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935 battery is draining very quickly, even without doing any activitiy..

I bought my 935 in February and never had an issue with the battery until two weeks ago. During the peak of my training (summer time) I was training 13h/14h a weeks with high GPS usage and many ANT+ devices connected like HR strap, power meter, smart trainer, cadence sensor. I would charge my watch only once a week and 99% of the time it still had some battery left.

Two weeks ago, I went for a run and I was caught off guard with the battery level: it was at 10% but I knew I had charged it recently. I didn't put too much thought at the time and went for my run. 2 mi (15 minutes) into my run, the watch was dead. Got home, completely charged it and then 3 days later the battery was already at 30%.

This has been my life recently. It's my off peak training and I'm only doing 4/5h a week but the battery doesn't last nearly as much.
I already tried the following things:
- Uninstalled ALL third-party apps, watch faces, data fields
- Hard reset (hold power button for 15 seconds)
- Connected and synced to Garmin Express to make sure updates didn't get stuck

My watch is running the latest version 11.0 since it came out (including the new GPS firmware).

Last night, after doing all the above, I went to bed with 100%. This morning I woke up with 83%. There's definitely something wrong.

I'm running, no pun intended, out of ideas. What should I do? Contact Garmin??
  • hi, was wifi and bluetooth on during the night

    the hard reset you did is only a complete power down of the watch
    you only lose time and satellite almanac with the 15sec procedure

    remember to backup and enable physio true up
    do the hard reset mentioned in this post...hard-reset-firmware-reinstall-data-location-and-backup

    and now you can contact Garmin Support when not solved :)
    success


    Thanks! I will try that tonight. Apparently I can save most of the performance data!! That's good. I hope it solves the problem.
  • Hello, I do have exactly the same problem. Could you solve this? If yes, what was the sollution?

  • Do you have any extra apps or watch faces installed from Connect IQ? Sometimes those hurt battery life.