Battery life worse on firmware 6.3

Battery life is atrocious

I am about to call Garmin and see what the problem is. I've only had the 230 for maybe 4 weeks, and it seems I have to charge in every 4 days, when I was told it was 6 or 7. I then charged it after upgrading to whatever new version there is and 60 hrs later I was down to 12%. This is horrible and really unacceptable.

Back-light set to "wrist turn"?

Is your back-light set to "wrist turn"? Some times if I run at night, I'll set my watch turn to turn the back-light on when I look at my wrist and forget to turn it off and walk around all day not noticing the back-light coming on. I found that definitely has an impact on my battery life.

Sorry for the late reply.

Update about my watch after two weeks usage.

With GPS enabled + activity tracking enabled, it spent ~14 hrs. The owner manual says 15 hrs so the battery life in this case seems reasonable to me.

In watch mode with only activity tracking enabled, it consumes battery ~10% per day. It's a bit better than it was two weeks ago after I updated the firmware to 6.30. However, it's still worse than the 5.40 firmware. Looks like the watch mode consumes battery more than it should be.

I am about to call Garmin and see what the problem is. I've only had the 230 for maybe 4 weeks, and it seems I have to charge in every 4 days, when I was told it was 6 or 7. I then charged it after upgrading to whatever new version there is and 60 hrs later I was down to 12%. This is horrible and really unacceptable.

60 hrs with 12% left isn't acceptable :(. Does Garmin say anything about yours?

Is your back-light set to "wrist turn"? Some times if I run at night, I'll set my watch turn to turn the back-light on when I look at my wrist and forget to turn it off and walk around all day not noticing the back-light coming on. I found that definitely has an impact on my battery life.

No, I always disable the Wrist Turn mode. What I usually use are activity tracking (always on in the passed two weeks), GPS (only when running) and Bluetooth (always turned off after fishing syncing). Everything else is turned off.

Mine consumes 22% per day this week :( :( :(

mine too, from fw7.1

After upgrade to fw7.1 the battery drain very fast.

Horrible battery life on FW7.10

I upgraded to 7.1 this week because the watch wasn't counting miles in bike mode all of a sudden. I think I was on FW5.x before the upgrade and battery life was great. Battery life sucks now, but it's counting bike miles again!!

Problem solved?

I upgraded to 7.1 this week because the watch wasn't counting miles in bike mode all of a sudden. I think I was on FW5.x before the upgrade and battery life was great. Battery life sucks now, but it's counting bike miles again!!

I turned off my watch for about 10 minutes and turned it back on two days ago. The problem seems to be fixed.

Problem still persists

A little update from me.

Mine is now on firmware 7.3. The battery life is still horrible. It spends ~20% per day. It is much worse since I started this topic :(

Battery Life

Yes, battery life is horribly worse after recent updates. Currently running 7.30 but noticed a couple of weeks back significantly worse battery life. I have GPS enabled for activities + HRM + activity tracking on. Everything else off including blue tooth and notifications.

Hmmm...

I'm doing well with battery life on my 230. I do notice that I do one thing different in that I do not have GPS active for activity tracking. I only use GPS when I'm going out for a run. I may be reading your post wrong, but if not, try making this adjustment and see if your battery life improves.