Software Update 2.48.16 (2025 November Rain release)
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@gone-troppo Wow mate, your Vertical sounds like it’s living a harder life than I am.
Mine only has to survive flat park runs and a trip to the supermarket… yours is out there fighting for its life in the rainforest like it’s auditioning for Survivor.
get why battery life is a big deal for you - if my watch dropped 40% in 24 hours in the jungle, I’d start praying to the GPS gods too.
But honestly, with today’s tech and lithium batteries, this kind of behaviour is pretty normal. After about a week, the battery usually slows down its drain and becomes more stable again. Trust me on this one.
Meanwhile, I’m just hoping my watch doesn’t die before I finish my 10K.
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I’m sorry but battery life is the key reason I bought my new Vertical 2 and it doesn’t meet the specs (by far) and this is a very bad indication about the future. I have a 5 year old Coros Apex Pro that I’m replacing because I went down from charging every 18 days to charging every 5 days (with a weekly 12-14 hours of GPS). After the latest update to 2.48.6 battery draining remains at some 10% per day and about 2% per hour with GPS. That barely lasted a week. Yesterday I reached 12% so I finally charged to 100% and for good measure did a soft reset too. From 10pm to 5:30am during sleep mode with HRV and without spo2 battery dropped to 96%. That’s worse than before the charge cycle. I’ll continue to monitor with the same settings for the day (AOD, HR 247, notifications on, discovery off, no BT devices connected except the phone app on Android Pixel). I know that sometimes off the charger the first few percent can drop quickly but this isn’t a promising beginning.
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Battery los of 40% a day ? Something Not correct guys… Send the watch to suunto and get a new one … Just Like that
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My R2 battery drains 8-10% per day. I use GPS for 40 minutes per day and sleep with it. After 4 days, the battery is at 65%.
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@SODIUM i loos 10% a day included 1h gps RUN and Night sleep tracking inkl HRV THIS IS OK i think
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@cheetah694 i fully agree with you - recovery is super important in general training. I was saying that 1 number will never tell you how your recovery is going. Yes Suunto will try to calculate a guestimate number based on training intensity and lenght, but it is just a guestimate. Don’t get me wrong, I would like that Suunto would fix a bug where it gives 2000+ h of recovery, but that number should not impact your training a bit.
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Is that movement detected do you want to resume activity a new feature of this update ?Pups my wife told me that it’s an old feature sorry
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@Josaiplu said in Software Update 2.48.16 (2025 November Rain release):
Is that movement detected do you want to resume activity a new feature of this update ?Pups my wife told me that it’s an old feature sorry
I wish this could be turned off. Or at least if this pops and you press “no”… it would resume the pause time (it wount come back anymore…)
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@Gideon-Kaempfer I can now say with confidence that even after a power cycle and detailed tracking of my remaining battery over the past 36 hours since the recharge, my Vertical 2 running 2.48.16 continues to drain battery just like before the update: Roughly 1% every two hours without activities and about 2% every hour with GPS. This is with AOD on, 247 HRM, sleep tracking without spo2, brightness low and even with raise to wake set to display only.
That’s about 10 days without activities vs what is advertised as 20 days. I expect Suunto to fix this but I’m very skeptical after reading the disappointment others with more experience with Suunto have expressed. -
I got phantom a phantom sensor (which is a Polar Verity Sense I believe) with this update. I can not delete it. When it is selected the menu jumps back to the sensor list. I was able to add the Verity Sense again and the watch uses it. Is there any solution to this or just wait for the next update?
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@Gideon-Kaempfer Mine seems to be fine right now. In just about 24 h I went from 99% to 94%. Tomorrow I’ll to run with my HR-belt. That could’ve caused my drain.
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@Horizontal_2 I don’t have any BT devices connected except for the app running on Android (Pixel 8). May I ask what kind of phone you are using?
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@Gideon-Kaempfer Ah wait! I have with AOD on about 9 %/day! Or do you mean in sports mode? I use a samsung A53, I think
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Is anyone else experiencing lag? If I navigate up, right or down after waking the watch from stand-by, there’s some delay and instead of ending up on the first option on the menu (top or bottom), I may scroll 2 or 3. Before this update the screen was perfectly responsive.
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@Horizontal_2 I meant without (!) activity. Indeed 9% could be correct if you use DND and the display is dark during sleep (which I do and the 1% per two hours goes down to about 1% per 4 hours (during the second night I tested). So you are also on Android. I wonder if anyone with an iPhone has better battery experience.
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@Gideon-Kaempfer same here with my Suunto Race 1. Battery drain incredibly fast. My hr arm band disconnect at every pause while biking and I have to restart it at each pause. I finished by downgrading to version 2.43.12. Most stable and bug free. Waiting for the coming update and hope for better fixes.
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For reference my battery report:
100% on 11/12 at 8:10 AM to 76% on 11/15 at 5:10PM
≈ 81 hours total 24% usedAverage battery drain
24% / 81 hours ≈ 0.3% per hourTotal workout time during that period 10.5 hours 1/2 of it with gps
Wake to raise
Lowest brightness
24/7 plus sleep tracking with oxygen
Wearing all day and night
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I don’t recognize any battery fix unfortunately
Frankly, my Peak pro 9 never kept more than 7 days. I have been using it for 1.5 years. 24/7 tracking is on, Raise to wake off.
The last year the battery holds 3-4 days and no more.
Usually, the first 24 hours it looks promising with ~14% usage, but then the depleting growth to 20% -> 30% a day.
The main reason to choose Suunto was it’s battery life for which I was ready to compromise the MIP display. Comparing my choice to any known brand with AMOLED display makes me feel uncomfortable. -
I did a full discharge after update on my Race 2, yesterday at 20h it was at 100% battery, today at 8h is already dropped to 94%, no activity. It seems pretty high drain to me.
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@jjorgemoura I think it is very difficult for users to explain exactly what they are doing since several people have started observing it for quite some time now without really changing the way they use the watch .
I almost always use watch with an HR strap (either polar H10 or Suunto smart belt) . After an exercise(usually running , or trail running) I tend to take and leave it on the side with the screen facing downwards and the strap not to be close to the hr sensor . I also take the strap out and leave it in the same room of the watch . The reason I m mentioning it is that I have seen on the battery indication of the watch that Suunto’ HR belt battery went down from 100% to 70% in just 2 weeks without that much of usage.
I suspected (after @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos post on the BT connections) that it might be related to some issue on polling BT devices so I tend to remove the sensor from the HR belts to see if that would help.u
I have observed that after the recent update my battery lasts less than the specs also during activities . For an 1hour of running I observe some 4-5% drop . I use zonesense app and sometimes I look at the map (I cannot provide exact numbers of looking what as I don’t really want to focus on the watch while running since I exercise to let my brain “breath” and let go of the stress) . There are times that I take an Apple Watch ultra with me that has an lte connection to take calls in case I need it but I don’t normally carry a phone with me.
