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Vivoactive 3 APAC Battery Drain

Any firmware updating coming to apac version?

i had been experiencing fast battery drain issue. usually it last 3days with 30mins workout daily before needed to recharge, now it had reduce to a day

0 Former Member over 6 years ago

I'm VA3 user in the apac region. I've had 6.60 pushed down last week. Battery drain is getting worse with each update. It's now about 5.5% per hr with 60 min on non-gps tracking. Means a full charge lasts only 18h.

0 Former Member over 6 years ago in reply to Former Member

I get about 8 hours, mine burns through the battery at about 12% per hour. UK region.

0 Former Member over 5 years ago

Guys, I am strongly believe that Garmin did that on purpose. In other words: " Time to get a new watch people!" The will never fix this issue. Some people here have no battery issues on their NEW garmin running 6.60 firmware! Very suspicious. Anyway, my VA3 lasts less than a day so F"""K you Garmin, going to Suunto...

0 brmwia over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

I'd be more inclined to believe incompetent progammers and lack of proper testing. Either way, it's a quality issue that keeps coming up over and over if you do the research.