Software update 27.70.7.27

[blacque]

Hi all.i received the above mentioned update. I dont see any information about it here. What's new and did everyone receive it?

[youhippy]

I thought this update was for the field testing? Have you signed up for any recent beta tests with Fitbit? 

[blacque]

No I dont recall signing up for anything other than signing up on this here forum. 

[blacque]

...and what exactly is being tested 

[slbert]

I received it this morning but am not seeing anything different at first glance.

[Vortechs2000]

I got it to. No idea what's different...

[youhippy]

Hopefully it will fix those battery issues. 

[jonnyweave]

I downloaded it this morning.  No changes that I can descern, it did NOT fix the issue of excessive battery consumption and a freezing of the time and my stats when my Ionic is powered off.  Anyone else have this issue?

[Blistz]

Received and applied thismorning - was painless.

I see no mention other than 'bug fixes' hopefully this includes the GPS dropout/connection issue being experience my allot of people since the last update.

[pviolini]

@jonnyweave 

I also have this issue and confirm that it's not solved with this firmware update.

[jonnyweave]

@pviolini Well thanks for confirming that I am not alone in the excessive drain battery issue, but it would have been nice if they would have fixed it with this update!

[Diondre_510]

Mine is mainly just having a battery issue, it used to last me a good 4 or 5 days with regular workouts through the week. Now it only lasts 1 day, not sure if I missed the other updates where this first happened but I rather downgrade it 😞           

I choose Fitbit cause of how great the battery is, at this rate the apple watch is going to have a better battery. 

Im using the ionic by the way.

[jonnyweave]

My Ionic has good battery life if left on and 1-2 workouts.  Then it can last 4 days, but I've notice more workouts definitely makes the battery drain faster.  

[pviolini]

Indeed I must add that I found a (partial) workaround.

If I switch off my Ionic not through the menu but, instead, keeping pressed for 10 seconds simultaneously the left and lower right buttons, then apparently the battery does not drain during the time the Ionic is switched off and you could switch it again on by simply pressing the left button once.

BUT the clock does not keep the time and you need to resync the Ionic once you switched it back on.

[jonnyweave]

@pviolini Thanks for that info.  It's good to know there is sort of a work around.  On a side note, and not related that I know of to the the "freezing of time when it's 'off'," I have noticed that my Ionic is now losing time and I had never notice this before, so likely introduced to my device with this update.  I didn't sync for several days (which is not uncommon for me) and noticed it was 6 minutes behind.  

[Diondre_510]

It actually looks like after the update my battery life was messed up initially. But I did a factory reset and now it's back to making 5 days without a charge. Just update and factory reset if you have battery issues