Battery LIfe
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@masi0 - There are automation apps that will work on your watch. If you can get one to set the lock touch-screen and set watch to cinema mode, that might resolve your issue. It may even be able to change your wake settings.
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I tried cinema mode before , but alarm in the morning did not switch the display on and I had to push the button and alarm automatically disappeared but kept vibrating lol
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@Zab_55 there seems to be a bug with cinema mode and alarm. I need to unlock the watch twice before I can stop the alarm.
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One more question related to the battery.
What type of charger do you guys use ? I mean if standard Phone charger with 5V= 1.0A output is fine or it should be lower output for this type of battery.
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@Zab_55 honestly, I use the first phone charger I see at home.
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this is a good question. i have 36w charger i use for my pixel phone and spare usb port i used to connect suunto. it is odd however that when i connected, however i saw some strange behaviour.
when i first check how many % is charged it showed 49% but 20-30 minut later 98% which i am not sure if is possible
i plan to use chromecast charger 5V 1A this time to see if anything will change
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@masi0 The S7 charges very quickly, I think to nearly 100% in 1.5h
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@isazi Me too!
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@Zab_55 me too
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Just asking because some cell phone batteries are not suitable for higher output chargers (1,5-2 A) , so I was curious if the 1A is just fine and I shouldn’t be worried about battery damage.
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@Zab_55 charging current is always controlled in the device. The charger rated current is just its max capacity.
And 1A is absolutely sufficient for the watch. These small batteries don’t charge at more.
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@Egika cool, thank you for your reply !
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Hey guys, me again.
I was wondering what battery consumption are you getting in forest areas during mountaineering ? Let’s say in GPS - Good setting and BT on/ off , WiFi off. -
@Jamie-BG this is not a nice solution, new smart watches can even get you when you fall asleep. your automatic question can understand … it should have been so much easier for suunto
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@fatih-varol really don’t understand your comment, especially in relation to my comment.
Suunto 7 doesn’t have native sleep tracking yet, but would assume that hopefully when/if it does get it, it would be automated as yes there are a lot that does this. But again that may come down to battery consumption, but we should at least get that choice.
While yes it would be nice if suunto included routines/profiles within its firmware (like fossil has done - which by the way are extremely buggy and cause major issues), there are 3rd party apps which can already do a lot of this. Personally as there is availability for this (and or it really should be included with wear os - but then this functionality was dropped from Android a couple of years ago - though some bits do live on, but not as a full profile switcher); I personally would rather suunto focus on more important stuff, like getting native sleep tracking, like improving the bugs they do have, like improving route navigation, battery life etc - stuff we don’t really have/and or where suunto can do so much better than the options we do have.
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@Zab_55 said in Battery LIfe:
Hey guys, me again.
I was wondering what battery consumption are you getting in forest areas during mountaineering ? Let’s say in GPS - Good setting and BT on/ off , WiFi off.I am getting 14h to 20h battery life. Airplane mode, good GPS
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@Brad_Olwin is that with our without routes/maps?
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When putting the heart rate monitoring, google fit, in 2 plane in the battery stattus appears “overcalculated” with a very high% of expenditure. Any solution?
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Assume you are referring to using google fit to track activities - if so then yes it does use a lot more battery than the suunto app (or it used to - not sure if the new update does or doesn’t) as it didn’t use the co-processor like the suunto app does, so it keeps the watch in high processor/power mode.
If you are referring to the 24/7 HR monitoring - it didn’t used to take that much additional power. Normally run at around 2% per hour (battery usage) with AOD on; with 24/7HR it used to add less than 0.5% per hour to that consumption.Note that google fit only takes a reading every 15/25 mins (so it is only waking up watch occasionally out of low power - probably as often as you get a notification).
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@Jamie-BG I usually use it to sleep track on IOS.