Battery drain

[Outdoorsy]

I have been reading this thread every day and want to add my observation. I recently (maybe 2 weeks ago) I changed my watch face to the analog clock face with HRV, steps, CTL, TSB complications. I also have 24/7 HR and the display Brightness=Low and Rise to wake=High. I do some normal activities (an hour a day) the whole week.

With this watch face, the battery drain seems low. Over a week today and I have 50% battery available. With my previous faces that had altitude, temperature, etc, the battery rarely lasted over 12 days. I am also on 2.33.16 version of firmware.

Just wanted to throw this data point in the mix and hoping this info helps.

[halajos]

@Antoine-Lancrenon said in Battery drain:

@Anthony-Guillemette always on display, I recommand to desactivate this one.
if your screen is always on, it will drain your battery.
at least put it rize to wake to law.but not always on!

Even if always on display is enabled the screen turns off when the watch is lying on a flat surface.

[Antoine Lancrenon]

@halajos it may stay off also if your are in do not disturb (during the night most of the time)

thank you for clarifying, good thing that even if always on is turned on, it will turn off the screen if no movement at all for a determined period of time.

The MIP display of my vertical also turn off the screen completely when no movement detected, seems not specific to amoled screen.

[Antoine Lancrenon]

i finally did a full charge again and reboot.
H24 and sleep tracking are off now
no back light
no rise to wake
no notification/ no discovery wifi, Bluetooth

everything is off basically.
It seems that battery is not draining anymore (from 100% to 99%) from 8pm to 7Am. but i left the watch on the desc also from 11pm to 7am basically.

but my watch is basically a stone now. I guess it will start all the sensors when I start an exercise.

what do I loose to not having HR24 and sleep tracking? does it worth the battery economy? not sure.
is Suunto give their mumber of battery longetivity wothout sleep and HR24 tracking?

[Zdeněk Hruška]

@Antoine-Lancrenon Hi, with all the respect, I think you are overthinking it a little bit. The battery has enough capacity for a lot of charging cycles. It is still a watch to be used. I bet that you are charging your phone much more often (every day?).
I don’t know if there is some known battery drainage issue. I can see that some folks are reporting it. My own watch behaved strange for a two charging cycles after the update until it got calibrated and there isn’t any bigger drainage anymore (with basically everything 24/7 turned on).
I think that if your watch aren’t faulty (that could also be the case) then you should use the watch normally as you need and in the worst case charge the watch more often until:
a/ The battery is calibrated
b/ There is a new update witch could somehow solve it.

[Antoine Lancrenon]

@Zdeněk-Hruška Yeah, I guess you are right.
I bought a thousand dollar (CA) watch not to have to think about battery, and not have to think like a daily recharge phone. I am doing ultras, running almost everyday, doing outdoor and trecking, kayaking etc. I love that watch for that, and don’t want to have to recharge every week, this is the reason I bought the vertical solar.

I am testing, and see the results, i guess i am thst nerd. and share my experience here!

after a 2k walk, battery go down 98. than, back to 100% with solar charging… battery does recharge with solar when battery is high already, it will optimize battery usage with sun the rest of the time.

Ill report here after few days what happens with the battery. so far, so

[Zdeněk Hruška]

@Antoine-Lancrenon I think I have the similar use case as you do:) I am also getting nervous when the battery is draining faster. But it really got back to normal after some time in my case.
And I believe that in case there is some issue causing battery to drain faster then Suunto will fix it with upcoming bugfix update which should come soon as I understood from this forum.

[matteo_000]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos After soft reset and full discharge to 0% (battery icon on display…) my SV seems to be normal.
After exactly 3 days (72h normale use) the battery go from 100% to 93% with 24h HR, display with high lighting and no sport activity in this period.

I hope It will be the resolution. Thanks a lot.
M

[Liszto]

Hello again.
After a normal cycle until 20% where it starts again to fall 10% per day roughly.
I charged my SV Solar from 4% to 100% following this, it starts again to fall at a rate of 8-10% per day… I don’t know what I can do to fix this.
More issue with my SV Solar than with my previous 10years old ambit 2

[sartoric]

@Liszto
Did you try to discharge it completely, to the battery icon?

[jakubdr]

I did the battery recalibration (complete battery drain and charging to full) but my Vertical is experiencing huge battery drain even after this. I let the watch die off and then charged to 100 % but it helped only slightly. It seems that when the watch goes under 50 % the drain nearly doubles. Any ideas how to fix it? Or is there a hotfix coming?

[sartoric]

@jakubdr
I would contact support, maybe the battery is defective

[Todd Danielczyk]

@jakubdr I also have seen a faster drain past 50% recently. It drops at a rate of one and a half to two times faster than the first 50%: software version 2.35.34.

Battery has been calibrated from 100-0-100% now twice and I am seeing a higher discharge rate once the battery is below 50% capacity.

[borgein]

@Todd-Danielczyk said in Battery drain:

@jakubdr I also have seen a faster drain past 50% recently. It drops at a rate of one and a half to two times faster than the first 50%: software version 2.35.34.

Battery has been calibrated from 100-0-100% now twice and I am seeing a higher discharge rate once the battery is below 50% capacity.

I’ve seen exactly the same after several calibrations. The battery drops slowly from 100% to 50%. Then it drops significantly faster, especially below 40%.

Not an issue before the last update.

[darxmurf]

@borgein same here, 40% on sunday, 5% at the moment with like 30 min of GPS usage since.

[Antoine Lancrenon]

So, I am still experiencing heavy drain ~10-15% every 24hrs.
everything is turned off (hr24, notifications, rize to wake off, back light off, everything law) I ahve done various battery calibration, from 2% to 100 various times now. soft reset, also a hard reset at some points already done. i am out of ideas. is it from the last update, official issue?

during activities, the drainage is just fkne and normal. issue is when watch mode.
i have a vertical solar, used original watch face vertical, with barometer trend, weather, and daylight complications…
i have ~4Go of maps download.

I am interested about people settings they have set when their battery is lasting more than 15 days and higher. csnnyou precise the watchfave used as well ? it seems that the watch face and complications are very impactful on the battery.

thank

[Ars Vitae]

@Antoine-Lancrenon After three calibrations and countless reboots of the watch, I can only assure you that you are not alone. At first the watch seems like everything is ok (from before the update), only to discharge after 2-3 days like yours, about 15% per day. I am counting on Suunto to solve this problem and please do not write that this is normal. I already mentioned in another post that discharging the battery to 0% will shorten the battery life. I don’t think Suunto provides free battery replacement. Frequent firmware updates are therefore a big compromise between getting new features and battery life. I much prefer less frequent but better designed updates than messing around for weeks with so-called calibration, which in this case (my third update) ended up being a complete fiasco.

[GiPFELKiND]

@darxmurf

[GiPFELKiND]

@sartoric really a defective battery? You are joking? So much users wrote about heavy battery drain after the last update and you believe it is a defective battery? All watches have after the update a defective battery? I had it Yesterday with my Race s. 7% battery 1hr after completely dead. No GPX, no Activity but suddenly dead. In 1hr from 7% to 0%… Also the race s has very big battery drain.

[Edoardo Coppolillo]

Same issue here, with a Suunto Vertical Solar Ti.

After the latest sofware update the battery drain during normal use (e.g. watch mode, no activity) is significantly increased.
I just charged the watch this morning up 97%, i unplugged it at 7:36 AM; been sitting at my desk/laptop for the whole day until now, and the battery is 93% at 4:19 PM.

3% gone in 7 hours of absolutely no activity, just moving slithlgy the wrist by typing on the keyboard.

I just did also a hard reset - i will keep posted if this has somehow reverted the trend or not.

Do you guys know if any of the developers at SUUNTO has been made aware of the issue?
@Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

Thanks you all in advance for your help!