Battery less than 24 hours

I am planning to buy this watch for my girlfriend and my only concern is the battery duration. Can you share your experience about battery life using GPS tracking? We do a lot of hiking up to 10 hours. Can I expect the 4 (and 4S?) to last that long (GPS only)? Thanks!

Based on other vivoactives, 10 hrs "might" be an issue.  But all it takes is a cell phone battery back and your charging cable, and a few minutes when you stop for a break and you can extend the time with no problem.

Last time I did a test with the original vivoactive, with an occasional "boost", I stopped after 24 hours and had 70% battery.

"change on the go". 

Hello i bought the vivoactive 4s and the battery loosing 2% for hour. 

My setup : version 3.40

• Heart rate on
• Pulse ox off
• Bluetooth off
• Notifications on
• Watch face is Garmin default 
• Back light off
• Auto lock OFF
• Respiration on
• Body battery on
• Weather widget installed

some one disable smart workouts, where is this setting please ? 

my husband buy the Garmin venu and the battery is better ...

Thanks.

First step to improving battery life is updating the watch to the latest firmware, as of right now that is 3.4. On 3.4 my VA 4 is trending to an 8 day battery life with with playing around with the watch. 

to disable auto start on activities go to settings, activity tracking, auto activity  start and set to off. 

Even after updating to 3.40 for several days with factory settings and several long full charges, the watch is draining 3-4% an hour. Absolutely minimal use of the watch. What else could be happening here? 

Try re-booting the watch.

Which watch face are you using?

Thx for answser, my  firmware is already 3.4.

My watch face with seconds. Full charged this morning 100%, i change watch face for no second. 

if there is no change I will return the watch

After all the updates and 4 hour charges the battery life is still not great, nowhere near Garmin's claim of a 7 day battery life for the 4s. I can get 5 days max, with: Lachesis Light face, screen lock always on, wrist gestures off, 20% backlight, resp on, HR on, notifications on, pulse ox off, spotify installed but never used, no activities (I can only imagine how short the battery life will be when I actually do an activity or listen to music). It seems like pretty minimal use to me, and with similar settings I can get well over 7 days with my FR245. What do I have to do to get 7 days with the VA4s, turn everything off and not wear it? That is not realistic at all. Thank goodness I still have my FR245 for when I actually want to do activities, because the VA4S is nice to look at but not very practical or useful.

Seeing the same thing, master cleared the device and turned of BT still draning battery

I've been through the entire gambit: restarts, full factory resets, charging to 100% for 4 hours. Continued minimal use of the watch and I am still seeing 3-4% drain an hour. I have to charge every day with this performance. Will try to contact support again.