Battery drain after update 2.44.46 (2025 Q3) on Vertical Watch

inkognito

Has anyone tried using a different watch face? I’m wondering if certain faces or complications can be causing the drain with newer firmware versions…

Belial

@inkognito yes, I’ve changed the watchface for the least-demanding: only time and date. First, it seemed to help a bit (instead of 10-12%/24h consumption was about 6-8%). Now, after the night with DND-on , watch used 8%
I was considering buying Vertical 2 but, to be honest, something wrong is going on with Suunto’s software development

JonasLarsson

Has anyone tried standing on one leg screaming this sucks?

thanasis

I think the sensitivity of the backlight has changed . I believe the watch has somehow become more sensitive in turning the backlight on

Ars Vitae

@thanasis What do you mean exactly? In what sense sensitive?

thanasis

@Ars-Vitae it’s easier to be turned on . I believe (as far as I can tell with one device ) that the backlight is turning on more times that it used to

Stefan Kersting

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos
Yesterday I used my polar h10 chest strap but the h10 was attached to the belt with at just one point, not at to. I do this usually to avoid that the watch and the belt try to connect via Bluetooth to avoid battery drain in my chest strap. But now my watch really often did a “beep” sound without showing something on the watch. After beeing very annoyed I set my watch into flight mode and there was no more beeping. So I think there’s an Bluetooth issue. Now I have disconnected the chest strap and set the watch in flight mode all the time. Will see if this affects battery drain.

Stefan Kersting

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos All right, I charged med watch sunday 12.10. 100 % at 19.00. Have 24/7 OHR and had the watch in flight mode all the time. Monday 13.10. 99 % left. That means 1 % battery drain in 16 hours vs. 12 % battery drain a day with blutooth connection on. See my previous post about the behaviour of the HR belt. I think the hotfix has to handle that in order to stopp the battery drain after tha last update.

Belial

@Stefan-Kersting I have something interesting
I’ve tried the same approach with Flight mode - watch is draining as before and syncing (or trying to sync to be more precise) despite flight mode on. I don’t know how this is even possible.

Stefan Kersting

@Belial how is this even possible?

OutdoorMan

@Stefan-Kersting @Belial I think it was discussed somewhere recently, but I cannot find it. But… if you turn off airplane mode via control panel, then all the connections remain on. But if you do it via Settings - Connectivity - Airplane mode, then it turns everything off. I don’t know if it’s a bug or working as designed.

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@Belial yes please validate its turned on

Belial

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Battery drain after update 2.44.46 (2025 Q3) on Vertical Watch:

@Belial yes please validate its turned on

I’m sure the switch was active (in control panel).

Now I’ve checked, it’s still on and watch is syncing, with connection icon displayed on watchface

Squirrel

@OutdoorMan said in Battery drain after update 2.44.46 (2025 Q3) on Vertical Watch:

if you turn off airplane mode via control panel, then all the connections remain on. But if you do it via Settings - Connectivity - Airplane mode, then it turns everything off. I don’t know if it’s a bug or working as designed.

Surely a bug in the watch firmware. In Control panel it simply doesn’t work despite showing the switch as enabled.

@Belial said in Battery drain after update 2.44.46 (2025 Q3) on Vertical Watch:

I’m sure the switch was active (in control panel).

Now I’ve checked, it’s still on and watch is syncing, with connection icon displayed on watchface

Well then disable it in Control panel, then go to Settings > Connectivity > Airplane mode and enable it there. Double check that it can not connect to phone, and then monitor power consumption.