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    • Brad_OlwinB Offline
      Brad_Olwin Moderator @Todd Danielczyk
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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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        Todd Danielczyk Gold Members @Brad_Olwin
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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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        • Brad_OlwinB Offline
          Brad_Olwin Moderator @Todd Danielczyk
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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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            Todd Danielczyk Gold Members @Brad_Olwin
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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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              • SuperFlo75S Offline
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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…

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                  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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                    Todd Danielczyk Gold Members @Antoine Lancrenon
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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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                    • Sean MarshallS Offline
                      Sean Marshall
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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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                      • Sean MarshallS Offline
                        Sean Marshall @Brad_Olwin
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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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                            Egika Platinum Member @altcmd
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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.

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                              stromdiddily Gold Members @altcmd
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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.

                              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

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                                  stromdiddily Gold Members @MeazzaS9
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                                  @MeazzaS9 said in Battery drain:

                                  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

                                  There’s another thread dedicated to this post update

                                  https://forum.suunto.com/topic/11060/battery-drain

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                                    MeazzaS9 @stromdiddily
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                                    @stromdiddily forgive me, do I have to write my post in the new section?

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                                      MeazzaS9
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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

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                                      Suunto Vertical Black Lime (2023)
                                      Suunto 7 Graphite Copper (2021)
                                      Suunto 9 Baro Black (2020) sold

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                                        altcmd Silver Members @Egika
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                                        @Egika soft reset, I.e. a restart did not help. I will try to drain it out and then charge again. Let’s see.

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                                          MeazzaS9
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                                          I try a soft reset after the 2.35.34 update 🤞

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                                            altcmd Silver Members @altcmd
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                                            current battery drain is roughly 1% per hour without use.

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