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i have not run with it yet. i have fully charged it twice and set it aside, and each time, after about 12 hours, it is fully discharged. the manual says it goes into power-save mode and should last about 2 weeks. mine appears to go into power-save mode, but the battery still goes to zero. note that there is no way that i have been able to find to actually turn the power 'off'.
Seems a bit unusual. When mine is fully charged, it will last a few days, even with the GPS on.As an example, I charged mine last Friday night. Ran 13 Saturday, left the GPS on, and this morning (Monday) the battery shows 55%. I charge mine about twice a week--once mid-week, and the night before my long run. Four of my running partners have the 405, and they aren't experiencing the problem you have. Have you called Garmin on it? And no--you can't turn the power off.
just to follow-up.... Mine suffered from the 'power save syndrome' that you can google about if you are interested. Basically, you could stare at it and watch it change from power-save, to not-power-save every minute. That depletes the battery pretty fast. I called Garmin tech support (about a 20 minute wait on hold) and they confirmed that it was not normal, asked where I bought it, and since it was a local store, suggested I take it back there. I took it back (to Fleet Feet Annapolis, great store, by the way) and they offered to exchange or return it for me. I opted to exchange for another, and the new one is behaving fine.
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I had mine discharge the battery overnight after charging it (one time). There is a update on the Garmin site that is supposed to fix the issue. So far it hasn't done it again.
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