Suunto 7

pilleus

Today I recorded a short walk with my Skagen Falster 3 and Ghostracer in standalone gps mode. Used sensors were heart rate (OHR), barometer and running cadence.

Walking time: 1 hour
GPS track: terrible, wobbling around
Heart rate: precise
Elevation (gain): precise
Battery usage: 28 %

Okay, no alternative to S7!

A Former User

@pilleus said in Suunto 7:

Okay, no alternative to S7!

No indeed. Went for a recovery jog with S9 and S7 yesterday, 55 minutes. Google Play subscription music playing all the time (though some songs were purchased, so I’d imagine not all of the playlist was DRM-protected). Still, 55 minutes of GPS, OHR, and music came to about 20% battery use.

Would have probably a bit more if I was checking S7 as opposed to relying on running power zone target in S9

Oh, GPS is really good, less than 0.03 mi difference from S9 with Stryd. OHR is way better than S9: no spikes, no cadence locks.

Brad_Olwin

@NickK The subscription service will burn through the battery much faster than if you download your own mp3 files. I certainly found this to be true.

A Former User

@Brad_Olwin I’d say about half the songs in the playlist were mine. But no more than that. I’d imagine Google Play would pull DRM-free versions of them, but hard to say. Will do another run on Sunday. Maybe I’ll remove my songs and leave only subscription stuff or vice versa.

I did a tempo run the night before, using S7 and Pandora offline station. 40 minute got me down by about 28%. I did check S7 screen a lot. And Pandora is a total piece of garbage as an app and a terrible battery guzzler. I don’t think they updated it since 2016 or so. Same bugs I remember seeing on M600 were still present.

So far I’m looking at 0.4% to 0.7% per minute of GPS, OHR, and music. This would come to roughly 2-5 hours of running on a fully charged watch. I think with Google Play and purchased playlist, you should be able to comfortably do marathon with this thing.

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@NickK said in Suunto 7:

I’d imagine Google Play would pull DRM-free versions of them, but hard to say.

I dont know that as well. On the phone it downloads the normal mp3.

However, on the s7 with a filemanager did not find any mp3 for my own music (purchased / uploaded)

Should I say this? Music mate app buddy. Downloads 320kbps mp3 (non-DRM) from your Gplay music (not purchased)

I download the mp3s with this app and reupload them to GooglePlayMusic and thus I have always non-drm mp3s. If it makes any sense

A Former User

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Suunto 7:

Should I say this? Music mate app buddy. Downloads 320kbps mp3 (non-DRM) from your Gplay music (not purchased)
If it makes any sense

Oh, it makes all sense in the world! Let me give it a whirl!

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@NickK with this app, I have non $$ clear quality mp3 from whatever. Like wow!

JorgeFD

The last test i did was a total disaster and this what it makes me to return S7

62’ minutes playing my own music in play music. No connection to phone. I didn’t check much the watch and didn’t use maps. Total battery drain was 35%

A Former User

@jorgefd78 Did you check where the drain came from?

JorgeFD

@NickK the day before I did the same test but without music. Same track. Same time. Same checks. (maybe a little bit more) and the battery drain was 20%.

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@jorgefd78 do you have screen always on?

A Former User

@jorgefd78 This is Wear OS for you. Yesterday after the run I was checking battery usage. Pandora came up at 1% even though I haven’t touched that app in 48 hours and I think even rebooted my watch at some point. Since the app is a total PoS on the watch, I simply promptly uninstalled it. But I’m sure there can be more, starting with Wear OS itself. Google Play itself is a strange and buggy animal.

JorgeFD

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos nop

A Former User

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Suunto 7:

@jorgefd78 do you have screen always on?

I did AOD vs non-AOD and frankly, I’m not seeing that much difference. Does the screen even go blank when in Suunto app? Every time I look at my watch, Suunto app displays ambient screen with music buttons.

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@jorgefd78 that is really low to be honest. (or very high consumption). Should not like so.

JorgeFD

The battery consumption during the day was freaking awesome but not running. After 4 tests running I realize that I don’t want to test more and decide to go with a suunto 9. When SA accepts more than one watch in a easy way I will buy again. The watch is awesome

RichJod

Is there a way to set an alarm with sound? I can only set it to vibrate. Did I miss something? Thanks.

pilleus

3:10 h mountain biking, a lot of notifications from the phone, 30 minutes AOD

Battery 75 % -> 49 %

Altitude perfect, ascent (820 m) and descent (817 m) perfect, minimum and maximum altitude exact, Ambit 3 or any other Suunto watch can’t be better.

S7 rocks!

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

And btw don’t forget to review your S7 from where you bought it ! (you can also at Suunto.com I suppose)

A Former User

@RichJod said in Suunto 7:

Is there a way to set an alarm with sound? I can only set it to vibrate. Did I miss something? Thanks.

The watch doesn’t have a speaker. So unless you fancy sleeping in headphones or pairing with Bluetooth speakers, the answer is no.