I have several garmins and one of them is a forerunner 945. They have a problem with fast battery drain. perhaps there is a solution? who will tell?
I have several garmins and one of them is a forerunner 945. They have a problem with fast battery drain. perhaps there is a solution? who will tell?
If anyone is experiencing rapid battery drain, please review Tips to Extend the Battery Life on a Garmin Fitness Watch
If it doesn't improve, please reach out to your local Garmin Product Support agent…
After software 11.60 update, when finished a running activity, my 945 will drain all the remain 70% battery within a day. Until I restart it, it will become normal.
Since last GPS update the energy consumption increased. In guided exercise with listening to music jumped from 10%/hr to 22%/hr. In simple tracking with GPS only jumped from 5%/hr to 12%/hr. The reset…
It doesn't hurt to restart the watch, holding down the power button for 15 seconds. It's advised after every update, but I typically do this fortnightly. Modern GPS/smartwatches are more and more like…
I've been getting this after the last update. I just tried disabling the bluetooth connection to my phone and that seems to resolved it.
Hopefully they get a fix in for that soon.
It doesn't hurt to restart the watch, holding down the power button for 15 seconds. It's advised after every update, but I typically do this fortnightly. Modern GPS/smartwatches are more and more like computers and like computers, they sometimes need a restart to think clearly again
After two years of working perfectly fine version 11.6 update has caused issues, battery drains 25% overnight and now my watch won't connect to my phone. I have tried every possible solution stated - restart, unpair, delete device, factory reset and even trying on a new and different phone. While the initial bluetooth scan shows the device garmin connect on proceeding the watch does not show the pairing code and garmin connect throws a prompt that it could not connect to the Forerunner 945. This is so frustrating - it has completely upset my morning routine and now I cannot synch any of my activities to Strava.
If anyone is experiencing rapid battery drain, please review Tips to Extend the Battery Life on a Garmin Fitness Watch
If it doesn't improve, please reach out to your local Garmin Product Support agent.