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Ionic Battery Dies Daily

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Bought the Ionic about a year ago, Christmas time 2018. Battery lasted for almost a week between charges. Stopped using it for a long time, but started wearing it again daily since about mid November 2019. Same as before, 4-5 day battery life. 

 

Soon though I started noticing it wasn't auto-syncing anymore. No big problem. Then as time passed, manual syncing became a chore. I would have to restart my phone as well as reset the watch (left and bottom right button held for approx 10 seconds). 

 

A week or so passes, and what had been about a 70% charge watch wouldn't even light up at all after about 2 hours from last check. Did the reset again, watch was dead. 

 

For the last week or so now the watch will die around 24-36 hours from full charge. Took it off the charger before work (9:30PM) and it just died at work again today (3:00AM, roughly 30 hours later).

 

This is largely inconvenient because the most prominent use I get from my watch is the sleep tracker (which is useless because it keeps dying while I'm asleep now). 

 

I have 0 additional downloads and have done no customization. The only two features I activate through the watch are to start and end a workout and once or twice a day I set a 5-10 minute timer. I hardly even use it to check the time as I'm still accustomed to checking my phone (and now the watch always seems to be dead anyways). 

 

I've read that the GPS feature is a typical culprit of battery drain, but I've never used it before. Didn't even know the feature existed until looking up similar problems.

 

Any advise or solutions would be great. What I've read so far is that it's a frequent problem, factory reset MIGHT work but seems to have low odds of success, and one or two people mentioned they've received replacements (I'd rather not if I can avoid it). 

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For reference about it's syncing, an example. My Ionic died 30 minutes ago at roughly 3:00 AM (while I tried to sync it, ironically enough). The current status on my app states "Last Synced 7:55AM Yesterday. It had a 97% battery charge at the time of last sync. 'All-Day Sync' is turned on. 

 

So not only did it fail to sync a single time for 19 hours, but it lost 97% battery life as well.

 

Less than 20 hours is entirely unacceptable for a device marketed as having a 5 day battery life, especially when it's also intended to track your sleep patterns and health (as stated, probably the feature I get the most usage out of).

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And as a last note I forgot to mention: typically I put it on the charger when I am going to take a shower. So at least once a day (sometimes twice) it gets about 20-30 minutes on the charger from the time I remove it till I put it back on. 

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