v9.37: Fast Battery Drain

Seems to be different for everyone. I have no idea what Garmin did ( apart from changes to the sleep widget so that you get the sleep info again instead of activating sleep mode when pressing the button, which crept in with 9.36) but it seems my battery use during activity is DOWN, but at the same time is UP in smartwatch mode outside of battery saver at night. Lost 4% in 3 hours after charging yesterday evening. Lets see how today continues.

Hello Garmin - Chris,

Is there a way to skip FW updates? My battery is good, and I don't have such issue and I don't want this release i.e. But I have slow reactions on Hike activity. The compass reacts very slow till start showing the direction. It is frozen and after 10-20sec. start to show the direction. The auto resume from pause was not working correctly and the timer on main screen stays in pause till I stop the activity manually and start back.

What about this issue? :) 

Use the search function at the top of the forum to find an existing article for your other concerns that are not related to the Fast Battery Drain that this thread is regarding. Thank you.

Stamen Nikolov said:

Is there a way to skip FW updates?

On your watch, go to your System > Software Update menu to turn off your Auto Updates. Keep in mind if you turn off automatic updates, if you use Garmin Express on your computer it will still push to your watch.

Yea, I updated  3 days ago and charged to 100% that night which normally gives me about 18 days on my fenix 7 Saphire Solar. Yesterday (after 2 days) my battery said I have 14 days remaining meaning which means I went through 4 days of battery life in just 2 days. I always turn off my watch at night so theres clearly an issue with the battery still. Normally it's very accurate with the day counts with a 30-60minute workout everyday. I'm not impressed with this new rollout. 

4708896 said:

Yesterday (after 2 days) my battery said I have 14 days remaining meaning which means I went through 4 days of battery life in just 2 days. I always turn off my watch at night so theres clearly an issue with the battery still.

Leave the watch on at night. Why :

1) The boot process itself consumes a lot of battery.
2) The remaining days display is based on a forecast. This is messed up by the constant off and on.

I'll give this a try. Thank you for the suggestion!

Just did a test drive of 9.37 with a disappointing result (at this point not a suprise at all). My battery drain issue is 100% caused by Strava Segments, because as soon as I disable them, everything goes back to normal again. When they're enabled, Garmin Connect syncs with the watch every 10 seconds, and this way drains several percent of battery every hour, draining the watch completely in a day or two.

So with 9.37, there is absolutely no improvement at all. 9.33, 9.36, 9.37, it's all the same. Strava Segments enabled, syncs every 10 seconds, drains battery. Segments disabled, it's okay.

So if anyone's drain is caused by Strava Segments, and is resolved by disabling Segments, don't expect 9.37 to help in any way. Just keep Strava Segments disabled and wait for another month or two or 12, hoping they maybe get it fixed eventually. :-(

I wonder how many days does your watch say after you charge it to 100%? I only get 21 days with same settings as they used to be before upgrading to 9.33. Before it was 28days with out of the box fw, which number I don't remember. I don't use strava stuff, so that might be why I don't get that fast drain on my watch, but still I only get about 2 weeks runtime.

Go to the PulseOx setting again, turn it on once and turn it off again. Then restart the watch.