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Beta 5.46 appears to have fixed the CIQ battery issue

I have stayed at 5.00 and went to 5.46 yesterday. After my first night with it using the same CIQ face I have used for months my battery loss was about the same as 5.00.

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4022840 over 4 years ago +2

Great to hear!

I wrote a comment to https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/i/bug-reports/battery-drain-issues-on-va4-and-4s-using-ciq-watch-faces-since-sw-5-10-release about the fact that SW 5.46…
7835749 over 4 years ago in reply to jim_m_58 +2

I wonder if they will provide anything more than just these fixes as part of the public release following this beta, because, apart from the battery issue fix, it must be one of their most uninspiring…
jim_m_58 over 4 years ago in reply to RJK in Madison +1

There are internal versions of FW that never go public.

With FW versions, if they end in 0, they a production FW, if not 0, they are beta and need to be installed manually.

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0 Red over 4 years ago in reply to 9003768

I am on android! I'll do that right now with both apps.

0 Red over 4 years ago in reply to Red

Dunno if anyone cares but all these steps plus disabling MoveIQ slightly helped and now I'm at 1.381% an hour. It's still really high compared to everyone else but there's not much else to delete, I even went to garmin connect and deleted apps (like SUP) I don't use, even though I imagine they don't affect battery life. I also disabled notification/calendar/etc access to see if that would help too.

0 Al P over 4 years ago in reply to Red

Red said:
plus disabling MoveIQ

Hmm... Maybe I missed this in the thread. Disabling MoveIQ helps battery life? Would disabling Move Alert also help?

0 Red over 4 years ago in reply to Al P

It's just something that came up while I was googling, I don't really know for sure, I'm trying everything at this point. There is basically nothing left on this watch and it's still draining way more than it should be.

0 Al P over 4 years ago in reply to Red

Well I just disabled mine so will see . Given that it is mid day I won't really know for sure until the morning after tomorrow since I do a full charge at about the same time every morning.

0 Red over 4 years ago in reply to Al P

Tell me how it goes! I'll be sure to update everyone if I ever find anything that works, but I do think my watch is just broken, at this point. :(

0 Al P over 4 years ago in reply to Red

Well... disabling MoveIQ does not seem to have changed battery loss. It is still about the same.

0 Red over 4 years ago in reply to Al P

In that case, I'm going to turn mine back on. I've basically given up.

Tonight, randomly, with the *most* things turned off, my battery drain went back up to 1.48+. I don't know what's messed up, but I should have the 8 days of battery life with this much stuff off so it has to be the watch.

0 Al P over 4 years ago in reply to Red

When I first installed 5.0 I called support to report the battery loss. After they had me do a hard reset with no success they offered to replace my watch. Have you tried calling in?

0 Red over 4 years ago in reply to Al P

I was actually about to attempt the support chat. I assume they aren't open on the weekend for calls?