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Battery Drain 955 solar

RBD1979
1 month ago

Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing extreme battery drain? Seems like my watch is losing battery life faster than before..I know it was an issue a year or two ago but started noticing this the last couple of months… Anyone else? 

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to Honza

    For now the only way to solve the drain is to disable all useless alerts including garmin share and, after an activity with gps, select one without, run it for a few seconds and then delete it. They fixed the problem with the new beta of fenix, we hope they did the same with ours from yesterday even if it is not mentioned in the log.

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to Luca

    Ah, didn't see anything in the changelogs but reading the comments it indeed seems to be the case...

    I just installed 21.14 beta last evening and so far still 0.5%/hr but not sure what I can expect given the age of my watch (2.5yrs now, perhaps battery performance also has simply decreased) and usage (always connected to phone nowadays).

    Did just turn of jet lag adviser, will see if that makes a difference. Think I restarted the watch after the update as well, but if I still see higher usage (0.5%+/hr range) then I'll do it again just to be sure.

  • 0 1 month ago

    I'm having similar problems: I'm losing 10% per day in smartwatch mode, even though I've now deactivated everything that requires energy. I have this problem with all variants of version 20.xx

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to 5580662

    Can confirm a similar experience here. I saw a 23% drop in the last 2days with minimal BT use and no activities recorded. 

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to Thom@s

    Incident Detection and Release for Assistance (That happens holding in light button) are different things.

    Incident Detection relies on motion sensors etc to detect an incident. This may be why it is using excess power due to some bug.

    Assistance is a manual process one initiates as a call for help.

    www.garmin.com/.../

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to S.M.R.

    The Incident detection routine remaining active after a workout (eg. run) has completed is one of the bugs that was noted to have been corrected in 20.31, IIRC. This might have explained the extra battery drain that people had observed after doing a workout. Rebooting the watch sometimes fixed this.