Race S: Extremely high battery use rate

snow*

@sindavide said:

I don’t think that battery, as it is after last update, is acceptable,

A few days ago I run a ~3h trail with maps always on and battery barely drops 12%. For sure issue depends on the config/features used, but in my use cases, everything is working fine now after last update.

dreamer_

@snow that means that the watch is valid for a 100k run without charging it. Not bad.
I’m thinking in pushing an order.
It has a very good price now, but I’m afraid Suunto is replacing this watch for the Race 2 S very soon.

elbee

@sindavide said:

@sky-runner
It seems we all have the same problem.
One night sleep with sleep monitoring uses ove 10% battery.

I’ve disabled sleep monitoring. It’s neither accurate nor useful. You’re better off asking yourself in the morning if you feel refreshed or still sleepy. A much better indicator how you slept.
If you disable sleep tracking you also disable hrv. But from properly tests (not some youtube gadget influencer) hrv measuring on garmin watches isn’t that accurate and I have no reason to believe others brands are better. And, again, the useful of hrv is questionable.

But some people love collecting data, so I understand disabling data collection isn’t an option for everyone.

withManish

@sky-runner, same issues: my watch uses 7-10% battery even in power-save mode overnight.

alp1n3

Hopefully they’re able to fix it soon. It feels like with every update they just introduce more problems. Currently still experiencing the auto-update bug (can’t disable it essentially), and now the battery bug has gotten even worse.

sindavide

@elbee
I largely agree with you. The point is that we pay for those functions, so Ikd expect them to work in an acceptable manner

sindavide

@gone-troppo
The second: they don’t know how to fix it. Finns too busy to bother Russia and enjoy NATO membership

elbee

@sindavide said:

@elbee
I largely agree with you. The point is that we pay for those functions, so Ikd expect them to work in an acceptable manner

I would rather not pay for functions that perhaps may sound useful but in real life aren’t (either because they don’t work very well, or aren’t how things work or are just marketing bs).

But I realize it’s easier to make a watch for people who just want to collect as much data as they can or have fomo, in stead of a watch that is 100% tailored to 1 individual.

As long as I can turn things off, I’m make. Manufacturers make the most stupid choices for this. On my previous garmin I could turn off morning report, on my Suunto I cannot. But if I disable sleep tracking, morning report is also disabled. (End result is great, the way to do is is stupid).
Garmin added voices alerts to tbt alerts, which couldn’t be turned off. It drove me (and quite a few others on the garmin forum) nuts. Sold my garmin and bought a Suunto. (And my wife noticed I complain less about my watch)

withManish

@elbee, my friend, we keep complaining here and take out our frustration; that’s it. I am sure Suunto software developers aren’t bothered to read anything; even if they are, they are busy adding functionality as the marketing team forces them.

The issues of poor battery and forced customisation by the Suunto software design team, whatever they think is good, have been escalated in different topics so many times, but the end result is that they do what they want to do; once you buy it, it’s your problem.

Once I was chatting with the support team about the battery just a few weeks after getting a new watch, and they wanted me to upgrade to a new one rather than give me any concrete reply.

After Suunto moved from Finland, they have been going down day by day.

brechtvb

I have a Race S, and 2 weeks ago i did a factory reset because of something, i don’t recall what.

But now the battery also goes down much faster than it used to, equivalent to what other people here are reporting: 7-10% per night.

Bluetooth announce is off
i now even put oxygen stuff disabled (for night monitoring)
and DND for the night