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Extreme Battery Drain within Seconds

Here's a first for me. Moments ago I looked at my watch as I knew the battery was getting a little low. It was at 32%. I took the watch off to connect to my laptop to charge and update the new Bluetooth SW with Garmin Express. As soon as I removed the watch from my wrist, it turned off. I turned it back on and it's showing 1% battery. I plugged it into my computer and it started charging starting at 1%. This happened in a span of less than 30 seconds. Anyone else see anything like this before?

Update: It's been connected to the charging cable to my computer and it's charged from 1% to 46% in about 7 minutes. This doesn't seem normal either.

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0 tmk2 over 4 years ago

This usually means that the battery is near its end.

0 tess over 4 years ago in reply to tmk2

Well, that's definitely something I didn't want to hear. I'm going to take it off the charger now and see how things go. I'm hoping it was just some kind of one off event.

0 badbri over 4 years ago

Don't get too alarmed, I've seen erratic behavior like that before...not just with my watch but other chargeables too (like my iPhone). Usually a power cycle fixes it. Chances are you're already fixed and the 46% you're seeing is the normal charge up from what should've been 32%.

0 tsofron over 4 years ago

i'd say something / a glitch with the battery manager driver / software. give it a normal 100% charge, the 15 seconds whatever reboot :-) and see how it goes...

0 tess over 4 years ago in reply to tsofron

8 hrs and 3%. I've been doing yard work all day and out of reach of Bluetooth for the majority of that time, so maybe this is "normal". I did a restart of the watch and I don't use any IQ watch faces, so I guess I'll wait until it reaches 30% and see if it happens again.

0 tess over 4 years ago in reply to tess

I'm happy to say it was just a one time fluke. It's been 8 days and the battery has drain down to 44%. I've been busy with other things and I'm on a hiatus from training, so just using BT 24/7 and no GPS. That's an average of 7% a day and comes out to 14.2 days on a full charge which meets the specs.

0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to tess

I'm glad to hear it was a one-off....