Suunto vertical is now junk
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I put a post up a few months back to give credit to suunto it seemed they had solved the battery drain issue and they did for a while. The issue is now back in full swing 30% a day this watch is absolute junk. For the first 12 months it was excellent, basically after suunto sent operations offshore to China certain updates have ruined this watch. Not to mention solar stopped working after about 18months, I was able to live with that without complaining but the battery drain is a joke. And to all the people that come out and say mine doesn’t do that well that’s great mine however does. I have sent it back to suunto who said there is no hardware problem and wiped their hands of it. I have done every possible reset and thing you can try. This is a warning to others out there reading this could start happening to you too. Hopefully moderators don’t delete this as this is truth I’m speaking. My old ambit 3 peak has 5 times the battery life of this junk.
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@gone-troppo I can understand that you are frustated if your watch doesn’t work as expected. Mine is two years and two months old (and doesn’t do that). As an engineer that has a lot of experience in aftersales issues my experienece says that if the majority of the devices do not have the same issues that you it means that yours has something different or you do something different.
If your watch is the SVTS and is draining 30% per day it is pretty clear that somenthing is faulty with the watch. doing a normal use of course. Even more if it was working properly and suddenly you get this battery consumption.
In my experience, the battery killer in this watch is the backlight and with last firmware a bug popped up that in some circumstances the backlight is enabled when starting an activity, check it out.I would send it again to service again, for sure.
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I second @cosme.costa on this one.
Plus if the solar panel stopped working, I would suspect, that probably the battery is depleted through the solar charging circuit.
Anyway, only Suunto repair center can solve this. -
@gone-troppo said in Suunto vertical is now junk:
Hopefully moderators don’t delete this as this is truth I’m speaking.
You probably don’t read much this forum
… except for spam / rule violation or ai bot no discussion has ever been deleted, maybe closed for many reasons, but not deleted. -
16/05/2023 : first time I used my SV1 (it was release date or very close)
Best watch I ever had.
Awesome since the beginning, unmatched autonomy -
@gone-troppo Whenever I see these types of post and the tone deaf responses, I often consider how some people don’t understand that different people pay a different price for the same item. What do mean? Well let’s say one person pays $600 for a watch and another person pays the same. Now also consider that one person is wealthy and has considerable financial freedom and the other does not. Since they both paid $600 which person is going to be more upset when the device malfunctions? Odviously the person who had the tighter budget is going to be more upset because 1) he believed the online hype (in this case, battery life), and 2) the cost indicated to him that the product would hold up for a reasonable amount of time. I’ve had my Suunto 9 Baro since 2017 and it’s still like new and works great with the appropriate firmware. I’ve taken really good care of it. I’m considering upgrading to the Vertical 2 but I question if it’s really necessary. The question is, “what does the new watch do that the one I already have doesn’t do?” So it’s understandable when these devices malfunction long before their ideal expiration date. If I do upgrade I’d expect the new watch to last as long as the 9 Baro. If it doesn’t, I’m going to be very unhappy.
