Battery drain

A Former User

@obhikkhu

Me too! First day with my vertical. Battery 100% at 9 am.
30 minutes of running, no notification : 91% now (9pm) 🥴

A Former User

@Matthieu_45 A fix is on the way. I turned off notifications, and also disabled sleep tracking and 24/7 HR tracking. It’s much better now, but the battery issue is still real. I read somewhere that a fix is currently being tested.

Sportsfreund

@Matthieu_45

Oh wow, can’t confirm this issue.

A Former User

@Sportsfreund Apparently, using maps during an activity is what triggers the battery drain.

Sportsfreund

@obhikkhu OK, since I mostly move in familiar terrain, I only use it very rarely.

When I run, the map is always on the display. I run often but still can’t confirm the significant loss.

Ars Vitae

@Matthieu_45 You can use this temporary solution (one of the earlier posts here):

@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

surfboomerang

@obhikkhu said in Battery drain:

@Sportsfreund Apparently, using maps during an activity is what triggers the battery drain.

It’s not only the map. Following a route also triggers this. Even without the map.

SuperFlo75

@surfboomerang I also noticed this behavior… using the map and following a route during exercises drains the battery more than usual, and after that, the drains continue… perhaps the soft reset can help? I try this…

@isazi I sent log now, 09:35, I don‘t know if this is useful?

surfboomerang

@SuperFlo75 no need to send logs. This has already been confirmed by Suunto. Fix will come soon (hopefully)
In the mean time, just reboot the watch after a navigation activity.

Iggge

I know what caused my battery drain.

Ocan Watchface with compass instead of battery.
Last 30 hours I have been using Race watchface and there is no battery drain at all.
Have gone from 35% to 33%, and i have also been exercising.

Mff73

@Iggge
It will come again, don’t worry .

stromdiddily

@Iggge said in Battery drain:

On day 6 now with my watch with two running exercises. Battery left 35%. Right now I need to have it in battery saving mode. Can’t charge it either because I forgot my charger 🫠

Soft reset seems to fix the drain issue

MacMillan

I am also noticing strange behavior with my Vertical Solar when it comes to solar charging. Sometimes the watch is charged within 15 minutes with a battery level of 95% to 100% by solar charging and on other days without activity and the entire day in the sun there is no charging.

SuperFlo75

@MacMIllan I have my SV since 05/23, and there is always a ‚crazy‘ behavior of solar charging when the battery was full loaded on the charger… sometimes ther is no solar activity in plain sun until the charging level dropped under 95%, sometimes the normal behavior of the charging icon comes back after dropping under 98%… and after that, I always recognize that the solar charging can bring the battery back to 100% in about 30 minutes of plain sun… I was told that this is a protection of over-loading… nothing new!

Tami999

@MacMIllan said in Battery drain:

I am also noticing strange behavior with my Vertical Solar when it comes to solar charging. Sometimes the watch is charged within 15 minutes with a battery level of 95% to 100% by solar charging and on other days without activity and the entire day in the sun there is no charging.

Happens to me too. I think its just show wrong value after full charge. If its 95% -> 100% in 5 minutes by solar charging, its just 100% not 95% in real. 1% of solar charging takes 3h+ from my observation.

Antoine

@isazi said in Battery drain:

A fix is being tested, if everything works out should be here in a week or two.

Any news, soon ? ️️

isazi

@Antoine no, last I know it says September for the hotfix.

Robin123

@isazi Do you know if the the hot fix is also for the 9pp ?
I purchased my watch 2 weeks ago and the battery is far from what is advertised.
First charge 5 days (with about 5hrs of gps activity).
second charge, this time I disabled the OHR during the day, and pulse ox during the night, as well as stand by display. About 3hrs of gps activity: it was 6 days ago, 18%remaining.
Quite disappointing so far.

isazi

@Robin123 all watches, but in my experience S9PP is the least affected by the drain

MacMillan

@Robin123 I agree with you that the advertising claim ( Daily use: Smartwatch mode
up to 30 days (60 days with solar)) is not true. With a fully charged battery, I have a battery consumption (without activity and without HR or Oxi Monitor) of approx. 10 - 12 % within 2 days. The advertised runtimes will never be achieved.This advertised battery life was a reason for me to switch from the Suunto 9 Peak to the Vertical Solar.