Battery consumption on Vertical 2
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Hey Suunto Specialists
,I’m new to world of Suunto, coming from Garmin after 7 Years. I’ve bought a new Suunto Vertical 2 and love it so far- yes, there are some bugs here and there and some disadvantages function wise when comparing it to my Fenix 8. But 1) the Fenix 8 is not free of bugs after more than 1 year of usage and b) it costs a lot more and so you can’t compare apples and pears… now coming to my issue:
Battery drain in activity mode is awesome; for me it’s about 0-1% per hour for my strength and other indoor activities and about 1-2% for my outdoor activities (mainly running) with best gps and AOD on; that’s wild and absolutely awesome! But on the other side my battery drain whilst the rest of the day is higher than expected. It’s about 11-13% per day (without the activity battery loss). I didn’t change most of the standard settings but try to give you all the information (AOD off, Wrist wake to full, brightness medium, 15-30 notifications per day, bluetooth connected to phone, sleep tracking on with hrv und blood ox. tracking). A little strange is that per night the loss is lower than per day although hrv and blood ox tracking is only at night. So I assume the display consumes much battery in daily life but not at activity tracking?! I don’t get it. Have already tried a soft rest but try to avoid a hard reset because setting up all my customized activties was really painful and I don’t want to do this anytime soon again
I’m now into my second loading circle and want to ask if there (really) will be a change in 1-2 circles because it needs some type of “calibration” first? Do you have any tips or tweaks for my to get over this?Thank you in advance! Cheers, Sebastian
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@bobbyfw03 Hello! So basically it’s the same issue that I have and this is the reason I created this post. Now, after factory reset, I disabled full wakeup and made it to the button, other than that it is about the same. I’m checking for a few days now. If it’s not getting better, I’m definitely returning it back. I love a lot about it but the battery is too important for me.
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@Marijus-Siegel hey, I have to say this problem is solved for me. I don’t know what caused this solution but here’s what I changed: Display brigthness to low, Discovery function off, 2x long press upper right button for soft restart. Everything else is like my initial post.
There’s no quick drain anymore. Last 48h was about 7% per day with 2,5h of gps activties and 1h of indoor activity. So this looks like it’s in line with tho states suunto made about battery. Next days I will try to set up brigthness to medium again (but low is still very usable for me) and will see if display brightness has a huge impact. I’m still in charging circle no. 2 so maybe there’s also some kind of calibration about the battery estimation. -
@bobbyfw03 wtedy do you mean by Discovery function?
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@tomahawk5000 in connectivity there is an on and off switch for discovery. Basically the watch is running a Bluetooth discovery mode all the time looking for new devices to connect to. When are you turn this off, It disable this.
Suunto Vertical, Race, Race S and Run Currently using Race 2
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@Stavrogin said in Battery consumption on Vertical 2:
Basically the watch is running a Bluetooth discovery mode all the time looking for new devices to connect to.
I think this actually controls Bluetooth visibility of the watch.
The watch itself is not looking to connect to anything. Discovery needs to be ON, in order to do the initial pairing of the Suunto app with the watch. This should be disabled afterwards so the watch is not visible to Bluetooth beacons for privacy reasons.
If the watch is scanning / connecting to paired sensors outside of activities, that is a firmware bug that has nothing to do with the Discovery switch. -
@Stavrogin oh that’s right I always have this option off and I don’t have issue with battery
Ps I thing this is for being invisible for any other devices (eg phones)
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My first “normal” week with Vertical 2:
- Charged to 100% on sunday evening.
- AOD on, Notifications on, Sleep tracking on, 24/7 hr on.
- Activities: 10:14 hrs total
- eMTB 5:08 hrs, GPS best setting, HR belt (1 hr commute every workday)
- Walking 2:23 hrs, GPS best setting, no HR belt
- Weight training 2:08 hrs, HR belt
- Pool Swimmig 0:35 hrs, no HR belt
- Next sunday evening the battery was at 24%
Not sure if this is what I should get, but at the moment I think this feels ok. Did not do any running this week so hopefully 1-2 hrs of running will still get me the whole week without charging.
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Grundsätzlich ist es empfehlenswert nach jedem Update entweder einen einfachen Neustart zu machen oder sogar einen Force Reset.
Für letzteres den oberen Knopf so lange gedrückt halten bis die Uhr neu startet. Dabei alles ignorieren und den Knopf nicht loslassen. -
@Speedy78 nie rozumiem nie pomogę
