Battery drain
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@Antoine-Lancrenon
these are personal preferences… I don’t use daily functions for sleep, heart oximeters, etc. yet because they don’t concern me.
I’m all about feel-based training and mainly navigating…they are definitely useful but they have the corresponding cost for the battery in my opinion !
Just try it!
Your watch sounds ok by the way
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@Antoine-Lancrenon I also suspect that it is coming from the 24/7 tracking/firmware as the 9 Peak Pro group also have seen a higher battery consumption since the last update. This doesn’t have the feeling that it is one off as several people across different watch platforms have noticed it.
I decided to keep my settings as I did and will just charge every 2 weeks (or as needed) until the next major update and see if it improves.
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I use h24 and sleep tracking + vfc. 12hours of average exercice time every last weeks, always with gps at best.
Sometimes apps, maps always on.
I don’t know what is the average consumption, I don’t noticed any drop of battery life since update.
I only have one thing to say : I never remembered when was the last time I charged my SV. So battery life is more than enough !
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I forgot to mention that I’ll also regularly use maps to navigate and often they are the screen that’s on for most of the activity. I charge my SV at the start of the month as I know it near enough gets me to the end of the month before I need to think about recharging it. Pretty crazy!
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- Always on display + hold upper button to do "“not disturb mode” when i go sleep (that also turn off AoD) when I go sleep. so like 16h/7days got always on display. (LOW BRIGHNESS)
- 3-5 training per week (no maps so far becouse of weather on my country)
- Solar version, but again becouse of my country I didnt even used solar posibillity of watch, got it since early winter. Soon solar gonna make his work
- All sleep tracking, h24 enabled. Just all.
My battery lasts 16-17 days. I think in spring/summer it will hold easily 20+ days. Iam very happy with that if watch hold more than 1 or 1,5 week.
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@babychai Same here!
First charge after 22 days of GPS activities 🤯
Battery 0-99% never reach 100% even one hour later.
But i think it’s calibration… the watch maybe after a few charge cycles will calibrate itself and reach 100% -
@gerasimos I charged my Verical few times, it was mostly 99% but I think 1 maybe two times it reach 100%:D
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@Tami999 @gerasimos i think to reach 100% are quite random sometimes. 2 days ago i able to charge from 5% to 100%. but total i charge for almost 4 hours because i forgot to unplug the charger while i doing my other works
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I’m able to get to 100% when I charge my SV, but it does sometimes take a while to roll over from 99%
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@MiniForklift said in Battery drain:
I’m able to get to 100% when I charge my SV, but it does sometimes take a while to roll over from 99%
Same for me. I’m not sure it really matters to be fair, 99% or 100% really doesn’t make much difference.
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I have a vertical solar. I am loosing 10% a day not bad, but not great.
I have changed the parameters to optimized: backlight to low, no rise to wake, etc.
I think the consumption during an activity is just great, even in performance mode.with GPS. What i am desappoint about is when not on activity (watch mode) Is the H24 monitoring Heart rate is the culprit?
today, i have to charge my watch every 10 days. again, this is not bad, but this is the vertical solar we are talking about.do I have an issue with battery draining? is the battery Ok? should I contact suunto support?
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@Antoine-Lancrenon I have comment about battery drain above and get somewhere in the 10-14 day range for a charge. I also suspect that 24/7 HR is where it is draining. Activity usage tends to track with Suunto’s official numbers but daily use is where it falls short.
I would say what you are seeing is also seen with people that run the 24/7 heart rate or with people that use the S+ guides which is another area that tends to drain quicker.
I think it is recognized and will be addressed in future updates.
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@Todd-Danielczyk I have H24 HR tracking ON + sleep tracking and HRV ON.
Standby off
Backlight low, raise to wake low.
No extra battery drain noticed. It’s still like it was a the beginning => around 5% max / day when not exercising. -
@Tieutieu that is curious. There are a few of us that noticed the higher consumption (drain) after the last firmware update and some that do not.
(settings are listed as https://forum.suunto.com/post/139007)
With mine, consumption went up (8-10%/day) and through the discussion it seemed like a few people on the forum decided to turn off 24/7 HR and limit the S+ guides to extend the life of the battery. I did the drain/full charge to recalibrate the battery but it has consistently given me a higher drain and I figured i would wait until the next firmware update to test it out again.
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@Todd-Danielczyk I am not getting higher drain on production firmware.
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@Brad_Olwin thank you for the confirmation.
I know you put yours through its paces and use GPS/HR etc. as well. It seemed like there was some chatter on the 9 Peak Pro after the last firmware and then a handful of Vertical owners saw a higher battery drain. Chalked or up to Vertical owners having more milliamp batteries so didn’t hit us as soon.
As I said, it’s not a deal breaker for me as mine goes for roughly 2 weeks before needing to be charged but prior to the latest firmware I know it would be 3+ weeks. I’ll monitor it after the next update to see if it improves, holds the same or degrades.
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@Todd-Danielczyk Make sure standby is off and that you have not changed backlight intensity. This will definitely change battery life,
Vector/T6c/Ambit 3 Peak/S5 Copper/S3/S7 Ti/S9 baro Ti/S9P Ti/S9PP Ti/Vertical Ti/Race Ti/RaceS/Ocean/Wing
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@Brad_Olwin ah, thank you! I had standby off but brightness at medium. I’ll give that a try.
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@Todd-Danielczyk I have brigtness medium, standby off and raise to wake low. Check to make sure in Control Panel that backlight is off.
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@Brad_Olwin said in Battery drain:
@Todd-Danielczyk I have brigtness medium, standby off and raise to wake low. Check to make sure in Control Panel that backlight is off.
I set mine to brightness low. Standby off, raise to wake high, and backlight off and gave it a full day to check. Wearing just as 24/7 but no recorded activity.
Usage 4%.
The only thing I changed is from brightness medium to low. So my wake time is higher than yours (screen is active more) but uses less nit/brightness than yours. Seems either set up will consume lower battery.
Brad, I appreciate you taking the time to go through your settings and confirming.
