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If you have followed steps to remove the Connect IQ content from your watch and are still experiencing a battery drain, please see part of my post below:
If you have not already reached out to your…
Hello all,
We currently have a Beta software that many (but not all) users have found resolves their battery drain issue. Please see the link below to install this software and be sure to let us know …
Hello all,
If you are still experiencing this rapid battery drain, please be sure to install the beta software available for this model. After you have the beta sw installed, please answer the questions…
Definitely try the new Beta Software (8.05).
I don't have the Venu 2 Plus, but rather the Venu 2, and the last beta firmware fixed exactly what you describe here, and I had with my watch. I went from 3…
I also experienced battery drain and strange drops in battery percentage and decided to monitor it.
After full reset and update to firmware 7.40:
Thursday 27 Jan. 17:00 100%
Monday 31 Jan. 9:55 0%
Dropped…
UPDATE (7Feb)
After a period of high battery drain I reset the watch to full factory settings on 3 Feb. This did not solve the problem. I again reset the watch on 5 Feb before recharging, and then reset…
Third test drive and it has been consistent...take off your watch when you go to sleep! I have done this and I now get around 7-8 days of battery with normal usage.
OK, so it's early days but I installed the Beta Software yesterday and then fully-charged my Venu 2 Plus. Without the new software, I'd probably be down to ~50% battery by this point in the day. Today I'm currently sitting at 94% - so that's a 6% drain over a 19 hour period (8 hours of which were over night).
I'm with the stable firmware and well into my 8th day of battery, still 18%...the clue, not sleeping with it...
For now it's resolved again.
I added the beta firmware and power cycled. That alone didn't work.
So a few hours later I did a full reset. So far that's worked.
Last night, I slept with my watch on and was still at 98% in the morning.
I've been running the new beta software for 2 days now (including wearing the watch over night), and my battery issues appear to be fully resolved. Thank you.
This is great to hear garyreynolds9000. Would you also comment in the beta thread please? The beta sw folks would love to know this too!
Charged my on April 21st morning. Today is 30th morning and still at 11% of charge. 9+ days.
Had a few workouts, always wearing, gesture and sensors enabled.
Garmin-Kevin And it's back.
Again, with no warning and no changes to settings, it's draining at a high rate. A bit slower than the max drain (which was around 4% an hour), but it's still draining around 2% hour.
What's going on?
Do I have to do a full factory reset every two weeks?!?!?