Blaze battery life?

[striknbarb]

Any idea if the Blaze will have better battery life than the Charge HR?  I'm on my 2nd one of those in less than a month and the battery life is pretty horrific.

[brandylh]

Should say 4 charge hr units in 5 months....

[MDPG]

I'm having the same issue. I have my Blaze now for one week and the battery is lasting for about 2 1/2 days. I'm using the Blaze all day and night and per the specs the baterry should last more. I'm kind of disappointed with that.

[SunsetRunner]

The battery will last "up to" 5 days. Depending on use, you may also get less. It's like a buying a car that can get up to 40mpg then complaining because, driving it around town you're only getting 20mpg. Use will impact life.

[JeffWski]

after my initial charge I recharged after 4 days not wanting to push it. Yesterday was day 5 on the third charge. After work when I got home the battery was flashing at me. I decided to go for a run and see what happens. The Blaze still had power throughout my run and through my shower and dinner. I finally charged it exactly 5 days after last charging it.

I have all day sync off and logged 5 workouts in the days between charges. I turned off notifications on day 5 since I knew the battery was low. I'm satisfied so far with the battery life.

[SunsetRunner]

OK, I'm posting on this thread again because last night, while lying in bed, not moving, my Blaze suddenly decided of its own accord to light up the screen, and stay lit. It was on for 30 secs before I swiped left to the today screen and then back to the clock. It then auto dimmed itself after a few seconds.

@EmersonFitbit there is definitely a bug in there somewhere, and I think that is why people's batteries are going flat a lot quicker than expected.

[Colinm39]

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@SunsetRunner wrote:

OK, I'm posting on this thread again because last night, while lying in bed, not moving, my Blaze suddenly decided of its own accord to light up the screen, and stay lit. It was on for 30 secs before I swiped left to the today screen and then back to the clock. It then auto dimmed itself after a few seconds.

@EmersonFitbit there is definitely a bug in there somewhere, and I think that is why people's batteries are going flat a lot quicker than expected.

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@EmersonFitbit Add to what you are saying, plus I still haven't seen a low battery warning from Fitbit notifications or JCS because the battery suddenly goes from Medium to Low and flat and there is no time to sync to warn me... Otherwise I'm getting 3-4 days on just auto HR and no workouts.

[Fitnessgal120]

When my battery is low I receive an email that says "Your Blaze battery level is low".  At that point I still had a good part of the day left before I needed to recharge it. 

[Heidstirr]

I too noticed a bug the first day I wore my Blaze where the screen was stuck "on" and at full brightness. I waited a bit, and it still wouldn't turn off, so I double tapped the screen, pressed the home button and swiped, just to get it to respond, and it eventually went to my set dimness and eventually went to sleep like it should. So far, I've only seems this happen once.

[kerrycrow]

Just a thought...

I am new to Blaze myself.

On my iPhone the battery charge killer is the brightness setting.

I know as a new Blaze owner I am checking and fiddling more with the watch than I probably will once I know the features.  For now I hav sellected the "dim" setting.  That seems to keep the battery lasting long. I am sure I will be activating the watch less as I get used to it as well.  

Check your brightness setting would be my advice.

[Rbrockport]

Sleep and quickview timers would be a great idea for the blaze.. Save the :battery: life!!

[SunsetRunner]

Yes, finally someone else with this bug. @Heidstirr I have mentioned this a couple of times to @EmersonFitbit but note he is moving on to pastures new. Perhaps I need to tag a different mod. @RickyFitbit?

[kschannen]

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@SunsetRunner wrote:

OK, I'm posting on this thread again because last night, while lying in bed, not moving, my Blaze suddenly decided of its own accord to light up the screen, and stay lit. It was on for 30 secs before I swiped left to the today screen and then back to the clock. It then auto dimmed itself after a few seconds.

@EmersonFitbit there is definitely a bug in there somewhere, and I think that is why people's batteries are going flat a lot quicker than expected.

@SunsetRunner

Thank you for the observation. I had another thread about sudden battery discharges overnight (with no notifications about low battery) and I'm guessing that this is the same issue. Clearly seems to me to be a sofware issue, some process hung or locked.  That it has happend to me twice in the 10 days I've used the Blaze overnight (20% failure rate...) is cause for concern. Fortunately both time I've awoken on my own without the alarm but it's disconcerting not being able to rely on it.

[Colinm39]

@EmersonFitbitJust at midnight, 5 days of use, and the red battery low appeared and immediately the Fitbit low battery and the 3rd party JCS low battery emails arrived.  The first time..

[Rbrockport]

I am sure there will be a fix at some point. This is all new. Mine is at
medium since Wed night when I fully charged it. Its only been one full day
and two nights.


*Roselle Mendola Massare*

[KiloLima64]

I personally don't like the battery gauge as it is very deceiving. I would prefer a battery percentage number inside the battery icon instead of a graph.

Question: when the battery goes low you get a email alert?

[SunsetRunner]

I just got my Blaze on Wednesday. I charged it before I used it, but didn't get to full charge. I wore it Wednesday and decided to charge it fully on Thursday (yesterday). I woke up this morning (Friday) to a dead Blaze. Not even 12 hours and the battery was completely dead. The app on my phone still hasn't registered an depletion and says the battery is full. I'm hoping this is just a fluke, of that it's the kind of battery that needs to be fully discharged before if can take a full charge... Regardless, I'm not thrilled.

[Rbrockport]

I am at 3/4 of a battery and just topped it off while sitting at my desk
and now its says its full... Just wanted to prepare for the weekend... This
is my second blaze as my first one I had to return as Guess what (IT
WOULDN'T CHARGE) soo looks like we are going to have battery issues with
some of them.


*Roselle Mendola Massare*

[kschannen]

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@SunsetRunner wrote:
I just got my Blaze on Wednesday. I charged it before I used it, but didn't get to full charge. I wore it Wednesday and decided to charge it fully on Thursday (yesterday). I woke up this morning (Friday) to a dead Blaze. Not even 12 hours and the battery was completely dead. The app on my phone still hasn't registered an depletion and says the battery is full. I'm hoping this is just a fluke, of that it's the kind of battery that needs to be fully discharged before if can take a full charge... Regardless, I'm not thrilled.

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@SunsetRunner

I have experienced the exact same thing which I started another thread about a few days ago. It has happened to me twice in 10 days...completely full battery upon going to sleep and the battery discharging in hours overnight. Mine died at 2:20 AM this morning after fully charging around 8:00 PM. Like you, no notifications about low battery as it apparently discharges so rapidly it doesn't sync and register the low charge.

Obviously some process is triggered or hung up on the Blaze that just keeps going until it's dead. It may be the same thing as a couple of people have noted above when they've seen the screen come on and stay on until they manually do something to clear it. Obviously if it happened in the middle of the night it'd kill the battery very quickly.

Seems likely to be a software glich. Hopefully it gets addressed. I've never really seen FitBit acknowledge it anywhere. 

[EmersonFitbit]

@kschannen @SunsetRunner @Heidstirr Thanks for bringing this up. Please shoot me your email addresses so that I can look into these instances of the display staying on. Also, please let me know which setting your device's display is set to.

[Heidstirr]

@EmersonFitbit DM sent.