Battery LIfe

Federico Ormesani

Federico Ormesani

@Federico-Ormesani
The problem of battery life in generale is objetcive. Register one activity about 6/7 hours it is difficult to fully complete. This is my opinion, and I don’t think that my S7 has a problem. It is a wroste engineering design

Brad_Olwin

@Federico-Ormesani It appears that the activity was saved up to the point that the watch went into battery saver mode. I do not know why the altitude was not transferred. I am on iOS and all the data up to the watch going into battery saver mode is transferred.

danklod

Hi all,
my impressions that when I’m using the watch with screen off the battery life is more extended but this is usefull for some activities like rowing and swimming. But when I’m in the mountain for hiking, trekking and etc and when I often have to use the map to understand what path I have to follow the battery life is about 6/7 hours like @Federico-Ormesani said. Also if in next update been added the option to we can import gpx tracks and follow the path this will be increasingly annoying. Perhaps if we can use this activities with some simple mode option or cutted function or anything else this will be great.

luca760101

Last test on a trail running skyrace, with mountaineering passages but always with visible gps (almost all at 2300 meters above sea level without tree cover): final activity of 7:15 h, my S7 died at 5h29m of activity in mode plane. Do I have to resign myself to not being able to use the S7 when it goes over 5h? Dear Suunto, help us …

Egika

@luca760101 depends on the settings.
Right now the GPS is using a lot of power when moving slowly (or almost stationary).
Until the next update is there, you could try cycling as sports mode. This will increase the battery run time to 10-15h (that’s what I get)

JorgeFD

My experience hiking last week for 20km and 1200 meter ascent. I put s7 in airplane mode and select hiking mode. After 6h (plus 1h paused) the battery was at 20%

Saketo Nemo

@luca760101
I don’t remember if we had already talked about it, but one way to help the watch is to bring it back to the home (and disable the reactivation of the screen with the rotation of the wrist) with the back button. This will force you to press the Suunto app button when you want to check the data, but it will certainly consume less battery.

We hope that Suunto will soon present an update that improves autonomy, it is also my wish.

luca760101

@Egika said in Battery LIfe:

depends on the settings.
Right now the GPS is using a lot of power when moving slowly (or almost stationary).
Until the next update is there, you could try cycling as sports mode. This will increase the battery run time to 10-15h (that’s what I get)

thank you, in fact I also think GPS is the real problem of excessive resource consumption. your theory is very logical. we therefore await the next update to be able to do sport for more than 5 hours :;-)

Brad_Olwin

@jorgefd78 This is about what I am getting with trail running.

luca760101

@Brad_Olwin

That is, how many hours with the trail running mode with the airplane mode? As with the discussion on charging the exhausted S7, perhaps at this point you have a special version produced by Suunto for the testers.

Kai Liu

@luca760101 Charge it before battery dies when you break?

luca760101

@Kai-Liu

It’s the same

Brad_Olwin

@luca760101 In Airplane mode with the firmware you now have, I get 6-9h in Best GPS and 14-19h in Good GPS. If you load a route that will reduce battery life and a lot of time on the map page will reduce battery life. These are averages that I have had over the last 3 or 4 months.

JorgeFD

Battery for today trail running session:

Offline mode
10 seconds
Following a route
Playing a lot with maps
20km and 3 and a half hour plus 30’ paused

From 100% to 57%

macdav

Today 4:30h of golf. 10 sec interval and more than half of battery remain. Good job Suunto!

masi0

@jorgefd78 this is indeed impressive!

Mi_chael

4h of cycling with gps set at best (1s) 30% of battery down.
Nice

masi0

As my Suunto is 2 day old I had no time to measure the battery entirely, however it lasted 1.5day when I connected it to the charger with 25% left. It was normal use with one test run (with 10% battery use during 30 minutes of GPS)

Today I did similar run with 10s GPS - only 4% drop. Nice!

The only concern I have is that when watch is fully charged, it quickly drops battery to 98%, then its fine. Any ideas?

sartoric

@masi0 said in Battery LIfe:

it quickly drops battery to 98%, then its fine. Any ideas?

A drop to 99/98 is almost normal due to the rounding of the battery manager. As soon as you disconnect it from the charger, the numbers drop (eg. 99.9 or 98.9) depending on full charge percentage (sometimes it simply indicates 99 instead of 100, but it’s common battery charging “no issue”)