Battery LIfe

[luca760101]

@aeroild

In order for this post to be a valid help for everyone, we could also indicate which phone we use our S7 (Android - Iphone), which watch face, which apps installed and which settings. Thanks everyone for your help

[aeroild]

@luca760101 Sure: Nokia 7 Plus Android 10, Ultimate Watch 2 as watch face, NFC and Wifi off, BT and positioning on, tilt to wake, screen brightness =2, DND and tilt to wake off during sleep.

Here’s one example of battery use earlier this month:

[jw cou]

This is my consistent experience of the S7 battery. I charge it every 3 days, with approx. 2h30min of gps activities, some music and a lot of SA map checking.
I’ve configured it to maximise the battery, the only 2 additional apps I installed are google play (for offline music) and a compass.
I have the watch on airplane mode most of the time, because I only need notifications on my watch a couple of hours per day (e.g when I work I am anyway always on my phone / laptop, so don’t really see the point of another device notifying me…)

Very happy with the battery of my S7, offline maps, music and very pretty screen are something no other (Suunto?) watches can provide, and charging my watch twice a week is absolutely fine for me.

EDIT: that’s with an IPhone 8

[Federico Ormesani]

@jw-cou
I answer here because it is perfect for my statement. With all the settings you have indicated and only two apps installed, it is not the clock for which the manufacturer claims so much to have designed it.
Yesterday I uninstalled the “altimeter” app and today the battery perhaps performs better (maybe over 24 hours). But I point out that when I had to choose between buying an S7 or an S9 I studied the technical specifications declared by Suunto and for altimeter and barometric pressure they give the possibility of having it via “google play” (see screenshot). Therefore I decided to purchase the S7. But if to have the battery that lasts at least a day I can not install apps, which interest me, why have an S7 with wearOS? I believe that Suunto with this S7 is also undermining its credibility as the Customer Service excellence it had.
I believe that the design is wrong, it is like a partition of a harddisk (50% wearOS and 50% suunto app) with the result that if you need the alarm clock and not only with vibration, Suunto must have this update only close to the partner (google) and who knows what are the rules of engagement between the counterparties …
below also picture of the battery.

[A Former User]

Yesterday I uninstalled the “altimeter” app and today the battery perhaps performs better (maybe over 24 hours)

From the usage posted above, I see predicted battery life of almost 2 days – off the charger around 19:00 on 25/03, expected to last until after 14:00, 27/03. How’s that slightly more than 24 hours you claim?

And that’s after you had a fairly significant drain around midday today. Do you know what caused it? The battery doesn’t drain like that unless there’s screen, data transfer, or some power hungry app involved.

The way I see it: you have the watch that works exactly as advertised. Suunto promised up to 2 days battery life in smartwatch mode, and it has delivered it. Fair and square. Up the thread, people actually posted screenshots with 2 days+ battery life, on iOS no less. There are very few, if any, WearOS devices out there that have comparable battery performance.

[Federico Ormesani]

@NickK
The battery life report will post it first before charging the watch. For the moment I am still in charge of 19.00. But for two days I slept with the clock in standby and in airplane mode and above the bedside table, which in fact is an unusual use since Suunto declares the possibility of seeing the heart’s trace even at night.
In addition, I strongly return to the point of the “several options via google play” app and to the fact that now I have no additional app (ie altimeter or compass).
The objective evidence tells us that with additional apps the battery performance is lost then suunto must declare it in the user manual, instead it does not write it anywhere and also declares that “… your apps will automatically update when your watch is charging and connected to Wifi …” so not even the suggestions of “jorgefd78” and “Bulkan” are correct in this regard (see the pictture below).
So buy a watch with wearOS and find out that you can install, by making attempts, only apps that drain little battery as the manufacturer does not openly declare it to me seems incorrect. We are crazy?
I am angry with suunto because I have been more than a week to study user manual before buying it and once purchased I was unable to return it because 10 days of testing to test everything are few. I have install the new apps after 10 days because before I tried the native functionality and with disappointment I noticed this problem.

[isazi]

@Federico-Ormesani I don’t see how someone should tell you that running apps consumes battery. Sounds pretty obvious to me.

[Federico Ormesani]

@isazi
Well then it is stated that it is possible to have certain “severl options via google play” features if then these severl options once installed consume battery. In fact, you uninstall them as I did. Does this seem normal and correct? My question is as elementary as your statement

[Saketo Nemo]

maybe you haven’t studied it well, the manual says that the actual duration varies according to the functions, the apps you use and the way you use them (for example on page 148 of the Italian manual)
It also seems obvious to me that this is the case: how should Suunto or Google be responsible for the abnormal consumption of applications developed by third parties?

[isazi]

@Federico-Ormesani everything is possible, but you have to pay the cost of it. And I believe you are having issues with your S7, but as you can see many people are not, and when they tell you that you just reply “BUT LOOK AT ME I HAVE PROBLEMS”. If you don’t let other people help you, then call support.

[Federico Ormesani]

@Saketo-Nemo
I repeat don’t write “several option via googe play” on internet page becuse is marketing, but you must say that the watch is as it leaves the factory. point

[Federico Ormesani]

@isazi
Already called the cutomere care. He does not answer the email and on the phone they are evasive. It is not that I do not want to be helped by you, but I would like to open your eyes to when declaring suunto on the internet page is only marketing and in my opinion they are incorrect. and that’s that

[aeroild]

If you buy a car the manufacturer has declared what the typical fuel consumption will be. But if you drive a lot in the mountains or in the snow, maybe you get a roof rack, maybe a roof box and you start hauling a trailer, then the consumption will of course increase. So if this is something everybody accepts, then why is it so hard to accept that the same will affect a watch?

[sartoric]

So … maybe … we should rename the topic fron “Battery life” to “the internet page is only marketing and in my opinion they are incorrect” as it is the real purpose of this thread, isn’t it ?

[Federico Ormesani]

@aeroild
it’s different, I’m talking about additional features and information that watch can have more because it doesn’t exist from the factory “several options via google play”.
Your example does not seem right to me

[thexvo]

@Federico-Ormesani said in Battery LIfe:

@Saketo-Nemo
I repeat don’t write “several option via googe play” on internet page becuse is marketing, but you must say that the watch is as it leaves the factory. point

Doesn’t “several option via googe play” mean exactly what you want: “the watch leaves the factory without it, but you can add this functionality via 3rd party apps (at your own risk)”?!

Isn’t that obvious that using extra 3rd party features can have an impact on battery life?! (Not necessarily it will, but it sure can ).

[Federico Ormesani]

@sartoric
If this is your way of operating as a “moderator” then I don’t waste any more time. You have achieved the result. good day

[Bulkan]

I don’t get where are we going with the marketing of the web. Is true an accurate.

Lets stay with the battery life please, so this topic could be useful in the future.

[sartoric]

@Federico-Ormesani
Oh c’mon … really ?! Aren’t grinning faces enough to mark the post as a joke ?
We are talking about battery consumption not about a matter of life or death … please, take it easy.

Just to clarify.
Yes, I’m a moderator, not a Suunto employee, a Suunto user, not a Suunto’s fanatic

[Mff73]

i can avoid reading this post, because i try i read all here

but i am little fed up with this kind of comments. ( @Federico-Ormesani )

@aeroild , i love the car analogy

@Federico-Ormesani , In the marketing link of your OP, there is :

You won’t have 48h anytime with any kind of usage. Some are archieving, not others, maybe your watch is deffective, maybe your usage is too heavy, maybe something is stuck somewhere in your watch (wear OS is not made by Suunto, SuuntoApp only), maybe…