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Battery Life : official garmin statement?

ThomasGugler over 5 years ago

hi,

i read here a lot about the poor battery life in smartwatch mode ...

the latest SW3.30 did not help.

deactivating puls ox also did not help.

After 100%charging, some hours later 98%...next morning:90%

Whats the official statement of garmin to that issue?

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4427050 over 5 years ago +2

I don't see any problem here. A battery drain of 10% per day means you have to recharge your watch every 10 days. Garmin claims that the battery lasts up to 2 weeks in smartwatch mode. That is only…
gguerini over 5 years ago +1

I've been VERY critical to Garmin and the 945 from the beginning, but I'm going to say that the most recent update (3.30) fixed most of the issue I was having. That includes the battery. The last…
2goBeyond over 5 years ago in reply to Eric +1

After every fresh charge I get that exact bat value, check back 3-4 hours later: %.73. Half a day later, 1.3%. a day later 1.6% where it stays. It's been this way since I got this watch. It never acts…

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0 Levon over 5 years ago in reply to nlabat

Just call Garmin support. In my past experience they have been very helpful and quite generous.

Posting about the same issue for the last few days here hasn't helped, I am sure Garmin will have a solution for you (either the answers to the questions you are asking, or hopefully can offer some sort of a remedy)

Everyone here's just trying to help by guessing on something that Garmin will be able to tell you.

0 Dmytro over 5 years ago

If anyone had any issues in a cold weather? my battery began to drain so fast after -7C 7km run aprox -10bat % in 5 minutes

0 Levon over 5 years ago in reply to Dmytro

Are you saying you lost 10% battery capacity in 5 minutes, if so, that is really a lot. Did it continue at that rate?

I haven't run in super cold weather with this watch yet, but batteries don't do well in cold weather. I always put my watch under my outerwear and keep the watch nice and cozy warm :) .. if I need to look at it I just slide up the sleeve. Never had any issues with my 230 in previous years, and I've run in below 0 F (ie -18 C) without any issues.

0 Dmytro over 5 years ago in reply to Levon

never had such an issue with fenix 3 and 5x. when i was trying to restart them, they stuck and light was always on. it it my second 945. first died in two days after purchase)

0 Evh5150 over 5 years ago

Same Problem here. I have a rev C (I'm in Italy). Something went better after a hard reset and by deleting all the .fit files in the watch (support suggested this to me). Which features do you leave on? On my garmin I leave the HR always on over the watch face, WIFI auto, oxymeter off. Which percentage of battery drain do you have? Mine is on 0,5%h without any sport activity.

0 Eric over 5 years ago

I was fully convinced my Rev A watch was a dud shortly after I bought it. It was drawing a consistent 1.6%/hr no matter what I tried with the settings. The watch was running SW 2.80 at the time connected to my Samsung S8+. After the SW 3.30 update it has been working like it should, averaging 0.4%/hr with the settings I always had with the same phone. From what I have read so far on the forum, the battery problem for some was hardware related, for others including myself the problem was SW based.

0 hpaixao over 5 years ago in reply to Eric

How do you know if you have a REV A/C/D watch?!

0 Evh5150 over 5 years ago

It's written in the bottom back of the original box.