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Backlight Battery Drain

ichasefalls over 4 years ago

Since last software upgrade the backlight doesn’t shut off and drains the battery in < than 2 days

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Peraklo over 3 years ago +1

had the same problem, turning it of and back on solved the problem temporarily, but happened again few days after.

will see if the new 6.20 update fixed the problem.

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0 seilogramp over 4 years ago

Moved thread to vivoactive 4 forum.

0 Peraklo over 3 years ago

had the same problem, turning it of and back on solved the problem temporarily, but happened again few days after.

will see if the new 6.20 update fixed the problem.

0 2223034 over 3 years ago

On SW 6.20 my watch backlight gets stuck on about once to twice a day. Incredibly frustrating. Can some one from Garmin speak up as to how to fix this? The hard restart is a temp fix.

0 pfxx over 3 years ago in reply to Peraklo

My VA4 (SW 6.20) started this behavior, backlight stuck on, about a week ago. Restarted the watch whenever I noticed it on. But battery drain was intolerable anyway. Finally turned off the gesture mode and resorted to manual backlight only. Seems to be working. Garmin, fix this!

0 Peraklo over 3 years ago in reply to pfxx

With mine, gesture mode is off for months now, but still this behavior occurs.

0 pfxx over 3 years ago in reply to Peraklo

Later today I found the backlight on, even with gesture disabled. Whenever I turned on the backlight manually I checked that it turned off again after timeout. So it seems that the backlight is coming on and staying on without being commanded.