Yesterday I got a new firmware and restarted my watch. I don't remember the battery percentage but it was definitely over 40%. This morning I had 19%, in less than 4 hours it dropped to 10% so I turned battery save on, now it's even down to 2%…
Yesterday I got a new firmware and restarted my watch. I don't remember the battery percentage but it was definitely over 40%. This morning I had 19%, in less than 4 hours it dropped to 10% so I turned battery save on, now it's even down to 2%…
UPDATE
I got home and fully charged, then double checked all the settings (bluetooth off, pulse ox manual, etc) that have been mentioned in regard to battery life. I also changed the heart rate monitoring from 'smart' to '1 second' based off of the heart…
Since installing 19.13, my 255s battery barely lasts a day.
I charged the watch to 100% an hour ago and its already down to 91%, with no gps usage. Ox continuous measures are disabled.
Before this update battery lasted for about 10 days average depending…
I bet it makes no measurable difference. There are much better ways to save battery, such as turning of vibration or tones, or at least autolap, turning off GLOSNASS, turning off backlight etc
CW
Hi,
my HRM Pro is after 24h empty. I have changed now several times the battery, thought maybe my package is bad from batteries.
So I bought new CR2032 and I have the same issue. Does anyone know what I can do?
Thanks,
Stefan
I’m sorry to hear of the battery drain issues that you’re experiencing. Let’s start by power cycling (turning off and then back on) your watch. If the battery drain persists and if you have any Connect IQ (CIQ) Content, especially watch…
Hi,
I too am having the battery drain issue with my Vivoactive 5 and firmware 9.19B.
I would like to return to 9.16 Beta or the Non-beta firmware.
Thanks
With freshly charged eneloop 1900 mAh batteries installed, if I leave them in the GPSr overnight, the next morning they are flat. Same happens with other brand of NIMH batteries.
I make sure I have completely switched off the GPSr by pressing and holding…
Does anybody knows if the 20.21 fixed the battery drain issue in 20.15?
Make sure you have the latest updates. There are multiple threads on this, including this sticky:
