Battery Percentage

I can't help you with the battery - I've never seen such behaviour on my 6X Pro Solar watches in almost two years. If I had to guess I would wonder whether the battery was faulty and heading for early retirement. It might be worth contacting Garmin.

As for recovery time vanishing, this is normal in my experience every time I long press the light button until shutdown. I do this is standard whenever I install new firmware and occasionally in between if I think my watch is acting funny. At the end of the day it is a computer and sometimes "turn it off and on again" is all it needs. As well as recovery time resetting you might also find a jump up or down in your body battery value. I have no idea why either of these things happen when everything else is preserved, but it's always been this way for me and two 6X Pro Solars.

With the power off menu option the recovery status and everything else is preserved, but it doesn't seem to be beneficial to the operation of the watch other than to save some battery if you're not using it.

Thanks. 

I’ve done the soft reset before (light button long press) and I’ve never noticed the recovery time drop to zero before. That’s not to say it didn’t though. I’ve always just assumed all the training load features are pulled back from GC, recovery one included. As you say, it’d seem all other metrics come back after the reset. Just quickly checked and body battery appears unaffected. 

now I’ve done the soft rest I’ll keep an eye on the battery percentage. It might be the soft rest has done the trick, if not, will reach out to Garmin Support. 

I happened to perform a long press reboot yesterday. Here's how my BB adjusted....

I have also noticed that "elastic" measurement with my Fenix 6 Pro (non solar) in the two years (plus) of useage.

Accurate battery monitoring on such small batteries is not easy. Keep that in mine. It happens sometimes especially after an activity, no reason to reboot the watch, everything fine.
Install "Battery Gauge" wdget, I have found it is the most handy way to have a better understanding of how the battery is used by the Fenix. :-)

eezytiger said:

I happened to perform a long press reboot yesterday. Here's how my BB adjusted.

excuse my French but I think Grundy was talking about Battery not Body Battery. :-)

Yes, I know, and I covered that in my opening paragraph.

My reference to body battery was in regard to the long press reboot messing up data such as recovery time AND also body battery.

Thanks for that @NemoSandman - I'll give that widget a try and monitor. 

Incidentally I've just been using the DC Rainmaker analyzer tool to look at battery drain over my last few runs..There's some inconsistencies with what I'm seeing - anything between 3.5 and 5.5% per hour burn rates - however I have been using different combinations of settings on some of those runs so it's highly possible that's driving the difference vs any 'issue' per se.

I've also had the watch for 2 years so I'm expecting some battery degradation (5% maybe) - I use it with GPS pretty much daily and upwards of 10+ hours per week. 

In fairness that comment from @eeztiger was more of an FYI - they were just pointing out that when doing a soft reset - I'd commented about the recovery time dropping zero when I did it - they have seen odd behaviour in the reported Body Battery before & after the soft reset.