Software Update 2.48.16 (2025 November Rain release)
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@Elmiuel I tried to deactivate the live tracking app, but the problem with the smart belt which is connecting and disconnecting all the time is the same
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@SuperFlo75 Hi SuperFlo75, in my post I referred to using 3 Bluetooth connections (tracking app, Suunto band and bike power meter). After that, I had to discard one of them because during the activity both the band and the bike power meter kept disconnecting…
Regarding what you mentioned about the band, my Suunto band, which is about a year old, also started disconnecting continuously during every activity… after examining it closely, I noticed that one of the plastic parts had a strange crease. After contacting Suunto’s warranty service, it was quickly replaced.
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@Elmiuel ok, I only use smart belt, tracking app… the smart belt is a new one… I bought a new one for my wife not long ago… but she didn’t use it. The new belt has the same crazy behavior like my belt which is about one year old… it‘s not the belt. As this behavior started the first workout after last update, I think or hope it’s due to the firmware, and not due to the hardware.
Suunto Vertical Titanium Forest/Dark Ruby/UTMB/Courtney_Edition
Suunto Wing
Suunto 9 Peak Pro Titanium (owns my wife now)
Suunto Spartan Ultra
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I have the same except mine averages about 12% per day. I don’t think it’s battery degradation because I actually sent my watch to suunto repair in Sydney Australia and they said the battery hardware is fine. So it’s some sort of issue from an update.
To be honest I’m kind of tired talking about it. It’s exhausting and nothing has changed I doubt suunto will fix it .
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@SuperFlo75 You’ve already had a chance to test the hardware with your partner’s belt; the next step is up to Suunto. I hope both Suunto and the consumers of their devices can have a happy ending with this.
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Race 2 battery drain must be related to external sensors. In my case it is Suunto Smart HR. I had Garmin HRMPro, Polar Verity Sense and StrydX paired and everything was fine. When I bought, paired and first used Suunto HR belt it the watch started to consume 15-20% per day (AOD on). When I go to list of paired devices I can see that the first 3 are inactive, but Suunto Smart seems live (its battery icon is lit up), even though I am not wearing it.
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Battery drain can generally be caused by certain systems not properly switching off after use.
One is external BT sensors.
Another one could be the GPS chip (and possibly navigation calculation) staying alive after cancelling an activity, etc.
I know that the devs are aware that there are still issues in certain cases and that they will of course be fixed. -
@Bartek-W that is what I said all the way. I did a hard reset and after that all BT connections were killed. Now I have 53 % left after 7 days with some hours of GPS activity. Before the battery drained within a week
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I definitely agree that there is a problem with the Bluetooth on the watches (especially the Vertical 1, in my case). I changed the battery in my Suunto belt a month ago, and it’s already at 50% battery life. That’s completely abnormal.
However, in my case, the reduced battery life only affects the Vertical 1: the Race 2 has excellent battery life. Furthermore, another indication that there is an issue with the Vertical 1 is that at night it consumes 3-4% of its battery, compared to the Race 2, which consumes 1%, with the same settings.
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@Stefan-Kersting This finally annoyed me enough that I did a factory reset last night and it worked. I now only have my Polar H10 and Stryd food pod in the paired devices list. No more ghost devices.
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@atoponce said in Software Update 2.48.16 (2025 November Rain release):
@Stefan-Kersting This finally annoyed me enough that I did a factory reset last night and it worked. I now only have my Polar H10 and Stryd food pod in the paired devices list. No more ghost devices.
I did a factory reset as well with this latest firmware (Race). Unfortunately, my H10 (again) after some time all of a sudden turned into a ghost sensor.
So, the underlying bug is still there on the latest firmware and a hard reset only seems to fix the issue with ghost sensors (and battery drain) for a short time. At least that is my experience.
