Freezes, restarts and severe battery drain after updating to 17.28

Hi,
since installing the 17.28 update on my Forerunner 945 LTE, the watch has been suffering from freezes and restarts during the day. Today, I have also noticed severe battery drain issues as the battery went down from 40-50 % to a forced shutdown in less than 24 hours. I only walked around, slept and received some notifications - i.e. no actitives or other intensive tasks since the update and despite this, the new firmware version has been very unstable so far.

Is this a known issue? I've seen some other threads mentioning problems with the 17.28 firmware, but nobody has complained about extremely poor battery life yet. I would appreciate if there was a way to downgrade while waiting for a fix so I could actually use my watch in the meantime.

0 Garmin-Sierra 2 months ago

Sandwich

Thank you for sharing, and I'm sorry to hear about this. May I have permission to reach you via email to gather a few more pieces of information?

0 Sandwich 2 months ago

Of course, feel free to do so. The issue has disappeared when I let the battery drain completely, left the watch discharged for a couple of days and then charged it again. The logs could still prove useful though - at least if any other users are affected.

0 Stein 1 month ago

I also have fast battery drain on 17.28 and battery saver pop ups.

0 4115004 12 days ago

Same here. However it is not as bad as some of the other users. My battery lasts between 5-6 days with little daily GPS activity. I used to get 10+ days on the previous firmware.

From moderator: 4115004 the reason your other post was automatically flagged was because it was a duplicate of this one. I apologize for the inconvenience.