Battery draining

Returning it and buying another watch brand is the best advice I can give to you. I have had the same problem since I bought the watch 4 months ago, with multiple calls with support, a watch replacement, and the problem still present.

Return it, Garmin is going down like Titanic. You won't get any help. 

You should return it, garmin doesnt care about how terrible their software development and QA practices are and they are not going to change.

Try turning off the emergency contact and restarting.

Hello Laurie,

The battery drain that most users see on their watch has nothing to do with "optional" features like PulseOx, which are off by default and which will obviously drain the battery faster.

You can see on the following graph that battery drain after activity is more important than it should be.

all left & center side of the graph is normal drain - 1% every 3 or 4 hours.
Yellow highlight is a one hour activity with GPS & sensor tracking - once again, normal drain.
Red highlight clearly shows that drain does not come back to the normal slope. I measured it at about 1% per hour. Some feature from activity mode (GPS, sensor, incident detection ???) keeps running in the background until watch is reboot.

Hope this will point software engineers in the right direction

Charged my 51MM Solar to 83% 1/29/25 prior to GPS activity. The watch has 5 days in smartwatch mode (should be 3.5% per day) and 7 hours of GPS activity (should be around 1%) per hour. Based on the above my watch should be at 58.5% (83 - 3.5*5 - 7*1 = 58.5). Current percentage on my watch is 56%.

I currently use a Garmin HRM pro plus added to my watch.

I use GPS Only mode in activities. \

Not sure what is causing your battery dram but, clearly something is off.

how do you access this battery graph? I'd like to have it.

As for activity, do you use any external sensors? As I've seen some bug reports which claimed that HRM sensor's connetion is kept active after activity. Maybe that's what you see on your graph?

It's a widget from Connect IQ store. It's called Battery Graph I think. Very handy to track anormal battery usage.
I don't think the drain comes from the sensors though, because all sensors I use (Coros armband + Stryd) automatically turn off when they are not used. And drain still occurs. Maybe the antenna remains on and keeps searching for connections, I don't know.

thanks for the suggestion, I'll try out that widget! Regarding sensors, I'm not sure about the exact mechanism but yes, it could be that the watch is keep on searching unless you turn off sensors inside the menu. If I come across this thread, I'll share it here.