Garmin Edge 1030 Battery Draining Overnight When Turned Off

Going by this then, we're just meant to put up with it? 

Twice, now, I've come to a dead unit, despite it being over 80% after a ride. I shouldn't have to charge it every time I want to go out. I bought this for it's.battery life. Maybe it's time to switch it out.

I even had a more extreme situation. The device was fully loaded. I started the device before my ride, 100%. I transferred a ride to my device and in the meantime changed into my cycling clothes. Came back, mounted the device on my bike, turned the device on again: battery level 0%, useless for the ride.

JBakkers said:

I started the device before my ride, 100%. I transferred a ride to my device and in the meantime changed into my cycling clothes. Came back, mounted the device on my bike, turned the device on again: battery level 0%, useless for the ride.

In your case - it's a battery that's hit the end of it's lifespan and needs replaced.  If it got drained overnight (especially repeatedly), that will rapidly hasten the battery failure like you're seeing, but other than that, it's not related.  Multiple draining's to 0% is a really bad thing.

I would agree if this would be happening repeatedly. But that is not the case. Next ride it was 100% charged and worked properly. So there is something else. And maybe what happened today gives a hint what could be wrong, also looking back in time as this issue has happened more often and always when something happens with starting up or closing down the garmin.

Today I checked the Garmin before the ride, 84%. Ok.
Turned it off but it was not closing down completely. The "off" symbol kept on visible on screen. Pressed the off button again for a long time, it started up again. The battery was 80%. So within a minute it was down 4%. But it kept on hanging in the start up. It was not really getting into the on mode. Tried to turn it off, did get the "Sleep/Turn off" question, but whatever I chose, nothing happened. Pressed the turn off button again for a long time, same procedure. And I saw the battery was draining more. Mounted the garmin anyhow and went on riding. After about 3km it finally turned on properly. During the ride it was all okay. At the end of the ride battery level was still okay, somewhere in the 70%.

Therefore, my conclusion is that it is not end of life of the battery but there is something going on in the close down/start up procedure as I noticed more often that this is causing issues. When it is not working properly, it drains the battery very fast.

I generally today just let it go to sleep on it's own, and never turn it off.  The "Turning off" seems to be where the bug is, at least for some of the hardware based on observations from mine, and other people in multiple threads.

Hmmm. About two years ago I understood problems are mostly is in the sleep mode as it will still slowly "eat" battery and therefore you had to shut it down completely.But maybe that bug is solved in one of the updates somewhere in time.

Still it does not happen always, it is sometimes. Though if it happens, it often happens a couple of times in a short period and then it doesn't happen in a long period.

Already mentioned elsewhere. Maybe that is part of the "shut down bug" you mentioned. When the device is turned off and plugged in a charger, so not via the computer, and you disconnect the charger, the device will magically start on its own about 24 hours after the charger is disconnected.

I am in doubt to order the 1040 as I do not trust my 1030 anymore, though the Garmins are still much better than competitors which also have many issues and for sure less features. The point is that I also read about many issues for the 1040. Very buggy and also there battery issues. So I am so much in doubt if it is worth the money to replace a buggy device by a potentially equally buggy device.

Mine seems to do it randomly , usually after a firmware update, bloody annoying.

Happened again this morning so I dragged my 705 out of the drawer , not used in 1.5 years, still fully charged and worked perfectly.

Also have this problem. Happens intermittently after fully or near-fully charging the device, then powering it off rather than using sleep mode. My firmware is up-to-date. Was hoping Garmin would have fixed this after several years. 

My edge 1030 is about 4-5 years old and always had a battery life for at least 8-10 hours multiple day rides. This last winter for example it was holding the power in standby for multiple months.

Last week I started preparing the bike for a season, recharged the battery, and the SoftWare updates are automatic through the home wifi, I noticed an update was working. Couple days later the battery was drained.

Yesterday recharged again the battery was empty today. No big worry for now, today I got a snowfall (Canada here ;) ).

Chat with a Garmin support, the guy advised to delete some folders with content (with last year data), restart+recharge and take it for a test ride.... well the ride will wait some extra weeks as it looks.

Still looking for a Service to replace that 4-5 years old battery, I like that edge 1030 very much. Utube have some instructions for battery replacement, I am tinkering to go that way.