If it's set up for all-day, it will have a significant impact on battery life. Here's a link to the garmin webpage to help you check/change the setting. Yoga_Berri • 2 yr. ago. Hello. Vivoactive 4 lasts up to 8 days in smartwatch mode, 6 hours in GPS mode, or 18 hours in GPS mode without music. As previous drain battery experience with Fenix 6 pro after updates I decided to turn off automatic updates. Connecte to garmin express and started maps update. Then when watch restarted on the screen show up updating firmware to 14.36. I didn’t choose it . It went automatically with maps. Then my battery noticeably went quicker than on old 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, Garmin quietly lumbers towards a battery fix It seems that Garmin didn’t really believe reports from myself and many other people concerning unexpected battery drain issues. This is STILL a relatively widespread issue that seemed to come to a head at the start of 2021 when I and others posted about it (see re-post below) . Vivoactive 3 battery drain. thanirs over 4 years ago. My wife's V3 (14 months old) has been draining battery from 100 to 0 in 2 days. The watch battery has been fully drained and fully recharged a couple of times already. I also did a full reset and she has not been using any 3rd party apps. The battery used to last 7 days. I have had a Fenix 6 Pro for about 2 weeks and it was using about .5% of battery an hour. The other day there was an automatic update and suddenly the battery use jumped to about 1.5% an hour similar to what other people have reported. I saw a post on Redditt that pointed to the location permission in Connect.I am on Android v11 - a Oneplus 8 Installation Instructions. Connect your fenix 3/tactix Bravo/quatix 3 to your computer using the USB cable. Download and unzip fenix3_tactixBravo_quatix3_***Beta.zip. Place the GUPDATE.RGN file, found in the ***_Beta folder, into the \GARMIN directory of the device. Disconnect from your computer and proceed through the update. Had the issue for weeks on my Fenix 6 Pro Sapphire, there is an ongoing threads on the garmin support website. I think it is something to do with the current 11.10 update, as I used to get 14 days on a full charge with most of the battery draining functions not activated. Now I get 10 days, also when I first updated, my watch would only last 1 day! T6I2R.