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Battery drain after update

You should be aware that in the VA3, after the upgrade in the software the battery is lasting only a few hours.

Thousands of owners have already tried all the options ( Factory reset, No watchfaces or any other CIQ apps, discharge and full charge cycles,.... ) and we still have the same problema, battery not lasting more than 10 hours. Therefore it is obviously a problem of the software, since it happens to a lot of watches, not older than 30 months. Unfortunately, the only solution that Garmin offers is 99€+shipping costs.

Now the problems is for the VA3, but who knows who is next in this programmed obsolescence.

We have to ask Garmin to acknowledge the problem, fix it, if possible, updating the software as soon as possible, and if it is not possible, exchange the watches.

Pedro

0 ben.hartley over 3 years ago

Hi Pedro

I'm sorry to hear about your problems with the VA3. The FR945 is working well for me currently. Of course, Garmin have many different products, different hardware, firmwares. I doubt there's any effort on the part of Garmin to make their products obsolete. There have been issues with past firmware updates for the 945. Unfortunately that's just software development. They do get fixed.