Battery drain
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I have a vertical solar. I am loosing 10% a day not bad, but not great.
I have changed the parameters to optimized: backlight to low, no rise to wake, etc.
I think the consumption during an activity is just great, even in performance mode.with GPS. What i am desappoint about is when not on activity (watch mode) Is the H24 monitoring Heart rate is the culprit?
today, i have to charge my watch every 10 days. again, this is not bad, but this is the vertical solar we are talking about.do I have an issue with battery draining? is the battery Ok? should I contact suunto support?
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@Antoine-Lancrenon I have comment about battery drain above and get somewhere in the 10-14 day range for a charge. I also suspect that 24/7 HR is where it is draining. Activity usage tends to track with Suunto’s official numbers but daily use is where it falls short.
I would say what you are seeing is also seen with people that run the 24/7 heart rate or with people that use the S+ guides which is another area that tends to drain quicker.
I think it is recognized and will be addressed in future updates.
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@Todd-Danielczyk I have H24 HR tracking ON + sleep tracking and HRV ON.
Standby off
Backlight low, raise to wake low.
No extra battery drain noticed. It’s still like it was a the beginning => around 5% max / day when not exercising. -
@Tieutieu that is curious. There are a few of us that noticed the higher consumption (drain) after the last firmware update and some that do not.
(settings are listed as https://forum.suunto.com/post/139007)
With mine, consumption went up (8-10%/day) and through the discussion it seemed like a few people on the forum decided to turn off 24/7 HR and limit the S+ guides to extend the life of the battery. I did the drain/full charge to recalibrate the battery but it has consistently given me a higher drain and I figured i would wait until the next firmware update to test it out again.
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@Todd-Danielczyk I am not getting higher drain on production firmware.
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@Brad_Olwin thank you for the confirmation.
I know you put yours through its paces and use GPS/HR etc. as well. It seemed like there was some chatter on the 9 Peak Pro after the last firmware and then a handful of Vertical owners saw a higher battery drain. Chalked or up to Vertical owners having more milliamp batteries so didn’t hit us as soon.
As I said, it’s not a deal breaker for me as mine goes for roughly 2 weeks before needing to be charged but prior to the latest firmware I know it would be 3+ weeks. I’ll monitor it after the next update to see if it improves, holds the same or degrades.
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@Todd-Danielczyk Make sure standby is off and that you have not changed backlight intensity. This will definitely change battery life,
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@Brad_Olwin ah, thank you! I had standby off but brightness at medium. I’ll give that a try.
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@Todd-Danielczyk I have brigtness medium, standby off and raise to wake low. Check to make sure in Control Panel that backlight is off.
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@Brad_Olwin said in Battery drain:
@Todd-Danielczyk I have brigtness medium, standby off and raise to wake low. Check to make sure in Control Panel that backlight is off.
I set mine to brightness low. Standby off, raise to wake high, and backlight off and gave it a full day to check. Wearing just as 24/7 but no recorded activity.
Usage 4%.
The only thing I changed is from brightness medium to low. So my wake time is higher than yours (screen is active more) but uses less nit/brightness than yours. Seems either set up will consume lower battery.
Brad, I appreciate you taking the time to go through your settings and confirming.
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I set my SV to brightness low, Standby off, raise to wake low, and backlight off. Wearing it with 24/7 HR monitoring, and sleep tracking, I have a consumption of about 3% a day without recorded activities. In my opinion, that‘s great.
In the last weeks, after the last maps update, I noticed a increased consumption, but now after a soft reset, it’s as usual again. I talked about it in another thread… -
The only thing I had different is:
backlight: off
brightness: medium (i have lowered it to low now yo see the impact)
standby: off
raise to wake: off
hr24 and sleep tracking : on (i need those one, i dont want to inactive it to gain battery, not worth it)i will give you some update abouy drainage, may be the brightness from medium to low will reduce the consumption… what do you think?
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@Antoine-Lancrenon I can say I had brightness at Medium and Raise to Wake high, Standby off, Backlight off. With this I was seeing about a 10% daily battery consumption.
By switching to brightness at Low and Rase to Wake high, Standby off, Backlight off I saw 4% daily battery consumption. All other settings (24/7 HR, SPOx, notifications etc.) were left in the same condition as before and in the on state.
May be worthwhile to change your settings to see if it shows any difference. For me, the Brightness played a factor in battery consumption. Depending on what I plan on doing I may switch back and forth on Brightness but at least I can trace it to having an effect on the rate I need to charge.
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Yes I’m in the same situation brand new Suunto Vertical fully charged at 6am down to 33% at 6pm. With no sporting activity during this period heart rate tracking on and notifications turned on. Surely there is something wrong??
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@Brad_Olwin said in Battery drain:
@Todd-Danielczyk Make sure standby is off and that you have not changed backlight intensity. This will definitely change battery life,
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Ever since the latest update, I am seeing significant battery drain with very little use. Since last recharge 3 days ago, I have 2 activities totalling 110 minutes. I have not work the watch all day and do not wear the watch at night. However, the battery is not at 34%. I can try and restart the watch but it seems something has happened with the latest update.
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@altcmd said in Battery drain:
Ever since the latest update, I am seeing significant battery drain with very little use. Since last recharge 3 days ago, I have 2 activities totalling 110 minutes. I have not work the watch all day and do not wear the watch at night. However, the battery is not at 34%. I can try and restart the watch but it seems something has happened with the latest update.
Just check if backlight is constantly on.
Then do a soft reset. Maybe the eMMC driver is in a state that has the eMMC powered up permanently. Soft reset should get you back.to normal.
Plus the watch maybe needs a few charging cycles to re-calibrate the battery - like after every FW update. -
@altcmd said in Battery drain:
Ever since the latest update, I am seeing significant battery drain with very little use. Since last recharge 3 days ago, I have 2 activities totalling 110 minutes. I have not work the watch all day and do not wear the watch at night. However, the battery is not at 34%. I can try and restart the watch but it seems something has happened with the latest update.
I updated at about 60% then saw excessive drain throughout the rest of that charge (6% in one hour run).
It dropped all the way to 3% and I’ve recharged now to 100. Will see how it goes
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Hi everyone, lately my vertical’s battery drops for no reason. I only use the watch for training, sometimes I find -20% less leaving it in the drawer, everything deactivated, latest firmware installed 2.35.34. I noticed this problem after installing firmware 2.33.14 already done soft reset 2 times. example: Saturday end of training 86%, Sunday without any type of use 64%, in one day 22%!!! it’s not normal
