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FR 955 Series Rapid Battery Drain After 12.23

bc0123
over 1 year ago

I've reviewed prior power posts, and I'm feeling like a bit of an outlier.

955 solar.  Indoor worker but workout outside.  Didn't expect solar to move the needle much.

I'm dropping 20% per day without workouts.  Went to bed with the watch at 40% and the watch died before I woke up.  I do have pulseox on at night, but not during day.  Stock watch face showing battery power, notification count, date, and digital time with no seconds.

This seems like an outlier.  Are people experiencing this level of drain or should I call for warranty? 

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Definitely not normal.

    Try the basic. Reboot watch.

    Fiddle around with the Bluetooth connections. Remove and add 955 again.

    Or switch off BT altogether to monitor. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Have had the same problem until yesterday. Since updates GCE (IPhone) and FR 12.25 beta, only - 0,5% battery lost per hour. BT on, saturation off. IMHO, it seems that the GCE update  has resolved the issue, because the 12.25 was already installed 4 days ago. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    My watch dropping 24% a day. 24 hours. Without workouts. All suggestions like phone disconnect. Restart, turn off this and that.... and 4 factory resets are not helping. Every 4 days i have to charge my watch. I don´t see that workouts make a big difference but then i have 3 days ... to be honest i´m not very happy with my new watch. And the different firmware versions are not changing this. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to StA1212

    That's 12% per 24 hours. Does it include activity trackings?

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Are you using ConnectIQ fields? It seems like after a run, my watch is continually looking for my footpod and draining the battery. Only a hard reset seems to resolve it. I've since taken all the ConnectIQ fields out of my data screens and power consumption is about 10% today with an hour of running/GPS

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    When discussing the 12.23 firmware issues one of the potential issues appeared to be continuous syncing of Strava segments. If you have the Strava integration enabled, you can go to "Training => Segments" in the Garmin Connect app. Then you can click the 3 vertical dots top right and select Garmin Segments instead of Strava Segments to see if that resolves the issues.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Thanks all.

    I reset everything, removing the watch altogether and adding it back to connect.  It seems to have fixed it.  

    Answers to questions below

    Activity tracking - yes

    iOS.  Updated to latest production firmware/software on both devices.  No beta.

    5 connect IQ fields.  Data field for hike, dozen walk, F3b dozen run, dozen paddle and kayak, F3b dozen cycle.  I just removed them all.

    One now inactive watch face, Data Lover

    Strava segments: yes. If the problem returns I'll disable.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Update:  Charged it to full and 22 hours later without working out my battery is 87%.  So while doing the above steps helped, I'm nowhere near the claimed battery life.

    Any other suggestions?

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to bc0123

    I've been tracking mine and that is about in line with mine with no activities.

    During a period last week I went from 100 to 25 - thus using 75% in 3.75 days including one 20 min run and one 90 min race during the period on full GPS.

    As you say I am not sure how one can get the battery life mentioned with no activities...yet.

    I seem to consume around 0.65% per hour when no activities and around 6.5% per hour on a full GPS activity

  • +1 over 1 year ago in reply to S.M.R.

    and I notice that you both have a 3rd party watch face installed.  Let's remove that and make sure that you have disable Pulse Ox and then retest your battery life: