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Vivoactive 4 - battery drain issue ( 25% per day)

katanel
over 4 years ago

Hi guys,

I've read a lot here about it but not sure what's going on:

- VA 4 brand new ( 2 weeks) and updated to latest SW 5.10

- I'm using a IQ Connect watch face named 'Clear & Powerful' and few custom widgets like 'Fever Monitoring'

But I a have a battery consumption of 25% per day so in total 4 days battery only which is half of the promised 8 days.

Far as I understood the main cause could be 5.10 plus a custom watch face. But the stock ones are just horrible...

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    How bright is the display set to?

    Do you have pulse ox set to record all the time?

    How much are you using the GPS?

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to fallingrock

    Brightness = 30% (default, not changed)

    Pulse OX = only on demand maybe 1-2 times per day, not during the sleep

    GPS = none. I've recorded some daily Walk activities but without GPS enabled - they consumed maybe 5-6% of battery

    I'll try to revert to stock watch face or CIQ Infocal which I see was recommended here...

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to katanel

    Hard reset and stay away from CIQ, for both battery and stability...

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to katanel

    Please post if you find an answer not related to CIQ watchfaces!

    So far, I'm trying what someone suggested which was turning off Do Not Disturb, because nothing else I tried has worked so far. I'm hoping they'll fix it with the next update. I've had mine for about a month, so it's always been like this; my fitbit gets about twice as long battery life. I also get the feeling this started with version 5.10. I have brightness at 20%, no gestures, no notifications, I have used GPS one time since I bought it, etc etc and it's about 4 days or a bit less. Having to charge this every four days has been unpleasant. I think 6 would be fine because it would give me a weekend on average, 8 would be amazing, but so far I'm stumped and just kind of waiting for the next update. I even tried installing the beta but it didn't change anything wrt battery life.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I think the battery drain is related to...starting/using an activity mostly.

    Yesterday evening I've changed to Infocal watchface with 1 min refresh rate and before starting an activity with no GPS I had 96% battery 

    This morning, after a night of sleep and 30 min Walk (no GPS) I have....82%

    Or there are some processes which consume battery in background...not sure how to check that

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to katanel

    Try "Rails" watch face. Infocal doesn't stable with vivoactive 4/4s.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to katanel

    Note that battery life is not linear. I charged mine to 100% yesterday and I'm now at 99% after ~23 hours of usage. By tomorrow it should drop as usual (~10% a day unless I'm doing an activity).

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    In the last 24 hrs I had only 20% battery consumption using Infocal watchface. I will try to not start any activity for the next 24 hrs to see if this helps...

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to katanel

    nope, only 4 days with CIQ Infocal watch face.

    my girlfriend reached 5 days on Vicoactive 4s but still not the promised 6-8 days.

    both we have 5.10 firmware

    there is a way to revert to previous firmware?

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to katanel

    I don't think Garmin ever promised 6 to 8 days. Garmin says you can get up to 8 days on a VA4. But when you read the fine print in the manual, you need to turn off just about everything to get the 8 days. Most of us that buy these watches don't want to turn everything off so we get less than 8 days. In my case I use 22% to 23% a day and routinely charge the watch every 3 days. I used less battery before I added weather to the watch face. But I want the weather so I tolerate the more frequent charging.