Garmin Forerunner 265 is designed to offer up to 13 days battery backup on the smartwatch mode of operation. It can last for up to 6 hours with intense usage of multi-band GPS and music.
Many Forerunner 265 users run into issues of rapid battery drain on Forerunner 265. When I say rapid battery drain, then I am actually talking about 30% or more battery drain in a single day.
If you are experiencing rapid battery drain on a Forerunner 265, this guide may be of help.
Let us discuss steps we could take to check the cause of rapid battery drain.
If your Forerunner 265 has received a firmware update recently, you may want to check if the rapid battery drain began after the firmware was updated. If the battery drain is after a firmware update, I will suggest doing a soft reset of the watch.
If the soft reset does not help in improving battery life of Forerunner 265, perform a hard reset of the smartwatch. In most cases, a hard reset after a firmware update on Forerunner 265 helps in restoring the health of battery. If the hard reset fails to improve battery life, I will suggest bringing this to the attention of the Garmin support.
Forerunner 265 does offer an AMOLED display technology and the Always-on-Display or the AOD mode. The Always-on-display mode consumes considerable battery. If you experiencing battery drain, do try to turn off the Always-on-display mode and then check the duration of the battery backup.
You can turn off the Always-on- display from the screen settings.
Screen brightness and screen timeout are two settings that should be optimized to improve battery life on a Garmin Forerunner 265. The screen brightness must be reduced and the screen timeout must be set to a conservative limit of 8 seconds or lower.
This is how you can change the screen brightness and screen timeout on a Forerunner 265:
- Hold UP.
- Select System > Display.
- Select Large Fonts to increase the size of the text on the screen.
- Select an option:
- Select During Activity.
- Select General Use.
- Select During Sleep.
- Select an option:
- Select Brightness to set the brightness level of the screen.
- Select Timeout to set the length of time before the screen turns off.
Finally, another step towards improving battery life of the Garmin Forerunner 265 would be to turn off connection between the smartwatch and paired smartphone. The watch to phone connectivity does consume a fair share of battery of the smartwatch.
Follow the instructions below to turn off phone connectivity from the Forerunner 265 smartwatch.
To turn off phone connectivity from the Forerunner 265, you will need to turn off the Bluetooth connection to the phone.
- Hold LIGHT to view the controls menu.
- Select the phone icon to turn off the Bluetooth phone connection on your Forerunner 265 watch.
Generally speaking, if you undertake these steps for rationalization of the battery performance on Garmin Forerunner 265, the issue of rapid battery drain should resolve.
If you continue to experience battery drain issues after carrying out the optimization activities above, please contact the Garmin support team. They should be offer insightful suggestions to resolve the rapid battery drain issues on the Forerunner 265.