• 86sci Weird Battery Draining Issue

    I have a Garmin GPSMAP 86sci. I charged it to full about a week ago, put it in my belt case for a week, and took it out to use it today, and the battery is almost at zero  

    What might be causing the battery to drain down completely, while the unit is off…

  • Significant Battery Drain after 7.50 Update

    Anyone notice significant battery drain after upgrading to 7.50? I went from charging the 235 every 5-7 days to every 2-3. I find the watch loses about 30-35% per 24 hour period now. I've tried restarting the watch and now I am going to try turning bluetooth…
  • Battery is draining while tracking "running"

    The last update fixed most of the battery-draining-issues.

    The battery still is draining 30% per hour while GPS-tracking "running". My friend checked the display while I'am running. It is turned off.

    When GPS-tracking "biking" or "walking…

  • Battery drain still present with 3rd party watchface

    I'm using the UltraSport custom watchface and I'm still seeing a considerable battery drain.

  • RE: high battery drain with every new update

    Same for me but battery life is still very poor and battery drain is insane.

  • RE: Recent battery drain out of nowhere

    Are you sure it's battery drain out and not this issue here that everyone is going crazy for the last couple weeks about but Garmin does not seem to care even a little?

  • RE: Excessive Battery Drain - External HRM impact?

    I was also concerned about the 'searching' my pods says disconnected, it's an ant+ thing that should be changed to 'listening' maybe?

    Certainly makes no difference to me. HRM dual. 

    I had the fenix 5 and TBF the only battery drain I…

  • High battery drain is back with 12.11

    Possibly the same bug has been reintroduced that was present prior 12.10.

    after workouts the battery drain increases significantly. Avg daily consumption is 15-16%.

    incident detection might be running in the background constantly.

  • Need to focus on the intense battery drain

    Since joining beta I've experienced severe battery drain and lose two-day life each day.

  • Fenix 6 battery drain with bluetooth turned on?

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    I am very surprised by the speed at which the battery drains with the bluetooth turned on (less than 4 days to drain). If I turn it off, charge is as expected (>15 days). Is there a setting to slow the battery drain while bluetooth is on?