Battery drain

fondueaufromage

Like all of you, since update 2.35.34 Q2, I have also noticed a sharp increase in battery consumption on my SV, even though I have not used it for activity recording. The battery completely discharges in 7 days with only 3 hours of activity… Let’s say loss of 6 to 10% per 24 hours.

But I read this post where a user found that the sunrise/sunset complication seems to be consuming excessive battery life : https://forum.suunto.com/post/149485
and I also display it on my watch. So I replaced it with another information and since then I have only lost 2% battery in 72 hours (without activity recording).

I don’t know if this would be the case for you too… ?

Antoine Lancrenon

@borgein when on gps/activity, the battery is working solid, and even better with last update.

The issue is clearly during watch mode depending:

watch face /complications
HR24 / sleep tracking
back light intensity
stand by (killer)
suunto app (depending which one during an exercise) didn’t test lately in 2024, but last ultra, 2 suunto app.during ultra (~15hrs) was.a killer also: went from 80% to almost 0%, it may have been fixed, and will depend of the suunto app also, more logical.on wajt live calculation and compuystion, data to be displayed.

The thing, and what is very frustrating is seeing the watch drain, doing nothing but watch mode checking weather and day light… this shouldn’t be from my point of view. I really hope those drops are identified by suunto, and will be fixed with a hotfix.

seeing a vertical solar draining in watch mode is not cool. Must be an issue, i am seeing more and more complaining. clearly not the battery defective, it is software.

surfboomerang

@fondueaufromage said in Battery drain:

But I read this post where a user found that the sunrise/sunset complication seems to be consuming excessive battery life : https://forum.suunto.com/post/149485
and I also display it on my watch. So I replaced it with another information and since then I have only lost 2% battery in 72 hours (without activity recording).

This doesn’t seem consistent for everyone.
I have the sunrise/sunset complication on my watch face. Charged the watch 3 weeks ago, recorded about 10 activities and have 48% battery left. (24/7 HR and sleep disabled)

Swaddy61

It seems this really is inconsistent across the watches.

My SVTi solar was last charged 3 weeks ago, I have 24/7 HR, HRV, SpO2,
Sleep Tracking all enabled, and also about 10 Activities, with GPS and often external HRM and today my watch is at 31%.

Weather has not been great, so not so much solar charging either!

I hope that by stating this I haven’t jinxed it…

isazi

I did notice battery drain in daily mode after the update, but it went away after a charge and reboot few days after. After that everything seems normal.

Because it seems to affect only some users, Suunto developers are finding it difficult to pinpoint this. A special firmware is being tested with enhanced debugging capabilities. Hopefully the issue will be fixed for all in the next update (coming shortly).

Antoine Lancrenon

@Swaddy61 interesting, what is the watch face and complications also?
indeed, it is not consistent…
seems that the soft reset help last time I have change watch face/complications. But still, having to do a soft reset all the time is not acceptable and it always starting to drain

I have a spartan watch face, displaying analog seconds, and battery. everything is off (notifications, wifi, discovery, sleep, hr24 etc) I have the feeling something else is happening.

It is great to hear that the logging will be improved to help pinpoint those issues. there is something going on, but great to hear that some (or most finally) if you have the expected battery life.

Swaddy61

@Antoine-Lancrenon I have analog watch face with barometer, altitude, Day / date and sunrise / sunset complications (4 complications in total), so it isn’t ‘necessarily’ the sunrise/sunset complication by itself that is causing the issue, at least, not for me.

maszop

@fondueaufromage I use a Race face with Date and CTL. So there must be another reason.

GiPFELKiND

@surfboomerang didnt make the Problem better for users who have that battery drain Problem…

surfboomerang

@GiPFELKiND Maybe it does for Suunto devs. Knowing not every user with the sunset compliation faces the same issue.

GiPFELKiND

@Edoardo-Coppolillo said in Battery drain:

Same issue here, with a Suunto Vertical Solar Ti.

After the latest sofware update the battery drain during normal use (e.g. watch mode, no activity) is significantly increased.
I just charged the watch this morning up 97%, i unplugged it at 7:36 AM; been sitting at my desk/laptop for the whole day until now, and the battery is 93% at 4:19 PM.

3% gone in 7 hours of absolutely no activity, just moving slithlgy the wrist by typing on the keyboard.

I just did also a hard reset - i will keep posted if this has somehow reverted the trend or not.

Do you guys know if any of the developers at SUUNTO has been made aware of the issue?
@Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

Thanks you all in advance for your help!

Seems that noone have Something to answer 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 thats really Frustrating!!! No information if suunto works at a solution for the battery drain

GiPFELKiND

@surfboomerang said in Battery drain:

@GiPFELKiND Maybe it does for Suunto devs. Knowing not every user with the sunset compliation faces the same issue.

@surfboomerang is the Sunset Complication the Problem with the Battery drain??? Should we change this in another Complication?

Antoine Lancrenon

@GiPFELKiND I am testing to be honest.

but it is not consistent… still trying to understand what is causing or triggering the drain…

may be it is none of that(backlight, notifications, complications, HR24), but only a UI flow playing wth the UX that trigger a background worker that draining the battery. only way to stop it is the soft reset… this is my guess as a former developer and product expert.
Everybody has their own way of playing with the watch… must be scenario explaining why some has the drain and others not. there is something!

But what is causing this background process that causing the issue, we still don’t know , and I hope Suunto figured that out with the coming update that seems to be ready and coming soon now!

finger crossed. If we can have that fixed (i am pretty obsessed with it lately haha) amd having the turn by turn workable in navigation mode i will be a happy man

darxmurf

Big hour on the right and 3 complications on the left here, date, steps and battery level.

surfboomerang

@GiPFELKiND Not that I know. It was suggested it could be the cause of the battery drain but then you would think everyone that has selected the sunset complication would suffer from it.
My post was just to indicate that I have selected the sunset complication and do not suffer from increased battery drain.

Maybe this info is helpful for the Suunto dev team. Maybe not.

BrunoH

@Edoardo-Coppolillo my experiences are exact opposite.

I’ve got Vertical Solar Ti. After the last SW update I let the watch go all the way down to 0% until it turned off. After that I fully charged the watch.

The first few days it was dropping 1-2% in 24 hours (no exercise). Since then the drain probably increased slightly, but my opinion is that my battery performs better than ever before.

About the settings: I have the backlight off (turns on only when I press the buttons or a notification arrives). I have limited my mobile notifications to just a few selected apps. My watch is on do-not-disturb 12 hours every day. Sleep tracking, 24h HR tracking and nighly SpO2 are turned on.

I really can’t complain. Something I noticed earlier was that the battery consumption is always significantly bigger when I am receiving a lot of notifications. Constant buzzing and backlight are energy hungry.

jjpaz

@fondueaufromage said in Battery drain:

Like all of you, since update 2.35.34 Q2, I have also noticed a sharp increase in battery consumption on my SV, even though I have not used it for activity recording. The battery completely discharges in 7 days with only 3 hours of activity… Let’s say loss of 6 to 10% per 24 hours.

Like many of you I also noticed that behavior after the software update.
I performed the suggested re-calibration process and battery consumption become normal. Few days after that I had to download maps to the wath, and had to connect to the battery charger so I charged battery from around 60% to 100%. After that, battery drain happened again.
Now, I have performed another re-calibration process and all seems normal.

My new procedure is: after full charge of the watch, soft reset and resync with SuuntoApp. And try to charge when the watch is below 20% because partial charge seems to de-calibrate battery levels.

freeheeler

@GiPFELKiND
I think there were some issues that you were terribly upset about already and if I recall correctly Suunto has never ignored the issues.
my watch used 50% battery within 3 days… I’m not happy either but I think @isazi has mentioned that Suunto is on it

Edoardo Coppolillo

@BrunoH Thanks for sharing your experience!

After my last message i did a hard reset (always a little annoying that all the HRV, connected devices etc cannot be re-synced back once the mobile app link i established); and the battery was at 92%.

Aftert that i’ve plugged the watch to the charger and let it go up to 100%; and from that moment the battery seems back to normal, i.e. dropping about 3-3.5% a day (maybe still a little high considered no notifications nor bluetooth connection was on for the whole period, but seems more normal).

About the settings i’m basically using the same excepts that i have the notifications always off (backlight off unless i click something, no raise to wake, DNB for about 12 hrs and bluetooth off).

I haven’t done any “recalibration”, i.e. letting the battery go to zero. I’m reading in this forum that people had mixed experiences with it so I wonder whether that is a procedure recommended by the SUUNTO helpdesk?

Thank you all!

freeheeler

looks like a redundant topic?