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battery discharge faster

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 jmto 2 months ago in reply to jmto

And there's new firmware, but does this fix the battery issue, if it fixes it was then incident detection running in background.

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0 rundad86 2 months ago in reply to MZ

I’ve also experienced the bug with floors climbed when driving. Unrelated to battery life of course. For me this wasn’t new to 20.26. I had it on 19.x too

0 MZ 2 months ago in reply to jmto

Maybe “Fixed incident detection remaining active after activity” was the case for battery drain and that’s why switching off/on after activity fixed it?

0 Cuba1hr 2 months ago in reply to MZ

I did not have any activity and it was draining more than usual with fw v20. In the beginning with firmware 12/13 I think when it was new 4-5%, later after v18 I think 7-8%/day now it is near or over 10%. Same watchface, Quatro. I noticed only the day when it was charged the drain was about 8%.

0 JoeMilewicz 2 months ago in reply to Cuba1hr

Full charge last night and 89% battery level 6 hours later. Real issue that Garmin has to fix.

0 Bertil Dator 2 months ago

Created support request already on Monday and there has been no response, which would indicate IMHO that this is a known issue and fix is being implemented.

0 FlipStone 2 months ago in reply to jmto

I have good hopes, though it was external sensor related but did a bike activity yesterday (no sensors) and drain occurred after that as well so a bug with incident detection keeping running might explain this (partially at least).

New update is not available for me yet unfortunately so can't try it out yet...

0 Martin Serafín 2 months ago in reply to FlipStone

I think they stopped the update here. Because many are already complaining that the update is not available to them.

0 FlipStone 2 months ago in reply to Martin Serafín

I mean, it's phased (20% now) so not surprising I might not have received it yet...

I do get a "Donwload succesful" after a sw update check, but nothing to install... On the computer I see a 006D856710.GCD and secure_config.gcd file in my RemoteSW folder, but both are only 4.71kb so not the actual update.

Patience I guess...

0 oBuTTuSo 2 months ago in reply to FlipStone

secure_config.gcd ? That was (maybe still is?) an optional file for enabling logs on an Epix/Fenix while in beta. Are you running logs for Garmin Support? (I am but haven't checked folders since it was enabled)