Blaze battery draining fast

[Alex_the_blazeu]

Hi everybody! I don't usually uses blaze while I work. I put it on the table. After about four hours, the blaze turned to 60% batteries from 100%. Any power-down mode can I use in the blaze?

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[Bobbylillo]

I have not. I am using a fruit3 watch and wife is using a fruit5 watch. Other than sleep which we don’t care about we truly like them. Good luck with yours!

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[Bobbylillo]

You are welcome. Good luck with whatever your new choice is!😁

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[Bobbylillo]

My wife an I use the fruit watch 3 and 5. We are happy. Hope you find a suitable replacement. Good luck!😎

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[Bobbylillo]

Seems to be the consensus of opinion. We have moved on like a number of other users. Saw no reason to throw good money after bad. Hope you find what you are looking for.

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[Chuck1960]

Tried all these suggestions.  Still battery is lasting less than 4 hours.  Very frustrated as this product has such great potential. Well thought out, really want to use it but the battery performance has turned me off the brand now.  So disappointed. 

[Chuck1960]

A day - I would’ve happy with that!

[Bobbylillo]

Many of us have had the same experience and the same frustrations and disappointments. Fitbit doesn’t offer any real solutions and doesn’t seem to care. I as well as others has moved and no longer use this brand. Good luck!

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[soldermonkey]

The battery can be changed. Fitbit won't do it for you, even for a fee. But you can find little kits 1 battery a couple of cheap-but-adequate tools. $15 or so on fleabay. I say take that and a case of decent beer to your local makerspace, you'll find someone happy to do that swap and maybe you'll make some new nerdfreinds. Or any TV repair person, most ham radio operators etc can do this trivially simple soldering job for you.

If you own a fruit phone, a watch from them will cost only a few hundred $. If you don't, their watch will run you well over $1000, because they force you to use one of their phones with it. There are other smart watch brands out there too.

Many options out there other than volunteering to get fitbit'ed.

[KLeBlazeS5]

The thing is that the Blaze is getting quite old now depending on when you purchased it and the buzzer would tax the battery quite a bit. Batteries only have a defined life depending on the number of charge/recharge cycles and at some point it will not hold a charge for long.

It is disappointing that Fitbit do not offer a battery replacement service when there are replacements and instructions on the internet to do it yourself.

[Chuck1960]

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[cassielin]

Spoiler

There is no replacement battery from what I was told.  You have to charge it and mine does not hold the charge that well.  I am done with the Blaze. 

[Kingjaymz]

Fitbit does not offer a replacement battery, but they are readily available
online. It is apparently not a difficult fix, although it does involve some
soldering.

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[KLeBlazeS5]

Here is just one example

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/For-Fitbit-Blaze-Smart-Fitness-Watch-Replacement-Fitbit-Blaze-Battery-12...

[soldermonkey]

In fact, I see you can now get 160 mAh batteries. Not long ago, the ones sized to fit mechanically were all 120's, hence killed by the blaze's too-fast charging circuit even faster than the factory 167.

[Bobbylillo]

Good post. Thank you. Hopefully it will help those who wish to stay with Fitbit.

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[Bobbylillo]

I understand your frustration. Look at recent posts which show batteries can be replaced with some work. However, not through Fitbit. I had a non android phone so I was able to make the switch to the other system for just the cost of the watch. Good luck with whatever your choice!

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[cassielin]

Hi, Soldering at my age of 76.
Your product stinks. The time does not appear in large to see it. Bye Fit
blaze.

[Bobbylillo]

Hell i’m 78 and refused to do it or give fitbit any more money for what I consider a poorly designed and inferior product. I had one of those fruit phones and bit the bullet burying my Blaze and purchased the fruit watch3 for a little more than the Blaze cost me. Just swapped my wife’s Versa for the fruit watch 5. We are both happy with our new choices. True we may have to charge them every 30-36 hours for 60 minutes and it doesn’t do sleep. But if I’m sleeping I don’t care.

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[cassielin]

I gave up on Fitbit Blaze. Don't need it.

Thanks Recovery Runner for your input.😊

[cassielin]

Thanks for your comments.
I am using my regular watch.
Makes my life easier.
Stay safe.
Lin