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Airplane mode vs. battery saver

RemiM
over 3 years ago

Can someone explain to me the difference between airplane mode and "disconnect phone" setting in the Power Manager > Battery Saver menu?

The "disconnect phone" setting seems to add +10 days of battery life when compared to airplane mode.

As far as I understand, both should be identical in terms of battery life, right?

Thank you!

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to 9353527

    For what it's worth: I talked to support yesterday (Feb. 17) and they explicitly told me that they are about to release a fix for the battery issues.

    After a few more weeks using my watch, I can now say with confidence that the battery charge is definitely not draining linearly. Between 60% to around 40%, I experience very fast drainage (~12h). Outside of this window the drainage is slow and linear.

    Watch is on airplane mode 23h out of 24h. No pulse OX and low power stock watch face with no display of seconds. 

    All of the fuss around battery life is what it is, but in no way it is making me feel regret my purchase: I really like the watch.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to RemiM

    let's hope they were giving you an honest update and we'll see something soon. i have not experienced an "extreme" battery loss in my case except noting that the first 20% go down much faster than the next 60% (i don't think i've gone below 20% based on my usual policy of not hammering the battery of any of my devices).

    my pain critique is larger than expected/specified smartwatch consumption. even airplane mode does little to mitigate this larger than expected consumption. as i've noted before, i've refused to go to a vanilla Time and date only (with no 1 hz seconds or HR) just to see how efficient the watch can be.

    my activity (GPS) usage has been right on spec (~3%/hr).

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to RemiM

    Thank you for the info. Waiting for the update then. Don't break anything this time, Garmin :)

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to derek87

    The activity battery drain is incredible. I haven't anything to say about that but good words. Is the watch mode when the especification fail, no matter what I do, what watchface use or airplane mode ON to disconnect all. Unless I leave the watch in a drawer Slight smile

    Anyway, I'm happy with the watch.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to 9974764

    Same experience for me and 100-80 goes down really fast 

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to 9386496

    as disappointed i have been with the battery consumption, i gratefully have not seen any huge drain during the day as reported by 9974764, except on one occasion which i suspect was a confused not--dropping of an external HR sensor.

    i have, however, always seen a faster than normal drain over the 100-80% range for both this watch and my old 935. part of what i think is happening is that the top end of the scale is of. if i follow the charging cycle, it seems to slow to trickle charge to go from 90-95% but then inexplicably, it gets to 100% pretty quickly. i wonder if somehow the calibration is off in how what is displayed.

    certainly, smart watch battery drain much less for 80-30% (i usually charge by 30% and don't think i've let it drop below 18%) so that in the end i am averaging about 8%/day for smart watch use over the whole 100-30% span using my current watch face.

    yet, it isn't entirely consistent. sometimes it seems lower (7%/day) and sometimes higher (9%/day)

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to RemiM

    March 8th, still no update.

    In june (3 months) is the first anniversary of this watch. Only 3 updates since then (2 in the first month) and several bugs to fix. This is not the way to keep customers happy, Garmin, and Coros is doing great things. Unfortunately, Polar and Suntoo are off on this leage right now.

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    I made a new test.

    After the failure of the music still playing with airplane mode ON I tried turning both OHR and airplane mode to ON, restarting the watch and seeing what happened. It works great.
    Now I have a consumption of 4-5% daily with the OHR and a custom watchface (without seconds), when normally that consumed me 8-10%.

    So, it seems that you need to stop the watch and start it again to really change some modes like airplane or battery saver... At least in my unit.