Maximizing the Battery Life
You can do several things to extend the life of the battery.
- Reduce the backlight timeout (Changing the Backlight Settings).
- Reduce the backlight brightness.
- Use UltraTrac GPS mode for your activity (UltraTrac).
- Turn off Bluetooth® wireless technology when you are not using connected features (Connected Features).
- When pausing your activity for a longer period of time, use the resume later option (Stopping an Activity).
- Turn off activity tracking (Turning Off Activity Tracking).
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Use a watch face that is not updated every second.
For example, use a watch face without a second hand (Customizing the Watch Face).
- Limit the smartphone notifications the device displays (Managing Notifications).
- Stop broadcasting heart rate data to paired Garmin® devices (Broadcasting Heart Rate Data to Garmin Devices).
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Turn off wrist-based heart rate monitoring (Turning Off the Wrist-based Heart Rate Monitor).
NOTE: Wrist-based heart rate monitoring is used to calculate vigorous intensity minutes and calories burned.
- Turn on manual pulse oximeter readings on the fēnix® 5X Plus device (Turning On Manual Acclimation Mode).