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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 FlipStone 2 months ago in reply to oBuTTuSo

Ah, I AM in the beta program for the FR955 so guess related to that then? (Removed the gcd files to see if that would trigger an update, didn't... The 006D856710.GCD was on the watch again, not the secure_config one though. But backed it up so will restore it.

0 5407156 2 months ago

Temporary workaround, after an activity:

Power off the watch using the normal menus (long press top left button, select Power Off)
Wait at least 10 seconds after the watch screen goes blank.
Connect the charging lead and charge the watch.
The watch will boot up automatically.
When the watch face shows, disconnect the charging lead.

This should take about a minute to do. You do not need to charge the watch to full.

0 FlipStone 2 months ago in reply to 5407156

I mean, just restart the watch is enough... no need to connect the charging lead? Just force restart.

0 5407156 2 months ago in reply to FlipStone

I've found that just rebooting the watch hasn't always been enough.

0 FlipStone 2 months ago in reply to 5407156

Ah, weird... worked for me so far! Ah well, hopefully the fix will be there soon!

0 Martin Serafín 2 months ago

My watch has now updated to 20.29. So let's see if they fixed it.

0 FlipStone 2 months ago in reply to Martin Serafín

Suddenly same here, out of nowhere lol... Installing atm, hope it's what we're hoping for

0 5407156 2 months ago in reply to Martin Serafín

Just forced an update to 20.29. Two cog with progress bar reboots, no subsystems (GPS/WiFi/CIQ/BMX/ANT...) updated.

0 5407156 2 months ago in reply to Martin Serafín

And in the fixes "Fixed incident detection remaining active after activity." which is probably the culprit for the battery drain.

0 2981497 2 months ago in reply to 5407156

Seems to be fixed now. Im back to 2% per night.