Hi,
My Fenix discharges very quickly. 20% per day without GPS workouts and without AOD. That's relatively high compared to my Epix 47mm.
Does anyone else have the same problem?
I hope that this will be fixed with the next firmware update.
Hi,
My Fenix discharges very quickly. 20% per day without GPS workouts and without AOD. That's relatively high compared to my Epix 47mm.
Does anyone else have the same problem?
I hope that this will be fixed with the next firmware update.
Our engineers are still investigating battery drain concerns associated with the Fenix 8. They would like to point out many things that are expected to increase battery drain beyond the estimated days…
Update September 25, 2024:
Our engineers have discovered an issue that was causing incident detection to remain after, after being used in an activity. This was causing a significant increase in the battery…
Hi Laurie,
Already shared these informations with you weeks ago, enabled logging, still no reliable fix on Garmin's end. Should we trust the brand at all?
I understand the items list you have above…
Same problem here, with fenix 8 51mm amoled.
PulsOxy Setting -> manuel
AOD off
Gesture Mode on with 4Sec
No GPS activities etc.
Display Off overnight / Red Shift on Touch
Bluetooth Connection to iPhone
Issue…
Yes, the battery drains even when not wearing the watch.
Anyway, some of these tips are ridiculous:
Turn on the battery saver feature from the controls menu (Controls). I dont buy the watch to be in battery…
I also enabled logging upon Garmin request and the drain kept going on v11.89 and v11.90 (Fenix8 Amoled 47). I just tested registering the watch to the beta program to see if any version currently in beta is solving this issue.
Fully charged mine yesterday. It said 29 days battery. All sensors turned off.
today it says 25 days.. draining far quicker than it was when I bought it!
Thx. Will do
Similar issues with enduro 3. Garmin has enabled logging on my watch. I hope something identifies the drain
Same here. Same device. Started to happen just couple of days ago. Before it was all ok. Not working out today and had like 20% battery drop during just 8h since morning.
Quick update and glance of « hope » : enrolled the F8 47 amoled to the beta program, currently running os v12.09 and back to a somewhat more acceptable 0.44% battery use /h or 12d/charge with overnight pulse oxymeter enabled and a few sensors like Stryd and devices like openrun paired but 0 activity (via the ConnectIQ "battery widget with instant charge detection" app)
now this is in no way acceptable for a device at this level to be forced to run beta to just get within 20% of marketed abilities but that’s a start.
I started to experience battery drain on my f8 amoled after pairing and running with Coros hr monitor. Restarting the watch helps until I run again. Coros device is of course disabled when I am not wearing it and watch is not connected to it outside of running. Can I provide you any more information?
Just to add some info. I am on fw 11.90.
Also I just noticed that the watch is significantly colder when I restart it (I guess it does make sense that using more power does actually warm up the watch).
My statistics for the past few days
28.10.2024
10:25 - 37% after soft restart
13:29 - 36%
14:50 - 36%
16:52 - 36%
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29.10.2024
6:50 - 35%
11:00 - 34%
13:15 - 34%
15:45 - 34%
20:35 - 33%
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30.10.2024
10:00 - 31%, upgraded to 11.90
13:30 - 30%
14:00 - 30%
16:30 - 30%
20:00 - Sport activity with no sensors
22:30 - 27%
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31.10.2024
5:30 - 26%
10:30 - 25%
14:20 - 25%
15:30 . 24%
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1.11.2024
17:50 - 22%
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3.11.2024
9:30 - 17%
12:30 - 14% (1 hr outdoor GPS activity with 2 BT sensors)
15:00 - 12% - noticed quicker battery drain and made a soft restart
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4.11.2024
14:00 - 10%
I recently purchased a fenix 8 43mm, about a week ago. It updated to 11.9 immediately when I connected it to WiFi. I am shocked at how bad the battery life is. I experience a drain of 50% or so per day. I have to charge every day or every second day. I have switched off WiFi, notification center, 4s display timeout, tried so many options to preserve the battery but to no avail. I have now activated the beta software but obviously I am already on a later version than this suggestion. I have owned almost every fenix model since they were released and have never experienced the battery life to be this bad. Please fix this issue. The battery life is nowhere near what is advertised or evem that of the previous models but the price is significantly more expensive.