Battery life improvements in software 24.00?

Confirmed that the reset is useless; I did a hard reset a few days ago and it is true that in daily "watch only" consumption it consumes little, but in activities it has increased a lot; I have published it in the BETA forum, today in swimming: 1000 meters before it was 1 or 2% and today it consumed 5% (indoor pool, without GPS) and also without backlight. I only have the FC sensor activated, the rest deactivated and backlight at 10% in clock and 20% in activities, but only "after dark"
I make it clear that it is a firmware issue and that the consumption is not mine but general (there is no better test than a hard reset and removing sensors)

50 hours since charging and the watch has now lost 21%. No further activities recorded, so still just one 2 hour walk.

Daily loss without activities should be 5%, not 10%.

Thanks for sharing. I'm having the same issue. I've had the Fenix for 2 years and until v 24.00 it behaved correctly. Totally a software mess. Maybe it's Garmin's understanding of planned obsolescence 

Tisztul_A_Visztula said:

Idont want to start a debate about which fw version was the best as regards battery consumption, but I was fully pleased with 19.20, because it gave me exactly the same battery consumption as advertised provided that I avoided CIQ datafields and other ciq solutions.

Since then it has been not true, but I never had such a big drain which was more than double of the advertised numbers.

Well I can share new information.

I am still relatively OK with the battery consumption of my F6X as a smart watch without recording any activities. But it only means that if I dont make any sports either its battery level decreases by 4.5-5 % per day - so by the advertised extent - or 7.5-8% per day. 

I guess the discharge level is in fact  not so excessive to really have 8%/d, but also I dont believe the 5%/d, that is the battery meter is far from perfect. It seems to underestimate the drain between 80-100%, and overestimate under 40% or so.

Anyway the long term avg  of F6x as smart watch is not more than let's say 7%.

So the new piece of information is what happened when recording activities w/ GPS usage. These data are vaild using 24.00 and 24.10. 

1) 4.5% per hour if there were 2 CIQ datafield were used, so Garmin would say that those extra data fields must have sucked too much.

2) 3.7%/h if there were NO CIQ datafields used at all.

Since 3.7% is more than double of the advertised 1.7%/h (100/60), I started to worry that the 2 latest firmwares are really worse than the previous ones and much worse than fw 19.20 as regards battery consumption. 

my battery life plummeted to only getting 2 days from a full charge, even after turning off most sensors, wifi and phone connection...

Planned obsolescence via supposed software updates. I think it's Garmin's way to make us upgrade to Fenix 7

If it is in fact, one simply should not be greedy for new functions and keep some early version of the software, which is never bug free, but at least gives a relatively good battery time. Like it is 19.20.

But people are typically greedy. :-)

My experience still is that I am closer to the advertised 5% per day (100/21 days) on days without activities  than to 1.7% per hour for GPS-enabled activities. At least in the upper half of the battery levels.

I can say that activities both with CIQ datafields and without them sucks  appr. 4-5% an hour during this winter. This goes down to appr. 2% when recording an indoor activity.

My watch has dropped exactly 20% since charging to 80% just 44 hours ago, so less than two full days.

I have only recorded a single activity of Virtual Run, which lasted 50 minutes.

This is on 24.84b.

Even before recording the Virtual Run this morning the watch had lost 17% upon waking, so it is draining rapidly simply in smartwatch mode, regardless of activity recording.