Software release 2.30.26

inkognito

Right now, my battery level is 10%. Battery estimate for Running (Basic) in Performance mode (no SuuntoPlus apps, etc.) is 4h. Shouldn’t this be closer to 6h according to expected 60h battery life on full charge?

Sergei Ladeishchikov

@larrybbaker At 12% charge, vibration becomes barely noticeable and then disappears completely. If you turn on sound, sound notifications work. The power saving mode is disabled (if I remember correctly, it automatically turns on when the charge is 2%, it also notifies when the power saving mode is turned on and the screen becomes dim). This error was present in the previous version of the software. This way it is very difficult to drain the SV battery to 0% because I will miss all notifications from the phone for 2-3 days. I would have thought that the problem was in the watch itself, but the previous watch was replaced under warranty and the situation has not changed. It is very strange that no one has noticed this yet in the new software, or has their clock not yet discharged to 12%?

Ars Vitae

@Sergei-Ladeishchikov I would avoid discharging the battery to 12% and below. As with mobile phones, the battery should be charged between 20 and 80 % so as not to shorten its life.

Antoine

I have this morning a new issue that i have never seen before update (installed on 16th november): i can’t use touch screen anymore on my suunto vertical to change screen/menu, it doesn’t work, and it is only possible to use button.
A soft reset (12s on upper right button) solved the problem.

jjpaz

@Antoine I have commented on this problem twice, once with the previous version and once with the current one.

Antoine

@jjpaz i have never seen that with previous update. It was during the night when sleeping.

Mff73

@inkognito said in Software release 2.30.26:

Right now, my battery level is 10%. Battery estimate for Running (Basic) in Performance mode (no SuuntoPlus apps, etc.) is 4h. Shouldn’t this be closer to 6h according to expected 60h battery life on full charge?

mine was at 9% yesterday before running, and my estimation was 4h (custom mode with touch screen activated).
I will deplete it fully today to charge it fully after the latest FW update and calibrate my battery.
Maybe yours has another “calibration” currently

Mff73

@Ars-Vitae said in Software release 2.30.26:

@Sergei-Ladeishchikov I would avoid discharging the battery to 12% and below. As with mobile phones, the battery should be charged between 20 and 80 % so as not to shorten its life.

for everyday life, yes, it seems to be a recommandation, but after FW update, and for battery gauge calibration, we also are recommanded to make a full charge cycle once : this unique one should not damage the battery, and when watch will announce 0%, it will just be 0% from the watch meter, and not a total battery discharge.
just my thinking from what i am hearing and reading everywhere.

Pavlas

Hi, I have a new Vertical. Slept with the watch yesterday. And at night I got a notification that I’ve been sitting for a long time and it’s time to move If it was mentioned here, I’m sorry.

Mff73

@Pavlas
did you setup your sleep times range in the watch ?

smopi

@Pavlas In my case, I have never had a notification about inactivity. At work I sit at a desk almost all the time, so it’s weird. My Polar Grit X would show me this notification from time to time.

Pavlas

@Mff73 Yes. And the latest firmware.

Ars Vitae

@Mff73 This procedure, calibration, is followed usually after replacing the battery with a new one and is usually done by a service technician. Unless you are replacing the battery yourself. We would have to calibrate the battery after every system update on the computer, and yet we don’t do that. Such a “calibration” also consumes the battery (I didn’t write, that it “damages”). In my case, a soft reset of the watch, that is restarting it, helped. For instance, I had a battery level of about 63%, which dropped from 68% in 24 hours. After a reboot it went back to 66%.

Mff73

@Ars-Vitae
agree with you about the logic.
we heard so many time this advice for this procedure, that i repeat it all time i hear about any battery questions after a FW update.
But i also retreive this, which goes into your direction
https://forum.suunto.com/post/122861

so maybe the good advice is just : wait and see later.
I don’t know anymore

Iggge

My alarm did not work this morning. It’s on and everything should be OK. So this morning my wife had to be my morning alarm

pilleus

@Iggge said in Software release 2.30.26:

So this morning my wife had to be my morning alarm

Don’t be shy, tell us more …

Iggge

@pilleus LOL hahah

Ars Vitae

@Mff73 said in Software release 2.30.26:

@Ars-Vitae
agree with you about the logic.
we heard so many time this advice for this procedure, that i repeat it all time i hear about any battery questions after a FW update.
But i also retreive this, which goes into your direction
https://forum.suunto.com/post/122861

so maybe the good advice is just : wait and see later.
I don’t know anymore

I agree with what is written in that post, that in many cases calibration restores the correct monitoring of battery consumption. Usually restarting the device is enough. But that doesn’t mean at all that the battery doesn’t drain faster with such a calibration. Many experts point out that the worst thing for a battery (lithium-ion) is for it to be completely discharged rather than fully charged. I try to avoid both situations, especially in the case of the SV is easy to achieve, because the battery is very efficient and it takes a hard effort to miss a complete discharge. And charging this watch is 20-25 minutes to 80%, so easy to keep an eye on. My watch’s battery consumption (with economical settings, but not battery saver mode) and no sporting activities (exercise launches) is 1% per day. With a battery charged between 20 and 80% you can forget about charging this watch for 2 months.

inkognito

@Sergei-Ladeishchikov said in Software release 2.30.26:

Hi all! My watch was discharged to 12% and vibration on notifications stopped working again, just like in the previous software. Has anyone noticed the lack of vibration?

Confirmed! Today, I missed my morning alarm because of this (I use vibration only)… Power saving mode was off…

Could someone check whether Suunto is aware of this? @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos

inkognito

And another interesting thing:

Right now, I discharged my watch to 0%. In the very end, I was on the “exercise start screen”:

In the options, I had the Backlight toggle On.

Then, when the critical battery icon appeared, the constant backlight stayed on.

After approximately 3 minutes, my watch turned off completely (the screen was just black, and the battery icon disappeared).

Is this the expected behavior? I recall that the S9 was able to display the critical battery screen for hour(s), and the backlight was off in the meantime…