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Battery life 11.14

mdande
2 months ago

I am on version 11.14 and my buddy is on the previous version (I believe 10.20). We were camping last weekend and had both charged our venu 3’s to 100% before leaving.  When we left on Sunday. I was on 14% and he was on 62%.  We have the same settings and did the same activities.  Is 11.14 that bad on battery?

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to 5335135

    /EDIT last thursday i installed version 11.16. In the evening then i charged to 80%. Now on monday morning, battery is at 43%. I did a run and a bike ride with the use of GPS. Battery discharge seems normal again (between 9-11% per day). Nightly discharge is about 2-3%. I partly reinstalled the programs which i had before. Problem seems solved (in my case). I did not use MP3 this time.

  • 0 1 month ago

    NEW BUG?

    My battery is back to normal after 11.16, I installed it on Thursday and charged to 100%, after that it has been normal since today. I had one 1 hour run and one 1 hour indoor bike on Friday and 1 hour indoor walking yesterday before sleep, and finished yesterday with 55% battery left, after 3.5 days which is great.

    But today I woke up to a shock - 17% battery left!! So it consumed 38% overnight (cca 8 hours). This never happened before! And SPO2 is OFF, the watch was in sleep mode, so literally nothing could've use the battery. I also slept very peacefully with score 96 so no or minimal movement. The strap was tight.

    I did notice something weird: when I started indoor walking yesterday evening, I saw a "waiting for GPS" message. So I went to settings, and set GPS to off and then normally started the activity. But something clearly went wrong, according to the consumption of 4.7 %/h during night, it seems like GPS was on all the time.

    I rebooted and charged it today, I do hope that it was just a temporary glitch.

  • 0 1 month ago

    It may be too early to say, but it seems that version 11.16 has fixed my battery life issue. (And I also have a third-party watch face up and running.)

  • 0 1 month ago

    Same for me after updating to 11.14.

    I'm getting roughly half of the estimated runtime from a 100% charge with identical settings and workouts.

    Disabling OX sensor to only on demand helped slightly, but is still way worse than with the pre previous version.

    Roughly 0.5-0.6% per hour or 12-15% per day with zero workouts and no blood ox - this would last for 6-8 days instead of 15 as before.

    Curious if 11.16 is any better, the changelog does not mention battery improvements.

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to pojomtb

    I guess I'm unlucky... still have a drain of around 1.4% / hour after upgrading, plus a couple of full charge-discharge cycles, etc :(

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to Stan

    I’m unlucky to. It is better then at 11.14 but not as good as before 11.14. I still miss about 3 days for charging.

    EDIT: I was to faster with my conclusion.

    Aftershave a restart of the watch, life time of the battery is now oke

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to 2183218 
    With 11.16 it seems to be far better here.
  • 0 1 month ago

    It's still bad for me, even after updating to 11.16. Yesterday I charged my Venu 3S to 100 % and went for a 1:35h run (finished at 1 pm). The battery drained to 91 % which is ok. Now only 31 hours later I'm sitting here with only 64 % battery left.

  • 0 1 month ago

    Also gestern Nachmittag habe ich gegen 16h nach dem Update 94% gehabt, dann über Nacht im Sleep Modus nach 7h und heute eine GPS Aktivität von 30min einen Akkustand von derzeit 87%. Das sind 7% in 28h mit kleiner Aktivität. Mehr als Top. Ich hoffe das bleibt so.

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to 5335135

    Are you using always on? Or Gesture?