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5805901 2 months ago

20.26 battery consumption increases, 19.18 consumes 3% per day, now 5%. Garmin Share,Bluetooth,wifi all close

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Garmin-Sierra 2 months ago +-6 verified

All,

I'm very sorry if you are experiencing increased battery drain. Please see Tips to Extend the Battery Life on a Garmin Fitness Watch, and if the tips do not help please reach out to Garmin Product…
5407156 2 months ago +8

Yes, this is a known problem with the 20.xx firmware and we've been complaining about it throughout the beta phase.
JoeMilewicz 2 months ago in reply to Garmin-Sierra +6

Have to admit I’m not impressed with this answer from Garmin. Sorry for your battery drain but switch off lot’s of stuff that you bought the watch for in the first place to save battery. Not really the…
5805901 2 months ago +5

The full battery is 100%. The power-saving mode drops by 3% overnight. It only costs 1% before upgrading. Can the developer of garmin explain the reason?

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0 Bertil Dator 2 months ago

Open support ticket. This was raised already in beta versions before but wasn't fixed before firmware went public so now we just have to bother Garmin support with this issue.

0 Bertil Dator 2 months ago in reply to rundad86

No effect even if you disable Garmin Share nor if you disable wifi.

0 jmto 2 months ago in reply to rundad86

How do you even disable it? Garmin Share is an activity like the rest? It uses battery only if you open up it. You need to open it to get or send anything.
Blaming Garmin Share feels just plain stupid.

0 Bertil Dator 2 months ago in reply to jmto

Someone said during beta that disabling it helped, many others said it had no effect, me included.

0 Bertil Dator 2 months ago in reply to jmto

You disable it via Connectivity menu in watch.

0 linsguilherme 2 months ago in reply to jmto

You turn it off in the “Connectivity” menu.

The battery drain started after the feature was released.

That's why it might be the offensor, and why people are trying to disable it.

0 jmto 2 months ago in reply to linsguilherme

Interesting that it's there. What is even the point of that setting? It just hides the app?

Using Garmin Share | Garmin Customer Support

Mentions nothing about this.. and to receive or send you need to start it. I don't think that disable does anything else that just hides it from the activities.

0 jmto 2 months ago in reply to linsguilherme

For every firmware release there are people complaining about battery drain.

Garmin share does not run in the background in anyway based on any documentation there is. How could it take battery?

If you could receive files without the need of starting the Garmin Share, then this might be different story.

0 Bertil Dator 2 months ago in reply to jmto

In any case, 0.8% battery drain per hour (18%/day) is no imagination but a fact with this FW.

0 jmto 2 months ago in reply to Bertil Dator

I doubt that it is a fact for everyone. Like the OP said it was from 3% to 5%. You say 18%. Pretty huge difference here. It might be a fact for you, but OP had different percentage. I haven't keep count on mine....