Battery drain

Yes. Welcome to the large list of people with battery drain. In my case, it has begun with 19.05 update. I have tried unpair and pair again, soft reset, hard reset, restart and all that stuff, and the issue is still here. 2 months and Garmin does nothing. This is when someone from Garmin will come to this thread and give you the guide to try to save battery, instead of fixing the problem. Premium brand lol. Try returning the watch and get your money back. I think that's the best thing to do, because $400 for this....

I've seen those posts and it goes way back before current update, I had no issues following update until I did the pool swim, following which a 3rd party watchface crashed, so I've stopped using it and will see how it goes, bizarre

Dug in the problem and online (in this forum and other sources) there is a lot of battery drain issues reported concerning the older (>4yrs) Garmin models. They all seems to "magicaly" starting right after a forced system update. Cant be coincidence.

System updates are mandatory to, i tried that one to a few years ago. If you deside to keep your Garmin on a older version, the performance wil suddenly collapse, again battery drain trick appears and the connection with Garmin app/phone will be lost all the time.

Looks to me that Garmin marketing strategy is to force users to buy the newer watch based on manufacturer/Garmin disided lifetime of the model. Garmin put average lifetime of all models on 4-5yrs. I find it terrible that out of the blue (read Garmin forced version update) older model watches start software/OS related malfunctioning while they were perfect the day before. 

Sadly you see the same product strategy with laptop/pc/phone/smartTV manufacturers for a long time. Garmin just follows the trent. That means every 4-5yrs you can trow out your perfectly fine hardware because the manufacturer deside that the lifetime of your product has ended and the forced update will kill the performance or connectivity of your watch, laptop or phone. Only for you to buy their latest model.

Happend to my 2021 Tactix Delta Solar. At the time it was >€1.000. military grade, never had any problems with the watch. Until only right after this v27.00 update, the battery suddenly last for a maximum of one day. Before this update it was going for at least one or two weeks, depending on amount of activities. It is definitely not a hardware related problem. I did 3x factory reset and a clean new install.... Costed me a few hours but did not solve the problem. 

Strongly thinking about switching back to my mechanic watch and the good old mobile sport apps. Then I'm only forced to replace one item each 4 years. 

Is there any way to install previous versions of the firmware? I refuse to buy another watch from Garmin considering that this will happen again. It's just ridiculous. 

Any update of your battery drain issue?

My battery/watch was great until this last forced update 19.05. I will charge at night while I'm watching TV to 100% and by the next evening of just normal wear, not even tracking an activity, the battery is completely drained. I have most of the settings set to a conservative battery drain also. I used to get around 5 to 6 days per charge. My watch isn't even 2 years old so I will most definitely not be buying a new one. It's very frustrating and disappointing because I've my Garmin up until the last update.

Hi guys. I have some news for this thread.

I contacted Garmin customer service in Spain (I'm spanish). They told me the usual: hard reset, reboot, no custom watchfaces and all those things I had already tried. I told them that the battery still lasts only 3 days without any GPS activity. They replaced the watch. I sent to them the one I had and they gave me another Venu 2.
This new watch arrived yesterday. At 4 pm it had 93% battery, and now, 24 hours later, it still has 85%. All this with the same settings I had on the old watch and with the 19.05 update installed. So I don't know what happened, but I recommend that you contact Garmin customer service in your respective countries. You need to have the bill to show them so they can process the return. The whole return process was free of charge,a nd it took 5-7 days.

In summary: Garmin's development team sucks. 400 euros of watch so that they do not know how to release an update, and have to replace the entire watch. The customer service is very good. Anyway, I will not buy a Garmin watch again. Premium brand? don't make me laugh

I hope this helps anyone who has the same battery problem.

That's really helpful, just to update I stopped using the third party watch face and the battery drain is much better, I have a battery monitoring app and there is an uptick in use at 60%, and 40% which means it's shorter lasting than before, esp when using other apps, but it's much better, hope that helps

Changing from a connectIQ to a default watch face did not improve anything on my Venu2s, same 20%+ per day battery drain even without GPS

The way I'd deal with that is to delete every app serially and monitor performance one by one until  you work it out, tedious but essential esp with some apps/widgits that may run in background even if they shouldn't be