Software Update 2.48.16 (2025 November Rain release)
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@jjorgemoura most constructive post I have read in days!
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@gone-troppo Wow mate, your Vertical sounds like itās living a harder life than I am.
Mine only has to survive flat park runs and a trip to the supermarketā¦ yours is out there fighting for its life in the rainforest like itās auditioning for Survivor.
get why battery life is a big deal for you - if my watch dropped 40% in 24 hours in the jungle, Iād start praying to the GPS gods too.
But honestly, with todayās 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, Iām just hoping my watch doesnāt die before I finish my 10K.
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Iām sorry but battery life is the key reason I bought my new Vertical 2 and it doesnāt 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 Iām 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%. Thatās worse than before the charge cycle. Iāll 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 isnāt a promising beginning.
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Battery los of 40% a day ? Something Not correct guysā¦ Send the watch to suunto and get a new one ā¦ 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. Donāt 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 itās 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 itās an old feature sorry
I wish this could be turned off. Or at least if this pops and you press ānoāā¦ it would resume the pause time (it wount come back anymoreā¦)
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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.
Thatās about 10 days without activities vs what is advertised as 20 days. I expect Suunto to fix this but Iām 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 Iāll to run with my HR-belt. That couldāve caused my drain.
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@Horizontal_2 I donāt 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, thereās 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
ā 81 hours total 24% usedAverage battery drain
24% / 81 hours ā 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 donāt 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 itās 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.
