Just noticed that my battery consumption is roughly doubled after the 24.10 version was pushed to my Fenix 6X Pro Solar. With 24.00 my average battery usage was ~0.2 % per hour and now with 24.10 its ~0.38% per hour. I'm currently charging the watch so I will restart it after it have been fully charged. Then look if the problem persists or not.
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Yes, exactly. And you probably need to be a member of the beta program to enable the hourly logging. Or, install secure_config.gcd according to the beta information. Information is found here:
Same. I was getting 4 days battery with 24.00, now down to 3 days with 24.10. I don't use the watch anymore, just keep checking to see if Garmin will ever fix the issue, but it seems that they don't care…
Did a new 56 hour test with 24.10 and now its all good again for me. Averaging ~0.165% per hour over that time period. But, no activities recorded this time. So, recharging to 100% and then a restart seems…
I'm beginning to wonder whether support for CIQ System 5 was where things started going downhill. That was introduced in firmware 21.00.
As I reported elsewhere, rolling back to 16.70 fixed my battery woes, but I didn't download any apps, widgets, data fields etc.. From there I rolled forward to 23.10 and battery life took a dive, without installing any third party components. Finally I updated again, to 24.00 and battery life was so poor that I could not tolerate it and I rolled back, this time to 19.21.
That seemed to again resolve battery problems, but I discovered that I could not download/install Stryd Zones to this firmware. It needs CIQ System 5 support, thus forcing me to update to at least 21.00. I did install Stryd Zones, but I have not recorded any activities since the last charge on Friday afternoon.
I've set a reminder to check the battery level every 24 hours and it's dropped exactly 8% daily as a smartwatch. So now 21.00 is as bad as 24.00. I did not get as far as installing anything on 24.00 so I don't think Stryd Zones is the problem. I think it's CIQ System 5 support that's battery hungry. Purely a hunch, no hard proof and no technical ability to provide any, but there is a bit of a pattern emerging. I'm just surprised that it didn't manifest itself sooner, like when 21.00 was first released, so maybe my hunch is wrong.
Any other theories out there?
Factory reset this morning, still on 21.00. No paired sensors. Nothing downloaded. No pulse ox. No activities. No music. No WiFi..Now down 10% in the last 24 hours or 26% in 72 hours AS A SMARTWATCH. It should be down only 15%.
24.10 installed yesterday evening and factory reset. The next day, despite gaining a percent or two while connected to my laptop, down 11% in 24 hours....
