Thread: Battery life Garmin 64st

Any one had any issues with the battery life in the Garmin 64st? Mine has the rechargeable pack installed and after a two hour walk in Pureora on Monday the unit was down to one bar. My 62s used to get many more hours than this on std batteries.

Screen brightness, tracklogging, will chew the batteries. Power-save mode (turns screen off at a user-set interval) will help. I've found the orginal Garmin rechargeable battery pack in my Oregon 650 to be a bit rubbish now. Goes from fully charged to 'Low Batteries' in a couple of hours, even without tracklogging active, and power-save at it's highest setting. Try some new rechargeables from a reputable brand (not Aliexpress specials).

Also might be worth checking your GPS's Firmware version, and updating it if necessary. Info here: http://garmingpsmap.wikispaces.com/Versions

Get some Eneloop Pros, I'm getting 12-16hrs out of them.

eneloop Pro | Panasonic Batteries Site | Panasonic Global

I get them from ebay. Takes a while but pretty cheap.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw...p+pro&_sacat=0

I've got the 64s and get 8 -16 hrs depending how much I play with it using energizer aa batteries

Cheers guys, i suspect that the rechargeable batts are crap,, will try my normal energisers 1st and then some better quality rechargeables.

I think lithium batteries are recommended for them and change the setting from alkaline to lithium.
Having the compass running in the background with shorten the battery life

[QUOTE=stretch;409516]. I've found the orginal Garmin rechargeable battery pack in my Oregon 650 to be a bit rubbish now. Goes from fully charged to 'Low Batteries' in a couple of hours.[/QUOTE

geez I thought I had a dud battery pack , must be the norm. found my 650 works best on energizer rechargeables , pretty good on lithiums, ok on alkaline and shit on the supplied garmin battery pack

Originally Posted by Ricochet

Get some Eneloop Pros, I'm getting 12-16hrs out of them.

eneloop Pro | Panasonic Batteries Site | Panasonic Global

I get them from ebay. Takes a while but pretty cheap.

Eneloop pro | eBay

Got some of the eneloop pros, seem to be much better

I keep my on all the time but just turn off the back light when it's in my pocket by pushing the power button quickly a couple of times and yeah, getting 12-16hrs.

I have a slow as hell charger, a Panasonic (BQ-CC18) takes 24hrs to charge 4 batteries but I'm sure it's the healthiest way to do it.

As Sako said make sure you have the right Battery type in the settings menu ,it will show the wrong amount left if you havnt selected the right Battery type

Took it out today, batteries failed again. When I got home i checked everything out again and googled the issue. The original battery pack has a case holding both batteries together, the new batteries dont. Garmin have placed a small switch under the centre where the batteries sit. The oringinal rechargeable pack depresses this switch when installed.The idea is that when you fit normal non rechageable batteries the switch isnt depressed making it impossible to attempt to charge th non chargeable types. I cut a small peice of flat plastic and taped it to the undersde of the new batteries. They now charge correctly ! Problem solved