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Massive battery drain after upgrade to 5.0

My watch just got upgraded to 5.0 overnight. Since then I have a massive battery drain, like 3-6% per hour.

Tried to power off&on, no luck. I put it on a charger to find out if it still does this after fully charged. Any hints? Just don't tell me to factory reset, I'm not in a mood for setting up everything from scratch.

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Stefan over 4 years ago +2

Did you try a hard reset (which is not a factory reset). Hold power for 15 seconds.

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0 Stefan over 4 years ago

Did you try a hard reset (which is not a factory reset). Hold power for 15 seconds.

0 grzeg1 over 4 years ago

After a series of restarts it's more sane now, but still twice as much than it used to be. In the range of 0.6% per hour instead of 0.3

0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to grzeg1

I have the same problem. I always look the battery life per hour with the app and now decrease 3% per hour.

Do you know if we can back to 4.87 version without loose any setting?

0 gildosilva over 4 years ago

Same. Battery life is horrible

0 KubrickFr over 4 years ago

Every time it happens to me after an update it's because Spotify was reinstalled. I uninstall it completely and set the music setting to "contol phone" and the problem goes away...

0 101101 over 4 years ago

I experienced massive battery drain over the weekend (like 20%/day). I disabled BT connection to phone and battery life turned amazing. Maybe the watch was constantly trying to get some information over the BT connection?

0 badbri over 4 years ago

I've had issues with high battery drain with my 945 before, but so far this update has been possibly the best yet.

0 ForeKing over 4 years ago

Battery life is fine. You prob have a third party app on your watch with poor programming that is draining your battery. Mine is "mostly" stock and battery is same as before which was as advertised by garmin. I imagine most people who have battery issues have lots of programming running that simply is not good. Delete all the bootleg apps and you'll be fine.