Use a Stock Watch Face. A lot of CIQ WF’s can quickly drain the battery due to the info on the front. Even the stock faces can increase battery drain quite a lot if you choose the wrong settings. I use the stock digital face with only hours, minutes, weekday and date. This gives me a power drain of approx. 0.15%/hour. My garmin fenix Watch has stopped measuring/ recording body battery and stress levels for the last 2 days. Nothing has changed on my settings and it is still on the list of display items under ‘my day’. There is also no data on the watch widget for both stress and body battery. Well crap, my Fenix 7S was running so smoothly. I was using it at night for sleep, all day and workouts with music from my watch. I got at least 3-4 days use with the battery, now with the new 10x software update, I used it for sleep data snd wore it today, no workout or anything, and I hit a message did I want to put it in low battery mode. Update. I was almost sure with fenix software update 15.20 battery extreme drain should be fixed. Today I have performed a run with inReach mini connected to my fenix 6X Pro Solar. Unfortunately when I finished this run battery goes to be empty as it was with a previous firmware. Nothing fixed. It is real shame for Garmin. For more accurate results, wear the watch while sleeping. Good sleep charges your Body Battery™. Strenuous activity and high stress can cause your Body Battery to drain more quickly. Food intake, as well as stimulants like caffeine, has no impact on your Body Battery. nW8fs. An all things Garmin Fenix related. Coins. Firmware 14.36 released with battery drain fix . I had 0.3%/hour battery usage with v14.31 and so far 0.1%/hour Hi Everyone, Greetings. Yesterday, i received a software update v14.31 on my Fenix 7 Sapphire Solar. The battery drain after the update has been quite significant. The battery when i went to sleep was around 60% and when i got up in the morning the battery was around 36%. Today morning, i restarted the watch and charged the battery to 100%. Well crap, my Fenix 7S was running so smoothly. I was using it at night for sleep, all day and workouts with music from my watch. I got at least 3-4 days use with the battery, now with the new 10x software update, I used it for sleep data snd wore it today, no workout or anything, and I hit a message did I want to put it in low battery mode. Garmin Fenix 3 -Battery draining in less than 48 hours. I purchased a Garmin Fenix 3 Sapphire in September 2016 and up until 3/4 months ago (when the 2 year warranty magically expired) the battery is running out extremely fast. I have taken a look on Garmin's site as 'No Support' will be provided for the watch due to be it being out of the window. Garmin 5s plus - As I thought, one of these things helped: Changing watch face to simple garmin Manually updating 5s + to 12.71 beta Switching usb protocol from mtp to garmin Turning the watch off and on briefly, right after it completes syncing activity to the Garmin connect app After battery draining up to 100% daily, it seems fine now.

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