S9B battery drain during long activity pause

chrisc92

When pausing an activity for long, for example 1 hour or more (lunch break during a bike ride) I was surprised by the battery drain going to 5% per hour. I suspect the OHR to be constantly flashing and causing that drain, I don’t understand why, because the activity is paused, and nothing should be recorded, the display shows the elapsed time, the GPS should be paused and also the OHR.
I choosed this watch for power saving management but it is frustrating yo have to charge the watch so often.
Also the watch is proposing to change from performance to endurance only at 10 % battery so only when you have 1 h activity record left.
And if you change to endurance, too bad you will encounter synchro problems with strava
so I don’t understand the energy power saving strategy during activity. Could the OHR be deactivated, when the watch is on the bike ?

sartoric

There is a very long discussion about battery drain. Maybe you can find some answer there

https://forum.suunto.com/topic/3477/s9-or-s5-expected-battery-life-on-2-9-42

isazi

Also, I believe that during a break your watch is simply not recording, but all’s working, GPS and heart rate included.

Egika

You can switch off GPS in the settings during a pause. Just long press the middle button and change the GPS to off in the battery settings.
OHR I don’t know if it can be disabled…

Maryn

We need a function to stop the activity and the possibility to resume it. Something like that has long been available in Garmin. Coros has also introduced something like that. A very cool feature during long all-day activities.

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos what do you think?

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@Maryn yes

isazi

@Maryn absolutely. Although I have seen Fusedalti kick in during a break and improve the altitude readings.

Bulkan

@Maryn +1

Tim4c

Hey,
I dream of this feature “resume later” for a while now!
I have found a way to save battery by switching the GPS setting to Off or OK during long breaks. It helps a lot.
@++

freeheeler

@Tim4c
in this “pause” mode I’m sometimes a bit scared that accidential button press ends or resumes the activity…
…but I think I’m eccentric as I’m always afraid of unwanted button press… also in watch mode or during an activity when I would like to benefit from the touch function to swipe left and right to switch screens

Tim4c

@TELE-HO
It happened to me several times and i hate that.
Another trick is to keep the watch on setting screen!

Egika

@TELE-HO You can still lock the buttons even in pause mode. Just press long enough to not end the activity

…or is exactly this what you are scared of?

Tim4c

@Egika
Yep i tried this option, it works!
But, yes there is a but, I don’t remember exactly but it was extremely painful to unlock buttons with auto-pause or pause and rainy condition.

Edit: perhaps, i forgot the long press to the lower button…

freeheeler

@Egika
thanks, yes I haven’t had the opportunity to try or when I’ve had it I did not remember
I’ll do it next time, thank you for the hint!

chrisc92

@Tim4c
I think that a watch that is aware of battery drain should propose after 5 or 10 minutes to continue the activity later or not…
And resume it later

It’s not safe to keep that pause mode for a long Time , nor it not safe to lock

Also an option to stop that unuseful OHR that permanently flashes even during a pause or when the watch if off your wrist…

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@chrisc92 OHR / HR is helpfull for calories even during a pause. Among others also for 24/7 HR that is a no go if the user doens’t explicitly turn it off.