Suunto Vertical 2 - Battery burner?
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Hello,
I’ve got my Vertical 2 yesterday and did a full charge of the battery. That, setting up all sensors, choosing a watchface (90th anniversary orange) and downloading maps via WLAN was finished about 2pm. Today in the morning (after apx. 18 hours) my battery was down to 75%. (no activity logged, no always on!)SO I checked again, removed the WLAN connection and disabled it, switched to another watchface and charged again to 100%. Now, some 2 hours later, I’m on 96%. That’s apx. 2%/hour, which would give me a bit more that twos days in smart watch only mode?
Either I have done something very bad or the watch has an issue. Any suggestions where to look?
Thx, Joe
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@johann.fuehrer If your watch is new you may wait for full discharge/charge cycle for battery calibration. That may explain.
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@Tieutieu OK, I’ll try. Thank You!
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@johann.fuehrer
I had the same issue. Still have the same watch face and WLAN on. Only thing I turned off that fixed battery for me was Bluetooth Discoverable setting. Once connected to your phone it does not need to be Discoverable anymore. And oddly just turning that off increased my battery life considerably -
Yesterday I charged my watch to 100% and disconnected it from the charger. After that, I only changed the watch face 2–3 times and explored some settings. About an hour later, the battery had already dropped to 96%.
To verify whether it was a real battery drain or just a reporting issue, I performed a soft reset. After the reboot, the battery level jumped back to 99%.
This makes me question the accuracy of the battery percentage reporting. A 4% drop in one hour from such light usage seems excessive, but the battery recovering to 99% after a restart suggests the percentage calculation may not have been correct in the first place.
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@Kraisun-Tunta I noticed the same with my SV2…
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Since I have a watch with oled (previously a garmin forerunner 965, now a race s) battery life isn’t great. With my usage of about 7 hours of gps activity I have to charge every 3 or 4 days (with the suunto doing it slightly better than the garmin and is now almost 5 days)
Don’t know if oled is the cause (don’t have aod), the more complex gnss system (I really have no need for dual frequency gnss, but if I select a slightly less accurate setting I also loose maps), the added, complex calculations of training and recovery scores (which I really have no need for and frankly don’t trust. I already disabled sleep tracking which improved battery life by almost a day, but which also disables hrv, which I might have some interest in. Obviously I disabled blood saturation measuring)
My last watch with great battery life was a garmin forerunner 935 which I had to charge once every 2 weeks (until garmin introduced a nasty bug that always used the highest gnss settings regardless which setting you choose)
That last option is also an option that the software isn’t very optimized or contains bugs.
Maybe I should try and disable raise to wake and see what that does for battery life.
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