Battery drain

[Jose Luis]

@freeheeler On Sunday I charged it 99% and today with 4 hours of training with GPS it has 50%, I’m going to let it drain the battery to be able to do another full charge to see how it goes.

[isazi]

@Jose-Luis you already tried a reboot, right? There seems to be something wrong, my watch is at 68% after 8 days and many activity hours.

[freeheeler]

@isazi
mine is similar like @Jose-Luis , I’ll fully drain the battery, fully charge, reset and judge then … and don’t worry already

…edit: one reason, along with others is: I worry too much in general about basically everything and it’s not healthy. I’m working on that

[kamarasm]

It looks like this issue could not avoid me too.
What I experienced is:

• SV was charged to 78% when unboxed,
• used it for a week, when I needed to charge it first,
• it went up to 100%, but it was slow - almost 2 hours,
• from that time started to discharge very quickly - 15% during the night,
• soft reset didn’t resolve the issue,
• the second charge was normal in my opinion - around 1 hour

Now it works well and discharge looks normal. We will see it, but I seen this as a calibration on battery level.

[EzioAuditore]

@freeheeler and the beer has lot of zero calories to rely on as stress releif

[kamarasm]

@kamarasm oh, NO
10% just about 3 hours…

[isazi]

@kamarasm during activity or daily use?

[kamarasm]

@isazi during the normal daily use

[isazi]

@kamarasm I would try a factory reset, and contact support if that doesn’t fix it.

[Tieutieu]

@kamarasm said in Battery drain:

@kamarasm oh, NO
10% just about 3 hours…

Are you really sure you didn’t activated accidentally the back light ? It happened to my wife with her S9pp and she had a similar battery drain. As the main setting of backlight was to « low » she hadn’t really paid attention to it.

Anyway, other settings can impact battery drain (notifications…).

My settings :

• back light to low
• standby off
• turn to raise to low
• no notifications
• h24 and sleep hr tracking on
• spo2 mesurement off
• personal sports modes with maps and best gps settings

Battery drain metrics so far : less than 2% for 24h as watch and tracking
I have made more than 17h of various exercices since first full charge last week when I received it on Tuesday.

(It leads me to that question : since last week i am still at 48% and I have a long race Saturday (should take me around 13/14 hours). I don’t know yet if I recharge the vertical or not…it still predict me 28 hours of battery life with my trail mode.
Would you play ??!)

[kamarasm]

@isazi Sorry, but I’m an observer and really enjoy to playing with this kind of stuffs.
So, I tried to understand what happened here. I got a theory, but need some testing.
All the things started with I modified backlight settings you suggested in a post - to lowering the brightness. But I tried Low option for Raise to wake settings as well. When I realized that it did not worth to change, I sat it back to high. And the mysterious drain started that time.
Last evening - when managed my kids to bath, I got off SV and saw that backlight stay active longer then before. I just tried and it was almost 1 min in every occasions, which is abnormal.
Review all the settings and found that backlight was switched to on.
Which is interesting:

• how it was activated as I didn’t do it?
• if it was active, backlight stay always on, not turned off after 1 min?
  So, I try to repeat the mentioned step above today, to see I can reproduce the issue or not.
  I’ll let you know

[Tieutieu]

@kamarasm even if you have been to settings/general/backlight and set everything « right », there is still a « direct » option to set backlight on that comes over other settings when activated : you find it when you go down from main screen to the menu, just under « do not disturb » and « flashlight ».
(That’s where my wife had accidentally switched backlight on and battery drain was then massive)

[herlas]

Just saw this on SA android

[Jose Luis]

@herlas thanks, I’m going to try

[RightNow]

Is this a bug? Or is this the thing you have to do always?

[freeheeler]

@RightNow
I assume it is a default setting (don’t remember…) and it was frequently asked

[RightNow]

@freeheeler Yes but I wouldn’t call it „unexpected“. Then it would be expected. Is it a bug or expected?

[runomatic]

@freeheeler My new Vertical came with Standby = On, so that should be default.

[jjpaz]

@runomatic Yes, that’s the current default conf.
It will be fixed in the new software, current default mode will be Backlight Off.

[valdis830]

Last full charge 20th + (something of sun)
Activity: 4:33h without SuuntoPlus; best GPS + route navigation
Actually: 75% of juice left.

My current configuration:

WATCH MODE
*brightness- medium
*standby- off
*rise to wake- hight

*tones- all off
*vibration- on
*notifications- off

*activity 24/7- on
*sleep tracking- on
*auto no disturb- 23:00-8:00

ACTIVITY
*GPS Accuracy- best
*touch- enabled