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SW 4.10: Is your battery drain issue resolved? (Poll)

Digeridoo over 5 years ago

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JoseR over 5 years ago +1

It just got worse. 2h ride from 99% to 35%. I never had this draining before.
Digeridoo over 5 years ago in reply to JoseR +1

Yeah! I was waiting such comment. Let's forget Garmin doubled battery drain! Forget about specs, just do sports! :)

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1183420 over 5 years ago +1

Have you tried this? drain the battery until the Garmin 945 turns off, then charge up to 100%. The battery performs the new calibration. On my 945 the calibration done in this way solved the problem

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0 djx over 5 years ago

My tip - try to set this simple default face from Garmin (without seconds!) like this and then observe battery drain for several days...

With ActiFace from CIQ was battery drain around 0.760 - 1.2%/hour (!!!), with Garmin face is only 0.17-0.3%/hour (!!!), so this is absolutely great! After 5 days still 56% (with several recorded activities). With ActiFace was battery drain after night approx. 8-12%, now is only 1-2%!!!

FR945 Face

Some other tips:

Turn OFF:

Wi-fi (sync via Bluetooth and mobile app)
PulseOX
Backlight (set backlight only for activities, after sunset, intensity 5%, 8s timeout, with gesture)

Turn ON:

Bluetooth
NFC (Garmin Pay)
Heartrate monitoring (automatic)
Smart notifications (calls, SMS)
Only GPS (without Glonass and Galileo)

Hopefully it will help someone :-)

0 FernandoLordelo over 5 years ago

Never had it

0 PEPITO82 over 5 years ago

Worse than with FR 935. According to specs it should be the other way round.

0 4365648 over 5 years ago in reply to PEPITO82

Ssme wich mine. FR 935 was much better. having same config and usage.

0 2goBeyond over 5 years ago in reply to 2goBeyond

Oh dear lord, is the PulseOx a battery hog!

Seriously, I did what I said I'd do (see above) and in less than 24 hours burned through 37% battery life. Without PulseOx on, I was 8-12% a day.

What an awful implemented feature.

0 HUMODDA over 5 years ago in reply to 2goBeyond

PulseOx IMHO only makes sense to track sleep apnea. Which might be quite useful. But it drains the battery, true. I mean, when it's on in a dark environment, you can see your wrist glowing red, the LED is incredibly powerful. Most likely that's why it consumes so much power.

0 Vushev over 5 years ago

Finally issues with my battery is resolved, I charge my watch early morning and use it all day like smartwatch. Now I’m very very happy and thinking to stop updates for now.