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Who still getting battery drain issues with 6.30?

I'm still getting a drain between 1% to 1.5% per hour using basic functionality:

Wrist Heart Rate monitor is running
Notifications are on
Analogue watch face (no seconds)

Contacting support seems pointless to me as they're still insisting it's a hardware issue and never answer my questions about a possible software issue (and I've been quite blunt with how I've phrased that to them).

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0 Darsell over 4 years ago

I'm having 21%/day. under the same circumstances as you.

Dont know if that's more or less than other's?

0 Christophe over 4 years ago

Since the last update (6.30) I have around 5 days of battery life. Was 8 before the update.

0 shafiqeffendy over 4 years ago

i still have the same problem from 6.20. i saw a number of other VA3 users complaining on the same issue too on DC Rainmaker's website... so it seems that it's widespread problem... how many % of VA3 users that are affected, that is still unknown.....

0 Sasse1982 over 4 years ago

I also do have battery problems with 6.3.
Currently ridiculous 8%/hour!
I also have the impression that it gets worse...

I raised an issue with the support, but no answer since more than 2 weeks.
Really not happy about Garmin right now.

0 winder1987 over 4 years ago in reply to Sasse1982

I had the same issues... I raised a call, referenced to the mail I have sent about 1 week ago and 4days later, I had a new Vivo3...

0 alphasportstv over 4 years ago

Currently showing 0.6%/hour on v6.30, new VA3 as of less than a month (May 2019)

0 3729574 over 4 years ago in reply to alphasportstv

That's about what it should be. What settings are you using? i.e. watchface, notifications, heartrate monitor?

0 alphasportstv over 4 years ago in reply to 3729574

Watchface is Actiface, notifications ON, wrist-based HR. Was using Garmin strap yesterday with no noticeable increase in consumption (tho' I wasn't paying a ton of attention)

0 fastbikerboy over 4 years ago

I am still having problems that started for me a while ago 6.1 I think, defintely before 6.2. I used to get around 5 days with a little bit of GPS usage. Now I'm lucky to get 24 hours.

Tried all of the usual suggestions, hard reboot, factory reset, standard watch faces etc. etc.

Fortunately my trusty old Vivoactive HR still gives me 10 days. Glad I "upgraded".

0 alphasportstv over 4 years ago in reply to alphasportstv

Today's drain now 0.558 % / hour, ETD 8.1 days (a bit better than yesterday's 0.6), running a new analog face with ticking second hand (Omega watch simulator), wrist HR, black bg.