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FR955 Solar v15.19 random battery drain and Bluetooth problems?

Hi everyone,

I used fw v15.19 since it was released. It worked perfectly until the last few days. I have detected excessive battery consumption. I did not install anything new nor do I have extra applications installed. To give an example: I charged my FR955 Solar yesterday afternoon to 100% and early today it is already at 64%. I did not do activities in that interval, it only tracked sleep without SPO2. The battery and watch it's almost new (4 months since I bought it).

I also noticed that since the last update of the Connect app for Android I can't edit the sports modes (activities and apps) because the watch syncs correctly, but it gives an error when trying to edit these modes, like bluetooth is disconnected.

Any ideas?
Thanks!

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0 kevin over 2 years ago

So I've only experienced battery drain when I accidentally charge to 100% and this has been across multiple firmware. While a restart always fixes this temporarily it's quite annoying as I don't always notice right away. The watch does get ever so slightly warmer when this happens.

I added my experience in this report fwiw https://forums.garmin.com/beta-program/forerunner-955-series/public-beta-bug-reports/i/public-beta-version-16-xx/battery-drain

I'll get random disconnects every now and then, but it might be an android app/phone thing.

0 G141592653589793238 over 2 years ago in reply to kevin

Thank you! I had not thought about this that I follow the same pattern. I usually charge my devices to 80-85% and all the problems started after I charged to 100% few times. Now, on the last days, I already reboot and looks that worked as normal again.

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

Yes, support suggested me the same, Factory Reset. I not did and looks that on the last days worked as normal.

+1 G141592653589793238 over 1 year ago

Just as an update: since the last abnormal battery use I have not had the problem again. The only thing I did is not recharge it to 100% as someone had suggested in a post on this forum, I did a 80-85% charge and it seems that the problem has been temporarily fixed. I continued to use airplane mode when I needed it, sensors at other times, music, headphones, etc. Everything is normal until now. Thanks for the help and answers

0 kevin over 1 year ago

Glad it works for you! This is definitely still a work around, I'd love to be able to actually charge to 100%. Right now I have to remember to restart the watch if I leave it on the charger too long Garmin-Sierra help? :)

0 G141592653589793238 over 1 year ago in reply to kevin

kevin said:
This is definitely still a work around

I totally agree.