Battery drain

Antoine Lancrenon

hello,
I have done a run with 2 Suunto app activated. I still notice much higher battery drainage… suunto coach, ans ghost Runner. I lost 10% or so in 1h30 run activity tracking… high performance.

still it is too much. for very long run and ultras > 70k it almost mean that a full charge wont be enough with those Suunto apps activated. it is a shame…id rather use suunto core only to optimize my battery longevity!

what do you think? is the last update corrected the battery drainage issue?

i guess , it will depend of the app itself. ghost runner seems to be demanding.

Pavlas

Hi, I left my Vertical on the table overnight and this morning I found that the battery has drained by 15%… Does anyone have a similar experience?

thanasis

@Pavlas said in Battery drain:

Hi, I left my Vertical on the table overnight and this morning I found that the battery has drained by 15%… Does anyone have a similar experience?

yes unfortunately I have faced something similar. it seems that taking the device off the wrist , for some reason it consumes a significant amount of energy. i also tried to put it on low energy mode but still the same. the only way of avoiding that was to turn it off…

A Former User

@Pavlas can it be perhaps that the OHR sensor is active and this drains the battery? Try to disable 24/7 HR and test. Just an idea.

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

Put the device upside down, maybe its the ohr sensor struggling to read the table etc

Pavlas

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos It’s the first time it’s happened to me. The watch is on the strap. Usually barely 1% of the battery disappears overnight.

thanasis

@Pavlas it’s definitely the hr … I left in my bag today and it shows very high hr readings with many spikes which I suspect affect other metrics . It also consumed 10% in less than 6 hours
I think that’s a bug to be honest .

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@thanasis asking for this

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@thanasis could it be the raise to wake ?

thanasis

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos it was idle in the backpack while I was in the office. The readings have consistent pattern . I can test it again

Thanks !!

Pavlas

@thanasis I don’t see any HR values from that night. Looks like it didn’t measure anything.

Pavlas

So I guess it really is HR. Now I put the watch right on the table and the HR is glowing. When I put it on the strap, it doesn’t light up. It’s possible I had it right on my desk last night.

Pavlas

So for the last few nights my watch has been upside down on the table. Battery consumption was about 0.5%.
But last night 4% disappeared again.
I think I’m really gonna turn off the heart rate tracking and be done with it.

Pedros

@Pavlas we have the same problem… battery drains faster than expected… =(

Pavlas

I’m still not happy with the daily battery life of the watch. Is there a known problem? Daily battery consumption for me is 4-5%.
I’ve also tried 100%->0% calibration
But during activity it seems fine. That’s roughly 2 - 2.5% per hour.
What is your experience? I have the non-solar version.

jjpaz

@Pavlas I also have the non solar version and I’m charging the watch every ~15-16 days when it’s reaching 20% battery left, so my battery consumption seems similar to yours.

A Former User

@Pavlas I am noticing battery drain on my solar version of similar rate with 24/7 heart rate, notification on and Wi-Fi off. I tend to do about 3-4 workouts a week of roughly 1 hour each.

At 12 days I am at 9%

I am going to let it naturally go down to zero and recharge this week to see if that helps. Prior to that (and after the major update) I forced the drain to occur by turning on the flashlight to expedite the battery drain to zero for the battery calibration and I still saw a quicker drain than advertised.

Mff73

@Pavlas said in Battery drain:

Is there a known problem?

yes, it is known by Suunto (written somewhere else in the forum, in an other post where the same question was asked).

Pavlas

@Mff73 Ok, thanks a lot!

jjorgemoura

Not sure what is the expected battery drainage for SV. Any idea?
I believe it will be very difficult to have accurate values because each person use the watch in different ways, different settings, and do different and variable activities.

I have a SVt for 7 weeks. So far, 2 charges. It went from 100% to 3% in 20 days. Multiple actives recorded. This is, roughly, 4.9% per day. Overall, I think it’s a good consumption.

Is this value in line with what other have?