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    • surfboomerangS Offline
      surfboomerang @GiPFELKiND
      last edited by

      @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. 🤷

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      • BrunoHB Offline
        BrunoH Gold Members @Edoardo Coppolillo
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        @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.

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        Diving: Finnlight Navy 90, Vyper
        Sports: Metron, S7, S9B and Vertical

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        • jjpazJ Offline
          jjpaz Bronze Member @fondueaufromage
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          @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.

          Suunto T3D, Suunto Spartan Trainer, Suunto Spartan Ultra (retired), Suunto 9 Baro (retired), Suunto 9 Peak (retired), Suunto Vertical Titanium Solar, Suunto Race S.

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          • freeheelerF Offline
            freeheeler @GiPFELKiND
            last edited by

            @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

            living sideways

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            • Edoardo CoppolilloE Offline
              Edoardo Coppolillo Bronze Member @BrunoH
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              @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!

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              • freeheelerF Offline
                freeheeler
                last edited by

                looks like a redundant topic?

                living sideways

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                • Antoine LancrenonA Offline
                  Antoine Lancrenon Bronze Member
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                  After changing watch face (outdoor from baro.9) display barometer, battery (ring) and day of sunset. and perform a soft reset in yhe morning.

                  everything off currently: Bluetooth, notifications, rize to wakw, bsckligt Hr24, sleep track are off.

                  did an hour run with gps yesterday night.

                  i have lost only 4% the last 24hrs with that.
                  the soft reset helped i guess.
                  there is a background process that is being Triggered somehow. and I don’t have it seems currently, but it comes and goes…

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                  • OnlyoneKenobiO Offline
                    OnlyoneKenobi
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                    I also had the battery drain problem on race. I contacted support who took me through a series of procedures.
                    First they made me do a soft reset after turning off a series of functions.

                    1. Brightness: Medium
                    2. Standby: deactivated
                    3. Raise to Wake: bass
                    4. Backlight: Off
                    5. Mobile notifications: Off
                      after 24 hours if it didn’t work they recommended a hard reset and finally if it didn’t resolve it they said to send the watch for repair. However, it seems that for most cases an update will be released that will solve the battery drain.
                      Unfortunately I had to send my race in for repairs.

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                    • Frederick RochetteF Offline
                      Frederick Rochette Bronze Member
                      last edited by

                      The same goes for me, the battery goes down at least twice as fast as before.
                      However, I let it discharge twice to 0% and then recharged to 100%.
                      Can’t wait for the bugfix.

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

                        @OnlyoneKenobi Thanks for sharing this information. One question: what do you mean “turning off a series of functions”? For exemple first point: should I turn off Brightness from Medium, or set Brightness to Medium? Does this procedure mean that I should set what is put after colon (“:”) or turn it completly off?

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                        • OnlyoneKenobiO Offline
                          OnlyoneKenobi @Ars Vitae
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                          @Ars-Vitae you’re right, it’s not very clear, I reported the chat without rereading. The brightness should be set to medium. I also have to add 2 more points, since they went lost during copy and past.
                          6 OHR : off
                          7 HRV: off
                          after synchronies SR to phone and then with off even in connectivity option discovery.
                          Now make soft reset

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                          • M Offline
                            MeazzaS9
                            last edited by

                            Hi everyone, premise… I only use the vertical for training otherwise everything is disabled and not worn.
                            I tried calibrating the battery by bringing it to 0% and then to 100% followed by a soft reset. Impressions: initially the vertical responds well, minimum consumption from 100% to 90% then increases slightly from 90% to 70%.
                            After a long workout I found my battery dropped by 4/8% in the following 6 hours (always with battery <80%).
                            Usually a workout without suunto plus or maps uses 1% now, I happened to see 2%/h <80%.
                            Do you know if Suunto is working on this issue? Thank you

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                            • Mff73M Offline
                              Mff73 @MeazzaS9
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                              @MeazzaS9
                              last information we may found/know
                              https://forum.suunto.com/post/150513

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                              • EzioAuditoreE Offline
                                EzioAuditore Gold Members @Mff73
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                                @Mff73 My Vertical is also experiencing this. Suddenly I found the watch with the charge icon. Not only that but after I put it on the charger it got stuck in safe mode… and I had to reset it showing different error messages. After that it seemed better especially since I was using it more during my holidays (vertical for the hikes and the ocean at the sea and running). But again during 3 weeks I had to charge it twice something in the past was not happening (I could easily not take the charger then) and there was plenty of sun so the solar was working too. What’s more interesting is that the Race aftrer the update also eat the battery very fast but has stabilised now. Another thing is that the Ocean went 3 weeks straight without charging and more usage (sleeping, diving, swimming and running) than the Vertical (only hiking and some daily usage here and there).
                                I have not found the pattern why and when this happens 😞 It looks good when you use it but if you take it off your hand it starts eating the bat like crazy 🙂
                                It also seems that only the Vertical is affected by this (at least that’s what I’ve seen among my 3 watches).

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                                • LisztoL Offline
                                  Liszto @sartoric
                                  last edited by

                                  @sartoric I already did that once and it was ok right after. BUT after this “normal” discharged, I try a new full charge and the behaviour started to act as previous with a 8-10% battery drain per day 😕

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                                  • martintrailM Offline
                                    martintrail Silver Members
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                                    so Vertical has this problem too? Not just Race? It’s crazy 😞

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                                    • sebchastangS Offline
                                      sebchastang Silver Members @martintrail
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                                      @martintrail Same issue with my watch (Vertical) since latest update but I can’t find a clear way to reproduce or trigger the battery drain . .watchface complications? weather or sunset widget access (location related)? SA sync? …
                                      5% battery lost during last 12 hours with watch lying on a desk (no HR, no sleep tracking, no activity, bluetooth/wifi disabled).
                                      Only restart of the watch helps to get battery consumption back to normal.
                                      I am still trying some configurations or actions to identify what triggers the battery drain but it is not easy at all.
                                      Hope Suunto will find and deploy a fix soon 🤞

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                                      • sartoricS Offline
                                        sartoric Moderator
                                        last edited by sartoric

                                        I’m probably on the lucky side, as I didn’t’ experience such a drain, on the contrary, yesterday under a scorching sun my Vertical went from 96% to 100% in almost half an hour (in watch mode, not recording any activity)
                                        … if I stayed more than that in the open, I would have ignited 😁

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                                        • Gilles D.G Offline
                                          Gilles D. @martintrail
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                                          Hello @martintrail ,
                                          I have same issue. I suspect HR rate monitoring H24 to play a role. Suspicious behavior I observed : when I wear the watch at my wrist, I see that the green diodes are flashing for more than one minute a row, without stopping. I can see that by just raising a little bit the watch and seeing the green light. When I remove the watch from my wrist, the green diodes stop flashing.
                                          Can somebody confirm the normal behavior is that the green diodes only keeps lighting for 10/15 seconds max, then stop for 10 to 15 seconds, then lights again?
                                          Thanks,
                                          Gilles

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                                          • Ars VitaeA Offline
                                            Ars Vitae Bronze Member @OnlyoneKenobi
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                                            @OnlyoneKenobi said in Battery drain:

                                            I also had the battery drain problem on race. I contacted support who took me through a series of procedures.
                                            First they made me do a soft reset after turning off a series of functions.

                                            1. Brightness: Medium
                                            2. Standby: deactivated
                                            3. Raise to Wake: bass
                                            4. Backlight: Off
                                            5. Mobile notifications: Off
                                              after 24 hours if it didn’t work they recommended a hard reset and finally if it didn’t resolve it they said to send the watch for repair. However, it seems that for most cases an update will be released that will solve the battery drain.
                                              Unfortunately I had to send my race in for repairs.

                                            So, based on these indications meant for SR, I did a test for my SV. The first one performed poorly, but battery consumption slowed down. I did a second one following the missing instructions (another post by the same author). In 24 hours (including sleep tracking and HVR), the battery loss is only 1%, which is how it used to be in my case. But I prefer to wait one more day just to be sure, because my previous experience showed that after two days the battery drained quickly again (13-15% per day with no activity and no functions running in the background). Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow latest, I will let you know if this procedure indicated in the quoted post worked 100%. There is some hope.

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