Software Update 2.48.16 (2025 November Rain release)
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@aiv4r Not sure what training ecosystem is for you then, since recovery is the most important metric of any fitness building program. Otherwise I could just track my workouts in a spreadsheet.
BTW ZoneSense telling me my AeT being 160 bpm is – although flattering – not a meaningful addition to my program either.
So at this point, if I cannot trust a single figure on this watch, what is it good for then? Telling time and firing off alarms?.. Funny thing is, recently there’s been a bug where even the latter wasn’t working.
Suunto 9 Peak Pro
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@cheetah694 I train a lot, and I never look at recovery.
What gives me the best training/recovery indications is training load…tss/ctl…values. That’s way more usable to me. -
@Tieutieu and listening to your body feeling (yeah I miss a rpe scale of 10 on my watch
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Suunto metrics a, for me, the most reliable one and the one that match the most my perception (once zone and threshold are properly configured)
I maintain a sync over coros, garmin and suunto over 30 days and garmin was way off forcing me to do HIIt training, coros was not bad at tracking my progress and suunto was spot on
Body battery and other metrics are good if you don’t know yourself (and by good I mean that they could help you)
The purpose of alll these metric is to put numbers on feelingto allow you to know yourself, once this is achieved you don’t look a lot to your watch you just monitor training load and perception of effort -
Personally, with my 2 Suunto, I’m 2 updates behind waiting for the battery problem to be solved… when it is solved then I will update
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@Kraisun-Tunta said in Software Update 2.48.16 (2025 November Rain release):
Honestly, I see a lot of people freaking out about battery life… but trust me, you’ll only care about it for one week. After that? Zero thoughts given. You’ll be too busy checking your pace, cursing hills, and pretending you’re not dying to worry about whether your watch has 37% or 82%.
And let’s be real: a week-plus of battery is more than enough. Charging a watch is like brushing your teeth—takes a minute, doesn’t ruin your life, and arguably prevents bigger problems.
So yeah, don’t stress. You’ll forget about battery life faster than you forget your warm-up.
Are you for real mate. Battery life and GPS accuracy are the entire reason I have had suunto watches a long time. I still have an old ambit 3 peak in the cupboard that I bring out that has a more stable battery than my vertical currently does. Sure not everyone cares about battery life people that are just using their watch to go to gym or whatever. Some of us like to do adventures. Not only is the battery life now dismal on my and many others vertical it is also inconsistent and not trust worthy. Sometimes it drains at 1% every 2 hours sometimes it’s draining 40% in 24 hours. I cannot trust that in the rainforest relying on it for navigation.
One other issue with this battery problem is lithium batteries are only good for so many charge cycles so just like your Apple Watch starts off good and the battery quickly degenerates from frequent charging. Well now instead of my vertical only needing charging once every 3-4 weeks like it did when I bought it and the battery performed as advertised. Now it lasts a few days which means not only more frequent charging but now I’m killing the ultimate life of my battery faster by more frequent charging. This watch performed perfectly when released and every (update) has killed it further and further to the point my old ambit 3 peak has a better battery life.
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I have a SV1. I installed the update while charging the watch to 100%. It is now at 88%. That’s roughly 4% a day. I wear the watch 24/7, sleep and 24h HR tracking. I’ve done several activities this week (± 6h) however they were all indoor.
I would say I’m not experiencing the battery draining issue, I think! Also, I don’t have the ghost connections issue and didn’t lose the custom HR zones or profiles.I understand this battery issue, or any issue, in particular if it is hardware (cannot be fixed by a software update), is frustrating for anyone affected.
However, it is very clear that this issue doesn’t affect ALL the users. Thus, we need to try to isolate and identify the conditions that trigger the issue. It’s very difficult for Suunto, or any software development company, to cover and test ALL the possible combinations in which their watches are being used in the real world.
Someone mentioned the issue might be related to the BT connection(s). Maybe this is related to the ghost connections.
Maybe we can try to help by providing some info related to our setup (e.g., how many BT accessories are connected, which ones (brand+type), phone OS/version, notifications enabled, etc). The more information available, the best.
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@jjorgemoura most constructive post I have read in days!
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@gone-troppo Wow mate, your Vertical sounds like it’s living a harder life than I am.
Mine only has to survive flat park runs and a trip to the supermarket… yours is out there fighting for its life in the rainforest like it’s auditioning for Survivor.
get why battery life is a big deal for you - if my watch dropped 40% in 24 hours in the jungle, I’d start praying to the GPS gods too.
But honestly, with today’s tech and lithium batteries, this kind of behaviour is pretty normal. After about a week, the battery usually slows down its drain and becomes more stable again. Trust me on this one.
Meanwhile, I’m just hoping my watch doesn’t die before I finish my 10K.
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I’m sorry but battery life is the key reason I bought my new Vertical 2 and it doesn’t meet the specs (by far) and this is a very bad indication about the future. I have a 5 year old Coros Apex Pro that I’m replacing because I went down from charging every 18 days to charging every 5 days (with a weekly 12-14 hours of GPS). After the latest update to 2.48.6 battery draining remains at some 10% per day and about 2% per hour with GPS. That barely lasted a week. Yesterday I reached 12% so I finally charged to 100% and for good measure did a soft reset too. From 10pm to 5:30am during sleep mode with HRV and without spo2 battery dropped to 96%. That’s worse than before the charge cycle. I’ll continue to monitor with the same settings for the day (AOD, HR 247, notifications on, discovery off, no BT devices connected except the phone app on Android Pixel). I know that sometimes off the charger the first few percent can drop quickly but this isn’t a promising beginning.
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Battery los of 40% a day ? Something Not correct guys… Send the watch to suunto and get a new one … Just Like that
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My R2 battery drains 8-10% per day. I use GPS for 40 minutes per day and sleep with it. After 4 days, the battery is at 65%.
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@SODIUM i loos 10% a day included 1h gps RUN and Night sleep tracking inkl HRV THIS IS OK i think
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@cheetah694 i fully agree with you - recovery is super important in general training. I was saying that 1 number will never tell you how your recovery is going. Yes Suunto will try to calculate a guestimate number based on training intensity and lenght, but it is just a guestimate. Don’t get me wrong, I would like that Suunto would fix a bug where it gives 2000+ h of recovery, but that number should not impact your training a bit.
