Battery drain
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I agree that all bugs must be fixed.
However, my suggestion is not to forget a bug fix, but to go further. Why not improve the system to have it better even without any bug?
For example, with my suggestion it will be easy to find that a new setting in the watch start to drain battery faster. Within this in mind, the user will be able to test it and suggest a fix or an improvement to the system, depending on the situation.
Battery management or watching tool allow us an easy way to find related bugs.
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@jjpaz said in Battery drain:
@BrunoH That exact problem happened to me.
After update: battery drain --> battery recalibration --> problem solved
Maps download (battery charge from 60% to 100%) --> Battery drainTwo weeks ago I performed another battery calibration and problem seems solved again…
Wi-Fi connection could be the problem? After map download I soft reset the watch and deactivate Wi-Fi connection.
I reply miself, an update:
Problem seemed solved until today: yesterday I finished my training in the morning with 62% battery level. In the afternoon I swapped watches, swapping to Race S, so Vertical stayed in the drawer until this morning: 32% battery left, without activity and without use. HR not working. So it seems that something (or some process) that drains battery is triggered again.
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I have experienced the same battery drain than all of you 6-7% every night since the last update even tho I didn’t change any setting, HR sensor ON, watch in plane mode.
However, I think the battery drain is similar during an activity, but I also noticed a huge drop in battery right after a long activity. For example last weekend I recorded a 7h long hike resulting in a battery drop of around 15% but in the following hours after the activity I lost around 10% in 3 hours.Other strange behaviour:
If I don’t wear the watch for a couple of minutes, the HR sensor is turned off and when I put back the watch on my wrist the green led stays off even if the HR sensor is supposed to be ON and I have no HR recording. I have to manually turn the sensor OFF and ON in the widget.Something weird about the plane mode also, if I turn off and on my watch while it is in plane mode I can’t synch it with my phone anymore. I have to deactivate the plane mode for my phone to synch with the watch, but if I go back in plane mode right after I am able to synch the watch even in plane mode.
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@Bouli35 For me the problem seems mostly to be present after a night of sleep (3-4% drain compared to <2%) before. During daily routines everything seems to be more or less alike, even during a 24hr GPS tracking exercise last week I didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary (~40% of battery loss).
Hope devs are looking into this as well, since it’s also a shame that we are exhausting our battery life by charging it more often. -
@jjorgemoura I have 2 cases where battery drain
- touch screen stop working, very glitchy, only button work, and back light always on… did a soft reset. (third times it happens since new update) seems to trigger while in watch mode… nothkng in particular.
- other drain issue, watch working as usual, great. but only noticing> 10% daily without activities… this happens after an update of watchface, or adding new offline maps etc. and seems to be more common of the complaints here.
since last soft reset, i have a good consumption of battery. well see.
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Hello everyone.
As a new owner of Suunto VTS i will share my case with you. I own the watch since last three weeks. First week watch was working great , three short running training and at the end of the week battery droppped 8% only.
On week 2 i have meet my family- uncle owns SV and all was good until the moment when we went for few hours hiking. Next day our batteries were 25% less than a day before, his and my watch too. We do not have sunset/sunrise turned on our watch face. We were both using GPX file to navigate on our trail. To me it looks like since we stopped hiking the GPS remained ON all the time.
I think i have solved my issue by a soft reset as i lost only 1% over the night with watch on my wrist .
He just charged his SV to 100% today and will monitor through the day. -
@Ars-Vitae said in Battery drain:
@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.- Brightness: Medium
- Standby: deactivated
- Raise to Wake: bass…
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.
So let me do the same as my predecessor, I will update my previous post. I regret to report that my test failed. During the two days, everything was ok, since yesterday morning the battery began to drain rapidly again (practically everything running in the background was turned off). I hope that Suunto will quickly solve this problem, because it’s really difficult to concentrate on workouts (especially long-distance ones) looking around constantly for a charger, especially since the latter is not among the practical and convenient ones.
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@WlodiPawel-87 Thanks for information. Normally 2 days after watch reboot or restart (I don’t know why people keep calling it “soft reset”…) the battery draining will return. Let us know after this period.
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By the way, is it here an alternative topic to actually the same one existing simultaneously: https://forum.suunto.com/topic/8879/battery-drain/269?_=1723727691399 ?
Do moderators have a possibility to merge them as one? -
A Ars Vitae referenced this topic on
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Tuesday end of training with battery at 62% today I pick up the vertical again and find the battery icon…help, luckily I brought the charger for a week’s holiday
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UPDATE :
Ok, So i have been at the same spot as a week before with same person having SV i have SVTS. Watches unplugged on Friday 11am.
Saturday 5h hiking (i have rebooted watch after completing my training by holding top button for 15seconds.
Sunday aroud 4h hiking - watch also rebooted after training was done.
Battery at 82% for the moment which i guess is fine.
Last week battery was dying super fast after first walk but i did not bother to restart watch as i never knew it will be draining fast.
Uncle watch was also restarted and no issues since. ( last week both watches affected)
Looks like for the moment when going somewhere and have no charger is worth to consider to reboot watch after each training (it takes seconds but no need to be worry about the battery again) -
I noticed it works by simply power off and on.
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I am trying to be conservative in my comments usually but here, there is really something worrying.
I charged from 6 to 100 on the 12th of August.
Today (19th) after “only” 5h of activity with GPS/Wrist HR, daily heart monitoring I am down to 27%. That’s crazy fast. Despite I rebooted watch after charging, and I even made a full watch factory reset in July.Not acceptable at all. We, customers, shall not expect to be in situation when using our gear at its most demanding load in summer with such a drawback, despite all the good will and features delivered in the update.
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@Michaël-POINTEAU said in Battery drain:
I am trying to be conservative in my comments usually but here, there is really something worrying.
I charged from 6 to 100 on the 12th of August.
Today (19th) after “only” 5h of activity with GPS/Wrist HR, daily heart monitoring I am down to 27%. That’s crazy fast. Despite I rebooted watch after charging, and I even made a full watch factory reset in July.Not acceptable at all. We, customers, shall not expect to be in situation when using our gear at its most demanding load in summer with such a drawback, despite all the good will and features delivered in the update.
Not to mention the very fast discharge when doing nothing. Yesterday watch went down from 50+ to that 27 this morning really with a non logical discharge rate.
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos As both are suggested in this tread as the ‘cure’ do I need to let my Race completely discharge its battery or just get below 20% to recalibrate ?
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Same here, battery drains too fast. Backlight is off all time. I have only heart rate, blood oxygen, sleep tracking and step counter activated.
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@Michaël-POINTEAU said in Battery drain:
@Michaël-POINTEAU said in Battery drain:
I am trying to be conservative in my comments usually but here, there is really something worrying.
I charged from 6 to 100 on the 12th of August.
Today (19th) after “only” 5h of activity with GPS/Wrist HR, daily heart monitoring I am down to 27%. That’s crazy fast. Despite I rebooted watch after charging, and I even made a full watch factory reset in July.Not acceptable at all. We, customers, shall not expect to be in situation when using our gear at its most demanding load in summer with such a drawback, despite all the good will and features delivered in the update.
Not to mention the very fast discharge when doing nothing. Yesterday watch went down from 50+ to that 27 this morning really with a non logical discharge rate.
Suunto just requested that my watch is been sent for repair, apparently battery replacement
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@Michaël-POINTEAU I think it’s a software problem with the latest update, not a battery problem… there are many of us in your situation
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@Michaël-POINTEAU said in Battery drain:
Suunto just requested that my watch is been sent for repair, apparently battery replacement
I hope it helps, even though I don’t really understand how this is supposed to solve the problem. My watch is just sitting on the table and it’s dischargin quite fast. Before the update I had no issues. I put a few numbers down:
