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BETA - vivoactive 4/4s SW 6.05 is available

Garmin-Zac over 3 years ago

Download - vivoactive 4

Download - vivoactive 4s

Notes:

Please provide feedback to [email protected]
Although this software is believed to be reliable, it has not yet been released for production and should be used at your own risk.

Change History

Changes made from version 6.03 to 6.05:

Fixed an issue where pulse ox could be set to all day after syncing

Installation Instructions

Connect your vivoactive 4 to your computer using the USB cable.
Download and unzip vivoactive4_605Beta.zip. Place the GUPDATE.GCD file into the \GARMIN directory of the device.
Disconnect your device from the computer, approve the update on the watch, and wait for the update to finish.
If you would like to revert to the last public release software, place the GUPDATE_580.GCD file in the \GARMIN folder. Rename GUPDATE_580.GCD to GUPDATE.GCD before disconnecting your device. NOTE: If you revert to an older version of software, all of your settings will be reset to defaults.

0 3425675 over 3 years ago

Battery draining like crazy since 5.80. I am getting -40%/day with watch lying at my table. Not even my wrist. Basic theme bluetooth off.

THX for ruining my experience with update to 5.80 and not possibility to roll back

0 MB201 over 3 years ago in reply to 3425675

And what is the point posting an 5.80 issue in an 6.0x thread?

0 sensovision over 3 years ago

I guess that the PulseOX problem was finally fixed. At least today I got no settings alteration, I'll keep watching for it just in case. Wonder if anyone who had that problem can confirm it too?

0 Woody over 3 years ago

Battery drain is still at a minimum of 25-30%/day here on a vivoactive 4s (with and without native watchface). No change since 5.8. Pulse ox completely off.

0 sensovision over 3 years ago in reply to Woody

Woddy, I'm afraid that for Vivoactive 4s it could be lowest discharge rate, I wonder were you able to find anyone with 4s here or on Reddit with lower discharging rate and what settings do they use? And have you seen this thread? forums.garmin.com/.../vivoactive-4-4s-battery-statistics

Starting from 6.03 I'm using custom watchface from CIQ Lachesis by Garmin https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/fa9c2fd6-cce0-49a0-aa94-20a129623164 and surprisingly it doesn't impact battery life as it used to in the past.

0 Woody over 3 years ago in reply to sensovision

On reddit i could find several posts from people with a discharge rate around 20%/day - including several or daily GPS-Runs.

During the last 12 hours i had 25%/day without doing any workouts and with battery charged to 80%. With the previous SW-Versions the discharge rate was rising when the battery gets more empty. I'll have to wait a few days now to see if this is still the case with the 6.05 version.

Currently the battery life is around or less than half of the battery life that garmin claims in the specs for this type of use (7 days). I am aware that in the real world the battery lasts shorter than under lab-conditions, but not that much. I.e. my Fenix6 lasts at around 9 to 10 days (where 14 days are in the spec), even with multiple workouts per week.

0 fallenwout over 3 years ago in reply to sensovision

Me, I have a discharge rate of 15.5% a day with everything on except pulse ox and I am also on 5.8.

0 sensovision over 3 years ago in reply to fallenwout

that's sounds pretty good, I guess you have bigger version of the watch? And I wonder if you have workouts during these days of low discharge?

0 fallenwout over 3 years ago in reply to sensovision

It is the 4s. No workouts at all. I just use it for 24/7 metrics and smartwatch.

0 Woody over 3 years ago in reply to sensovision

Now after a few days of testing and one discharge cycle the discarge rate looks very very satisfying now: At around 16%.

I've changed only one setting:

Auto Activity Start. I've changed the setting from on to off.

In one of the next discharge cycles i'll have to recheck if the discharge rate rises again when setting it to on again - but during the last 4 days it was looking fine.