One major downside of the Garmin, and likely all smart-watches
So far you have seen me go on and on, probably to too much of a degree about how much I love my Garmin Vivoactive 4. I was staring to feel like a sales representative because I was just so amazed with all the cool information I was getting even though I did pay more for this watch than I have paid for all the other watches I have or perhaps have ever had, maybe even combined.
The watch does some pretty amazing things like encourage you to exercise more, gives you good readouts about your heart rate and also does its best to estimate your caloric burn based on the information that you provide for it during the initial setup process and I can't stress enough how important it is to tell the truth during all of that because you will get bogus results if you lie on it. If you are a fatty, tell the software the truth, if you are already fit, tell the truth as well. There's no glory in bogus results.
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The amount of things that the watch can do is pretty impressive and I am not even using some of the higher functions like loading it up with MP3s to listen to via bluetooth while I am exercising. It's very accurate on your speed, location, and elevation and I have no idea how this is possible but apparently it is. It gives great readouts on your caloric burn including calories that your body consumes simply by you being alive, which is quite a lot and might surprise some of you out there.
Thus far, and especially after the initial frustration regarding the GPS when I first got it, I have been very pleased. But there is no such thing as perfect and one thing that irritates me about this watch, and I presume all other watches like it, is the battery life on it is pretty terrible.
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I don't know exactly what is draining it so quickly but I would imagine it has something to do with this laser type thing that emanates from the back of it into your body that reads your heart rate....and probably gives you cancer... we don't know yet.
Well it is really annoying to me to be about to head out the door and be greeted by a "low battery" screen on a regular basis.
This is a very minor thing of course and it only takes it about 20 minutes to charge anyway but this is just one of those things that I forget to do and once you are ready to head out the door to go exercise it can be a bit frustrating.
I suppose this is just a rant because I would imagine that there is nothing that can be done about this. Watches are small, watch batteries are smaller, so me needing to remember to plug it in every day I suppose is a minor thing. Now my next question would be what are the connectors made of because I regularly completely submerge this thing in water. hmmmmmm
The watch has so many functionality and I think it's still because of those numerous functionality it has that makes the battery to be draining so quick, anything that has advantage will also has some disadvantages, but, like I am seeing, it's a great watch 🥰🙏
You need to charge it every day? That's a lot considering, if you were doing an Ironman or a ultramarathon are you thinking the GPS wouldn't last the whole race?
I think you could make it two days if you were just doing regular amounts of exercise like I do but it has been frustrating to me a couple of times when I was ready to go out the door to work out and it was unable to go with me :)
I think the coros watches have a longer battery life and are designed for ultra running. Though I suppose it depends on the model. A mate of mine has a garmin with a small solar panel. I just charge mine evry night and it only even ran out when I did a 100kms and it took over 20 hours.
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well i don't see myself doing 20 hours anytime soon. Did it still keep the data even though it lost power?
I think I saved it before it ran out and then started another workout on my phone then merged them together on strava
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I usually get at least a two day battery life out of my Samsung smart watch. I typically turn it off at night though.
I should stop using it to monitor my sleep patterns because I have a difficult time believing that a watch can really know what is going on with my sleep patterns anyway
The laser thing are usually simple LEDs that have been out there for many many years, long before smart watches existed, so we actually do know they're quite safe.
One day is on low side, I usually can get 2 days with my old Samsung (more if it didn't have LTE, but I like to leave my phone at home). I think you can get at least a week with the Coros, but they're big! And expensive... And they didn't have LTE at the time I was looking, not sure now.
well i was only joking about the cancer comment, obviously something like that would never be allowed. I guess as far as battery life is concerned I just have to be a bit more responsible!
My Forerunner will last about a week with 3 or 4 tracked runs. The lights for the pulse reading are on a lot. Once in a while it will pop up 'low battery' warnings, but I've always had enough to finish my run. Maybe there's some settings that will improve matters.
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I probably have something switched on that consumes battery such as the "Smart IQ" something or other that is meant to detect what exercise you are doing automatically but when I am at my computer it seems to think that my typing is the same thing as doing an elliptical so I think I should just switch that off.
Lol. Low battery because you are always fiddling with it. Would be a bit ironic that a health related gadget ends up killing you. I know we have yet to see the consequence of the cell phones on people and that was signal related wave stuff.
I'm not really paranoid about that sort of thing. If something on a watch kills me, so be it. As long as I am having fun along the way!
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As I ve already said, I am using vivoactive 4s. I switch off HR-monitor 50 % of the day, the automatic exercise reading, the activity reminder.
If I do an exercise of 30-40 min everY second day, I should charge the battery every 3rd day.
When the battery alarm appears during the exercise, the watch turns black, but the exercise record will be continued for a nother 15 minutes approximately.
A fully charged watch is okay for me for a day with a ride of 6 hours..
As it was new, it worked longer, but after 6 month I was also disappointed because of the battery
I think I'll just have to be more responsible with remembering to charge it. It charges pretty fast so this isn't that big of a deal. I quite like the constant HR monitor, even when sleeping so I'll just have to deal with this!
You can switch the bluetooth connection as well, if you can live without the smartwatch function.
I'll likely do that once the battery starts to deteriorate. Since it charges so quickly I can normally get it to a near full battery charge just over the course of my morning coffee.
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