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945 APAC firmware 4.50 massive battery life!

Former Member over 5 years ago

Just thought I'd share how impressed I am with the battery life of my 945 APAC. I had a really long mtb ride yesterday and required my garmin to record all day. After making just 2 setting changes (smart recording instead of per sec + turned off phone connection), the watch easily survived 12.5 hrs of recording. And still had 60% battery life left!! I'm not sure if this was due to the 4.50 update, but I had seen some battery life improvements prior to my ride.

I do leave Pulse Ox off as this used to cause a big drain and I'm not fussed about it anyway. Maybe I could turn it on now. Anyway, very pleased with this update!

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badbri over 5 years ago in reply to yoque +2

yoque said:
Personally, I've seen more improvements in battery life changing watch faces than updating firmwares xD

Ditto. I finally scrapped the CIQ watch faces and my day to day battery use rate has…
eberends over 5 years ago +1

Although the conversation is mainly focussed on 1-sec recording vs smart recording and a new software version, the part about turning off phone connection is somewhat overlooked. Switching off bluetooth…
badbri over 5 years ago in reply to eberends +1

eberends said:
Although the conversation is mainly focussed on 1-sec recording vs smart recording and a new software version, the part about turning off phone connection is somewhat overlooked. Switching…

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0 badbri over 5 years ago in reply to eberends

eberends said:
Although the conversation is mainly focussed on 1-sec recording vs smart recording and a new software version, the part about turning off phone connection is somewhat overlooked. Switching off bluetooth (and WiFi as well) are major battery-savers.

Is there someone that has some experience with enhanced battery-life with only the new firmware?

I recently did a long long 55K that took 9.5+ hours to complete. I turned off the BT on the phone I was carrying but NOT on my 945 (but ti wasn't connected to anything via BT). Otherwise the only devices connected were via ANT+ (HRM and Stryd and Tempe). GPS was set at GPS only but I was using naviagation (only sporadically checking the map screens).

The 9.5 hours took 55% of the battery life leaving me with 45% left. Extrapolating this out would mean a bit more than 17 hours of total life. I'm not particularly jazzed about that estimate as it's well short of the numbers quoted in the marketing materials.

0 badbri over 5 years ago in reply to yoque

yoque said:
Personally, I've seen more improvements in battery life changing watch faces than updating firmwares xD

Ditto. I finally scrapped the CIQ watch faces and my day to day battery use rate has roughly been halved.

0 KLW-Toledo over 3 years ago

I have to recharge my 945 every other day. When I first got it and was training quite a bit more, it would last a week. Any advice to get the battery to last longer would be epic. I've got all third party notifications turned off.

0 tungvt over 3 years ago in reply to Elbo

How can I know if my F945 is APAC version or not?