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Battery Drain FR955

Since the Update 20.32 my battery is draining very fast, from 100% to 9% in just two days were my battery usually held about 2 Weeks. Is anybody else having these issues? Is there a fix planned?

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Matthias 8 months ago in reply to FlipStone +3

It was fixed, but now it's re-introduced I have a feeling.

I charged my watch on Friday evening to 100%. When I checked on Sunday morning: 66%. Without logging any activities. This is definitely not…
Luca 8 months ago in reply to Julian +2

They finally solved it on fenix 7 with the latest beta, let's hope that even the forerunner group, always one step behind, will provide us with a new SW as soon as possible
5580662 8 months ago in reply to linsguilherme +2

The software is definitely the cause. I'm just wondering why Garmin doesn't fix the problem with another update. Is anyone from Garmin even reading this? I also have the problem with version 20…

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0 Julian 8 months ago

Updated the watch the day before yesterday at about 45% and didn't use it. Today the watch was completely empty.

0 Luca 8 months ago in reply to Julian

They finally solved it on fenix 7 with the latest beta, let's hope that even the forerunner group, always one step behind, will provide us with a new SW as soon as possible

0 Deevs_ 8 months ago in reply to Luca

21.14 is in Beta for the 955. I installed it earlier. Will see how it performs

0 nowster 8 months ago in reply to Deevs_

There's a definite inflection point in the battery graph (for the better) where I installed the Beta.

0 Luca 8 months ago

After 4 stable unstable releases where they created a lot of damage, managing it in a beta is a great achievement, let's hope it's also fixed in addition to creating a control chart

0 DaKo 8 months ago in reply to Cuba1hr

It is more or less my experience. It is using 12% a day (24h) while it used to be somewhere about 8%. I have sleep mode enabled so battery saver in the night. With activity recording, it will probably more to 15% a day, which is almost the limit for me. Charging a watch more than once a week it not what I want. I selected FR955 especially because of the long lasting battery.

I do not know if it is caused by firmware, or just the battery is getting old.

0 Thom@s 8 months ago in reply to DaKo

I've already turned off everything I could and what was said here and it still took 4% overnight with the saver on. Something's wrong.

0 Albertone 8 months ago in reply to Thom@s

with 21.14 the battery seems to work better... for now 7% in 24 hours, Bluetooth on and smart notifications on

0 linsguilherme 8 months ago in reply to Albertone

That is not the case here.

I started to think my watch battery had gone bad as it is a bit old.

But it started with the firmware 20.xx, which is, at least, curious.

0 5580662 8 months ago in reply to linsguilherme

The software is definitely the cause. I'm just wondering why Garmin doesn't fix the problem with another update. Is anyone from Garmin even reading this? I also have the problem with version 20.32