Battery drain after update 2.44.46 (2025 Q3) on Vertical Watch
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@OutdoorMan said in Battery drain after update 2.44.46 (2025 Q3) on Vertical Watch:
if you turn off airplane mode via control panel, then all the connections remain on. But if you do it via Settings - Connectivity - Airplane mode, then it turns everything off. I don’t know if it’s a bug or working as designed.
Surely a bug in the watch firmware. In Control panel it simply doesn’t work despite showing the switch as enabled.
@Belial said in Battery drain after update 2.44.46 (2025 Q3) on Vertical Watch:
I’m sure the switch was active (in control panel).
Now I’ve checked, it’s still on and watch is syncing, with connection icon displayed on watchface
Well then disable it in Control panel, then go to Settings > Connectivity > Airplane mode and enable it there. Double check that it can not connect to phone, and then monitor power consumption.
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I’ve tried turning aeroplane mode on mine in the settings that did not stop the battery drain.
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I’m also trying to test leaving the watch in airplane mode, but I don’t see any real improvement — maybe about 1% less battery drain per day, but it still loses around 8% daily.
Please, Suunto, do something about this… it’s really starting to get annoying. -
putting the watch into energy saving mode works like a charm . So it’s obviously some process (?) that is consuming the battery
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@Stefan-Kersting I used to do this in the past, attaching it to a single button, but it would then try to connect, so I’ve since removed it entirely.
This has nothing to do with the latest update. -
After almost exactly 72 hours I have left 91 % and to hours of gps activity included the watch used 9 % energy. In my opinion there s something wrong with the Bluetooth WiFi connection. Airplane mode always on
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For reference…
I’m not suffering from the battery drain and have these connectivity settings configured:Airplane mode: off
Paired devices: Mobile app
Wireless network: On/Auto
Discovery: Off -
@surfboomerang Can you be more precise? OHR 24 ? sleep tracking? daily battery consumption without activities ?
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@Kramble
24/7 OHR: Off
Sleep tracking: Off
Notifications: On
Daily consumption: 2-3% (with almost no solar power) -
@surfboomerang If you turn everything off and use it like a Casio watch from the 1990s, it’s no wonder that the battery drain problem doesn’t occur
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@maszop and Casios have 10 years battery life (with probably a smaller battery)
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@Elipsus Apples to apples, not oranges.
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@maszop said in Battery drain after update 2.44.46 (2025 Q3) on Vertical Watch:
@surfboomerang If you turn everything off and use it like a Casio watch from the 1990s, it’s no wonder that the battery drain problem doesn’t occur
Casios had no GPS
I do have exactly the same settings as @surfboomerang. Well, in fact no… my notifications are OFF
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I’ve also tried unpairing all Bluetooth devices and changing the watch face, but the result is the same… I can see there are now reports about the Vertical 2 as well, so I really hope they’re working on a solution.
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Shall we give up on the reports in this thread? Should we wait for the December update and hope they’ve figured out what’s causing the problem?
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@fedequei I don’t know but I gave up, in general. I put the Race 2 up on sale - and nobody wants it.
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@fedequei said in Battery drain after update 2.44.46 (2025 Q3) on Vertical Watch:
and hope they’
I am having the same problem since this update. I also reported watch charging issue. All we can do it to leave with it + wait for the next update.
Really hope that the next release will not be too long to receive. I am charging my watch every 5days now + checking every 5min if the watch is currently charging.
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Before the update my battery cycle was 15-17 days (Vertical 1). After the update it dropped to 8-10 days. Then I did hard reset and the cycle is back on 16-18 days.
I’m guessing it has something to do with the new sensor management.
After the update, every time I switched on the Polar Verity Sense it connected to the watch instantly.
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@slash1111 i have 15% drop over the weekend where i used another device for tracking my exercises …
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After monitoring battery consumption for 11 days, I can say that either my perception (of increased consumption) was mistaken, or that the soft reset and unpairing and re-pairing of my external HR monitor solved any potential problem.
Battery consumption remains excellent.
