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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 cbrooker over 5 years ago in reply to GrahamDyke

Please let us know if you get a real response. My wife's VA3 is suffering from the exact same problems and makes the watch completely useless. I really don't want to RMA the watch for a simple firmware bug.

0 cbrooker over 5 years ago in reply to GrahamDyke

All they mention in the Release Notes for 6.60 is:

Changes made from version 6.10 to 6.60:

Bluetooth connectivity improvements

https://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=12603

When I get home tonight, I'm going to try unpairing and removing all Bluetooth devices from the watch then repairing and see if that makes any difference. Just turning off Bluetooth might help diagnose if it's a Bluetooth problem.

0 Former Member over 5 years ago

it's horrible after updating SW 6.6, batter lasts less than 18 hours!!!!

0 Former Member over 5 years ago

terrible battery drain with this update. I'm charging my watch every day or two. Before it could go a week without charging! I hope they fix this quickly.

0 Former Member over 5 years ago

Anyone have GPS issues? Always on Wait for GPS on mine, only had v3 for 2 weeks.

0 bas.asimo over 5 years ago

does any of you have BT connectivity issues before that the new update solved?? mine lost connection to the phone even when they were near... is BT connection more stable with the new update??

0 Corrimal over 5 years ago

Lost HR and had to go into settings to reactivate it.

0 MRPJC over 5 years ago

Sw 6.6 watch now lasts 10 hrs at best, my third and likely last garmin I will buy . The watch has not been worn since this upgrade. Garmin you have caused this problem and now ask for money to repair! not acceptable

0 4377304 over 5 years ago

I have Vivoactive 3 Music s/w update 4.5, which I think is the same as the 6.6 discussed here.

I noticed my GPS distance/elevation tracking is now reduced for the same trail. Previously my distance/elevation data will be very close to other users (mostly other Garmin devices like Fenix or Edge bike computer. But now I would say the distance is 5% less and elevation is 10-20% less than before and with other Garmin users.

Is this error in tracking or will other Garmin devices get a similar update and their distance/elevation measurements get reduced?

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

Same problem of battery drain after SW 6.60...Garmin please resolve this issue