Battery drain

Matúš

From my side, after the last update, everything seem normal, i.e., almost full discharge of the battery in more or less a week, an average of 12-13[hr] of GPS tracking, HR tracking 24/7, Bluetooth connection only for watch synchronization once a day and a very static watch face (digital time, dd/mm/yy and battery level).

Last Saturday I’ve done a 7[h] hike: battery went from ~70/75[%] to ~45[%] and its madness has started:

after 1[h] since I’ve stopped the activity, the battery drop to ~35[%];
at the end of the day, the battery was at 25[%];
during the night, the battery lost ~10[%] and at the end of Sunday I’ve to recharge the battery since only few units of battery were available.

Then, from Sunday evening to yesterday evening battery went from 100[%] to ~25[%] (~5.5[h] of GPS tracking, lost nearly 20[%/day]), so, also yesterday evening, I’ve decided to charge again the watch in order to avoid for today to run out of battery.

jjpaz

@Matúš Where you following a route and Climb Guidance activated?
It seems that the problem starts after some activitiy, perhaps some internal process doesn’t finish as expected and keeps draining battery.

Matúš

@jjpaz said in Battery drain:

@Matúš Where you following a route and Climb Guidance activated?

None of them, only two active screens, the common one with the overall time, distance, etc., and the altitude trend one.

jjpaz

@Matúš So then, random bug

thanasis

@isazi said in Battery drain:

@thanasis said in Battery drain:

The problem is that i tried quite every single suggestion (including those of @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos on letting it depleet and recharge 100%, soft reset etc…) but the issue persists and i am a bit disappointed

If nothing worked, you need to wait for the firmware update.

Which is unfortunately not imminent so I may try to revert to the previous firmware.
Thanks

Antoine Lancrenon

@thanasis the new firmware should come out soon. as a hotfix at least. I dont really know, just start to know this forum pretty well, and this is the general feeling based on high ranked users comments, or official testers notes…

one comment at some point talk about bug fixes (and the battery draining issue) and a new feature as well at least. not a major update, but definitely a fix that is awaited!

Tami999

Just to inform, my Vertical from october 2023 had 0 problem ever with anything, included battery. My mate got Vertical 4 days ago, brand new, downloaded all updates, maps, and losing like 3% per day so seems normal.

I think its random bug, sorry for all unlucky users.

Jugger

Would be also nice to know if this drain affects only older Verticals like mine which was bought last summer shortly after release. Did Suunto change battery type or manufacturer after release? Different voltage or something which could cause error in firmware.

A Former User

@Jugger I bought my Vertical 2 months ago and I experienced those issues. I found a workaround by restarting the watch after training days. It seems to work and allow me to happily wait for the next firmware.

surfboomerang

@obhikkhu This workaround seems to work for me as well. I was losing around 10% every day in watch mode. I was testing several things to stop the excessive drain to see if I could stop it without rebooting the watch. I disabled WiFi and Bluetooth, put the watch in flight mode etc but nothing worked.

After my run yesterday, I got the strange touchscreen bug again. Where the screen responds very jerky or not at all on finger swipes and taps. So I was forced to do a reboot of the watch.
Now battery drain is back to normal with 0 to 1% overnight. Before the reboot it was around 3 to 4%.

Let’s see if the excessive drain returns after my next activity. If so, I will try some other options before rebooting the watch again.

Tieutieu

Feed back after update : absolutely no battery drainage here.
2 to 3% daily use
This week I’ve complete my first ultra running race, mort than 43 hours of activity : battery was at 99% at beginning. 32% left at the end. Impressive ! (Only parameter I had changed was touchscreen unabled in my custom mode ; it change previsionnal autonomy pretty much, around 10%)

doume38

Hello
I had as many other here battery drainage problems with my SV but 10 days ago I changed to an old watch face with only 2 information : date and battery level. I did a soft reset and now the watch works realy fine. For me all is desactivated except HR on watch for hiking and belt for cycling. Also on phone the Bluetooth is activated only if necessary.
As we said in France, I touch wood

surfboomerang

@Tieutieu do you use maps and routes?
Mine started started draining excessively after an activity with maps and route enabled

thanasis

@Tieutieu said in Battery drain:

Feed back after update : absolutely no battery drainage here.
2 to 3% daily use
This week I’ve complete my first ultra running race, mort than 43 hours of activity : battery was at 99% at beginning. 32% left at the end. Impressive ! (Only parameter I had changed was touchscreen unabled in my custom mode ; it change previsionnal autonomy pretty much, around 10%)

My issue is not during sport but during daily activity .

I tested the soft reboot after each sport and indeed it seems better

Tieutieu

@surfboomerang for this race I had :

a route loaded, maps on
touchscreen off
best performance
no notifications
OHR on
all other usual settings : backlight low, raise to wake low, dnd mode from 11pm to 7am

isazi

@surfboomerang same happened to me during the weekend, had a 3 hours bike ride with maps+navigation and after that I had battery drain (not sure right now, maybe 9% during night without wearing the watch).

Tried to replicated with the test watches, the ones equipped with the special logging to find what is draining the battery, but the battery drain does not happen there. So maybe this specific activity related issue is already fixed in the current testing firmware, not sure. I am keeping track of battery status on a notebook now since 4 days hoping to find a way to reproduce and send the logs to the devs.

Tami999

@isazi many people report that they got drain after activity and soft reset often help them. Maybe its somethong with navigation that gps is still used after activity or something.

Tieutieu

@Tami999 said in Battery drain:

@isazi many people report that they got drain after activity and soft reset often help them. Maybe its somethong with navigation that gps is still used after activity or something.

32% yesterday when I posted…11% this morning (I was not wearing my SV, I had switched to my SRs). Very strange battery drop…because the first 12h hours after my race, I lost only 1%…

EzioAuditore

@Tieutieu said in Battery drain:

strange battery d

Yup very strange. SV fully charged on Sunday (previous) not used at all and the charge icon shown on Thursday.

SuperFlo75

@isazi I also recognized a higher battery consumption during activity with navigation on the watch, but I don‘t use navigation very often. But für me, about 10% for a 150 minutes activity seemed to high. But after these activities, the consumption seems to be normal… I recharged the watch after 3 weeks, the battery had 32% after 3 weeks…