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Anyone Experience Battery Drain?

We received the scale for xmas.

we then took off for a week and came back to a dead scale.

i faintly saw the battery icon flashing.

seems strange that the battery drained already.

Thoughts? experiences?
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 9 years ago
    Do you have cats? mine love to lay on my scale so i had to slide it under a shelf.. lol
  • ha no cats

    but i do notice it turns on when we walk into the bathroom

    perhaps its very sensitive
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 9 years ago
    The batteries in mine lasted one month with daily use. I have anither digital scale that has lasted 5 years on original batteries so I am a bit dismayed at the drain caused by, I assume by the wifi and/or BT. I will reserve judgement until the replacement batteries die since Garmin has a history of shipping with crappy batteries
  • i think the scale is just very sensitive.

    i see it turn on when i walk into the bathroom.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 9 years ago
    Wow... i put in new high end batteries after one month of use and they only lasted 2 days. Never saw the scale come on other than when I was on it. I got to use it twice. This is going back
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 9 years ago
    Put in 4 new batteries and they lasted 2 days. Lights on the scale are only on when I mount the device. Conclusion.. The scale is continuously polling wifi and thus draining the battery.., bad... Really bad!
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 9 years ago
    i think the scale is just very sensitive.

    i see it turn on when i walk into the bathroom.


    Mine does not come on but seriously drains the battery after 2 days... It was ok for the first month
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 9 years ago
    What kind of flooring do you have it resting on?
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 9 years ago
    What kind of flooring do you have it resting on?


    Ceramic tile... Same flooring it was in for a month before batteries started lasting 2 days. Lights only come on when I get on it
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 9 years ago
    I was wondering because I noticed with mine, which is on tile as well, with hard bumps on the floor near the scale it will turn on.

    But, if the battery drain issue is something that's new, I would think it's not related to the flooring unless you moved it and that coincided with the problem.