Vivoactive 5 software update 12.10 battery drain

6598805 1 month ago

Significant battery drain with Vivoactive 5 after I got an update this morning. Battery drained ~40% in the past 7 hours just with walking and casual activity. Not sure if this is a problem others are experiencing?

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Garmin-Maeve 15 days ago in reply to 2492679 +2

Did you experience the drain just after updating? Sometimes when you do an update, there are background processes that can drain battery that will level out a week or so. later.
2593864 10 days ago +1

I'm having similar issues to this. Bought my watch about 6 months ago and at the start on an active day I would use only about 10-15%. No change in settings or how I use the watch and since the last few…

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0 Jacquers 1 month ago

Try restarting the watch.

0 3033627 27 days ago

I'm noticing significant heart rate inaccuracy

0 3033627 27 days ago

I'm noticing significant heart rate inaccuracy

0 4288388 18 days ago

Had my mine for six months no issues, did the most recent update and my battery has dropped like 20% in a couple hours

0 4288388 18 days ago

Had my vivoactive 5 for around 6 months, no issues. Until I downloaded latest update and within a couple hours the battery drained like 30%.

0 4288388 18 days ago

Had my mine for six months no issues, did the most recent update and my battery has dropped like 20% in a couple hours

0 2492679 15 days ago

I updated yesterday and i am experiencing the exact same issue. Garmin support has been no help. I have tried resetting the whole thing and it didn't fix anything

0 2492679 15 days ago

I updated yesterday and i am experiencing the exact same issue. Garmin support has been no help. I have tried resetting the whole thing and it didn't fix anything

0 Garmin-Maeve 15 days ago in reply to 2492679

Did you experience the drain just after updating? Sometimes when you do an update, there are background processes that can drain battery that will level out a week or so. later.

0 2593864 10 days ago

I'm having similar issues to this. Bought my watch about 6 months ago and at the start on an active day I would use only about 10-15%. No change in settings or how I use the watch and since the last few updates and I am now seeing drops of 10-15% just overnight and when used to track gps activities it's wildly different how much battery it will use.

I used gps only tracking (no HR or anything else tracked) yesterday on a 40 minute run and it used 12%. Regretting my purchase now as I have to charge every 2 days.