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Excessive battery drain

The last few days my battery is draining super fast. Even without doing activities and just in daily use the watch isn't lasting a single day of use.

I've tried power cycling, doing the press & hold of the light button for forced reset, turning off all the sensors, disabling wifi, but nothing is slowing down the battery drain.

Anyone else seeing anything like this?

EDIT: I'm not sure how the battery level is being detected, but maybe it is not registering correctly. It drained from 10% to 1% in less then an hour, but then sat on 1% for an hour without shutting down. Maybe I will try and let it go until it drains completely and see what happens.

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FlipStone over 3 years ago +1

I assume you're not using a custom watchface? (If it's also in daily use that would be the first thing I'd think about).

I once had a corrupt activity messing up battery (an activity was not…

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0 Dr Phil over 3 years ago

Check Pulse Ox is off. Some users have posted that it is being turned on without their input.

0 David over 3 years ago in reply to Dr Phil

Yes, it is off.

0 Zergling over 3 years ago

same here

0 Zergling over 3 years ago in reply to Zergling

workaround isnt work. this must be fixed. because its really annoying.

0 FlipStone over 3 years ago

I assume you're not using a custom watchface? (If it's also in daily use that would be the first thing I'd think about).

I once had a corrupt activity messing up battery (an activity was not properly terminated and apparently was still enabling gps etc all the time in the background). I think I actually needed to restart twice (and maybe start/stop an activitu after it) to get that fixed...

0 Gonzalo over 3 years ago

In my case, bought it in march, battry lasts 5 days with 2-3 half an hour exercises per week

at first it was 7 full days

0 David over 3 years ago in reply to FlipStone

I am using a Garmin watchface called infinite geometry. I have reset it, so it is showing the default data now.

I have now gone through all my activities to check that they are all closed.

Yesterday it completely drained in less than 24 hours. No sensors are turned on, no wifi. So, I just did a factory reset, so I will see if this works. I can also switch the watch face, but it seems weird if a Garmin watchface i've been using for months was the culprit

0 lindberg_a over 3 years ago

My 945 have had exessive battery drain for some time. I mostly do runs. Last week I deleted all the data pages for the Running activity, including 2 ConnectIQ data views. Then I added basically the same views from scratch. After that my battery drain is finally gone.

0 Zergling over 3 years ago in reply to lindberg_a

I did same many times result is same.

0 FlipStone over 3 years ago in reply to David

It IS a connectiq watchface though which CAN be more battery consuming, you might try just using a default watchface for a day to see if that matters...

Probably not if you used this for much longer without issues, but who knows... maybe an update screwed things up and at least you can then exclude it as an issue.