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Rapid battery draining issues since 18.27 update [FR965]

I have f965, I updated it to the new version 18.27. I turned off Pulse Ox and turned off allway display. I fully charged the battery last night and this morning it was at 58%. Does anyone have the same error?

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arcalius over 1 year ago +3

I had a similar issue, and it was weird. I had changed an option on the watch, set the default setting for GPS to "auto select" I mean it was already set to that in the running options, but I decided to…
KH_55 over 1 year ago +3

I have this same issue with my FR955

I havent changed a single setting and since the last update I’ve gone from charging once a week to losing at least 30% daily. Same usage pattern and settings…
9636795 over 1 year ago in reply to XUXUBEOU +2

Not ideal - so how do we go about solving or dealing with this battery drain issue? It's 100% not something that I've tweaked or changed, as my watch has remained unchanged for months now in terms of settings…

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0 oBuTTuSo over 1 year ago in reply to oBuTTuSo

And another note, I never use the app to change watch settings, then I've seen strange behavior afterwards...

0 badbri over 1 year ago in reply to oBuTTuSo

oBuTTuSo said:
No, scheduled sleep hours, but under settings/system/sleep mode you can activate battery saver

And battery saver is defined under settings/power management(?)/power saver(?)/change

Thank you, I'm going to try that now since it's automatic.

0 oBuTTuSo over 1 year ago in reply to badbri

Good luck!

And also if you have the option to connect the watch to a computer, and check if there are any files in the remotesw and newfiles folders. If I understand things right they should normally be empty, or there is some kind of install or import in progress...

0 KH_55 over 1 year ago in reply to oBuTTuSo

Thanks for this info. I'm going to try the power save setting in sleep mode too, and see if it helps. Currently losing almost 20% battery overnight. this was not the case previously. I've gone from weekly to daily charging.

0 MirceaForce over 1 year ago in reply to KH_55

where is Garmin-Sierra could you please look into this ?

0 KH_55 over 1 year ago in reply to oBuTTuSo

Battery saver in sleep mode made absolutely no difference overnight. Still lost 20% battery.

0 flocsy🤠 over 1 year ago

I'm curious:

1. does the green LED flash all the time? For me it does, and I can't find any way to turn it on during the day (when I'm not in an activity or the HR widget).

2. do you remember if this was always the case? I'm pretty confident that this started to be always flashing with the same FW update that started to drain the battery twice as fast (aka IMHO the reason for the battery drain is the always flashing LED, but Garmin support just don't get it)

0 oBuTTuSo over 1 year ago in reply to flocsy🤠

You can turn WHR on/off under settings/health&fitness/Pulse on wrist/ (or something similar)

But I don´t get your question, is it on or off now?

0 flocsy🤠 over 1 year ago in reply to oBuTTuSo

Wrist Heart Rate:

Status: Auto (when it's OFF then the green LED isn't flashing, but when I switch it back to auto, then it starts - in fact it's even more disturbing, now it's not even flashing, it's just always on)

BTW I also had Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts enabled, but disabling it didn't turn off the green LED

0 oBuTTuSo over 1 year ago in reply to flocsy🤠

Do you want to use WHR or not?

It will shine steady until it has found your pulse, and then (if not in an activity) it will start to flash to save power. I don't see how that can be disturbing, other than if you wear your watch very loose?