Battery drain after update 2.44.46 (2025 Q3) on Vertical Watch

fedequei

@Kramble I confirm same for me! incredible…

ddamico

For me, on a Race 1, the battery drain actually seems quite a bit worse after the update. “For what it’s worth”.

Charles

Same problem for me. battery drains à around 1% an hour during daytime, 0.5% per hour during the night.

I’m pretty unlucky since I already had a sync problem last year with a new update.

Stefan Kersting

support recommended a hard reset. Anybody done that?

OutdoorMan

@Stefan-Kersting got same feedback and not going to do that.

Stefan Kersting

@OutdoorMan what is the problem with a hard reset? Never don it…

fedequei

This is the situation after the last 100% charge on September 17.
On September 25 I installed the update, and in the following days I didn’t do any sports due to illness.
The battery consumption still seems very high to me, as I was used to much longer battery life until June

Charles

@OutdoorMan Well you would lose all your recorded data without any garantee that the reset will fix the problem

OutdoorMan

@Stefan-Kersting basically a factory reset = all data gone, I believe you’ll need to calibrate your HRV for two weeks and such things. So nope.

Stefan Kersting

@OutdoorMan ok, that is not an option

gone troppo

@Stefan-Kersting said in Battery drain after update 2.44.46 (2025 Q3) on Vertical Watch:

@OutdoorMan ok, that is not an option

It won’t work anyway didnt for me

Kramble

Without activities, OHR 24, I have 6 % per day , it was 3 % before the update. I don’t use any belt or other Bluetooth…

Kramble

Anybody knows if Suunto is aware of this battery drain issue ?

Sergey Balbir

There is definitely a problem with the algorithm that estimates the battery level. The watch needs to be reset from time to time to recalibrate. The reset itself is not safe and can cause the watch to stuck in a “recovery loop”.
I don’t think it is relevant to some specific version update (but might be related to the update process or even to a simple on/off ) and this also seems to happen on all the Suunto models.
This situation is quite disappointing for me because one of the major pros to go with Suunto was the promised battery life

thanasis

@Sergey-Balbir I think there is an issue lately though. I get significantly higher consumption per day despite trying to deplete the the battery and recalibrate . I even started thinking it may have been some change in the throttling of the the cpu to support the ui smoothness . I don’t believe that it was on purpose to promote the newer generation of the watches as I have read on some other posts in social media

Mff73

@thanasis said in Battery drain after update 2.44.46 (2025 Q3) on Vertical Watch:

. I don’t want to think that it was on purpose to promote the newer generation of the watches as I have read on some other posts in social media

If you don’t want to think, why would not not want to write it?
No specific to you only, but could one really think that (thus write it) “bugs” are introduced on purpose. Come on…

thanasis

@Mff73 said in Battery drain after update 2.44.46 (2025 Q3) on Vertical Watch:

@thanasis said in Battery drain after update 2.44.46 (2025 Q3) on Vertical Watch:

. I don’t want to think that it was on purpose to promote the newer generation of the watches as I have read on some other posts in social media

If you don’t want to think, why would not not want to write it?
No specific to you only, but could one really think that (thus write it) “bugs” are introduced on purpose. Come on…

(Btw I edited my post prior to your reply , but yet I think I need to clarify )
Since the new watches are currently based on the same platform you could argue that one (the people developing it ) ) does not care on the impact the implementation has on previous models because they want to promote the new ones . Not that you create bugs so that you ruin the experience on purpose . It’s an argument that you can purposely take : we need to have consistent experience hence the old ones need to take a hit on something … aka the battery life .

Kramble

Full cycle battery, 20 days with OHR24 and three activities each week (same time as usual since 2 years).
It used to be 30 days before the last update since the precedent fix drain battery issue about one year ago.

MeazzaS9

@thanasis The battery issue has already happened a few updates ago, Suunto doesn’t want the battery to last less, they will try to fix it as soon as possible as battery life is one of the strong points of our watches.

fedequei

@MeazzaS9 I hope so, i’m still stuck in 10% day with my vertical solar