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Vivoactive 3 s/w 6.60 just hit my watch

peteb478 over 5 years ago

No official announcement yet that I'm aware of. Anyone know what's new?

Thanks!

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Former Member over 5 years ago +7

Garmin, please solve this issue or give us an option to roll back frimware. I had no issues until this battery drain problem. One week battery was the only reason I bought this watch.
Former Member over 5 years ago +4

Since it arrived on my V3 the battery drain is awful, about 8-10% per hour. It used to last 3-4 days with doing a couple of running and cycling activities, now it lasts about 1/2 a day of use as just a…
GrahamDyke over 5 years ago +3

Yup same battery drain issue here everything great since the purchase of Vivoactive 3 in Jan 2018.

Always had stellar battery life of about 4 days. that includes 2 x 20 mins of GPS and the built-in cycling…

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0 newcourt14 over 5 years ago

Just installed the 6.6 update. I think they forgot to announce it? Looking forware for the changelog

0 stran over 5 years ago

Glad it isn't just me. Slightly unnerving when the thing just starts buzzing on your wrist

0 Steph B over 5 years ago

Notification is now posted. It does contain a limited Change Log

iOS notification improvements
Improve sensor error detection UI

0 FigoiFago over 5 years ago

I hope it resolved battery drain.

0 ge_bil over 5 years ago

After the device upgrade and the sensor upgrade I thought everything was fine BUT.... every like half an hour the watch restarts seemingly installing another upgrade and then I get the sensor upgrade notification. I has happened ~4 times now and I don't see it stopping EDIT: 5th time just now....

SW 6.60

GPS 2.50

TSC 2.10

Sensor 6.20

WHR 20.03.31

Connect IQ 3.0.10

Another nice upgrade from Garmin, I hope it come with a solution too and NO resetting the device is NOT a solution

0 J_K over 5 years ago in reply to FigoiFago

I hope so too! My watch will go from 100 to 3 percent overnight....while sleeping!

0 Mauzophis over 5 years ago in reply to ge_bil

Are you still seeing those restarts or has it stopped meanwhile?

0 Former Member over 5 years ago

This update!! Battery drain is worse than before, 38% in 8 hours. And I keep getting the memory is full notification, despite uploading to Garmin Connect.

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to ge_bil

For me, by the moment I notice a better step counting, 6.40 start to count steps meantime I was driving, 1h driving around 500 steps... I also notice more accurancy in the stairs counter and no worst performance or any battery drain... Lets see!

0 adaro over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

i'v noticed a little more battery drain now in 6.60 firmware i have 0.55% avg/ hour, vs 0.35% hour in 6.40, but i have to investigate more long term consumption...