Versa battery life

[Kaz99]

Hi, love my Versa but the battery isn't lasting very long. It use to last about 4 days now I'm having to charge it every 2nd day- is this Fitbit trying to get us to buy one of the new watches?

[aminyene]

I think you properly upped your notifications ,if it vibrates a whole lot it will die faster

[MrMarv]

@Kaz99 -

Since retiring, I only get between 10 and 20 email notifications per day. 

I have also gotten into a routine of charging my Versa 2 each day during my before dinner shower. When I place it on the charger it is nearly always between 86 and 88 percent charge. Easily gets back to 99 or 100 percent when I get back to it.

A 14 percent drain per day works out to 7 days. And before I started the daily charge I would easily get 5 days with plenty of charge left. I switched to the daily because I was getting tired of the longer charge times. 

[SunsetRunner]

Mine is 2.5yrs and I have the same problem though I have to charge everyday!  Really annoyed at this.  I don't use notifications etc, just a normal watchface.  With a life this short, I doubt I would buy another Versa.

[MrMarv]

@SunsetRunner -

While I would have to say that 2.5 years is pretty good, there is a chance that your battery life could be helped by a simple act. I haven't tried it myself, as I don't have the issue, but others have tried it with some success. It could be that your devices memory is so unorganized that your device's cpu is busy managing it. I have seen that issue in desktop systems - memory management is a pretty heavy cpu user.

In your devices "Settings" app, go to "About" and scroll down to "Shutdown" (hopefully your devices has that option) and tap it. Once the device has shutdown, press the start button until the logo displays (my Versa 2 only has one button so I don't know which button on older devices is the start button).

Like I said, it may or may not help, but it is worth the attempt.

[SunsetRunner]

Hi

Thanks for that.  I did restart the watch and so far I have 76% left on its 2nd day, so that is encouraging.  I also managed to connect to my new phone, by deleting app and phone to 'forget' Versa via bluetooth and start again.  So all things solved at present.  Thanks for your help

[MrMarv]

@SunsetRunner -

Good to hear.

Just in case you didn't know, after 2.5 years if 76% left is at 24 hours that is pretty good even if it isn't the 86% I get after a couple months. I would be ecstatic.

Even the lithium-polymer batteries don't last forever - just a lot longer than the original rechargeables and they don't have the memory-map issues of the older ones either - thus my charging my device everyday as I mentioned in a previous post to this thread.

Good luck.

[MrMarv]

@Kaz99 -

Thinking about it, you may want to try the shutdown/restart "trick" I pointed out in my second post to this tread. Only takes a couple minutes and appears to have made an identifiable difference to TrishNZ.

Good Luck.