Battery drain

Shrek3k

Can confirm that my Vertical - after competely drained battery / recalibration - looses batter much faster than before. Total time is now 1,5 weeks maximum, and the drop after reaching 50% is significantly bigger.
I at first could not explain what happened so I am.really thankful about the 50%-hint, which I was not able to grasp and identify on my own. So: thank you community!
And … I am totally ready for a real fix, because battery time is now roughly on the level of my Suunto 9 … and GPS-quality usually is, too … it really got worse (noticeable especially when running on a track)

Antoine Lancrenon

@Kramble said in Battery drain:

@isazi said in Battery drain:

@Antoine rebooting always solves the issue, until it is triggered again

Today I lost 6% in 24h after a soft reset without any activities (far from the normal 2,5% before the update).
To me it seems there are two drain bugs.
One with big drain maybe the one you are testing.
And another smaller one in mere watch use without activities.

I do believe this is the case as well. i did soft reset this morning. and I am 6% lower tonight. almost 1% an hour i did a run about 1.30 hours though.

jakubdr

@Jugger For me the touchscreen bug happens when I check TSS in detail. In 75 % of the cases the screen becomes unusable and I have to use buttons. It later resolves itself but seems at least for me unrelated to battery drain bug because it happened to me even before the update. Now it seems to coincide with the battery bug but not necessarily triggers it.

isazi

@Kramble said in Battery drain:

To me it seems there are two drain bugs.
One with big drain maybe the one you are testing.
And another smaller one in mere watch use without activities.

You are also correct, and Suunto is aware of that.

surfboomerang

@isazi said in Battery drain:

And another smaller one in mere watch use without activities.

Is it known what triggers this “smaller one”?

jjpaz

@surfboomerang said in Battery drain:

@isazi said in Battery drain:

And another smaller one in mere watch use without activities.

Is it known what triggers this “smaller one”?

Watchfaces?

enriqueescoms

The drain battery issue in my case, with the 9PP, is when I’m wearing it.

I usually only use the Suunto during sports activities. And there I don’t have battery problems. Not even when I leave it in the drawer until the next time (about 2-3%). The thing gets crooked, however, when it’s still on my wrist. There it begins to waste battery toooooo fast.

For example, yesterday I rode a bike for about an hour (with active touchscreen and route navigation) and the consumption was 2%. Then it continued on my wrist (no notifications, with turn and light high and continuous hr) and there the thing got about 1% per hour (12% in total). I don’t particularly see it as a normal battery drain.

I don’t know if the problem is in the turn and light high mode or what. I also don’t know if this is the ones you are referring to for the SV and SR. But be that as it may, I wanted to expose my case in case it would help.

jjpaz

@enriqueescoms said in Battery drain:

For example, yesterday I rode a bike for about an hour (with active touchscreen and route navigation) and the consumption was 2%. Then it continued on my wrist (no notifications, with turn and light high and continuous hr) and there the thing got about 1% per hour (12% in total). I don’t particularly see it as a normal battery drain.
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Try to reboot the watch after an activity with route navigation.
One of the suspicious triggers of the issue is the route navigation, so that could explain you problem.

gerasimos

can someone confirm that the hard reset solves the battery problem?
-and a full cycle charge

Mff73

@gerasimos
it seems not. You will just loose your data and customizations.

https://forum.suunto.com/post/151611
https://forum.suunto.com/post/151646

Antoine Lancrenon

@gerasimos did work at first for me… until I install the offline maps.

so it is related to memory, backend process being Triggered either by complications? navigations? Gps?

a soft reset should be enough, even if in my case i trigger very easily the drainage issue. still dont know what exactly.

looking forward of the fix by Suunto. now that Enduro 3 is out, i want my suunto vertical to work at full potential to confirm my choice.

thank you, we will get through this one soon !

gerasimos

@Antoine-Lancrenon @Mff73 thanks !

Ars Vitae

While waiting for Suunto to fix the issue, I use the watch only for workouts. In the meantime, I turn it off and put it away. In this way, I avoid frequent recharging, as the watch behaves normally after each startup for two days. Here is my temporary solution.

Antoine

Do we know if a hotfix will be released soon ? With more than 400 posts it seems to be a real problem for a 65h autonomy watch…
Thanks

Mff73

@Antoine
among those 400 posts there are some hints, and the latest info is “in a couple of weeks”.
just wait and enjoy activities, and charge our watches just a couple of times more

Mff73

@Antoine
and 65h is autonomy in activity, which seems not to be impacted (as far as i understand or experienced).
You may also try this so unofficial workaround after each activity (it doesn’t consume that much personnal time and may let us wait (if it works for everyone)).
https://forum.suunto.com/post/151611

Antoine

@isazi said in Battery drain:

My personal workaround while we wait for a fix is: if you use navigation just reboot your watch at the end, after syncing the activity with your phone.

This is my personal view, nothing from Suunto

I managed to send logs to Suunto and hope a fix for this will be included in the next firmware. I also believe it is not the GPS but the storage that is kept active, GPS would give an even larger battery consumption. No confirmation from Suunto yet. I try to keep the forum informed as much as I can

Same to turn-off Suunto Vertical using general parametrers and to turn-on again i guess ?

Mff73

@Antoine
yes

diogao13

@diogao13 said in Battery drain:

At the control panel we find the battery percentage. It would be great an update to include more info, like a widget or simple click on battery percentage icon to present:

current %

last time it was recharged

% when last recharged was initiated

% when last recharged was ended

a prediction when next recharge will be required, based on drain for a selectable period (3 days, week, month).

draining graph using recharging date x %.

This would help us to detect draining activities or functions.

Scubapro G3 includes some features to help users watching battery

Kramble

@isazi said in Battery drain:

@Kramble said in Battery drain:

To me it seems there are two drain bugs.
One with big drain maybe the one you are testing.
And another smaller one in mere watch use without activities.

You are also correct, and Suunto is aware of that.

@isazi Maybe a lead for the small drain :

Two days ago I got the old synchronization bug on my android beta Suunto app (your watch is no longer found and when you try to pair again then the app fails).
To solve it I know I have to wipe out the data and cache of the app ( did it from android setting menu), then I have to login again and pair my vertical again.
It works with a little surprise, no more small drain bug : in 48h with one 50 min trail activity the vertical just lost 4% ! (from 85% to 81%).
I did nothing else since my last drain (no reset and no full battery cycle, no solar charge).
So maybe the Bluetooth could be responsible of the small drain ?

Hope it can help.