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Battery drain on FR 255 - 2 day battery max - 14.2

I have this device for 6 months now and generally love it, but the battery drain is making the experience annoying

I have everything activated, GPS on highest accuracy, ox during the day, wifi on etc

The first 4 months roughly I got ~10 days battery life as advertised if I had no activities and of course a little less when doing sports

However, without any changes to settings or similar the watch started draining the battery (even overnight on airplane) to lead to a battery life that is really annoying: I now get only ~2 days

I did a reset of the watch a month ago but that didn't improve things

Should I send it in for repair or are there any other suggestions?

Additionally I have posted in another thread that my max heart rate was displayed as 234 for a 5 minutes relay leg I did yesterday

0 ange20202009 over 1 year ago

I'm having the same issue since the softwear update, better draining in less than 2 days with the same amount of activity as normal. Very frustrating

0 ovekvam over 1 year ago in reply to ange20202009

Try to force a restart of the watch. It is not supposed to drain battery faster after the update.

0 rentagreement over 1 year ago

I am on 16.17 and am also experiencing faster battery drain than usual. during a 40min indoor no GPS workout I lost 14% battery

0 ovekvam over 1 year ago in reply to rentagreement

During 24 hours I lost 21 percent, but that included a 5+ hours bike ride with GPS and navigation, plus a lot of syncs and a restart to fix a Garmin Pay issue. I think that is quite impressive battery life.