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    • Michaël POINTEAUM Offline
      Michaël POINTEAU @Michaël POINTEAU
      last edited by Michaël POINTEAU

      @Michaël-POINTEAU factory reset yesterday.
      Sadly one thing already confirmed fixed: media control.
      Sadly because that means watch full setup to be done again.
      Sadly because this is not something we shall have to do to get our features back. At least it shall be properly communicated upfront.
      Especially when in summer season’s when you expect to use your watch intensively and potentially leave to location where network might not be that great or even capability to plug the watch.

      Hopefully this will also resolve the battery drain.

      Nevertheless the watch connectivity with the app is awful right now.
      I will have to spend time.again fixing that too.
      Disappointed overall despite the new climb pro feature to be honest.
      I was promotion Sunnto for it’s reliability no later than this week.

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      • matteo_000M Offline
        matteo_000 @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
        last edited by

        @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos discharge until 0%??? I habitually recharge the watch when the battery was about 20-15% anyway not under 10% for doesn’t stress the lithium battery. Is correct???

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        • sartoricS Offline
          sartoric Moderator @matteo_000
          last edited by sartoric

          @matteo_000
          Normally you should not and you shouldn’t need it.
          This is an exception, to recalibrate the battery.

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          • wmichiW Offline
            wmichi
            last edited by wmichi

            I have also seen faster battery drain after the last update. Like others suggested, I drained the battery to a value below 20%, charged it to 100% and restarted the watch afterwards (15s upper right button). Now everything is back to normal. I did this process yesterday at 18:00. Went to sleep at 22:30, woke up at 7:00 with 99%, went on a short run for 1h 20min (performance mode) and now at 12:20 I am still at 99% 🙂

            That’s the first time I had to do this after a firmware update.

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            • Ars VitaeA Offline
              Ars Vitae Bronze Member @wmichi
              last edited by

              @wmichi Thanks for the advice. Do you usually have a bluetooth connection enabled or disabled?

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              • Todd DanielczykT Offline
                Todd Danielczyk Gold Members @wmichi
                last edited by Todd Danielczyk

                @wmichi same here, battery was draining at 7-8% daily after the update (have seen this on several updates on serval Suunto watches).

                I let it run down until the watch shut off and charging icon showed; charged to 100% and wore it for the last 10 hours with sleep tracking and woke up with the battery at 99%. Battery went through recalibration, and it is back to normal.

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                • wmichiW Offline
                  wmichi @Ars Vitae
                  last edited by

                  @Ars-Vitae I have it always enabled. I only have do not disturb enabled between 21:00 and 07:00 (but this doesn’t disable bluetooth connection). I have to add, that I have notifications disabled. This might also help with a longer battery life.

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                  • Ars VitaeA Offline
                    Ars Vitae Bronze Member @wmichi
                    last edited by

                    @wmichi Ok, thanks.

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                    • Gilles D.G Offline
                      Gilles D. @altcmd
                      last edited by

                      Hello @altcmd, same with my Vertical Solar Steel.
                      Battery loaded at 99%, then 36 hours later down to 86%, with only one hour of bike riding…
                      HR 24/24 : ON
                      Screen backlight : OFF

                      I don’t want neither to do a soft reset, because all downloaded maps will be erased, and will take ages to re-download.

                      Gilles

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                      • Todd DanielczykT Offline
                        Todd Danielczyk Gold Members @Ars Vitae
                        last edited by Todd Danielczyk

                        @Ars-Vitae

                        Waited 24 hours after the battery recalibration (full drain/ full charge). Watch is set up 24/7 HR/SPO, notifications on and a 30 minute row (5200m) with chest heart rate strap (to check).

                        It is back to where it was for me: 3% daily battery usage.

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                        • Z Offline
                          zewen
                          last edited by zewen

                          here is my case:
                          i run a 100KM ultra trail running race at 7-12, when the race begin, the battery is 89%, after 25h25min, i finish the race, the battery is 50%, the race start at morning 8:00am, a cloudy day , almost rainning all day, next day is sunny day
                          and climb guidance notifications off, navigation with route on
                          all i want to say the solar it’s beyond my expect.
                          But,now the battery is 38% now,i only do 1 hour hike , sleep with sv

                          when the the lastest update, the battery is 40%, i update, after that, the battery drain fast , i drain the battery to there is a charge icon on the watch face( with several exercise), i charge it to full, and i do power off and power on.

                          seetings:
                          back light to off
                          standby off
                          alarm clock on
                          no notifications
                          h24 and sleep hr tracking on
                          blood oxygen off
                          best gps settings
                          no SuuntoPlus

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                          • Z Offline
                            zewen @zewen
                            last edited by

                            @zewen
                            @zewen said in Battery drain:

                            full charge, last 21days during this time, i walking/running/ultra running for 39.6 hour, 1 hour weight exercise, only exercise and sleeping i wear my SV

                            seetings:
                            back light to off
                            standby off
                            alarm clock on
                            no notifications
                            h24 and sleep hr tracking on
                            blood oxygen off
                            best gps settings
                            no SuuntoPlus
                            winter, SV almost under my cloth, solar can ignore

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                            • sartoricS Offline
                              sartoric Moderator @Gilles D.
                              last edited by sartoric

                              @Gilles-D said in Battery drain:

                              I don’t want neither to do a soft reset, because all downloaded maps will be erased,

                              Soft reset (12sec long press ) doesn’t erase maps

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                              • Marton AttilaM Offline
                                Marton Attila
                                last edited by

                                It seems the problem persist. I completely drained the battery and charged from 0% to 100% It worked until it reached 70%-65% battery, from there it’s downhill pretty fast. I think the battery indicator is wrong somehow. For 2 days I had from 100% to 98% almost. Now from 65% I lose about 4% per night.

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                                • Antoine LancrenonA Offline
                                  Antoine Lancrenon Bronze Member
                                  last edited by

                                  Only 28% left since the 11th of July… Yes I used ~2h tracked activity per day. Still I think it drains too much. I am loosig 3% during the night,.24hrs HR tracking. a part of that, everything is off or low. I am still pretty disappointed by the battery of the vertical solar. I have never went beyond 12 days without recharging. Far from the spec.

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                                  • LisztoL Offline
                                    Liszto @Marton Attila
                                    last edited by

                                    As @sartoric closed my previous post to avoid duplicate (thanks to redirecting me here)

                                    I’ll post my experience here :

                                    I acquired recently a Suunto Vertical solar (following the refurbish system) in May

                                    Everything was good in term of battery drain (something similar to what suunto announce on their website).
                                    But following the last system update I noticed a HUGE battery drain (roughly 10% / day) which is definietly not normal.
                                    Consumption during workout seems “normal” but it’s hard to judge.

                                    So I tried at least one thing (I didn’t have soft / hard reset for now) :

                                    I just shutdown the watch and switch it on again.
                                    I charge the battery till 100%
                                    Following the “reboot”, the watch started to act “normal” and consume 1-2% during the following day.
                                    Right after this day without any workout, I made a workout for a duration of 6h30 (GPS double precision, heartrate etc…) and the watch lost around 10-11% (seems accurate & normal to me).

                                    BUT following this activity, the watch starts again its bad behavior and since it losts again 10% / day.

                                    Have you any idea ? I supposed it’s nor normal because everything was ok the month before the update.

                                    I can try a soft reset but I would avoid the hard one 😕

                                    Thanks again for people who can help me and if you need more informations, feel free to ask 🙂

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                                    • I Offline
                                      Iggge @Antoine Lancrenon
                                      last edited by

                                      @Antoine-Lancrenon I will let my watch get to zero and after that charge it to 100%. Hope that will solve the problem for me as it has for others.
                                      My watch has since the new release used about 10% (12% today) each day. Before the update it was about 3-5%.

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                                      • freeheelerF Offline
                                        freeheeler
                                        last edited by

                                        I saw mine eating battery like potato chips over the past few days. will observe and report

                                        living sideways

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                                        • thanasisT Offline
                                          thanasis Bronze Member @Iggge
                                          last edited by thanasis

                                          If anyone wants to make the battery drain real fast, put the ohr on a glass surface when not wearing . It makes it discharge much faster. I am taking this approach to get to the 0% in the next couple of days so that to make it for the weekend

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                                          • sartoricS Offline
                                            sartoric Moderator
                                            last edited by sartoric

                                            Mine seems ok.
                                            I’m at 49% after 10 days, with activities and 24/7.
                                            Maybe some of the other options is draining more than expected (eg. I don’t have phone BT always on)

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