Watch out: no silicone replacement straps with black buckle (carbon versions)

aleksiz

Looks like you have found a strap for your MARQ - congratulations!

Wauw, you really live on this forum. FYI, it’s an old strap with the grey buckle. It sucks.

Not sure when you got the Marq (Gen 2), but it was released in October of '22, so potentially several years old. And I assume the Apple Watch is brand new. Given the calender aging and the cycle aging of lithium-ion batteries, this is not a fair comparison. Not to mention improved battery technology since 2022.

The Carbon version is 1 year old. The AWU is newer, correct, but still...

I would review all settings on your Marq. Also consider uninstalling any Connect IQ watchfaces and apps, disable PulseOx, AoD, and rather use your phone for music instead of the watch - it shortens the battery life more than three times faster in comparison to plain GPS mode without music. And personally, I do not use AoD in my activities, since I do not need the watch face lighting all the time, when I look at it perhaps 10 times during the run.

Some more tips for optimizing the battery life: Tips to Extend the Battery Life on a Garmin Fitness Watch | Garmin Customer Support

Music and routing on Garmin, it is your answer.
Now try to do this opposite and see results.

Playing music over BlueToots and routing especially consumes a lot of battery.

How I like when somebody do "real tests" not having same conditions.

trux said:

and rather use your phone for music instead of the watch - it shortens the battery life more than three times faster in comparison to plain GPS mode without music.

That completely defeats the purpose of a sports watch then. I mean I specifically bought a garmin so that I would not have to carry my phone with me. Running with a phone is not fun at all. 

aleksiz said:

Both gps, music on Garmin, routing on Garmin

Routing can consume a significant amount of battery. Especially if you are calculating long tracks, and not follow them, so that the watch has to recalculate them. The actual route calculation can drain the battery very fast. 

Does the AWU2 support full scaled offline mapping? If not the comparison isn't really that fair. 

But losing 70% on a 30k run is indeed insane and doesn't seem right.

4389125 said:

I mean I specifically bought a garmin so that I would not have to carry my phone with me.

You can use it, if you want, of course, but then do not complain that the consumption is higher

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