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FR 955 Series Rapid Battery Drain After 12.23

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?

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Garmin-Kevin over 1 year ago in reply to S.M.R. +1 verified
S.M.R. and bc0123 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:
- Garmin Connect App…
bc0123 over 1 year ago +4 verified

With all features disabled except activity tracking and phone connection, specifically deleting 3rd party watch face, IQ fields, and disabling pulse ox. I'm using a stock watch face with no animations…
voggi4 over 1 year ago +3

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…
bc0123 over 1 year ago +2

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?

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0 9422034 over 1 year ago in reply to bc0123

sound like my experience with the solar955. I have been running on version 12.25. Now installed 12.27. Let's see if it is going to bring me the promised 12 days.
My 945 did 10 days with 5 workouts a week. So with a bigger screen and Solar I expect at least that. I will not settle for less then one week. Now barely getting 4 days.

0 new_yorker over 1 year ago in reply to 9422034

I got my brand new 955 Solar setup yesterday, spo2=during sleep, wifi=off , BT = on ( connected to IPhone 13 Pro Max) stock watch face, stock firmware version 11.12, full charge i.e. 100% at 5 PM yesterday, since then, 1 workout ( Walk -1 Hour-GPS) and 1 night sleep track and battery is 82% at 11.44 AM ( say, 19 hours since full charge ) just to give you all some perspective on battery life on 11.12.