Battery LIfe
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@jamie-bg said in Battery LIfe:
@aleksander-h - so agree or at least have it as a quick setting - far more useful than battery saver and or find my phone.
Customizability is the way to go. Different people will want different buttons. Do something similar to the way watch complications work where you can long press on a button and then select among a list of actions. I seem to remember my Tizen watch had this
Of course, this will be a Google feature request rather than a Suunto one.
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@aleksander-h
android allows this, so am surprised we canāt do the same with wear os, or that they have ignored this part.
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With the tilt to wake, wifi, bluetooth activated, whithout sport activities, what battery time do you have? My watch would turn battery saver mode on after the 24 hour limit.
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@aleksander-h my old TicWatch Pro had two buttons and they could have two functions each, activated by either a single or double press. Was a really nice and handy feature.
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@nshkira said in Battery LIfe:
With the tilt to wake, wifi, bluetooth activated, whithout sport activities, what battery time do you have? My watch would turn battery saver mode on after the 24 hour limit.
Since the new update on Monday I havenāt had too much opportunity to test battery life properly.
However, I took my S7 off the charger at 1300hrs yesterday at 100%.
At 1300hrs today the battery was at 47%.
So 53% usage in 24hrs.
I reckon I can eek a bit more out of it too.I have AoD off
Power saver tilt to wake on
BT on
WiFi on auto
24/7 HR
Sleep tracking for 8hrs
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@olymay
Running Solstice watch face with AOD off, touch to wake on, power save tilt on, nav gestures off. BT on, Wifi auto, 24/7HR &resources, Sleep 6 hrs (use cinema mode, DND and touch lock).Took off charger at 9am yesterday morning, was at 53% this morning when I put it on charger at 8:30, and that includes tracking a 20min walk with dog. It also includes reviewing a lot of notifications, replying to quite a few, at least an hour of media control. And a more than usual use of watch - am still playing around with it due to the suunto updates.
So yes 2 days is still very possible with AOD off, not so sure with AOD on based on previous days results.
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@jamie-bg said in Battery LIfe:
@olymay
Running Solstice watch face with AOD off, touch to wake on, power save tilt on, nav gestures off. BT on, Wifi auto, 24/7HR &resources, Sleep 6 hrs (use cinema mode, DND and touch lock).Took off charger at 9am yesterday morning, was at 53% this morning when I put it on charger at 8:30, and that includes tracking a 20min walk with dog. It also includes reviewing a lot of notifications, replying to quite a few, at least an hour of media control. And a more than usual use of watch - am still playing around with it due to the suunto updates.
So yes 2 days is still very possible with AOD off, not so sure with AOD on based on previous days results.
Thatās awesome! Great work and thanks for doing a longer test than I did
Also, if it helps at all I have found that by enabling āCinema Modeā it automatically puts the watch into DND and touch lock (although it still allows alarms to come through which is good).
That might save you a bit of time and faff each evening/morning -
@olymay
Thanks - I hadnāt realised that the cinema included both of those. However will probably still use the touch lock as it also locks the buttons and prevents them from launching apps. Will still wake screen, but with cinema on it quickly switches it off again. -
@jamie-bg said in Battery LIfe:
@olymay
Thanks - I hadnāt realised that the cinema included both of those. However will probably still use the touch lock as it also locks the buttons and prevents them from launching apps. Will still wake screen, but with cinema on it quickly switches it off again.No worries, I only recently learnt it myself from using cinema mode whilst asleep
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Hello to everyone, id like to have your feedback about my suunto 7 performance.
I was used to reach 12/13h of activity with my Ambit 3 without never think to my battery, the next day tooā¦thatās why im trying perform a long activity with my suunto 7 too and it seems I cannot reach this in any conditions.Iām actually at 7 hr of activity and 5% battery remain.
Iāve wifi off, Bluetooth on, tilt to wake off and Iāve enabled cinema mode but it does not affect battery (saw battery graph), and GPS every 10s.
Honestly I probably bought the wrong watch and Iām thinking to replace it but please before Iād like to have your feedback and see if something can be differently configured.
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@drunners you certainly wonāt get ambit level of battery for the simple reason that this is a WearOS smart watch. You might want to look at the S5 or S9 if longer battery is important.
That said, with fusedtrack (GPS at 10s) I would have thought youād get more than 7 hours.
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@aleksander-h honestly me tooā¦I also expect to save battery configuring cinema mode but itās notā¦wear os I suppose is continuing draining battery, so sad because watch itself is very well madeā¦
I think suunto should however explain those info better, If I had known iād not bought it
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With GPS set to good/10 sec it seems to drain around 10% a hour for me, so 7 seems quite low. And mine was with the screen on.
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@harboe did you keep bluetooth connected to smartphone?
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I get consumption ~7-8%/ hour with the following settings,
-GPS 10s
-Airplane mode on
-Screen onI get this if I donāt have routing or glancing at the map because those obviously consume more battery.
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@jantikainen understand, probably bluetooth connection and notifications drain more battery than I expect, Iāll do tomorrow a test with your settings and give a feedback just for comparison, thanks
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@drunners yep connected to my phone and checking map a few times on the watch.
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@harboe tried without bluetooth, reached 8 hā¦
ā¦try to see how to exchange with suunto 9 -
Today I did six hours in airline mode and āGoodā, starting at about 98%, ended up on 48%, following a route, with approx 25 WayPoint notifications on top of the 45 lap notifications, I looked at the map quite a few times in full power mode to get my bearingsā¦Iād guess maybe 10 to 15 times of up to about 10-15 seconds.
The one odd thing I had at the end was Google Pay didnāt work, it said I had to enable NFC, but clicking did nothing, I toggled out of Airplane mode, and still NFC wouldnāt work, and couldnāt get to the setting in āSettingsā/āConnectionsā either.
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@drunners Do you run with your phone on you? If you do, then do not turn off Bluetooth or WiFi, as when connected to a phone they barely use any battery.
However, if the phone is not there, then the constant searching will drain the battery (in the same way a phone will drain itās battery searching for a cellular signal when there is none).
If you do not take your phone with you, turn on Aeroplane mode on the watch.Getting just 8hrs of life while tracking an activity is not normal, so please donāt assume this is standard for the watch and write it off. There will be something unusual draining the battery.
As an aside, do you have any bluetooth devices connected to the watch? HR sensor, headphones, etc?
