Race S: Extremely high battery use rate
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@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.
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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 -
Right now, the Suunto Race S has fewer features than a Wear OS smartwatch, yet its battery life is even worse. It’s truly disappointing.
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Right now, the Suunto Race S has fewer features than a Wear OS smartwatch, yet its battery life is even worse. It’s truly disappointing.
I did that a few times already without any improvements. And the end result is that you spend more time reconfiguring the watch.
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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 nightAs I mentioned earlier, even when I use the watch in power-saving mode, it hardly lasts 5-7 days. They really messed up everything.
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@withManish I get to about 4 days easily. With AOD and notifications enabled. And about an hour of GPS tracking per day…
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@2b2bff Do you have sleep tracking and 24/7 heart rate monitoring enabled?
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Bought my Race S in December 2024. With no activities recorded but with sleep tracking turned on the battery went from 98% to 73% in 25 hours. This does not seem excessive.
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@jobtoll The manufacturer claims that if you train with GPS for 5 hours a week and keep heart rate and sleep tracking enabled, the battery will last at least 5 days. However, I’m only getting 3 days, which is really disappointing.
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@2b2bff Do you have sleep tracking and 24/7 heart rate monitoring enabled?
Indeed, I have
The manufacturer claims that if you train with GPS for 5 hours a week and keep heart rate and sleep tracking enabled, the battery will last at least 5 days.
Where have you read this?
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