Race S: Extremely high battery use rate
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Besides the quite frequent 15% battery usage in 1 night (charge to 100% in the evening, wakeup with 85% in the morning), which can be mitigated by frequently rebooting my watch I now also had a annoying high battery usage during a hike.
I started the hike with 48% and a expected runtime of 13 hours. Aod is off. Gnss settings default and used navigation.
After almost 7 hours the watch went into battery emergency mode: no gps, no map, no heartratesensor. (The last one I couldn’t care less, but no navigation was quite annoying)
I ended the hike just over 7 hours with 1% left. A couple of minutes later it just shutdown.This is really far from the advertised and expected time.
(Unfortunate suunto doesn’t have ‘resume later’ so during stops I count pause the time but not the gps)
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The point is that compared to first FW versioms now battery is crap. Before it was ok, now it not
For me and my usage it is now 4 and has been 5 days… not a big issue - for ME…
“Crap” is different…Suunto Race S
Garmin Epix Pro -
Same here, yesterday evening 100%. Today early morning after 7 hours only 85%. I try soft reset and i will see
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The point is that compared to first FW versioms now battery is crap. Before it was ok, now it not
For me and my usage it is now 4 and has been 5 days… not a big issue - for ME…
“Crap” is different…I am on the same boat.
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@Miroslava, don’t do that; There is absolutely no difference, and you will spend time reconfiguring the watch.
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@withManish did also soft and hard reset, seems the same.
Ambit 3 Peak Sapphire | Kailash | Hammerhead Karoo 3
Garmin Edge 1040 Solar -
you will spend time reconfiguring the watch.
Soft reset is a restart and not requiring a reconfiguration. Even if not cool, it can refresh watch memory/cache/etc…
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For other watches people talk about a full cycle of discharge/charge, I will give it a try.
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@André-Faria I went for a run in the forest today. I ran for 2 hours and 20 minutes and the battery only used 5%. It looks like it’s ok after the soft reset, let’s see.
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Is this considered normal? Yesterday my wife went for a 5 hour hike with 100% battery and today she has 46% battery. In general the watch lasts only for 4 days max without any activities. It’s a bit frustrating to be honest.
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@André-Faria but i have Race no Race S
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@OutdoorMan No way, the Race S should provide 25-30h without Navigation and about 20h with. Highest accuracy setting and AOD on. Maybe doing a full discharge / charge cycle helps
Race S
Vertical Titanium Solar
Ambit3 Vertical
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So, I charged my Race S about 68 hours ago - 19.08. 21:00. It is now at 33%.
Sleep tracking, 24/7 HR, AOD, notifications enabled that each vibrate.2 tracked running activities with chest strap, in sum about 90min.
Is it amazing? No. Could it be better? Yes. Is it close to unsuable? Certainly not.
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@2b2bff I think it is the same as on my vertical 2. I need to soft reset immediately after EACH charging, then battery usage is ok. I already opened a ticket at Suunto helpdesk on this.
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@johann.fuehrer will try to see if it makes any difference…
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@OutdoorMan No way, the Race S should provide 25-30h without Navigation and about 20h with. Highest accuracy setting and AOD on. Maybe doing a full discharge / charge cycle helps
I don’t even remember when this started but with each update it’s getting worse. On top of that I have the feeling that the battery on my Race 2 is also not lasting long enough. It’s visible mostly outside of activities, during daily usage. Not during activities, which interesting.
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Not during activities, which interesting
Yes, your observation is right. I have mentioned somewhere that 2 hours of GPS activity use 6-8% of the battery.
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I am now paying more attention to the consumption, so I can try to find the root cause.
Is there any software that may help taking note?
So far during sleep it seems to consume more %, like 10% on one night.
HRV tracking enabled. blood oxygen disable
If it matters my watchface is the vector classic, all in white.
Airplane mode enabled. maybe a wild guess but I think this one could also impact since there were two features on " mobile notifications" (I don’t even know why they are on on the watch, I said no on the app) and “discovery” on connectivity (I don’t need it, since my watch is paired).So far the watch is at 87% at 7:30am, it was charged from 0 to 100% at the end of yesterday morning, with 2h15 walk.
Ambit 3 Peak Sapphire | Kailash | Hammerhead Karoo 3
Garmin Edge 1040 Solar -
Frequent reboots mitigates the problem. After a few weeks without reboots, my watch uses 15% per night (no aod, no sleeptracking so no hrv, no bloodexygen)
With reboots it’s about 5% or less.
So, clearly the problem is low quality software.
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2b2bff
For me is less than 4 days with 1 or 2 hrs activity/day, HR from chest steap, GPS ON 2/3 activities, HR 24/7. Guess concept of crap is subjective and relative. For me it is crap, and relative to previous FWs battery performance, now it is bad. Going backwards is not acceptable, may e for you it is, for me -and many others- it is not
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