Rapid Battery Drain after 9.03 update

After the 9.03 update - my 55 seems to lose battery at about 10% per hour!

I have turned it off and back on. I have not added or removed any apps. My battery life has always been great - but after the update it is very bad.

I tried to reset to factory and turn off auto-update. It seemed to be better for a while. But I think it updated anyways and now it is draining the battery way too fast.

This is not acceptable.

Is there a way to go back to the earlier software version and not allow any more updates?

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1376854 8 months ago +1

My watch just recently got an update to 10.01. It's too early to tell if there is any change to the battery drain issue.

Just before the update, my watch had 41% battery life and it died within 1.5…

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0 rebeccajoyharbin 7 months ago

I’m experiencing this as well. Went out for a run today with 14% batter remaining which should be plenty for a run under an hour. It died 30 mins in.

0 9962811 7 months ago

Bought my watch in december, never got any problems with the other softwares, Now, I have 10.01 and my battery drains almost completely in a day. Before the update, I had battery for more than a week....

0 1376854 7 months ago

Yes - 10.01 is not much better than 9.03 on GPS usage. It seems to be random for how much battery drain is used for the same GPS runs in successive days. Sometimes for a 1 hour run it uses 8%, then the next day it uses almost 20%. Not acceptable at all, and has made this watch unreliable for recording GPS events.

0 8938054 7 months ago

Any update for this? My garmin 55 is still draining so fast - even without GPS mode. It used to hold for 6-7 days in normal mode and now it barely holds for 3 days.. Is there anything I can do?

0 4684381 7 months ago in reply to 8938054

See Troubleshooting guide for high battery drain

0 8938054 6 months ago in reply to 4684381

Nothing really helped.. and it seems like it draining battery during night very fast.. I contacted garmin but I didnt get any real help or solution

0 2102930 3 months ago

Mines is the same. Since the latest update to 10.01 my watch does exactly that. 100-90% in less than 30 mins, then 12 hours of varying GPS activity/non GPS activity down to 60-50% but after that any GPS activity drains within the hour. Previous to this update, I managed 24 hours ultras GOS tracked and active with less than 60% battery loss.

It's becoming such an issue, if it remains unresolved I will be looking at a different watch type, as I need mine to function for 24hr + activities.