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Battery drain on 24.12

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2 months ago

I got a message yesterday to update my forerunner 255 and after that the battery is draining really fast on the watch... I am pretty sure it was over 45% and today it was like 2%?? Anyone else having the same problem? (version 24.12)

  • 0 2 months ago

    Try to turn the watch off and on again. Sometimes that is needed after a new version.

  • 0 2 months ago

    Yes, since the update, battery draining completely on daily basis now. First issue I had was that it didn't update time while I was in a different time zone. Then it was turning on and off, which I found was similar to old issue of corrupt gps file, so I re-set the watch/reinstalled. Tried also power off and then restart. I've turned off almost all features except for bluetooth connection to phone (for steps only, no notifications or anything) and it still drained from full to 0 today. Frustrating for something that wasn't broken before. Anyone else having this problem?

  • 0 1 month ago

    I’m having the same issue with my Forerunner 255 on firmware 24.12.

    In my case the symptoms are:

    The watch restarts randomly while idle, with no activity running.

    Later the same day, during a trail running activity, the watch froze after about 3 minutes. It then unlocked itself. I restarted the activity and it worked fine for more than an hour and a half, but then it froze again, unlocked, and restarted.

    I uninstalled all IQ apps and did a factory reset. I also fully charged it to 100%, discharged it down to 1%, and charged back to 100%.

    The next day, with the battery at 96%, the watch began to overheat while on my wrist. I removed it, and a few minutes later it cooled down but the battery had already dropped to 46%.

    Later, during a running activity, the device restarted again. I tried restarting the activity twice; it crashed both times. A few minutes later I tried once more and was able to complete the session.

  • 0 17 days ago

    Yes, since v24-something the battery life have been more than halved.

    I'm on v25.06 now and it still is draining 20-25% per day. Before it was like 8-9% per day with longer activities.

    The watch is starting to become useless for me as it doesn't even last a week. I can't get into any routine for charging it on a set day.

  • 0 8 days ago in reply to Kisken

    On forerunner 265, since update to 25.06 battery loses 50% during the night 

  • 0 7 days ago

    I ended up writing the Garmin support, got a replacement 255, it’s on version 23 and I turned off automatic updates