I have a Fenix 5S Plus, newly bought in Nov/Dec 2020. Recently I have noticed that during sleeping the battery drops like 10%! I find it kinda lot, to be honest. Wi-Fi and bluetooth are turned off during night. (simple watch face). Any ideas? This Support Center article may help: How to Improve the Garmin Fenix 5 Plus 8434940 over 2 years ago in reply to Garmin - Chris +1 The thing that most annoys me is the fact that the battery was holding for 20+ days since 2 weeks ago… GPS is a big battery drainer. Sometimes simple light settings can save or use a lot of juice. Yes, I know about gps and light settings. I’ve been wondering about battery drain of different widgets, apps, and keeping the watch on stopwatch or timer screens. GPS is the obvious killer. Update 19.30 - Battery runs out in a short time. With this update, my Fenix 5 X Plus loses almost 20% of battery in one day, after using only the GPS for 16 minutes and no PulsOx at night. Without this update it lasted much longer. To lose a 20% it had to be at least 2 intense days of activity. I think there is a bug in the battery life. Why is My fenix 5 Series Watch Battery Draining Quickly? | Garmin Support. SAVE 10% AT CHECKOUT ON SELECTED PRODUCTS WITH CODE HAPPY2024. FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ORDERS OVER £30. Garmin Support Center. Garmin Support Center United Kingdom is where you will find answers to frequently asked questions and resources to help with all of your Garmin I just made a full factory reset and unfortunately the battery is draining a lot! With everything off and with garmin watch face it is doing 0.3% used to be 0.1% /h. With heart sensor on, activity tracker…. You try a soft reset after the update - I do it after every update, every charge, helps with clearing stuck processes that suck up battery. Please review this Support Center article: - How to Improve the Garmin Fenix 5 Battery Life. In addition to the article, it mentions you can reset your watch. Here are…. Dragos_Fizik over 2 years ago in reply to Garmin - Chris +2. I did all this because I used a Fenix 3 for 2 years and this Fenix 5 for 3 years and I know all tips above. I finally treated myself to a Garmin, thanks to the Black Friday sales, but upon receiving it today I'm worried it seems to be faulty. Update: it actually finished charging yesterday evening and has woken up, but the battery seems to be draining rapidly, from 100% -> 87% in the first 5 minutes. Drained down 50% overnight and i wasn't even Battery Drain After Loading a Connect IQ App | Garmin Customer Support. FREE GROUND SHIPPING ON ORDERS $25 AND UP. Garmin Support Center. Garmin Support Center is where you will find answers to frequently asked questions and resources to help with all of your Garmin products. Since a few weeks, I have a problem with my Fenix 5. When I connect it to a computer (Windows 10), the watch is not recognized as a device (i.e. does not show up at all in the Explorer) - its also not shown in connected USB devices. It does charge however. Tried on three different computers with two different cables. R6RlK.