Hi,
About 2 months ago I bought my first Garmin wearable, the Venu 2s. And it looks like it might be my last.
Since a few weeks the battery life is unacceptable and nothing I have done helps.
I've kept track of how fast the battery drains. Here's the most recent example:
Saturday 9/7 12:40 100%
Sunday 10/4 10:45 76%
Sunday 10/4 14:20 71%
Monday 11/4 21:30 35%
Tuesday 12/4 21:00 10%
So it takes about 80 hours for the battery to drop to 90%.
Other recent measurements arrived at 74 and 76 hours.
This is without recording any activities!
For a watch that is advertised as being able to last up to 10 days, this is not acceptable. And when the watch was new, it would last twice as long, about 6 days (which I also found disappointing, I would have thought with 10 days advertised, 7 days should be doable).
Other information:
- I've tried the "press the power button for a long time" which had no effect.
- I have removed the watch from the bluetooth devices on my phone, removed it from the Garmin Connect App and have done a full reset from the watch.
- Since the reset I no longer have any custom watch faces; just keep it on the default one.
- I don't use an always-on display.
- SpO2 is off.
- I've also tried running it for full charge with the bluetooth connection to the phone disabled, but this did not have any impact.
My "impression" is the battery life deteriorated after I had tried just for 1 night to active the SpO2 during sleep. After this 1 night I deactivated it again as I did not see the benefit compared to larger battery drain. But sadly battery life never recovered again.
I believe the watch is simply broken.
Unless someone has other suggestions I could try?
