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Battery less than 24 hours

Dear Community,

Since yesterday i've got my Vivoactive 4s. Today at 11am i've charged it 100%. Now, at 4pm Battery Level is 55%. Just in Smartwatch mode
SPO2 is off. Wlan, Musik never used.
Whats up?
Are there someone else with this Problem?

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Raven over 5 years ago +6

This is happening to me too. I just received my 4s yesterday. Charged it to 100% at around 1800 last night, when i went to bed at 2200 it was 87%, and I thought that it was because it was new, I had just…
Raven over 5 years ago in reply to Raven +4

Garmin released an update version 3.30 that claims to fix battery drain issue with IQ Connect watch faces. I put the Lacesis face back on and will see if battery usage changes. The last charge I did to…
Raven over 5 years ago in reply to harryg +3

This watch is a mystery to me. All I can really suggest is to stick with it and eventually the battery drain problem might resolve on its own. I got my 4s in September right after it was released and now…

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0 Raven over 5 years ago in reply to WeslyMKE

I was using the same watch face, and when I switched to one of the stock watch faces the battery life improved. I charged it to 100% last night 2230 and 12 hours later today 1030 it was 95%. Things to consider: I didn't sleep the entire night, as I got called into work and was out and about for 2 hours, and it was powered down for about an hour when I went for a run (used my FR245) in the AM. Another change I made is that I turned on the screen lock before going to sleep.

0 Artisn over 5 years ago in reply to Raven

tried using stock watch faces too. A minor improvement, but still 100% to 71% in roughly 5 hours. Is it, like, 16-17h battery life :O

Taking this s* back to the garmin store once it opens on Monday

update: I was too pessimistic - actually it lasted 18,5 hours. This piece of garbage definitely goes back to the shop..

0 3590654 over 5 years ago

Same thing happened to me, I did everything that needs to be done to save battery, the only additional app is Spotify and my battery only lasts 2 days (without using the GPS!) SOS

0 fallenwout over 5 years ago

Same thing to me. Doesn't last 24hrs. Battery drain is 3.6% per hour. No exercises.

0 2957600 over 5 years ago

It's typical Garmin crapware. Return it before the return period is up..

0 3590654 over 5 years ago in reply to fallenwout

I had to reset my Garmin, charged it for an extra hour after it marked 100% but what I think helped the most is turning off the wifi for good

0 Raven over 5 years ago in reply to Raven

Garmin released an update version 3.30 that claims to fix battery drain issue with IQ Connect watch faces. I put the Lacesis face back on and will see if battery usage changes. The last charge I did to 100% was friday night at 2230. Right now its 60% (using stock watch face since friday).

0 RTweedie over 5 years ago in reply to Raven

I've got the 3.30 update but it doesn't seem to have helped, I'm down 14% in less than 1 hour.

0 WeslyMKE over 5 years ago

Testing mine again after the 3.30 update. Full charge, Bluetooth paired and notifications, NO pulse ox, heart monitoring and activity monitoring on (smart setting). Using Garmin Lachesis (Light) watch face.

So far the battery has gone down 1% in about 3 hours. Have the Battery Widget by dsapptech in background to keep track when I start making future changes to watch face etc.

0 quehill over 5 years ago

Battery had been draining 3.5-4% an hour after factory reset and basically not interacting with the watch at all. Even after 3.30 update, watch drained from full to 71% in just 8 hours overnight. Very disappointing.