Battery drain

Ars Vitae

Hello, I got my suunto vertical on Friday, I was messing arround with it, installing maps until saturday, when i fully charged it. Since then I did 16h of activity until wednesday and now i have a 9% battery!! Do you think it is normal?? What could it be?? Thanks!!

Do you guys even take the minimal effort to read at least part of what is included in the post?

timecode

@EdCaballer Not sure if you’ve read this thread. What is your firmware version? If you have not updated yet, I would try to discharge it to 0% and then charge again to 100% and check if it’s better. If you have the latest version, then you have to wait for a hot fix, unfortunately.

EdCaballer

Sorry for not read the previous posts. And thanks for the answers!!! i will whait for the hot fix! I’m also having issues with the sleep traking, it says I’m awake 2 or 3 houers before I do, it’s also a firmware issue?? Is there any post to see the firmware issues??
Thanks a lot!!

isazi

@EdCaballer to your defense, there are already 507 posts here

Ars Vitae

@isazi Don’t demoralize forum members

Antoine

@isazi said in Battery drain:

A fix is being tested, if everything works out should be here in a week or two.

Are there still issues to investigate or is there a corrected FW under tests ?
I still need to do a still to do a soft reset every week (map + navigation) ?

Sportsfreund

@isazi but not all with this problem. I don’t have.

isazi

@Antoine as far as I know, the planned timeframe is still September (and today is only the 17th).

Kramble

@Mff73 said in Battery drain:

@MacMillan said in Battery drain:

@Robin123 I agree with you that the advertising claim ( Daily use: Smartwatch mode
up to 30 days (60 days with solar)) is not true. With a fully charged battery, I have a battery consumption (without activity and without HR or Oxi Monitor) of approx. 10 - 12 % within 2 days. The advertised runtimes will never be achieved.This advertised battery life was a reason for me to switch from the Suunto 9 Peak to the Vertical Solar.

Et ça fait vraiment avancer le schmilblick.

Bien dit Milux

Mff73

@Kramble
y tiens dans la main, y tiens dans la main

thanasis

I think I identified a new pattern for the battery drain without actually starting the exercise

Navigate to quick start menu of a exercise (eg running)
Configure setting
Abort (go back)

Did it twice after I had resettled the watch from an exercise and I got like 1% drain per hour on idle

@isazi

Ultrawalker

When will the hotfix come?
I wear my Vertical only for exercise.
This week, my watch did nog use for 3 days…watch lay on a table and i saw a battery drain of 30%!

Hope that a hotfix will solve this problem!

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@thanasis said in Battery drain:

I think I identified a new pattern for the battery drain without actually starting the exercise

Navigate to quick start menu of a exercise (eg running)
Configure setting
Abort (go back)
Did it twice after I had resettled the watch from an exercise and I got like 1% drain per hour on idle

I ll ping the team

Ars Vitae

@thanasis How long have you been observing such battery functioning? For how many days?

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@thanasis question back

Do you know if “Configure setting” refers to some specific settings, or any?

christhepuma

Since the large software update earlier this year (which annoying reset lots of my custom settings) I am now also getting dreadful battery drain. Typically 10% per day. Before the update I could go a month between charge (in idle) but now I need to recharge every week. Any ideas please? I read of a hit fix coming soon. Is this happening soon?

thanasis

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos i was just playing around. But both times i definitely did :

changed the S+
entered the write HR setting (enabled/disabled)
went all the way down to the last item

Kramble

@Mff73 said in Battery drain:

@Kramble
y tiens dans la main, y tiens dans la main

Désolé je l’avais raté

stromdiddily

@Ultrawalker said in Battery drain:

When will the hotfix come?
I wear my Vertical only for exercise.
This week, my watch did nog use for 3 days…watch lay on a table and i saw a battery drain of 30%!

Hope that a hotfix will solve this problem!

Soft reset solves the problem - hold upper button for 12 seconds

duffman19

@stromdiddily said in Battery drain:

Soft reset solves the problem

This is not a solution. It only delays the inevitable. And it also resets quite a few of the on-watch statistics like resources and the altitude and solar history charts. And it does not always work. I still sometimes see abnormal battery drain after a soft reset. And it’s terribly inconvenient if you use your watch to record several activities throughout the day.

We’ve been a told a fix should be here by the end of September. I’ve still got my fingers crossed, but that leaves us with one more working day (unless Suunto releases updates over the weekend?). I’ve come to take any suggested timelines for releases with a (large) grain of salt.