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      duffman19 @Mff73
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      @Mff73 said in Battery drain:

      @duffman19
      https://forum.suunto.com/post/149372

      I saw this. Not sure what you’re trying to tell me. I am on 2.35.34 and have now fully drained the battery twice (which would have been near impossible on previous firmware in such a short time) and am still seeing odd behavior. Is @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos suggesting there is a fix in the works?

      Vertical Ti

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        Mff73 @duffman19
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        @duffman19
        I understood from @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos 's post, that current FW already contains a battery drainage fix, and that full discharge/charge is the only trick to do.
        Now, I may be wrong, if in your case it is not working. I have no battery issues, so just sharing hints for any of those who are asking for the same.

        Suunto Spartan Ultra (since 2016) FW: 2.8.24 (retired)
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          duffman19
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          Another big loss overnight, this time 83-67% over 8 hours. This is again off wrist, face down on a table, this time with Battery Saver turned ON (so that didn’t work).

          I recorded a 2.5 hour run yesterday and lost 4% in Performance mode, so that puts it at a potential 62.5 hours of total run time from 100%, right in line with Suunto’s estimate.

          I have not been wearing the watch 24/7 the past few days as I’m currently testing others. However, I’m seeing about a 2% drop per hour while the watch sits off wrist. That puts the total run time at 50 hours from 100% while NOT recording an activity. So something is askew.

          I thought perhaps the overnight drain was due to the fact that I still had sleep detection enabled, so it was actively searching for my asleep/wake times, but I’m seeing the same dramatic drop during the day.

          Vertical Ti

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          • Antoine LancrenonA Offline
            Antoine Lancrenon Bronze Member
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            I am loosing 3-4% during the night (6-8 hours).
            I am still facing battery drainage.
            I have read here, and my only guess now are watchface and the complications… There must be an issue here. why some of us have battery drainage and other not?
            During an exercise and gps on, the battery have always behaved normally, and it is nice to see (only had an issue with suunto app+ when they are multiple, there was a bug of battery drainage as well)

            I have turning everything off/low, wifi off, notifications off, rize to wake off, no backlight etc… only Bluetooth is always on with my phone and are pretty much all the time close to each other.

            Now I have the original watchface vrtival with weather , day/night, and pressure trend.

            I am loosing in average 10% a day. i think i have tested everything, calibration, soft and hard reset.

            I am running out of ideas. I want to send my watch for repair, but it is a shame, i ma sure it is software the issue.

            what to do guys?

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              Outdoorsy @Antoine Lancrenon
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              @Antoine-Lancrenon Just a suggestion. If you think it’s a software issue, you could rollback to pervious version and see if that helps. There are some posts that show how to install previous version.

              I have not installed the latest software on my SV after reading about the issues posted here. My battery usage has been very good.

              Previous: Ambit 2, Ambit 3 Peak HR, 9 Peak Pro
              Current: Vertical non-solar

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                wasajones @wasajones
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                @wasajones said in Battery drain:

                I was experiencing the battery drain (1% / hour). After a couple of recharges from 20% to 100%, and turning off and on it seems like battery is performing as normal now. I don’t know if battery will drain fast again after my today’s workout (will update).

                Nope… still the same. Draining fast af.

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                • Antoine LancrenonA Offline
                  Antoine Lancrenon Bronze Member @Outdoorsy
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                  @Outdoorsy I had pretty much the same behavior before the update… May be it is even worse may be little bit. But since I bought the watch, i have never had more than 10-14 days of battery.

                  whether i have activities or not, it is pretty much the same. but i am usually doing 2h GPS tracking/activity a day, and some day more. but as I said, the battery drainage is between activities (watch mode and night basically)

                  is the h24 HR tracking is the culprit? i want to use my watch full potential. and HR tracking is part of my daily routine…

                  thank you for thoughts 😉

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                  • Tomas FejfarT Offline
                    Tomas Fejfar Bronze Member
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                    I had same issue (Suunto Race, 11 % per day after new update). My experience is that is connected with weather widget which I added to my watch face. Now I have only steps and date and battery consumption seems to be same like before the newest update. (I noticed on some other discussion that there is same issue with Sun rise widget). I think that widgets depended on internet have higher battery consumption.

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                    • Ars VitaeA Offline
                      Ars Vitae Bronze Member @Antoine Lancrenon
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                      @Antoine-Lancrenon Did you do exactely what many here advise? I mean, did you let the battery discharge below 20% and then charge it to 100% (while not forgetting to restart the watch after charging it to 100%) ? If yes, I can advise you also to make that watch reboot after battery discharge. Then you will see that your watch battery will gain some more percentages of “life”. For me it was from 16 % to 23 % after rebooting. Then let your battery to be discharge again below 20 %. Then charge your watch to 100%, reboot and it’s done. Sometimes, if it’s not enough, you need to repeat this operation. Some crazy stuff but I’ll try to explain later how I understand this battery drain after each firmware update.

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                        isazi Moderator @Tomas Fejfar
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                        @Tomas-Fejfar sunrise/sunset does not depend on internet connection though.

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                          Patrick Rx @Marton Attila
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                          @Marton-Attila my Race S has the same issue. I noted it after a long hike. Before the hike it worked normally (8% drain with 1 hour activity, no gps per day), afterwards the hike the battery drains really fast (more than 20% with 1 hour activity, no gps per day)

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                            Tomas Fejfar Bronze Member @isazi
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                            @isazi OK but I can definitely confirm that I am back on my 5.5 - 7 % daily battery consumption without weather complication.

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                              Patrick Rx @Tomas Fejfar
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                              @Tomas-Fejfar I enabled Suuntoplus apps Weather and Weather forecast for the hike. I disabled it this morning in the hiking profile without starting any activity (just disabled the presets for the next activity start).
                              Since then it seems to be draining the battery normally again.

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                                Tomas Fejfar Bronze Member @Patrick Rx
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                                @Patrick-Rx I was referring to the weather complication on the watch face. My apologies for any confusion.

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                                  duffman19
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                                  My SV went from 33-15% last night, same huge drain as the last few nights. I removed all complications from the watch face and have done two complete drain/recharge cycles.

                                  Vertical Ti

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                                    duffman19 @Ars Vitae
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                                    @Ars-Vitae Can you explain my battery loss? I’m losing 2-3% / hour when I’m not wearing the watch. I’ve performed two full discharge/recharge cycles and multiple resets.

                                    Vertical Ti

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                                      borgein @duffman19
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                                      @duffman19 said in Battery drain:

                                      My SV went from 33-15% last night, same huge drain as the last few nights. I removed all complications from the watch face and have done two complete drain/recharge cycles.

                                      Yeah I also see this on my SV Ti Solar. I have done recharge cycles, but from around 40% the battery capacity drops at an alarming rate. Also when I fully charge my watch, after a full charge cycle, and a day of wear, it goes down to 97% then up to 100% again without ever touching the charger… This is from the solar ring after just being outside for 20 minutes in the sun. It seems to me like the watch uncalibrates the battery by itself in some way. Buggy and unreliable.

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                                      • Antoine LancrenonA Offline
                                        Antoine Lancrenon Bronze Member
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                                        Hello, snd thanks for all the feedback!

                                        I have done 2 or 3 calibration. and soft reset before and after.

                                        complications link to internet update could have been a good suggestions, but

                                        1. all those complications are based on widgets, that are being updated wheter you have the complications or not displayed in the watch face,
                                        2. may be it increases the refresh rate?

                                        I have changed the watch face and put only complications related to watch/sensors. I have pretty much same results here (for the last 2 days at least). I am loosing ~10% every 24hrs, got the vertical solar version. So at this rate, my watch won’t last more than 10 days again. it is not bad, but I have bought the solar vertical to have nornally at least the double of that (~20 days), giving my day to day usage. I am pretty disappointed, but still love my watch that is why I am pretty obsessed with this issue.
                                        should I open a suunto support ticket? I have the feeling that I will know more about the issue and potential.fixes with the support guy 😉

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                                          Miloush Bronze Member
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                                          Hi, I also have similar battery drain issue.

                                          My finding is that after power OFF/ON cycle and not using any smart features (No activity tracking, No advanced location based complications as weather od sunrise/sunset) problem is gone and battery stops draining.

                                          But once I start using smart features then at some point watches turn into bad power management state and battery starts to drain. Even if I stop to use the feature (stop tracking, remove advanced complication) drainage won’t stop until next power OFF/ON cycle.

                                          In other words “something” triggers this “battery sucking” behaviour and only restart can fix it…until next trigger 😞

                                          Can somebody confirm this behaviour?

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                                            Antoine Lancrenon Bronze Member @Miloush
                                            last edited by Antoine Lancrenon

                                            @Miloush interesting. I could be in the same situation.

                                            the only thing that worked for me only for a few days was after a factory reset. but since then, I have put my setting back, HR24, and maps offline. i am back to the 10%-15% for a day.

                                            I am already at 50% after 3 days… no Internet complications, no notifications, everything is low of off. only HR24 tracking. i have registered 2houra of activities per days , 6 hours since last charge. why my battery is going down so fast?

                                            Again, I have Vertical Solar. I believe my watch is calibrated since I have done various full cycle recharges. what i didn’t do is to restart the watch before and after a full recharged. Only before.

                                            I am very frustrated, even if I love my watch. what to do?

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