My Inspire 3 is about 21 months old. I was still getting about 5 days on a charge with virtually everything minimal or turned off - I prefer getting info from the app (and wish they made a faceless model like the Amazon Halo, which was great). Within the last few weeks, it seemed to start needing charges more frequently. Resetting it didn't help. In the last week, I confirmed it was using about 40% charge per day and needing to be charged about every 2 days. Tonight I monitored the charging and noticed it seemed to stop at 54%. I fiddled with the fit on the charger, wiped the contacts with rubbing alcohol, reset it both off and on the charger, and it finally moved up to 55%. Walked back to the living room and checked the app on my phone, but it already showed it at 100%. I went back to the Fitbit and it showed 100%, as well. I think the problem mine started having recently is that it's thinking it is fully charged well before it gets to 100%. It seemed to go from 73% charged to 100% charged unnaturally fast one time in the last couple of weeks, so that should have been a sign. Now, 55% charged is the new 100% charged, so it makes sense I'm getting about half the time I was getting just a month or so ago from a 'full' charge. Just restarting it on the charger is using 4% of the battery. If it's losing about 10% of it's maximum battery storage per week at this point, it won't last long. Unless there is some other way to reset it or a firmware fix, I'm probably going to have to get another one or try something else. Maybe this is normal for battery failure, but I'm surprised how quickly it is declining.
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