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Extreme battery drain since update to 13.00 (e80dcb4)

traidmill
over 1 year ago

Hi!

I enrolled the Beta software program (apparently a big mistake!) the 9-10th of October and my watch downloaded 13.00 (e80dcb4) Since then my battery life has gone from 5-7 days to having to charge multiple times each day to cover my daily activities. I charged my watch to 100% 30mins ago and it is already down to 87% and i have only been sitting at my desk. 

What can i do to solve this? I have reset the watch but no change.

Can i roll back to an earlier firmware?

  • 0 9 months ago in reply to gxgene1

    latest public retail version 

    Currently don't have it on me so can't check, but is latest. And drain happened after that update (and myself discovered workaround )

  • 0 9 months ago in reply to gxgene1

    My version is 13.00 but I think I already had this version since several months (maybe I'm wrong), so not sure it is related to this because I only had the bug last week. Since the bug and reboot everything seems OK and the battery lasts a week at least (I think 10 days max) without activities.

  • 0 9 months ago

    I am not certain if this will resolve your issue but I stumbled upon a fix that worked for me when I happened to have forgotten my Garmin on the charger as I left for work in the morning. Basically, I left my 245 charging the whole day and since then the battery drain has been greatly reduced.

  • 0 9 months ago

    I had the same issue, until I discovered that my watch face silently added the seconds on the screen, so it was updating the screen 60 times per minute. It drained my battery for few weeks. Once I disabled that option everything worked like a charm.

  • 0 8 months ago in reply to Alex G

    silently added the seconds on the screen?

    Are you are talking about the regular clock face updating as each second ticks?  Mine does and I don't have excessive battery drain. Did you change to a different clock face or is it some other option I'm not picking up on. Thanks.

  • 0 7 months ago

    Forerunner 245, severe battery drain after updating to version 13.00 (CORRECTION: I have had 13.00 for several months, see discussion for details). According to a battery widget, the drain starts suddenly, at random, without any apparent reason (no workout or other interaction with the watch; last time it started when I was at my desk working). Once the watch enters this state, only soft reset helps, and only for about a day. Pretty frustrating.

  • 0 7 months ago in reply to 8742386

    The update was deployed 9 months ago.

    Do I understand correctly that you recently installed it and encountered problems? Or did you wait 9 months to write about them? Clarify please.

  • 0 7 months ago in reply to 4684381

    I updated the watch a couple of days ago, which I distinctly remember (it pinged me, asked if it's OK to install, I said yes). The "about" page in the watch settings says 13.00 right now. This suggests that I did update to 13.00 a few days ago, right after then the drain started. 

    Right now I have 10 hours from 100% to 0% (without any activities) once the watch gets into this state.

    I have been trying to isolate the issue, I ruled out the radios (the drain happens in airplane mode too). 

  • 0 7 months ago in reply to 8742386

    The last update was about time zones.

    As for the FW , if you have recorded activities, then they indicate the watch brand and version FW.

    Look, most likely you have had version 13 for 9 months already.

  • 0 7 months ago in reply to 4684381

    You're right - activity history suggests I got the FW somewhere between June and September 2023. I corrected my post.