Battery drain

Ars Vitae

@Antoine-Lancrenon Experienced similar thing. I charged my SV after a week (so once a week as usual after last firmware update). 2 days normal, next 2 days of abnormal battery draining then 4 impressive days I really thought that watch returned to its glory. But no, 2 recent days again, battery was draining like crazy without activity. Have you already contacted support from your side?

@Ars-Vitae https://forum.suunto.com/post/150513 dev is working on this issue already for some time

(not sure why everybody keeps updating this thread with the same issue, over and over again… okay, the search in this forum sucks and the official confirmation of bugs too)

Todd Danielczyk

@twekkel I think it is good to get “a head count” of us that are affected by the rapid battery drain and under what circumstances. Also, by posting it tends to move it to the top of the forum which helps with visibility.

I was one of the ones that saw this early on in my own Vertical but also know the history of Suunto Dev Team getting things right so I am not panicked. It will get sorted out, but I still feel it is good to know who is being affected by this and under which circumstances.

Jugger

I have also issues with battery after latest firmware. I did drain battery empty on last sunday evening and shut down and started my watch. On monday after 24 hours I already lost 12% of battery. There was only 20 mins biking during that day. Daily HR and sleep detection is on 24/7.
I have weather, airpressure and compass watchface on.

I’m just waiting for new firmware. Not too big problem for me knowing that it will eventually be fixed.

wmichi

One more for the “head count”, I also have this problem. Sometimes battery drain seems normal and on other days it’s pretty bad. So far I have not seen any pattern. Maybe the new complications have something to do with it. Soft reset only solves the battery drain for a short period of time. Sooner or later it will be fixed with a firmware update.

thanasis

i still have the battery drain issue

left the watch to depleet … did a soft resets etc… still i have an issue that I lose like 15% -16% per day

EzioAuditore

@thanasis I guess a lot of SV users experience this. Just for comparison I was using only the Ocean and left both the Race and the Vertical face down without using them. Both charged on Sunday same time. Today (Friday) - Race battery: 87% and Vertical: 23% without any use.

thanasis

@EzioAuditore said in Battery drain:

@thanasis I guess a lot of SV users experience this. Just for comparison I was using only the Ocean and left both the Race and the Vertical face down without using them. Both charged on Sunday same time. Today (Friday) - Race battery: 87% and Vertical: 23% without any use.

The problem is that i tried quite every single suggestion (including those of @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos on letting it depleet and recharge 100%, soft reset etc…) but the issue persists and i am a bit disappointed

btw @EzioAuditore
Do you own every single device??? so far i read about AWU2, Coros, SV, Race, Ocean!!! ? Wow I am impressed!

Please do share your views at some point in time on how they compare. Thanks

isazi

@thanasis said in Battery drain:

The problem is that i tried quite every single suggestion (including those of @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos on letting it depleet and recharge 100%, soft reset etc…) but the issue persists and i am a bit disappointed

If nothing worked, you need to wait for the firmware update.

jjpaz

My problems started after the last update but also after syncing Suunto Race S with SuuntoApp and exchanging watches during the day…
Since 10 days ago I’m only using Verticall all day, 24h, and haven’t paired Race S in the App, and battery consumption still seems normal (48% battery consumption in 9-10days).
Could be the problem related to the pairing/unpairing process in the App? Perhaps th watch tries to connect to app and the App is synced to the other watch?

EzioAuditore

@thanasis I tried calibrating the battery on both SV and Race. On the Race its seems like it worked and on the Vertical not. So waiting for the FW to solve it.
I do own a lot of watches from most brands. Some of them like Suunto’s (8 watches - I still own 4) are my personal purchases. Another is the FR965 from Garmin (I had some crashes with the Vertical in the beginning so I needed watch). Some are work related: AW (I choose the Ultra just for the sake of the sapphire and LTE - I do like the liberty of running and paying without mobile - this is not my prefered sport watch and I use it mostly as smart watch).
I’ve owned Polar Vantage V and Fenix 6xss and some Galaxy 3 (I don’t remember). I’ve never had Coros though

EzioAuditore

@jjpaz I have the Ocean and Race on the same mobile and the Vertical on another (the only watch in that app) so I do not think it is pair/unpair related.

Matúš

From my side, after the last update, everything seem normal, i.e., almost full discharge of the battery in more or less a week, an average of 12-13[hr] of GPS tracking, HR tracking 24/7, Bluetooth connection only for watch synchronization once a day and a very static watch face (digital time, dd/mm/yy and battery level).

Last Saturday I’ve done a 7[h] hike: battery went from ~70/75[%] to ~45[%] and its madness has started:

after 1[h] since I’ve stopped the activity, the battery drop to ~35[%];
at the end of the day, the battery was at 25[%];
during the night, the battery lost ~10[%] and at the end of Sunday I’ve to recharge the battery since only few units of battery were available.

Then, from Sunday evening to yesterday evening battery went from 100[%] to ~25[%] (~5.5[h] of GPS tracking, lost nearly 20[%/day]), so, also yesterday evening, I’ve decided to charge again the watch in order to avoid for today to run out of battery.

jjpaz

@Matúš Where you following a route and Climb Guidance activated?
It seems that the problem starts after some activitiy, perhaps some internal process doesn’t finish as expected and keeps draining battery.

Matúš

@jjpaz said in Battery drain:

@Matúš Where you following a route and Climb Guidance activated?

None of them, only two active screens, the common one with the overall time, distance, etc., and the altitude trend one.

jjpaz

@Matúš So then, random bug

thanasis

@isazi said in Battery drain:

@thanasis said in Battery drain:

The problem is that i tried quite every single suggestion (including those of @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos on letting it depleet and recharge 100%, soft reset etc…) but the issue persists and i am a bit disappointed

If nothing worked, you need to wait for the firmware update.

Which is unfortunately not imminent so I may try to revert to the previous firmware.
Thanks

Antoine Lancrenon

@thanasis the new firmware should come out soon. as a hotfix at least. I dont really know, just start to know this forum pretty well, and this is the general feeling based on high ranked users comments, or official testers notes…

one comment at some point talk about bug fixes (and the battery draining issue) and a new feature as well at least. not a major update, but definitely a fix that is awaited!

Tami999

Just to inform, my Vertical from october 2023 had 0 problem ever with anything, included battery. My mate got Vertical 4 days ago, brand new, downloaded all updates, maps, and losing like 3% per day so seems normal.

I think its random bug, sorry for all unlucky users.

Jugger

Would be also nice to know if this drain affects only older Verticals like mine which was bought last summer shortly after release. Did Suunto change battery type or manufacturer after release? Different voltage or something which could cause error in firmware.