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    • Dimitrios KanellopoulosD Offline
      Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager @Marien Perrot
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      @Marien-Perrot isn’t 4% ok ?

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      • Marien PerrotM Offline
        Marien Perrot @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
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        @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos Hi ! I mean 4% is for me too high juste for Time, BT, HR and notifications. No other functions or options are selected. And I don’t do many activities per days or per weeks.
        I don’t remember if that was the case when I bought the watch.
        The only one boring thing is I have too do soft reset after every activities but is it the good thing to do ? I don’t think so.
        But with all your sensations about batterie drain, I recognize that I’m not in a very bad situation.

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        • sartoricS Offline
          sartoric Moderator @Marien Perrot
          last edited by sartoric

          @Marien-Perrot
          Do you have sleep tracking enabled ?
          HR 24/7 ?
          BT 24/7 ?
          Vibration? Sounds?
          4% daily with some activities doesn’t look bad at all to me

          It means 20 days to go from full to 20% … not even completely drained

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          • Marien PerrotM Offline
            Marien Perrot @sartoric
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            @sartoric said in Battery drain:

            @Marien-Perrot
            Do you have sleep tracking enabled ?
            HR 24/7 ?
            BT 24/7 ?
            Vibration? Sounds?
            4% daily with some activities doesn’t look bad at all to me

            It means 20 days to go from full to 20% … not even completely drained

            No sleep tracking
            HR on and only in use if I’m wearing the watch
            BT on but link is not in use when my phone is night off.
            Vibration On
            Sounds Off
            For now I think draining is normally as you said.
            But to have this, I do soft reset after every activities.
            Is it the right thing to do ?
            I think I won’t try to do some soft reset after the next charge.

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            • SuperFlo75S Offline
              SuperFlo75 Silver Members Bronze Member @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
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              @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos I would say that 4% is worse than before the summer update… before this update which changed the watch faces, I had to charge every 4 weeks, and now the battery lasts about 3 to 3,5 weeks… without changing any settings…

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              • sartoricS Offline
                sartoric Moderator @SuperFlo75
                last edited by sartoric

                @SuperFlo75
                After a soft reset and no activities ?
                Because there are still some drain issues, so it should be taken into consideration when doing comparisons

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                • SuperFlo75S Offline
                  SuperFlo75 Silver Members Bronze Member @SuperFlo75
                  last edited by SuperFlo75

                  @sartoric I really think that there are still some drain issues… I do about 3 hours Running activity per week, HR is 24/7 on, sleep tracking is on, but normally I don’t do a soft reset… the only thing I changed now is that I use ZoneSense and the HR belt… I didn‘t use a belt before the ZoneSense app…

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                    Kramble @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
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                    @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Battery drain:

                    @Marien-Perrot isn’t 4% ok ?

                    Sadly, not, before battery drain, it was around 2 % with HR and BT 24/7 for sure.
                    The big drain is out but not the short one.

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                      Kramble @SuperFlo75
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                      @SuperFlo75 said in Battery drain:

                      @sartoric I really think that there are still some drain issues… I do about 3 hours Running activity per week, HR is 24/7 on, sleep tracking is on, but normally I don’t do a soft reset… the only thing I changed now is that I use ZoneSense and the HR belt… I didn‘t use a belt before the ZoneSense app…

                      Of course, Suunto announced 60 days of daily use when the vertical was out. And it was that until update caused battery drain.

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                      • surfboomerangS Offline
                        surfboomerang @thanasis
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                        @thanasis said in Battery drain:

                        I think I identified a new pattern for the battery drain without actually starting the exercise

                        Navigate to quick start menu of a exercise (eg running)
                        Configure setting
                        Abort (go back)
                        Did it twice after I had resettled the watch from an exercise and I got like 1% drain per hour on idle

                        @isazi Do you know if this one is also confirmed by Suunto (and not fixed yet)? I think I ran into the same issue last week.
                        During an evening run, I enalbed the backlight of the watch during the activity. Afterwards, I went into the options of my running profile to check if it was a one time setting or that the backlight was enabled now for every future running activity. It was off, so I exited the config menu.

                        After that, I noticed a huge battery drain of around 10% per day where 1-2% per day is my baseline.

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                        • colakovitzC Offline
                          colakovitz
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                          I charged my suunto vertical solar to 100% on 20.10.
                          I do only weight exercises twice a week and have 24/7 hr and sleep tracking on. Battery is 20% at the time od writing this post. Maybe best solution would be to sell the watch and go back to garmin…

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                            sartoric Moderator @colakovitz
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                            @colakovitz said in Battery drain:

                            Maybe best solution would be to sell the watch and go back to garmin…

                            Sure, if it will make you happy.

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                            • GiPFELKiNDG Offline
                              GiPFELKiND Silver Members @colakovitz
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                              @colakovitz seems that suunto cannot solve this drain issue 🤣 is your watch made in China? 🤣 Perhaps contact the chinese support 👋🏼

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                                Shrek3k @GiPFELKiND
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                                Roughly 2 hrs activity with map and navigation, HRV with watch … end of the day, battery consumption was 9% … not really convincing 😕

                                using a Suunto Vertical & Suunto Wings; mostly running (AKA stomping around) and cycling mostly through the northern german "wilderness"
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                                • jjpazJ Offline
                                  jjpaz Bronze Member @colakovitz
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                                  @colakovitz Suunto Vertical (no Solar) charged to 100% on october 22th.
                                  After 13h of activities (11h outdoors with GPS) battery is now at 34% (13 days). With these numbers I think I’ll recharge on thursday with battery around 20%. This is 15-16 days from full recharge. Before the summer upgrade I recharged watch every 18-20 days (4-4,5% battery cosumption every day), now I recharge every 15-16 days (around 5% battery consumption per day) so battery consumption is higher than before.

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                                  • colakovitzC Offline
                                    colakovitz @sartoric
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                                    @sartoric so this is official suunto response?
                                    Are you even planning to resolve the issue?
                                    Refund me, and i go back to garmin…

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                                      maszop Bronze Member @colakovitz
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                                      @colakovitz Did you buy a watch on the forum?

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                                      • Mouse CruiserM Offline
                                        Mouse Cruiser Bronze Member @colakovitz
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                                        @colakovitz You will not find official answers from the manufacturer on this forum. This is where users try to help other users. Maybe someone would buy your watch, because most of them are satisfied with the watch.😜

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                                        • GhostG Offline
                                          Ghost @colakovitz
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                                          @colakovitz, this isn’t Suunto’s support. If you need assistance, please contact them directly. A friendly reminder: being rude or sarcastic rarely helps.

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                                          • Ars VitaeA Offline
                                            Ars Vitae Bronze Member
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                                            All right, for me, the update solved the problem of excessive battery draining when the watch is in standby mode (without active workouts).

                                            Context:

                                            • I upgraded to version 2.37.48 directly from version 2.35.34, which caused the battery draining problem discussed here. Since version 2.37.34 did not bring any solutions to this issue, I completely ignored it and did not update to this version.
                                            • It is also important to note that prior to the update, my temporary solution was to restart the watch after any activity, especially (as advised here often) one that used navigation (hiking, walking, trail running, cycling, etc.).

                                            Update:

                                            • done within the app on the phone
                                            • I did not restart the watch after the update
                                            • I usually do not charge the battery more than 80% to 90% of its total capacity according to the maintenance guidelines for all lithium-ion batteries, unless I download offline maps, in which case the watch charges to 100%

                                            Conclusions:

                                            • standby battery consumption has returned to the original version according to me, here I am very satisfied. The watch can stay in standby and discharge for at least 6-8 weeks (if charged to 100%).
                                            • Whereas my first negative impressions about battery drain during workouts somewhat have been confirmed. I don’t know how much of this is due to the new features, such as the distance countdown when navigating, or the altitude indication (if running), but I have the impression that the battery is draining faster than before. It’s not a huge consumption, but for example, in the running intervals I did before during less than an hour, the consumption increased about 1-2%, from 3 to 4-5% respectively. The same for swimming and mountain hiking. My impression is that the consumption while the watch is involved in workouts has increased by about 10%, sometimes 15%.

                                            I am sorry to read that others still have this problem. I wish them that the solution will be found quickly, and I hope Suunto will take this lesson to heart and next time will test the equipment in such a way that it does not mess up or deprive them of the most important, flagship features it so proudly advertises.
                                            Anyway, according to mine and others’ experience with the battery drain problem, there is still some work to be done.

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