Battery died in less than an hour after update to 7.4??!!!

I'm on 7.4 and I havent any batter issues, so far. I would suggest without knowing your battery percentage before starting the swim you shouldnt "fume" at this point. Perhaps carry out another test from a full charge, at this point we don't know if the fault is with the watch or if the battery was merely at a low charge point when you started your swim.

Hi,

Me too, i experience the same battery issues with my vivoactive 3, after the updated the battery is drain after 4-5hour after a full charge, left on the table. 

after i went to the service centre i was told to factory reset the watch, which now able to last for 7 hour with every feature turn off, if i used if for my run, the battery will be drain within 1 hour.

will  be great if Garmin is about to provide option to roll back to 7.3.

Mine too. First a charge would only last 4 hour. Mine is 18 months old too. So I did a reset, seemed to be better but back to heavy drain again. I also gave up on spotify would not play freeze when I hit play reinstall load music slowly and would work again. Now I'm uploading music from itune directly was working again now watch totally freezes when I hit play I have to reboot watch. I think it may be because I don't hit stop music before I turn off my headphone, anyone else have this problem? Wasted a lot of time trying to get this watch to work.

Hi

After update 7.4 battery is drain from 100% to 0% in few hours.

My experience with the VA3 since the 7.40 firmware is no different than previous firmware deployments and that is lasting  between 3/4 with all the tracking sensors enabled. 

Granted I use minimal GPS tracked activities but that is no different to how I have always used the watch since March 2019. 

Mine was charged to 100% late last night, about 11 hours later I happened to look at it to see that it was rebooting and came up at 1%. 

seems like this is a pretty widespread issue judging from the forums. the silence from garmin on this is really pissing me off. At least acknowledge that there is an issue 

Did you report it to Garmin Support ? They don't actually follow the forum closely. 

Garmin Support : https://support.garmin.com/en-GB/?productID=571520&tab=topics

I'm having a very frustrating chat conversation with Garmin who say this hasn't been reported and that I need to get a replacement watch from them.

They are telling me there is an issue with the hardware.  I'm not sure there can be for a 2 and a half year old watch, it would have happened before surely?  I'll keep charging it up a couple of times a day rather than be without a watch for 10 days - I expect them to have fixed the software by then, as long as everyone reports it!

Hi hhasert,

how do you report it to garmin support? i believe most of us here had the watch for more than a year which is over the warranty period.

and the support link share is just a user guide or faq of the product.