solar charging
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Happened to me today and yesterday. In full sun I have 2/3 rings, not 3/3 like i had in even sunny days than today. Direct sun 29’C, 0 clouds. I’ll probably go like riccardo with that I guess :P. Soft reset doesnt help.
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I punched softly watch and so far it works again.
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I wonder If miss something…
I don’t really use solar charging widget since new UI, because SV battery is so huge that I don’t really care.
But lately I wanted to see how it collected sun again, during a bike ride…
I was surprise to see that widget was totally empty whereas it was very sunny. I then notice that widget says that « solar charging is in sleep mode ».
Never saw that before or read about it.
Any idea ? For now solar charging is not working anymore.
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@Tieutieu
It’s always in IDLE status when there is no sufficient light.But in your case it could be stuck, did you try a soft reset ?
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@sartoric OK thanks for your answer I didn’t know that. I try a soft reset.
When you mean stuck, does that means that widget is stucked ? or solar charging and widget are stucked ? -
@Tieutieu said in solar charging:
When you mean stuck, does that means that widget is stucked ? or solar charging and widget are stucked ?
maybe both, who knows
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@sartoric I just did a soft reset. It’s full sun out there. Still “sleep mode displayed”, not indication of solar charging.
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@Tieutieu said in solar charging:
@sartoric I just did a soft reset. It’s full sun out there. Still “sleep mode displayed”, not indication of solar charging.
I’ll wait for next update.Maybe try give it a soft slap. For me worked and since than it works like before. I covered screen and punched it softly on my leg with soft little power
@Brad_Olwin said in solar charging:
@riccardo88ve May be true, here is last week for mine, no issues. I would contact support.
Brad, what’s that black version of Athletic 5? Never seen. Its Suunto Staff only or something?
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Well, no display of solar charging…but no reason that my watch would be damaged, I more likely think of a bug. I’ll wait for the next update.
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Hi, yesterday’s update didn’t changed my issue.
I also did a soft reset => no change
stop/start => no change
Unpin solar widget/soft rest/pinn widget => no change
My solar charging still remains in “sleep mode”, no indications of charge, bright sun.
It seems that you won’t be able to avoid support
But don’t know when…I have plenty of races and training in the next months…and I’m not motivated to come back to my S9b ; but I guess I may not have choice.
If anyone has a tip that could help me, it would be awesome.
I really don’t now when or why it stopped working, it had no special event that could have damaged it -
@Tieutieu Did you try factory restore? I had gps shifts quite bad not being solved by soft. So as a last resort I did factory. Now the track is spot on.
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@EzioAuditore not very motivated to do so right now…I’ll try after my big race scheduled by the end of august. Don’t want to loose hrv/vo2/shape and all custom modes for now.
Is a hard reset really so different than an update, except factory settings reset ? -
@Tieutieu I completely understand. But as I said I tried everything and the shift was not going away. After contacting support we decided do a factory before sending the watch. After the hard reset the gps track is spot on. So if is definitely different to the soft
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@EzioAuditore yep. It will be the « last chance try » before sending it…
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@Tami999 said in solar charging:
@Tieutieu said in solar charging:
@sartoric I just did a soft reset. It’s full sun out there. Still “sleep mode displayed”, not indication of solar charging.
I’ll wait for next update.Maybe try give it a soft slap. For me worked and since than it works like before. I covered screen and punched it softly on my leg with soft little power
@Brad_Olwin said in solar charging:
@riccardo88ve May be true, here is last week for mine, no issues. I would contact support.
Brad, what’s that black version of Athletic 5? Never seen. Its Suunto Staff only or something?
That was a gift from a Suunto employee, it is an Ambassador strap and can’t be purchased. I was lucky!
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@Tieutieu said in solar charging:
@EzioAuditore yep. It will be the « last chance try » before sending it…
I saw one advice about gently tap your watch on something. Did you try? Maybe solar panel has some little disconnection which could be temporarily fixed like this, or at least tend to prove that it is HW issue?
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@Mff73 I haven’t really tried yet that but I’m really skeptical about that…
I’m wondering how and when it stopped working.
Battery life of the SV is so huge and we had so few sun past months that I never had questionned the solar charging ! -
I would be skeptical as well, but it doesn’t cost any buck to try
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I don’t have solar here (nor so much sun
) so I am not used to such behaviours to help more. Just reading some not so silly tricks here and there 
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I finally decided to try a hard reset…unfortunatly solar charging isn’t working after…
No other choice than sending my watch for support…
And I was almost ready to order a Race S this morning has 2nd watch…but it’s already out of stock…
So I will have to wait till end of summer to send my SV for repairing…
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@Tieutieu Pity
But all the best and enjoy the summer.
