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…
Im over 15 days since last charge with 26% of battery. Beta 12.31. BT phone connected 24/7, no external sensors of any kind. Gesture OFF, AOD off, OX on demand, WHR 24/7, Sleep tracker ON.
What I have found is that watch faces like Iron Grit, Data Dash and Portal rise battery consumption by double up to 0.5% per hour, while Radial Precision analog (which Im using) gives me 0.2% of battery consumption per hour. All are Garmin stock watch faces. Nobody answered my question few weeks ago about that, but battery life is affected by watch faces significantly.
If you enable AOD battery consumption is, I would say, drastic. It will consume up to 10% per day or more. Again it depends on which watch face you use plus screen consumption. And yes some watch faces consume more battery even with AOD off. Without HR data or seconds it doesnt matter.
How I measured? If I still have 22% of battery after 16 days the math is simple. 4-5% per day it depends mostly on messages or phone calls I recive on my watch.
Hello, Garmin-Lauirie. Is there an update on the battery drain issue after an activity with external Bluetooth sensors? Are you on track for resolving the problem? Regards
Guys,
Did you realize that the main purpose of the Garmin watch has been changed? I don't like where we are going. More smartwatch functions are causing more battery usage issues, which is causing me to lose happiness from this tool. Now I have realized that a new smartwatch function like calling from the watch or whatever is the prototype that is killing Garmin .. (unlike Apple has own target customers ..). Well what I am expecting from Garmin is to have complete independence from the API Apple .. so introduce the cellular version .. ( after proper testing .. )
I would like to know your opinion on what do you expect from Garmin and if you are accepting battery draining where we are moving closely to Apple. (unlike Apple smartwatch functions are working as should be).
I like the watch, but the battery issue is a bug, not due to having more functions. That is my only complaint. On the other hand, it is a great watch and will be better with the updates, but for the moment, I feel scammed because I have a faulty device, hardware or software, and no solution from Garmin.
I know that you mean. Introducing more smartwatch functions it's not the right way and it's causing more battery drain almost like Galaxy/Apple series, anyway I think the Fenix line has been stopped at 7 for this 'main purpose' and is The Last of the Mohicans, sadly.
Once I started tracking a hike lost 20% in 5 hours then dropped 6% that night with no activity, serious issues once start doing anything useful
Remarkably garmin has reproduced apples battery life as well as some of its features, terrible own goal