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battery drain

Xewinga
over 5 years ago

Hi 

my garming forerunner 945 just drainned out the entire battery in less than 12h.

Never happened. 

Software version 4.40 (f6dbc2c)

Can anyone help?

Thanks

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to fstshrk

    How did you disable the maps?

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to fstshrk

    Btw, for me it was the gmapdem.img map which was causing the issues... I now have the Dxxxxx map (which is the part of europe I live in) and an OSM map without issues. As  soon as I put the gmapdem on there it goes down the drain again...

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to FlipStone

    What does that file do?

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to fstshrk

    What file?

    But from another topic where i posted this:

    Maps/files (img = map itself, gma = garmin map activation file)

    D6185080B TopoActive Europe South West
    gmapprom TopoActive Europe North East

    gmapdem Digital Elevation Model data

    gmapbmap Garmin Autoroute Basemap
    gmapsup1 Garmin CourseView Medium SE Americas
    gmapsup2 Garmin CourseView Medium SE Europe, Middle East & Africa
    gmapsup3 Garmin CourseView Medium SE Pacific


    gmaptz TimeZone map

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I can't understand what's happening with my watch. Battery consumption is going crazy. From 0,4 a few months ago it started to go up to 0,7 next time I see is 1,x now it's on 3%. 

    I've already done soft and hard resets, eliminated all ciq watch face and widgets. And delete the maps. Nothing changes ... I'm in the point of open a ticket with Garmin

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to fstshrk

    Did you have to disable the maps in each activity, or is it possible to do it globally ?

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to aberguerand

    Not sure if disabling in an activity would help or if there is some background stuff going on... give it a try Id say.

    I moved one file which seemed to cause all the issues for me, so for me a global fix. (Or workaround actually, removing part of the data is not a real fix)

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 4 years ago

    I'm so Fed up about this battery thing. Before the last update I was in a 9 day battery Life, now again, less than 5. I'm so disappointed about this Watch. I spent a lot of Money and gave confidence to Garmin, buy there were a lot of cheaper alternatives.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Same here. The map trick that Flintstone suggested was not a permanent fix for me. Hoping Garmin would fix this. Still much better than AW4 though. That needed charging every day.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Ai...having the same in 3 days down to 30%... normaly I do two weeks on a charge.... Just disabled the maps (USA maps because I have a nort american version) exept the separate Dutch map i loaded into the watch..... hope this fixes it