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battery discharge faster

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1 month ago

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

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to JoeMilewicz

    Unfortunately, my optimism for the 20.29 has weakened. After charging to 100% 12 hours ago, now I have 93%, during this time only one activity without GPS, strength training 15 minutes.

    I continue observing.

  • +1 1 month ago

    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 Support directly. 

    Thank you!

  • 0 1 month ago

    For me the 20.29 update seems to have fixed it, since the activity now 0.3% /hr (7% in 23 hrs) which is in line with the behaviour before (the watch is also almost 2.5 years old now).

    Will do a run later this morning so that'll be the final test but so far so good.

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to Garmin-Sierra

    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 point. 

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to JoeMilewicz

    Unfortunately, for me it's even worse than in the case of 20.26. battery drop by 11 percent for 16 hours without any activity, previously it was about 6 percent

  • 0 1 month ago

    Looks pretty good on 20.29. 6 hour hike yesterday (starting battery 97%) and this morning at 76%, would say pretťy normal.

    Very arrogant answer from ). I've had support ticket open since Monday, and I haven't received any response. 

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to Bertil Dator

    Not in my case. I can't even follow how much I loose, more than 10% per day. I wanted to open another thread...but I will because I have other issues too. OHR for example. I just got back from run...but approximately lost 25-26% in 48 hours. This firmware is s... Turned off the watch couple of times (10 sec light button)  - sync off, share off, BT off, WIFI off...everything off, no activity recorded.

  • 0 1 month ago

    Does anyone tested the difference in discharge between installed watchfaces? I can imagine that these could be a power draw aswell.

    And once again, Garmin test procedures are really halfbaked. Probably ny hand and not automated. Every new release something else breaks.

    I also can imagine that the MIPS ecosystem gets a smaller and smaller team of developers as they transition. 

    Does anyone know if the OS on the new amoled versions is the same in base? Hope for them they started fresh and didn't dragged al there old bugs in the new ecosystem. That would not be good news for us. Hope they get automated testing in order so they can do proper regression testing. They are losing customer trust this way. It's bizar that they even got this past the beta testing team.

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to Jochem

    Been using the same watchface since ages now...

    But it seems it has improved indeed, I still get 10% a day which is a lot but that's with phone connected and messasges/notifications on, custom connectiq watchface and a 2+ year old watch. 0.4%/hr... at least much better then 0.8-1%/hr before the fix..

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to FlipStone

    Thanks, they did fix something that was wrong. For some people it's still not working so there must be more at play. 

    Upgrades feel like playing Russian Roulette this way.