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Battery dropping really fast after charge

Hello,

I'm having troubles with my battery for quite some time, but what's fairly new: when I charge my Vivoactive 3 to 100 %, it takes usually around half an hour to reach 90 % (without any activity). Basically, the drop in first minutes is insane, it's not even dropping that fast during an activity right after the charge.

I mean it annoys me for quite some time. First Forerunner 225 became solid dead after 16 months (they refunded the money on the other side)
Vivoactive 3 having serious trables after 2 years exactly (basically the month my warranty went off I've started having troubles with battery sometimes not even being able to last 2 days), got offered to pay a lot and get vivoactive 4.

I was thinking about purchasing fenix 7, but watching how two different models became a piece of junk after 2 years aren't really making me too happy to spend a LOT for Fenix hoping, that it will last at least 3 years or so.

0 Garmin-Sierra over 1 year ago

Hi Skretik, I'm sorry to hear about that. Please see I Am Experiencing Short Battery Life on My vivoactive 3

If you still have any questions or concerns, please reach out to your local Garmin Product Support agent.

0 Skretik over 1 year ago in reply to Garmin-Sierra

Thank you for your answer, but I already tried those that are available to vivoactive 3 several times. Including factory resets. I don't really know with what settings can they last 7 days so it's hard to say, but with light at 10 % I believe I can't do much.

Sure, I can turn off bluetooth, but then I'll loose like half of smartwatches point. I tried garmin faces as well before, it doesn't seems custom face was an issue. I'd like to be able to turn off HR wristmode sensor to "during activity only", but that's not an option for my watches sadly.