Bought a Garmin Solar Instinct new four weeks ago. Firmware = 13.20 and I'm only getting around 12 days battery life before requiring a charge.
My wear use specifics are:
- It's on my wrist pretty much 24x7 - I use the sleep monitoring. I do not have Pulse Ox on! Pulse Ox is switched off.
- I use it to monitor my HR; sleep patterns; steps; body battery & stress.
- Syncs to phone occasionally. (I don't have phone alerts on though)
- Have been on roughly 3 x 50 minute walks a week with GPS only setting on during the walk activity.
I would have expected battery life to be more than 12 days for the general use of the watch.
Appreciate battery life and usage is a complex issue but I'm not a power user - but would like to take advantage of more of its options at some point - but given the current battery life I'm not optimistic.
Could I have a defective unit?