Race S: Extremely high battery use rate

dreamer_

@elbee thank you so much for the very detailed answer. That 5% per hour with dual band and using maps is not that bad. It seems better than I thought. I understand that before the update battery life was more similar to the numbers Suunto says.

sindavide

@sky-runner
It seems we all have the same problem.
One night sleep with sleep monitoring uses ove 10% battery.

sindavide

@elbee
Wrist HR has greatly improved since last update. However, in general i agree that wrist HR is not great. Previously, though, it was really horrible.
I don’t think that battery, as it is after last update, is acceptable, especially considered that previously tomthe firmware update it laster substantially longer.

sindavide

@Tieutieu
How and when?
It doesn’t look like at all

Tieutieu

@sindavide said:

@Tieutieu
How and when?
It doesn’t look like at all

Could you quote or specify ?

Adrian.S

I can only confirm (Vertical 1) that some watch faces are more “batter-usage” than others.

Therefore I avoid watch-faces with animations like moon-phases, earth-animations, north-arrow, classic seconds-arrow etc.

snow*

@sindavide said:

I don’t think that battery, as it is after last update, is acceptable,

A few days ago I run a ~3h trail with maps always on and battery barely drops 12%. For sure issue depends on the config/features used, but in my use cases, everything is working fine now after last update.

dreamer_

@snow that means that the watch is valid for a 100k run without charging it. Not bad.
I’m thinking in pushing an order.
It has a very good price now, but I’m afraid Suunto is replacing this watch for the Race 2 S very soon.

elbee

@sindavide said:

@sky-runner
It seems we all have the same problem.
One night sleep with sleep monitoring uses ove 10% battery.

I’ve disabled sleep monitoring. It’s neither accurate nor useful. You’re better off asking yourself in the morning if you feel refreshed or still sleepy. A much better indicator how you slept.
If you disable sleep tracking you also disable hrv. But from properly tests (not some youtube gadget influencer) hrv measuring on garmin watches isn’t that accurate and I have no reason to believe others brands are better. And, again, the useful of hrv is questionable.

But some people love collecting data, so I understand disabling data collection isn’t an option for everyone.

withManish

@sky-runner, same issues: my watch uses 7-10% battery even in power-save mode overnight.