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      larrybbaker
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      Decided to track battery life and here is what I found:

      Full charge on 11/10 down to 4% on 11/27.
      this included 14 hrs and 13 min of GPS usage tracking 81.6 miles.

      This is not my daily wear watch and I have no notifications, 24 hour HR or sleep tracking enabled. I use a chest strap for all activities.

      SV Solar
      iPhone 16 Pro

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        thanasis Bronze Member @larrybbaker
        last edited by

        The battery issue is getting really crazy at times .
        Lost 15% today which just 1.5hours of training and the rest was the watch resting … at home

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          SuperFlo75 Silver Members Bronze Member @thanasis
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          @thanasis I also noticed that the battery consumption gets worse… I‘m at 33% after 13 days… and I did‘t change anything 🙈

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            thanasis Bronze Member @SuperFlo75
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            @SuperFlo75 said in Battery drain:

            @thanasis I also noticed that the battery consumption gets worse… I‘m at 33% after 13 days… and I did‘t change anything 🙈

            that’s a lot better than mine though! 67% drop in 13 days leads to 5.3% per day!!!
            i am seeing like 15% per day!!

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              larrybbaker @SuperFlo75
              last edited by larrybbaker

              @SuperFlo75 It seems to me that the drain accelerates as the battery decreases. 😕

              I have been holding goff on a hard/factory reset - but may be willing to try it if we don’t hear any more about a forthcoming update…

              SV Solar
              iPhone 16 Pro

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                Francesco Pagano Silver Members Bronze Member
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                I saw a new thread on this issue this morning, and now reading these posts. I’m a S9PP user and I noticed an uncommon battery drain in the past 2 days. I ended I run with 91% battery on Sunday morning, yesterday I did nothing so I didn’t even look at my battery charge status, this morning I woke up with 68% 😱 And it’s at 66% now after 2 hours.
                The only “new” thing for me was update ZS app.

                S9PP
                S5

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                  t-Dox
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                  hi, i’m also experiencing battery issues on my 9PP. I never reached the 21 days of battery life with 24/7 monitoring as promised by suunto, but usually the battery lasted me 10-12 days with 3-5h of activity per week. Since the last update, however, I have to recharge the watch every 4-5 days with 1h of activity. I tried to open a specific thread for the 9 peak pro, since, even though they share some of the hardware, it is a different watch from the suunto vertical (it does not have maps, it does not have solar charging, it is smaller and will have a smaller battery, …) but the thread was blocked as a duplicate of this one. mistakenly.

                  Andrea
                  9pp

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                    SuperFlo75 Silver Members Bronze Member
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                    I really don‘t know why this problem got worse now… for me it startet with the Summer Firmware Update and the new watchfaces choosable in the SA… and I think with using the new ZoneSense App (including the use of the heart rate belt)… before the time of ZoneSense I didn’t use the belt very often with the Vertical… perhaps I will delete ZoneSense before the next battery loading to learn more about the impact of ZoneSense on the battery drain?

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                      Ghost @SuperFlo75
                      last edited by Ghost

                      @SuperFlo75 I always use the belt, which is essential for ZoneSense and should help the watch consume less battery. I consistently disable wrist HR, sleep tracking, and 24/7 HR. With this setup, my battery consumption is normal (1-2% per day without activity and 2-10% per activity depending on map usage). Whenever I adjust exercise options, I perform a soft reset on the watch after the activity. Without this reset, I notice a battery drain issue, which I hope will be addressed in the Q4 update that should logically be released by year-end, though I have no confirmed information about it. (Suunto Vertical and Suunto Smart HR belt)

                      🔺 Vertical Titanium Solar

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                        larrybbaker
                        last edited by larrybbaker

                        I finally broke down and did a factory reset, reloaded everything and now will track battery usage again… Only issue so far after my reset is the Zonesense - while it showed up in the watch and tracked the activity appropriately - I cannot get it to show up in SA for yesterday’s activity. Older activities it is showing up correctly.

                        SV Solar
                        iPhone 16 Pro

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                          SuperFlo75 Silver Members Bronze Member @Ghost
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                          @iterumtenta I have my SV since mai 2023, and I always used 24/7 HR and sleep tracking… and I normally had no problems with wrist HR, so I didn’t use a HR belt. Usually I had to charge my watch every 4 weeks with about 3-4 hours activity per week… but today, I‘m at 25% after 15 days 🥲

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                            Outdoorsy @SuperFlo75
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                            @SuperFlo75 15 days? I bought mine in April 2024 and the battery life never exceeded more than 2 weeks. I go for short walks at lunch, 24/7 HR, sleep monitoring and occasional hikes. I lose about 8% a day. If i have to turn off the basic functions of the to use it, then the watch is useless for me.

                            I’ll be happy having 25% battery after 15 days.

                            Previous: Ambit 2, Ambit 3 Peak HR, 9 Peak Pro
                            Current: Vertical non-solar

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                              SuperFlo75 Silver Members Bronze Member @Outdoorsy
                              last edited by

                              @Outdoorsy this seems to be too much battery consumption? Far away from the promised power you can read on the Suunto website? 🤔🥲

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                              • Dimitrios KanellopoulosD Offline
                                Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager @Outdoorsy
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                                @Outdoorsy 8% is pretty much what I get as well with everything on

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                                  Antoine Bronze Member @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
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                                  @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Battery drain:

                                  @Outdoorsy 8% is pretty much what I get as well with everything on

                                  Dev team is still working on battery drain issues or corrections have been found ?
                                  8% per day seems to me already high. It was not the case when i bought the vertical i think 1,5 year ago

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

                                    @Outdoorsy 8% is pretty much what I get as well with everything on

                                    And this is not normal compared to the first time of the Vertical.
                                    Like @SuperFlo75 :
                                    I have my SV since June 2023, and I always used 24/7 OHR and sleep tracking and I didn’t use a HR belt.
                                    Usually I had to charge my watch every 4 weeks with about 3-4 hours activity per week.
                                    That was pretty much what we can read on the official Suunto website at the launch.
                                    Today can you get the 60 days , even without OHR and sleep tracking ? I am really not sure.

                                    There is a little battery drain since summer 2024.

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                                      Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager @Kramble
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                                      @Kramble this thread is about battery drain and yes there are efforts to correct that.

                                      60 days without ohr + BT + other tracking stuff is possible afaik and from my experiences this summer.

                                      It even charges from the sun for me.

                                      I think there is a mix of what we are discussing about here:

                                      • Unusual battery drain
                                      • Battery expectations with different combinations of settings

                                      Afaik from fieldtesting on the next release there is no drain reported. However I cannot know if today you had the vibra motor buzzing > 300 times because of modern life notifications that also power up the watch and screen and if that reduced your estimate compared to 1.5y ago that you were getting 100 notifications . I hope you get my point

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                                        vidmarr @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
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                                        @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos
                                        When can we approximately expect a new update?

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                                          Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager @vidmarr
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                                          @vidmarr before xmas i hope

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                                            t-Dox @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
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                                            @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos hi dimitrios, if I may, I, like I think the other users who write in this forum, are not inexperienced users, otherwise we would not be writing on this and other threads. Before writing here, I waited 2 months, I did 3 hard resets, I tried to change settings, I tried to contact (without success) the support and only at the end I looked for a thread that talked about battery problems related to the 9PP, which was not present, and I opened a new topic, which was blocked by your moderator Sartoric, to whom I wrote yesterday but who has not yet responded. Furthermore, I am a senior IT developer and obviously I sent the watch logs via app, so as to provide as much information as possible to my colleagues who work for Suunto.
                                            Reading your observation on the number of notifications and vibration that an inexperienced user could have set, is particularly annoying because it seems like a joke.
                                            For every user who writes in this forum about these problems, there are 5-10 others who do not write and who keep the problem without complaining. I think we need more respect.

                                            Andrea
                                            9pp

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