Software Update 2.48.16 (2025 November Rain release)
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@Kraisun-Tunta The point is that we all have watch since about 2,5 years, and battery life was no problem before several firmware updates… it would be too easy to say ‚take a power bank with you‘
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Just wanted to verify that my battery usage (Race 1) is back to where it was with this update.
Also, I’ve discovered that connecting to my Polar Verity Sense can be facilitated by moving the watch and sensor closer to each other. I also have to perform a manual connection - it isn’t automatic. I have a suspicion that the Vertiy Sense is on the hairy edge of having adequate transmitter power, but I don’t know this for sure.
My only remaining pain points are surrounding route management. Sometimes routes are not taken off the watch when you toggle “Use in Watch” in the app (android). It may take multiple tries - and yes I have verified that these are Suunto generated routes and not from Plotaroute, Komooot, or Strava. I have also had Zombie routes that I’ve been unable to remove from the watch. My workaround has been to duplicate the route and save it, and then delete the old Zombie route from the app. But this is not ideal. It would also be nice to have many more routes stored on the watch. I have some routes that I run nearby that I’d like to retain always, but I also travel frequently and want to add new routes. This has me doing a lot of shuffling of routes on and off the watch (this is why the Zombie route issue is extra problematic) - if we could accommodate storing 50-100 routes on the watch, it would be helpful.
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@Stefano-M64 I think it was solved with the recent update of the Suunto App (not related to the Watch update)
Wearing SR with SA on Android 13.
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@Kraisun-Tunta yeah right! Keep on Shopping your Protein power
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@Josaiplu relying to myself on this, today I did exact same run with same setup and no phantom vibration
I kept the belt with the sensor on and not able to reproduce the issue of yesterday, intermittent issues are the worst to troubleshoot
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@SergioB Thanks, I didn’t spot that info in the SA threads…
so, finally I can enjoy this nice WF
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Ah, nice to hear some experiencing battery drain solved, I hope with my S9PP too! But that also means, I may don’t have to buy a new one like the Race 2…
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@aiv4r Not sure what training ecosystem is for you then, since recovery is the most important metric of any fitness building program. Otherwise I could just track my workouts in a spreadsheet.
BTW ZoneSense telling me my AeT being 160 bpm is – although flattering – not a meaningful addition to my program either.
So at this point, if I cannot trust a single figure on this watch, what is it good for then? Telling time and firing off alarms?.. Funny thing is, recently there’s been a bug where even the latter wasn’t working.
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@cheetah694 I train a lot, and I never look at recovery.
What gives me the best training/recovery indications is training load…tss/ctl…values. That’s way more usable to me. -
@Tieutieu and listening to your body feeling (yeah I miss a rpe scale of 10 on my watch
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Suunto metrics a, for me, the most reliable one and the one that match the most my perception (once zone and threshold are properly configured)
I maintain a sync over coros, garmin and suunto over 30 days and garmin was way off forcing me to do HIIt training, coros was not bad at tracking my progress and suunto was spot on
Body battery and other metrics are good if you don’t know yourself (and by good I mean that they could help you)
The purpose of alll these metric is to put numbers on feelingto allow you to know yourself, once this is achieved you don’t look a lot to your watch you just monitor training load and perception of effort -
Personally, with my 2 Suunto, I’m 2 updates behind waiting for the battery problem to be solved… when it is solved then I will update
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@Kraisun-Tunta said in Software Update 2.48.16 (2025 November Rain release):
Honestly, I see a lot of people freaking out about battery life… but trust me, you’ll only care about it for one week. After that? Zero thoughts given. You’ll be too busy checking your pace, cursing hills, and pretending you’re not dying to worry about whether your watch has 37% or 82%.
And let’s be real: a week-plus of battery is more than enough. Charging a watch is like brushing your teeth—takes a minute, doesn’t ruin your life, and arguably prevents bigger problems.
So yeah, don’t stress. You’ll forget about battery life faster than you forget your warm-up.
Are you for real mate. Battery life and GPS accuracy are the entire reason I have had suunto watches a long time. I still have an old ambit 3 peak in the cupboard that I bring out that has a more stable battery than my vertical currently does. Sure not everyone cares about battery life people that are just using their watch to go to gym or whatever. Some of us like to do adventures. Not only is the battery life now dismal on my and many others vertical it is also inconsistent and not trust worthy. Sometimes it drains at 1% every 2 hours sometimes it’s draining 40% in 24 hours. I cannot trust that in the rainforest relying on it for navigation.
One other issue with this battery problem is lithium batteries are only good for so many charge cycles so just like your Apple Watch starts off good and the battery quickly degenerates from frequent charging. Well now instead of my vertical only needing charging once every 3-4 weeks like it did when I bought it and the battery performed as advertised. Now it lasts a few days which means not only more frequent charging but now I’m killing the ultimate life of my battery faster by more frequent charging. This watch performed perfectly when released and every (update) has killed it further and further to the point my old ambit 3 peak has a better battery life.
