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Forerunner 955 Solar battery drain V18.23

Grosse-Bouffe
over 1 year ago

I have a battery issue with my Garmin 955 solar since 3 weeks. I bought my watch a bit more than 1 year ago, and battery was lasting about 10 days with my current parameter. For the last 3 weeks, battery capacity has dropped to 5 days. I have not touch any parameter. Maybe a new update caused this problem? Have you met similar issues? Any advices?

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    I had a IQ field called “regen” (rain) installed on my watch. Since i removed it the drain was gone. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to spruitp

    I did not have the "Regen" installed on my watch. I will remove all my IQ watch screen that I do not use, and see what it does. I will let you know.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to spruitp

    Unfortunately, it does not do any improvement. Atfer full charge and 24h, my battery is down from 100% to 82%; almost double than usual.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    have you done a hard/soft reset of the watch (holding light button down for 20 sec and then reboot)...or biggest thing: reset the watch to factory settings.

    i haven't, thankfully had any major changes for my 955 Solar (almost 2 years old now)

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to derek87

    Hello Derek. Actually, based onto some Garmin Techician, I tried :

    - synchronisation with Garmin Connect on my computer,

    - I deleted my watch from my phone application

    - I disconnected bluetooth/ dissociated my phone/ my watch,

    - I did the hard/soft reset (that you are suggesting).

    I wait 1 days to check the result, and there is no improvement.... The battery is still diown by 20% in 24h today.

    I have not tried the Total restet factory settings.... 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Grosse-Bouffe

    i'm sorry to hear about your frustrating experience. i don't know if the total factory reset will help, but that's the last thing i could think of outside them swapping things for a new unit for you. but it sounds like all of this happened after you updated firmware so one would think it isn't hardware related...

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Mine too - My Forerunner 955 is about a year old. Battery used to last at least 10 days, but now it lasts less than a week.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to derek87

    I just proceed to a total factory reset. I will let you know if it works. If not, I will have to swap the watch for a new one. Garmin sent me a message where the factory reset is the last thing to do before returning the watch for a swap. I will let you know.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Sid

    Hello Sid. Sorry that you have the same issue as me. Try to proceed to all the above mentionned action to see if something could solve your issue.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    My watch has the same problem. Resets in any way did not help. Also with 18.26, there is no improvement.