🐵 Garmin Fenix 3 Battery Draining Fast

Fenix 5 Battery Drain - 19.10. Guess this is kind of a recurring theme here, but my trusty Fenix looses the charge like nothing. I loose about 20-40% per night, and quite frankly im baffled as to why. I Disabled the background light entirely on button presses, and the light is at 5% when i press the light button. Step 2. Use a plastic opening tool to remove the face of the device to expose the inner components. There is one metal piece at the top of the face that is loose. This is the GPS antenna which will need to be removed as well. Be careful with the ribbon that connects the motherboard to the display. 2 comments. Battery drains faster and the watch turns off at 20% or something. Looks like a bug. At least, if it is related to once per second heart rate update on watch face, it should change the battery estimate, which I don't see. Actually, I have almost everything disabled, including bluetooth, touch, pulse ox, and the backlight duration is 5% for 4 sec. Bad battery life after most recent update. ajm135 over 3 years ago. Since the most recent Software Version 11.10 update battery life is draining abnormally fast. Nothing has changed with my settings. I'm losing 5-8% of battery per hour. I'm not getting my usual 10-14 days with GPS usage for running. Now it barely lasting 2-3 days with no pulse EDIT 2: After 95% it returned into the quicker drain. I will give it one more charging cycle. if that doesn’t help I will return it. EDIT 3: After chatting with the Garmin support I uninstalled the Battery Widget (of course they want to rule that out) and did a hard reset. The first and second days seemed great (5.6% a day without GPS). Garmin-Heath over 4 years ago. We have identified a possible issue with software version 13.40 for the fenix 5 that can cause additional battery drain to take place. If you are experiencing increased battery drain on your fenix 5, update…. Tom.Alf over 4 years ago. Hi, Ever since v3.60 I too have massive drains in idle state. I have had 1 occasion where I went to sleep with 52% and woke up with 1%. Yesterday around 21.14 got it fully charged. It's 18.33 right now. It's on 77%. No apps used. What I have noticed is. It depletes from 100->50sh real fast and after that it depletes as it was pre v3.60. Battery on my Fenix 6x Sapphire draining extremely fast. I charge it to 100%, it shows 21Days left. After 3-4hrs, it shows 14 Days left. Please look into the matter. Fenix 5x Sapphire Battery Drain after full charged? I did a 21 mile trail run yesterday. Watch was down to 46% when I got home. Charged it to 100%. Went to bed, wore it overnight. Got up at 7, couldn't turn on the watch. What's even crazier is it last synced at 6:20 this morning. Tried all the Garmin troubleshooting solutions. First, turn off the watch. Then press and hold the BACK/LAP button. Power the watch back on while still holding BACK/LAP. Release the button when a screen appears with the message “Clear user data?”. Select “Yes.”. The watch should power back up and bring you to a setup wizard screen. Battery drain, eternal boot loop. My fenix 6X began with sudden battery drain since september. I have written this here in another topic. I've tried everything, from soft reset, hard reset, unpair it to garmin express and connect, remove non garmin apps, turning off wi-fi, bluetooth, etc. Since september, i have 2 days battery without activities. My girlfriend's Fenix 6S automatically updated to version 25 a couple of days ago. Since the update, the battery drains extremely fast and the watch is very slow (almost unresponsive) when trying to get into activities, starting activities, going into settings, etc. We tried to reset the watch multiple times, but the problem persists. bummer, the easy fixes are covered then. GPS, pulse ox, and notifications use a lot of battery along with some watch faces. Contact Garmin. My 7x solar lasts a few weeks and I have not obsessed over the settings nor gotten a huge boost from the solar as I work in an office. Update the map, that fixed my battery issue. I was getting 3 days of battery life until about a week or so ago. The battery life drains incredibly fast. This morning, for example, I took the watch off the charger at around 5:40 am and now it's 10:23am and the battery is at 60%. It is connected to wifi. Going into Settings > Battery shows Mobile networks at 29.6% usage. In my case, it is exactly the opposite. The fenix 7Xss battery in watch mode behaves more or less normally, but during recording activity the usage is twice as high as before (and than it should be). Two examples from yesterday: - after 2.5 hours of run, the battery drops by 8% and it should be 4% (1.6%x2.5h) .

garmin fenix 3 battery draining fast