, after trial and error, I've found that after new update, if I switch off the watch…
Oguz Ali Ekinci over 3 years ago +3 suggested

I solved this issue according to this recommendation. Removing related file solved it, now I have magnificent battery life as far as I tested. In 24 hours with 1.5 hour running activity + heart rate sensor…
4121493 over 3 years ago +2

Same for me. The update went fine. Suddenly after charging the fenix, I do have a battery drain: 30% during the night in battery mode. Normal was 1-2%. It is strange because the update was a few weeks…

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0 tomoooo over 3 years ago

welcome to the club, I keep writing here about it since 12.77 , 13.00 and now 13.10. I have 6X Sapphire.

When the watch is connected via BT to the phone drain is extreme.

But it is even worse, when activity is active. Biking 4h , drain from 100% to 35,

Friends 6X same 13.10 FW, same activity from 100 to 85. (similar setup, same external devices connected.

Both phones are Android. (mine xiaomimix 2s with A10, the other one is S20 Ultra 5G.

And I am not able to downgrde the GPS or BT file only. Tried go back to 12.20 but that still kept draining, numerous resets, uninstall of connect app, install of 12.77 and 13.10 again. Nothing helps.

0 Conza over 3 years ago

Mine was like that after update... and then basically crashed / shutdown. After charging again, doesn't seem as bad... but maybe a little worse than previous. I do no BT permanent, just a few wifi syncs.

0 jb_nobrain over 3 years ago

Same for me. 100% to 0% in 2days without activity... Bad news

0 reittila over 3 years ago

Batery drain appr. 5%/day with BT, WiFi, OHR etc. F6Pro

0 Hexxer over 3 years ago

Nope. This is a normal 6, no wifi or so. BT is active and there was a walk from ~5km on sunday evening

0 Hexxer over 3 years ago in reply to Hexxer

0 jb_nobrain over 3 years ago in reply to Hexxer

What is this widget ?

0 bluefish over 3 years ago in reply to Hexxer

@Hexxer : I wonder how much battery your Battery widget uses itself

0 Mira over 3 years ago in reply to bluefish

@Allalin72 I have no fancy widgets installed, only whatever the watch came pre-installed with.

0 Mira over 3 years ago in reply to tomoooo

tomoooo I think it might be better after the reset to default settings, as the battery only went down from 78 to 73 over 8.5 hours. Will see if this continues like that...