Battery LIfe

danklod

Hi all,
my impressions that when I’m using the watch with screen off the battery life is more extended but this is usefull for some activities like rowing and swimming. But when I’m in the mountain for hiking, trekking and etc and when I often have to use the map to understand what path I have to follow the battery life is about 6/7 hours like @Federico-Ormesani said. Also if in next update been added the option to we can import gpx tracks and follow the path this will be increasingly annoying. Perhaps if we can use this activities with some simple mode option or cutted function or anything else this will be great.

luca760101

Last test on a trail running skyrace, with mountaineering passages but always with visible gps (almost all at 2300 meters above sea level without tree cover): final activity of 7:15 h, my S7 died at 5h29m of activity in mode plane. Do I have to resign myself to not being able to use the S7 when it goes over 5h? Dear Suunto, help us …

Egika

@luca760101 depends on the settings.
Right now the GPS is using a lot of power when moving slowly (or almost stationary).
Until the next update is there, you could try cycling as sports mode. This will increase the battery run time to 10-15h (that’s what I get)

JorgeFD

My experience hiking last week for 20km and 1200 meter ascent. I put s7 in airplane mode and select hiking mode. After 6h (plus 1h paused) the battery was at 20%

Saketo Nemo

@luca760101
I don’t remember if we had already talked about it, but one way to help the watch is to bring it back to the home (and disable the reactivation of the screen with the rotation of the wrist) with the back button. This will force you to press the Suunto app button when you want to check the data, but it will certainly consume less battery.

We hope that Suunto will soon present an update that improves autonomy, it is also my wish.

luca760101

@Egika said in Battery LIfe:

depends on the settings.
Right now the GPS is using a lot of power when moving slowly (or almost stationary).
Until the next update is there, you could try cycling as sports mode. This will increase the battery run time to 10-15h (that’s what I get)

thank you, in fact I also think GPS is the real problem of excessive resource consumption. your theory is very logical. we therefore await the next update to be able to do sport for more than 5 hours :;-)

Brad_Olwin

@jorgefd78 This is about what I am getting with trail running.

luca760101

@Brad_Olwin

That is, how many hours with the trail running mode with the airplane mode? As with the discussion on charging the exhausted S7, perhaps at this point you have a special version produced by Suunto for the testers.

Kai Liu

@luca760101 Charge it before battery dies when you break?

luca760101

@Kai-Liu

It’s the same

Brad_Olwin

@luca760101 In Airplane mode with the firmware you now have, I get 6-9h in Best GPS and 14-19h in Good GPS. If you load a route that will reduce battery life and a lot of time on the map page will reduce battery life. These are averages that I have had over the last 3 or 4 months.

JorgeFD

Battery for today trail running session:

Offline mode
10 seconds
Following a route
Playing a lot with maps
20km and 3 and a half hour plus 30’ paused

From 100% to 57%

macdav

Today 4:30h of golf. 10 sec interval and more than half of battery remain. Good job Suunto!

masi0

@jorgefd78 this is indeed impressive!

Mi_chael

4h of cycling with gps set at best (1s) 30% of battery down.
Nice

masi0

As my Suunto is 2 day old I had no time to measure the battery entirely, however it lasted 1.5day when I connected it to the charger with 25% left. It was normal use with one test run (with 10% battery use during 30 minutes of GPS)

Today I did similar run with 10s GPS - only 4% drop. Nice!

The only concern I have is that when watch is fully charged, it quickly drops battery to 98%, then its fine. Any ideas?

sartoric

@masi0 said in Battery LIfe:

it quickly drops battery to 98%, then its fine. Any ideas?

A drop to 99/98 is almost normal due to the rounding of the battery manager. As soon as you disconnect it from the charger, the numbers drop (eg. 99.9 or 98.9) depending on full charge percentage (sometimes it simply indicates 99 instead of 100, but it’s common battery charging “no issue”)

Zab_55

Hi there ,

I’m new Suunto 7 owner from this day , and I need your help straight.
I’ve been waiting if Suunto make the update for battery life before I buy the S7, they did -> I bought.
But here comes the disappointment tbh. I charged it , set it, updated all the preinstalled apps and watch itself and there it comes. The battery percentage is going down crazy. I turned off Wifi, turned off AOD, NFC, just let the Bluetooth on with battery saver tilt.

Here is the picture how it went down with literally no use at all (watching movie with watch on my hand with occasional tilt to check the battery level)
I’m iPhone user and was wondering if there might be some issue with setting my Location permissions for “always allow” and it’s using GPS all the time ?
I tried factory reset and it did not help at all (screenshot is taken after factory reset)
I installed only Spotify but did not even open it.
Might there be issue with apps installed on the iPhone (Suunto, WearOS, Google fit - all I have) with possible data transfer and sync ongoing event though I do not use the watch ?
I did not turn the Bluetooth off since it is irrelevant for testing the battery life when I want to get notifications (did not receive any though)
I’ve read everything in this topic and used the same settings as you guys did.
Bit off topic, should I have GoogleFit app installed or they made finally Suunto app collect all the data ?
What output on your charger do you use please ?

Many thanks for your help and sorry if there are some mistakes in the text.

Brad_Olwin

@Zab_55 If it is new you may be getting a lot of updates. Wait for a week or so for the watch to be stable. I am an iPhone user and you can target the notifications you want to appear on the watch by targeting notifications on the Lock Screen on the iPhone. That may reduce the battery drainage. I only allow emails from VIPs to notify, otherwise I would have an email notification every couple of minutes…The battery improvements implemented by Suunto are more for exercise and less for all day as a smartwatch.

Zab_55

@Brad_Olwin
Thank you for your reply ! So is there possibility that the battery will “break in” after some charges and discharges ?
I allow only emails and SMS , so it means just a few notifications to none during the day.
Anyway , should I have WearOS and Suunto app has set for always allow (Location) ?