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    t-Dox @Mff73
    last edited by 17 Dec 2024, 11:15

    @Mff73 said in Battery drain:

    @t-Dox said in Battery drain:
    it’s just an idea that came to me after a hard reset

    Good idea 😊😉
    https://forum.suunto.com/post/96651
    https://forum.suunto.com/post/84764

    hi, i hadn’t read the posts you linked. Yes i didn’t mean that my idea was brilliant and original. it’s simply something i thought like probably many other users and that it’s right to share with the support so that it is considered useful and to be developed…

    Andrea
    9pp

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      larrybbaker
      last edited by 17 Dec 2024, 13:48

      24 hours now with the update. Due to injury I only had a short one mile walk last evening with GPS and external HRM. Only 2% loss in 24 hours.

      SV Solar
      iPhone 16 Pro

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        artersull @larrybbaker
        last edited by 17 Dec 2024, 14:24

        @larrybbaker How do you get that kind of battery life!? I’m down 7 percent in the last 4 hours (with one 30 minute activity)

        24/7 HR is on, notifications off

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          larrybbaker @artersull
          last edited by 17 Dec 2024, 16:09

          @artersull just to clarify - this is not my daily wear watch - so at the moment 24/7 HR is off, no notifications. But - I was seeing more battery drain before the update - even with the watch at rest.

          SV Solar
          iPhone 16 Pro

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            larrybbaker
            last edited by 18 Dec 2024, 17:04

            So 3 days into the update - only 1hr and 48 min of activity. 2 walks using GPS and external HRM and a 50min gym activity and I am still sitting at 96% battery. We may have a winner here. Again for me this is not a daily wear watch and my daily running is on hold due to injury - but the loss of battery at rest seems WAY improved!

            SV Solar
            iPhone 16 Pro

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              Outdoorsy @larrybbaker
              last edited by 18 Dec 2024, 17:44

              @larrybbaker But, yours is a solar. It could be charging while it is not in use. No?

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

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                larrybbaker @Outdoorsy
                last edited by 18 Dec 2024, 18:03

                @Outdoorsy no - it sits on my desk or nightstand.

                SV Solar
                iPhone 16 Pro

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                  MiniForklift Platinum Member
                  last edited by MiniForklift 18 Dec 2024, 19:47

                  I’m noticing that my battery is draining quite a bit faster after this update, I noticed it because I haven’t been training as much as normal but it’s gone down more than it usually would. In the last 24 hours it’s dropped 10% with no training

                  SV Titanium Solar Forest

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                    Francesco Pagano Silver Members Bronze Member
                    last edited by 19 Dec 2024, 13:47

                    Today I ran 25 km / 2h20m and my battery went from 53% to 38%
                    With the same settings, a few weeks ago I ran 26 km / 2h22m and it went from 56% to 51% 😡

                    S9PP
                    S5

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                      Matúš Bronze Member @Francesco Pagano
                      last edited by 19 Dec 2024, 14:54

                      @Francesco-Pagano, same behaviour here: yesterday I rode for about 2[h] and the battery dropped from 35% to 18%.

                      Suunto 9 Peak Pro Titanium Slate
                      Suunto Spartan Sport

                      #swatt

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                        VoiGAS Silver Members @Matúš
                        last edited by 19 Dec 2024, 16:54

                        @Matúš @Francesco-Pagano But you are talking about 9PP - if I understand your signature right.
                        Just because this thread is about the vertical and its not easy too compare these…


                        Race S
                        Ambit3 Vertical

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                          Mff73 @Francesco Pagano
                          last edited by 19 Dec 2024, 19:09

                          @Francesco-Pagano
                          https://forum.suunto.com/post/135021
                          Q1

                          Suunto Spartan Ultra (since 2016) FW: 2.8.24 (retired)
                          Suunto Vertical all black
                          Wife : S9PP
                          SA: Always the latest beta :)
                          Android 13, Galaxy S205G

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                            kosmoplan
                            last edited by 19 Dec 2024, 21:01

                            Much worse after the last update. Been some days without any exercise whatsoever and the battery drains way faster. No notifications, no WiFi, no vibration… don’t know what else to try, to be frank.

                            Is there any way to see a discharge graph over time so that we can correlate to specific events? Cannot find anything like that, but I think it’d be extremely useful.

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                              kosmoplan @Mff73
                              last edited by 19 Dec 2024, 21:33

                              @Mff73 great advice, that Q1. Thank you!

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                                StanAjax
                                last edited by 2 Jan 2025, 15:29

                                Hi everyone and happy sportive new year to all !

                                First, thanks to everyone here for providing feed-back on the issue, be it the regular users or the mods that can also provide information from Suunto.

                                I will add my “case” to the topic, though I am not sure I can provide more information in order to help solve the issue…

                                I’ve bought a Race a bit less than 2 monthes ago. Ironically, it was both a birthday present and a panic buy because my 2-year-old 9 Baro suffered a battery drain 6 days before I did my first marathon ! The issue was solved with both a soft and hard reset (didn’t have time for too much testing !), thanks to my readings on the forum, and I finally used the 9 Baro for the marathon.

                                The Race is great, and, to me, is the perfect upgrade on my 9 Baro. Though, from the first discharge cycle, I noticed it was discharging too fast (being a bit sensitive on the topic at that moment…).
                                I didn’t charge it when I received it (it was >80%), so, maybe that’ the reason I said to myself. First charge, download maps, and following a bit more the battery discharge, I noticed that it was discharging too fast, especially at night. It seems especially true the night after an activity, though I wasn’t fully monitoring then.

                                So, I contacted the Support Team and followed their advices for parameters, that have already been described here multiple times (though, outside activites, I am always in Airplane / Eco mode). Also did the factory reset as asked and started monitoring after a full charge.

                                Monitoring_Race1.png

                                Support Team asked me to send the watch to a Service Center for it to be repaired. It was a bit longer than expected due to a UPS strike here (can’t blame them, just before Christmas is when they have a better negotiation power !). Quickly, the Service Center sent me a replacement watch, that I started monitoring just after I got it on Christmas Eve.

                                Monitoring_Race2.png

                                Everything was perfectly fine (~2% battery loss per day in Airplane / Eco mode and ~2% per hour in Performance mode seems very in line with the watch specs’) until 2025 arrived…
                                20% loss overnight !
                                Not after a day with an activity though, but when the battery was a bit lower, which is a different behaviour than the previous watch (battery started to drain the first night, though it was after a couple charge cycles).

                                I tried to contact the Support Team through mail and chat today, but though it is not announced that they are closed for the holidays, I guess there is less staff available today and tomorrow…

                                My return window is opened until January 15th, so I am not waiting longer and sending it back for a refund. It is truly a shame as the watch is really exactly what I was looking for (just not sure of the durability of the crown button), though I will wait for Suunto to solve the issues before buying another one and use my 9 Baro in the mean time.

                                Hopefully, 2025 will bring better news than my January 1st drain "gift’ and you will all be able to enjoy your Vertical / Race (S) / Peak (Pro) at their full capacity !
                                Good luck to the Suunto IT team in their research to correct the issues in the firmware / software of their watches.

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                                  larrybbaker @StanAjax
                                  last edited by 2 Jan 2025, 17:22

                                  @StanAjax keep in mind this is a Vertical forum and not Race. I am not seeing any difference on the change of the year and with the last FW update my Vertical is back to great battery life.

                                  SV Solar
                                  iPhone 16 Pro

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                                    StanAjax @larrybbaker
                                    last edited by 2 Jan 2025, 18:12

                                    @larrybbaker Thanks, I know that this is a Vertical forum.

                                    Which is a shame (not to have a cross-watch topic on this issue, guess we have to deal with how the forum is built) because the same issue seems to affect Vertical, Race (S) and 9 Peak (Pro) from what I read (including the 709 messages prior to mine and the closed-by-admin-and-redirected-to-this-topic messages on the Race forum. So, I just wanted to avoid that step as admins seem to gather all battery drain issues that are related to the same software used by the different watches.

                                    By the way, I finally had contact with Support Team through chat this afternoon.
                                    Nothing new to test (suggesting a hard reset on a watch just sent and tested by Service Center), but I was told that a software / firmware update is scheduled for January. No precise date yet.

                                    Hopefully, that solves the issue for everyone and all watches this time. Fingers crossed !

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                                      Pavlas
                                      last edited by 7 Jan 2025, 08:43

                                      Hi, If I understand correctly, the discharge problem is still not solved? What is your experience with the Vertical’s endurance now? For me, it’s around 5% in 24 hours with HR and notifications (I don’t have many of those, only call notifications) and no activity.
                                      It still seems too much to me.
                                      I had the Ocean on test now and the endurance was similar - 5-6% in 24 hours with the same settings.
                                      Ocean and Race don’t seem to have that problem. Is the problem only with the Vertical?

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                                        Ars Vitae Bronze Member @Pavlas
                                        last edited by 7 Jan 2025, 15:56

                                        @Pavlas For me, the last two updates have completely solved the problem, so it must be a matter of either individual settings or individual procedures for dealing with the problem. I don’t think, given my and others’ experience, that this applies specifically to a particular watch model. This is just my opinion.
                                        I use the notification rarely on expeditions, only when the phone is hidden in the bag and I want to be up to date on who is trying to contact me. From what I remember, battery consumption is then higher (also for the phone). But I guess that’s normal, the devices run in the background maintaining a constant connection.
                                        My daily battery consumption without notifications, HR and workouts is about 1 - 1.5%. In my experience HR adds about 1% of daily consumption, I only turn it on at night for sleep monitoring. Adding active notifications I think you are probably within the optimal range of battery consumption.

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                                          larrybbaker @Pavlas
                                          last edited by 7 Jan 2025, 16:22

                                          @Pavlas For me the latest FW has greatly improved the battery issues I was seeing with the Vertical.

                                          SV Solar
                                          iPhone 16 Pro

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