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955 battery draining unevenly

Recently a serious battery drain problem appeared where the watch would last only two after a full charge eeven by not using it and being on airplane mode meaning all the features are closed. After chatting in the garmin chat i was advised to factory reset the watch and it seemed to be better for the first days. It would last for about six days from 100% to 60% but then it would lose 30% over night without wearing it and by having all the features off. Any ideas or anybody having the same issues?

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0 Cuba1hr over 2 years ago

Yes, check my previous posts... Just keep the watch out of the airplane mode and it won't drain. Also turn off any sensors to off if you use... scanning for them also and phone connection to off. That all would be equivalent to flight mode.

0 G141592653589793238 over 2 years ago

Same for me: https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/running-multisport/f/forerunner-955-series/342591/fr955-solar-v15-19-random-battery-drain-and-bluetooth-problems

0 Panos.80s over 2 years ago in reply to Cuba1hr

Ι will follow your instructions, thank you! Why , is the airplane mode draining it?

0 G141592653589793238 over 2 years ago in reply to Cuba1hr

Sorry, you said that the Airplane Mode is the cause?

0 G141592653589793238 over 2 years ago in reply to Cuba1hr

Sorry, you said that the Airplane Mode is the cause?

0 Panos.80s over 2 years ago in reply to G141592653589793238

Yh Cuba1hr said in other posts also that airplane mode drains the battery which is really strange(?)

0 Cuba1hr over 2 years ago in reply to G141592653589793238

Yes, after the activity. It is not always the case. I mentioned it numerous times, not fixed.

0 parentoft over 2 years ago

The problem is that airplane mode does not turn off BT entirely.

If you e.g. are having a BT headset turned on/ or you have your Connect App running, and you put your watch into Airplane mode.. Bluetooth does not get disabled! only WIFI is then turned off!!!

There are some deviations between garmin people about airplane mode and how it is supposed to work/not work.

0 Cuba1hr over 2 years ago in reply to parentoft

Just to mention - the problem I have now is excessive drain of 2% more per day than it used to use. Now I have cca. 6% and it was about 4.5%/day. The watch was charged 3 times to 100%, first 2 charges, after that from 20 to 80%. 2 charges ago I charged it from 5% to 100...and since then I got 6%/day without activity. Nothing else changed, it was charged between...probably 10-15 times. Not sure if it is related to this full charge. Tried turning it off and on. The watch is almost new.