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Garmin Venu battery drain in recent weeks

Has anyone else noticed excessively fast battery drain jn recent weeks? I have changed nothing as far as setting go...but get less than half the life as I saw previous to a few weeks ago or so. I don't know the exact date it started.

If i charge my watch, and go to bed wkth 100% battery, I will lose 7 or 8 % over night. By mid day, down to below 70% (without tracking any activities).

I have confirmed always on display is turned off, brightness level reduced, and I have hardly any notifications on. All settings are the same as a few weeks back, but all of the sudden, battery life is terrible.

I did check and see if any similar posts existed, and couldn't find any recent ones.

0 CindiL over 4 years ago

I have seen some other people saying this also and thinking it happened after the last sensor update.

Just out of curiosity have you tried doing a soft reset on the watch to see if that helps? Mine was draining in a few days but after I did the reset I just got a week out of my charge. Soft reset is holding down the A button until the watch shuts off (about 15 seconds and past any emergency notification). Then pressing the A button to turn it back on.

here is the other thread:

https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/healthandwellness/f/venu/257653/high-battery-drain-since-sensor-update

0 2657631 over 4 years ago in reply to CindiL

Thanks for the reply! I just did a soft restart. I will see if it makes any improvements!

Regards

Matt

0 CindiL over 4 years ago in reply to 2657631

Here is that thread with others having the same issue:

https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/healthandwellness/f/venu/257653/high-battery-drain-since-sensor-update

0 2657631 over 4 years ago in reply to CindiL

Unfortunately, the soft reset did not improve things. I went to bed last night with the watch at 100% - as of this morning when I woke up, it had dropped below 80% and a few hours later (with only wearing as a watch - no activity tracking or anything) it is down to 60%. Not too pleased with battery life, since before the update, I was getting 4-5 days with activity tracking and music....

0 CindiL over 4 years ago in reply to 2657631

Thats too bad! Have you contacted support directly to let them know?

Support.garmin.com