Battery drain
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@t-Dox Its a pain in the head (?
) to loose the custom sport modes for me. I wish there can be some backup on the app side for this.Community Manager / Admin @Suunto
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Battery drain:
@t-Dox Its a pain in the head (?
) to loose the custom sport modes for me. I wish there can be some backup on the app side for this.hi dimitrios, sorry but I donāt know if I understood well the first part about the headache (do you mean yours or mine
)ā¦ anyway yes maybe those are the most boring part to reconfigure, I donāt know how complex it is for developers to implement a similar backup, itās just an idea that came to me after a hard reset -
@t-Dox said in Battery drain:
itās just an idea that came to me after a hard resetGood idea
https://forum.suunto.com/post/96651
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@Mff73 said in Battery drain:
@t-Dox said in Battery drain:
itās just an idea that came to me after a hard resetGood idea
https://forum.suunto.com/post/96651
https://forum.suunto.com/post/84764hi, i hadnāt read the posts you linked. Yes i didnāt mean that my idea was brilliant and original. itās simply something i thought like probably many other users and that itās right to share with the support so that it is considered useful and to be developedā¦
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24 hours now with the update. Due to injury I only had a short one mile walk last evening with GPS and external HRM. Only 2% loss in 24 hours.
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@larrybbaker How do you get that kind of battery life!? Iām down 7 percent in the last 4 hours (with one 30 minute activity)
24/7 HR is on, notifications off
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@artersull just to clarify - this is not my daily wear watch - so at the moment 24/7 HR is off, no notifications. But - I was seeing more battery drain before the update - even with the watch at rest.
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So 3 days into the update - only 1hr and 48 min of activity. 2 walks using GPS and external HRM and a 50min gym activity and I am still sitting at 96% battery. We may have a winner here. Again for me this is not a daily wear watch and my daily running is on hold due to injury - but the loss of battery at rest seems WAY improved!
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@larrybbaker But, yours is a solar. It could be charging while it is not in use. No?
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@Outdoorsy no - it sits on my desk or nightstand.
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Iām noticing that my battery is draining quite a bit faster after this update, I noticed it because I havenāt been training as much as normal but itās gone down more than it usually would. In the last 24 hours itās dropped 10% with no training
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Today I ran 25 km / 2h20m and my battery went from 53% to 38%
With the same settings, a few weeks ago I ran 26 km / 2h22m and it went from 56% to 51%
S9PP
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@Francesco-Pagano, same behaviour here: yesterday I rode for about 2[h] and the battery dropped from 35% to 18%.
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@MatĆŗÅ” @Francesco-Pagano But you are talking about 9PP - if I understand your signature right.
Just because this thread is about the vertical and its not easy too compare theseā¦ -
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Much worse after the last update. Been some days without any exercise whatsoever and the battery drains way faster. No notifications, no WiFi, no vibrationā¦ donāt know what else to try, to be frank.
Is there any way to see a discharge graph over time so that we can correlate to specific events? Cannot find anything like that, but I think itād be extremely useful.
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@Mff73 great advice, that Q1. Thank you!
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Hi everyone and happy sportive new year to all !
First, thanks to everyone here for providing feed-back on the issue, be it the regular users or the mods that can also provide information from Suunto.
I will add my ācaseā to the topic, though I am not sure I can provide more information in order to help solve the issueā¦
Iāve bought a Race a bit less than 2 monthes ago. Ironically, it was both a birthday present and a panic buy because my 2-year-old 9 Baro suffered a battery drain 6 days before I did my first marathon ! The issue was solved with both a soft and hard reset (didnāt have time for too much testing !), thanks to my readings on the forum, and I finally used the 9 Baro for the marathon.
The Race is great, and, to me, is the perfect upgrade on my 9 Baro. Though, from the first discharge cycle, I noticed it was discharging too fast (being a bit sensitive on the topic at that momentā¦).
I didnāt charge it when I received it (it was >80%), so, maybe thatā the reason I said to myself. First charge, download maps, and following a bit more the battery discharge, I noticed that it was discharging too fast, especially at night. It seems especially true the night after an activity, though I wasnāt fully monitoring then.So, I contacted the Support Team and followed their advices for parameters, that have already been described here multiple times (though, outside activites, I am always in Airplane / Eco mode). Also did the factory reset as asked and started monitoring after a full charge.
Support Team asked me to send the watch to a Service Center for it to be repaired. It was a bit longer than expected due to a UPS strike here (canāt blame them, just before Christmas is when they have a better negotiation power !). Quickly, the Service Center sent me a replacement watch, that I started monitoring just after I got it on Christmas Eve.
Everything was perfectly fine (~2% battery loss per day in Airplane / Eco mode and ~2% per hour in Performance mode seems very in line with the watch specsā) until 2025 arrivedā¦
20% loss overnight !
Not after a day with an activity though, but when the battery was a bit lower, which is a different behaviour than the previous watch (battery started to drain the first night, though it was after a couple charge cycles).I tried to contact the Support Team through mail and chat today, but though it is not announced that they are closed for the holidays, I guess there is less staff available today and tomorrowā¦
My return window is opened until January 15th, so I am not waiting longer and sending it back for a refund. It is truly a shame as the watch is really exactly what I was looking for (just not sure of the durability of the crown button), though I will wait for Suunto to solve the issues before buying another one and use my 9 Baro in the mean time.
Hopefully, 2025 will bring better news than my January 1st drain "giftā and you will all be able to enjoy your Vertical / Race (S) / Peak (Pro) at their full capacity !
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@StanAjax keep in mind this is a Vertical forum and not Race. I am not seeing any difference on the change of the year and with the last FW update my Vertical is back to great battery life.
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@larrybbaker Thanks, I know that this is a Vertical forum.
Which is a shame (not to have a cross-watch topic on this issue, guess we have to deal with how the forum is built) because the same issue seems to affect Vertical, Race (S) and 9 Peak (Pro) from what I read (including the 709 messages prior to mine and the closed-by-admin-and-redirected-to-this-topic messages on the Race forum. So, I just wanted to avoid that step as admins seem to gather all battery drain issues that are related to the same software used by the different watches.
By the way, I finally had contact with Support Team through chat this afternoon.
Nothing new to test (suggesting a hard reset on a watch just sent and tested by Service Center), but I was told that a software / firmware update is scheduled for January. No precise date yet.Hopefully, that solves the issue for everyone and all watches this time. Fingers crossed !
