battery drops fastly since this week (only last 2 days instead of 12)

Noticed this week problems with battery,

I did not change any of my settings recently so that can not be the issue,

I charged my Instinct solar on tuesday morning. Fully charged 100% gives me about 12 Days of battery live (Due to settings)

Thursday morning I woke up and my watch was completely dead, completely drained.

So Thursday I recharged agian fully, same to 100% and starting off with 12 Days.
Now this morning already dropped back to 5 days, and afraid that tomorrow will wake up with a dead watch again.

Anyone has this issues? 

Just started this week, no idea if it has to do with updates, I have them automatically, so I did not monitor.

software version 11.00 (ea425aa)

GPS 4.60

BMX 0.9.1

BLE/ANT 2.10

SNS 5.00

WHR 0.09.01

  • I have the newest Beta 11.76 with

    GPS 4.80

    BMX 1.0.3

    BLE/ANT 2.10

    SNS 4.00 (from the Beta Zip Folder)

    WHR 1.00.03

    I have the same Issum! Yesterday at 17:00 the Instinct Solar were at 100% and showes me 12 Days left. Now one Day later at 21:00 i have 6 Days left at 48% capacity. I testet the SNS 5.00 with no difference.

  • I am running the 11.76 now to see if it is any better

    My versions are the same as yours, also running the SNS on 5.00

    I will keep informing here...tomorrow 

    Fully charged with the new versions at 16:00 (20/11)

    Now at 21:00 it's back to 11days. (20/11)

    UDATE: 9:30 It's back to 9 days (21/11)

    UPDATE: 16:11 It's back to 7 days (21/11)

    UDATE: 22:15 It's back to 5 days (21/11)

    UPDATE: 9:14 It's back to 3 days (22/11)

    UPDATE: 16:29 It's back to 2 days / and low battery warning - asking to go in battery saving mode. (22/11)

    UDATE: 04:35 Empty battery icon and 'LOW' indication (23/11)

    UDATE: 06:49 DEAD, nothing anymore, blank screen

    QUICK MATH: battery goes for about 62hours going from 100% (12 days) to 0% = not even 3 days. 

    I will keep updating till it's dead then try to roll back to software 10.10 see if that makes any difference 

  • Now at saturday on day 2 at 15:00, i have 2 days left on 16% accu.

  • So the results of the test were that fully charged the battery lasts for about 62 hours. See previous post.

    It means that every 5hours there is a day going off the battery


    Now recharging and will try to roll back to Software 10.10 (if I can find it) -ANYONE has a backup form previous software versions?-

    Hope to see improvement or at least how it used to be.
    Will keep updating here

    Monday  23 nov :  8:30 - Charging from 0%

    Monday 23 nov:   11:45 - Charging done 100%  (still running 11.76 /  didn't find a roll bak version yet)

     ---> Had contact with service, but nothing more than asking me to do a soft reset..... and they proposed exchange

    Tuesday 24 nov:    9:40 - 8 days left (from 12 days with full charge)  

    Thursday 26 nov:    8:10 -  2days left and Battery LOW warning! / asking to go to battery Save moode.

    ----> Got reply from support to do complete reset / remove device from account / remove from bluetooth / restart completely
           Will test this morning and update here

  • Ok,

    So yesterday I had answer from the support:

    --> hard reset - remove the watch from the app
    - remove the app from phone
    - in Bluetooth on phone also 'forget/ delete the watch'
    - reconnect through Garmin Express
    - restart everything

    26/11 - 16:00 / Fully charged 100% / 12 days

    27/11 - 14:31 / 10 days left (after 22 hours watch time)   -- This looks more promising but still have to wait for full result

    30/11 - 9:45 / 4 days left (after  almost 90hours)  So it has improved my battery live at this point but still drops too fast.

    ----

    30/11 - 12:25 recharging and will update to v12

    30/11 - 16:35  charging is teriibly slow, after 3 hours from 30% battery to 68% ---  38% charged in 3 hours / means it allmost would need 12 ours for complete charge (on pc)  -  software version 12

    1/12 - 9:00 continue recharging since I had to pause it. Battery dropped about 7% since the previous charge 68 % -> 61%

    1/12 - 12:15 Fully charged 100% / 12days will restart the test from this time on in new post

  • Restart battery test on V12

    1/12 - 12:15  12 days of battery life  -  Full charge 100%

    2/12 - 12:09  10 days left  - sadly no idea of percentage since it's not shown that way would be nice to have this 'option'

    3/12 - 14:24  8 days left  -  seems like the constant of 2 days dropping instead of 1

    4/12  - 15:03  3 days left  -  Dropped battery life by 5 days in 24hours!

    5/12 -  20:44  LOW - woke up this morning with only 1 day left. Now it's showing LOW status. Strange thing; normally I get a warning when there are 2 days left... This time it did not happen. Waiting till it's completely done and then do a restart and try again.

    6/12 -  17:11 Woke up with dead battery, put it on charger right now. Screen pops up and shows me 6:10 / 100% ???
                --> I guess it died on 6:10, but the 100% is weird since it was dead and just came up immediately after conecting the charger

               --> after that the screen went blank again, after pushing u button only the battery Icon showed up.

               --> few minutes later screen shows 6:15 and 0%

    Calculation: 100%  --> 0%  in  114 hours = 4,75 days

    comparison 12 days is 288 hours

  • Test from last week on V12

    improved the battery life a bit but still not what it should be!

    Calculation: 100%  --> 0%  in  114 hours = 4,75 days

    comparison 12 days is 288 hours

    software version 12.00 (1b6e196)

    GPS 4.80

    BMX 0.9.1

    BLE/ANT 2.10

    SNS 5.00

    WHR 0.09.01

    ETE 5.3.3.11

    ------------------------------------------------------

    6/12   -   21:00  -   full charge  -  12 days

    7/12  -    8:00   -    already back at 11 days

    7/12  -   11:56   -  11 days / 90% battery --> updated V12.10 Beta

    8/12  -   9:30    -   9 days  / 76% battery

    9/10  -  10:09   -   7 days  /  59% battery

    10/12 -  15:46  -  5 days  / 49%  battery 

    11/12 -  13:39  -  3 days  /  20% battery

    12/12 -  13:15  -  LOW /  5% battery

    Closing the test, sending the watch back today. 

  • On 12.10 RC and I see a faster than usual battery drain. Will monitor for a week. 

  • Today I received a letter from Garmin to send the watch back.
    So I will monitor still the battery untill tomorrow and then post back the latest results.

    Montioring is in previous post ^

    I proposed to have it one month longer on test, but they never replied on that.  

    Since I had battery times of 2 days and now of 6 days??? so I guess it has more to do with the software instead of hardware.

    Anyway, watch will be send out.

  • Yesterday received a complete new watch (thank you Garmin!)

    So I will put all settings like they were before. 

    Running v12. 20

    Keeping updates here