Suunto Vertical 2 - Battery burner?
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@johann.fuehrer If your watch is new you may wait for full discharge/charge cycle for battery calibration. That may explain.
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@Tieutieu OK, I’ll try. Thank You!
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@johann.fuehrer
I had the same issue. Still have the same watch face and WLAN on. Only thing I turned off that fixed battery for me was Bluetooth Discoverable setting. Once connected to your phone it does not need to be Discoverable anymore. And oddly just turning that off increased my battery life considerably -
Yesterday I charged my watch to 100% and disconnected it from the charger. After that, I only changed the watch face 2–3 times and explored some settings. About an hour later, the battery had already dropped to 96%.
To verify whether it was a real battery drain or just a reporting issue, I performed a soft reset. After the reboot, the battery level jumped back to 99%.
This makes me question the accuracy of the battery percentage reporting. A 4% drop in one hour from such light usage seems excessive, but the battery recovering to 99% after a restart suggests the percentage calculation may not have been correct in the first place.
Suunto Journey:
9 Baro → 9 Peak Pro → Vertical Solar → Race → Race 2 → Run → Vertical 2+Suunto spark -
@Kraisun-Tunta I noticed the same with my SV2…
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Since I have a watch with oled (previously a garmin forerunner 965, now a race s) battery life isn’t great. With my usage of about 7 hours of gps activity I have to charge every 3 or 4 days (with the suunto doing it slightly better than the garmin and is now almost 5 days)
Don’t know if oled is the cause (don’t have aod), the more complex gnss system (I really have no need for dual frequency gnss, but if I select a slightly less accurate setting I also loose maps), the added, complex calculations of training and recovery scores (which I really have no need for and frankly don’t trust. I already disabled sleep tracking which improved battery life by almost a day, but which also disables hrv, which I might have some interest in. Obviously I disabled blood saturation measuring)
My last watch with great battery life was a garmin forerunner 935 which I had to charge once every 2 weeks (until garmin introduced a nasty bug that always used the highest gnss settings regardless which setting you choose)
That last option is also an option that the software isn’t very optimized or contains bugs.
Maybe I should try and disable raise to wake and see what that does for battery life.
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I have now some more realistic numbers. I did a reset last week on Monday and then charged it up to 100%. Lowest setting for the screen, always connected to the mobile and some 4 hours activity with Stryd Pod and Polar H10 Some notifications, always on HR & O2 sensor, sleep tracking and the usual stuff. Sleep mode from 10pm to 6am.
Today now, after exact 9 days I still have 37% battery life. That’s very OK for me as this will result in 14 days with activity and nearly all features except always on display.
I had a Fenix 8 47mm before and the latest firmware there gave me some 9-10 days estimation after charging, but in real life with activities it dropped to about 7-8 days
If now some of the already posted bugs (mainly the BT issue with powermeters on stopping, Wahoo Kickr Speed is not shown/recorded, sometimes HR lock and drops with wrist sensor) are fixed, I am VERY happy
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To verify whether it was a real battery drain or just a reporting issue, I performed a soft reset. After the reboot, the battery level jumped back to 99%.
I’ve reported this quite some time ago, as I’m experiencing exactly the same with my Vertical 2.
Never got a feedback, so I simply soft reset the watch after every full charge and that’s just itBattery life in general is pretty good though, so nothing to complain in that regard
Vertical 2 Limited Edition
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@Stefan-T. I now can confirm this behavior. Today, after 13 days with some training and also HR broadcasting, I was down to 2% so I put it in the charging craddle. Some hour(s) ago I checked and the watch was on 100% and I put it on again. I could actually monitor, hot the percentage dropped and no I’m on 97%, which is about 1%/hour. That would give me some 4 days!!
I I’ll did the soft reset and was back on 99%.So it’s definitely a software issue, that after charging some “counter” is running nuts
So I hope this is fixed in the next FW update…
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@Stefan-T. I guess it depends on the day. On a good day, we can laugh it off and see it as a minor issue. On a bad day, we might look at the watch and wonder, “Seriously? How can such an expensive watch have such a ridiculous bug?”
Anyway, let’s hope the next firmware update fixes it — preferably before we all become experts at soft-resetting our watches.
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