9.33 live - despite the battery problems?

thats on an adroid i guess ? on iphone you do not see anything remotely like that

I live by now with the way Garmin manages the "software" vs hardware. Errors like this would kill Apple reputation (for devices that cost half the price at least). We "Garminists" rarely complain, take part of the alfa and betas and we are still here asking for getting the right attention on something inconceivable in software development.

My Fenix 7 is at 65% today and keep dropping at double speed since the update. As if an AW or Galaxy watch would suddenly last 5 hours.

I also reported back to gafmin the fact every time each updatss requires me to recheck the configuration since what was On gets disabled (12/24hrs, Move notifications, Baro measure units, etc...) so..it can be a surprise every time you update, and I fear I can discover glitches and bugs when on a long run or other activities. I'm not sure for how long I can resist. Thanks goodness I love currently the hardware of my Fenix SS... It's a bit like a wonderful girl (or cute guy) who sometimes acts "stupid" but then you are so much attracted that forget the cons.. 

Ironically my experience with 9.33 has been the opposite.  For the past few months I was getting 2 weeks max out of my charge with about 10thrs/week of GPS (I also stopped using HR on a default Garmin watch face and that helped).  My second full charge with 9.33 and I am at 19 days remaining at day 9 after charging.  When I first got my 7X solar sapphire in January it was going almost 28days per charge.  This latest charge may rival that.  I am only outdoors when I bike and the sun isn’t always great-getting around 75-100k lux per ride at best.

Mine too. BUT I habitually factory reset my T7 (the same like 7XSS where battery is concered) before I updated and after finishing the update, then after reconfiguring my watch I also did a hard reset. I wouldnT know if I'd had a problem otherwise but now at 9.33 battery is even better than with 8.37 in the range of txbucky. Also I observed that with 9.33 the prediction is much more adaptive. I started after upgrade and configuration with 18 days only with full charge and was like OMG, metoo. NO! two days later I was at 22 days. Never observed that with 8.37. It held like 17days sometimes for more than a day but it never actually recalculated that much. AND it looks like the prediction is realistic for my watch.

@GARMIN: This all said: Couldn't you just moderate the forum in a way to merge threads for the same topic and preferably pin threads of multilateral interest to the top - may be for all relevant products cross? I count three different threads for this battery topic in Fenix 7 alone (maybe I didn't even found all of them). Would make life easier for you since you only need to answer once and obviousely for the users to find experiences and answers at one place. Just a thought...

I do not support combining posts. I reported another issue and Garmin combined it with another (not same but similar topic) and it remained unanswered until today.

I want to see as many people report bugs as they experience it, instead of Garmin simplifying the issue and making it look less severe by mixing all posts into one.

The main issue is not number of posts reporting bugs - the main isssue is that Garmin did not respond in any manner to those posts. That really surprises me since this is my first Fenix watch. Maybe other folks are used to it, but I am not. For expensive devices, I expect proper support.

And users should not have to factory reset device after each update to make it work properly/as advertised. That indicates faulty update process. 

I did report it via Feature Requests, Forum here and there and in the Bugs section.

Anyhow...I recharged my Fenix 7 sapphire on 12th Sept midday, 100%. On 13th same time it dropped by 4% no GPS that's fine. On 14th with friends we had a regatta of 6 hours, I started a Sail activity of 7 hours with GPS (auto). There was a friend of mine with a brand new Epix 2 (9.33). We both didn't experience any battery abnormal consumption (just my smartphone dropped from 80% to 20% ! Due to live track, but I knew it), can't remember exactly the % before/after on my watch tough. Today, 15th it's 80% still. So... either it fixed by itself or there's something weird. 3 full days 24h on and with 7hrs in a row GPS + tracking..20% batter is fair.

It's not ok for me. I don't use any custom widgets or datafields, no segmets, no SO2, battery saver over night. All is mostly fine. But: a 1hr running activity drained 10%, which is massive for the 7s

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1hr running activity drained 10%

Did you have any music, maps, etc?

There are no battery problems at all with v.9.33 on my Fenix 7S. 10 days with v.8, 10 days with v.9.33. I use maps, 1h activity per day with full GPS, heart rate and seconds on a standard GARMIN watch face with 4 secs auto light.