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battery discharge faster

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2 months ago

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

  • 0 2 months ago in reply to jmto

     Not sure what the "long" term means in the battery widget, but I've had the battery app installed from 20.21 version through 20.23 and now on 20.26.

  • 0 2 months ago in reply to Bertil Dator

    I'm not doubting your 18%, bad for you but it's pretty different from that the OP gave us. So if OP had 5%, you have 18%, it clearly isn't issue that is affecting everyone, or at least in similar way. Also displaying that you have some external CIQ things installed, it's not just Garmin in your watch anymore. 

  • 0 2 months ago in reply to jmto

    Yeah, I was doubtful myself but saw a post in the 255 forum mentioning it. It was just a question asking if folks have tried it. No need to lose your hair over it. I don’t think it’s that much of a stretch to look at any recently added features when battery drain suddenly crops up.

  • 0 2 months ago in reply to jmto
    jmto said:
    I doubt that it is a fact for everyone.

    As I said a few pages ago, it appears to be mainly associated with the use of external sensors.

    My guess is that a subprocess that communicates over ANT+ is not correctly cleaned up at the end of an activity.

  • 0 2 months ago in reply to 5407156

    If so - you can disable manually ant sensor after activity and check your suggestion

  • 0 2 months ago in reply to 9657567

    I tested this by restarting the watch after each activity (I have both a HR strap and stryd footpod connected) and indeed this seems the case.

    Without a restart the watch used about 0.7 to even 1%/hr (just as a watch, not including an activity). With a restart this was about 0.3-0.4% max.

    I have BT enabled and phone connected all the time as well as wifi and use my own connectiq watchface so I guess 0.3-0.4 is reasonable in those circumstances. 0.8-1% most certainly is not.

  • 0 2 months ago

    I did a full factory reset of my watch this week.

    Yesterday evening I charged my watch to 100% right before bed. After a 7 hour night I was down to 89%. An 11% drain overnight is definitely not normal, not even when SPO2 monitoring is enabled.

    The exercise battery usage is normal for me. 10% per hours, which is what I've always had. But the idle battery consumption is definitely much higher with this firmware version.

  • 0 2 months ago in reply to 5407156

    From what I've noticed external sensors or not doesn't matter, but GPS usage do...

  • 0 2 months ago

    Since the last update the battery drains very fast. It is clear that there is a problem. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.

  • 0 2 months ago in reply to oBuTTuSo

    Exactly, i didn't use any sensors. Last view in the following picture is 4 hours ago, right after a run. So projected 23%/day just watch mode .The other averages look better because i have power saving durring sleep, and also when i remember i restart the watch which seems to fix the issue until next run.