Battery LIfe
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@Brad_Olwin is that with our without routes/maps?
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When putting the heart rate monitoring, google fit, in 2 plane in the battery stattus appears “overcalculated” with a very high% of expenditure. Any solution?
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Assume you are referring to using google fit to track activities - if so then yes it does use a lot more battery than the suunto app (or it used to - not sure if the new update does or doesn’t) as it didn’t use the co-processor like the suunto app does, so it keeps the watch in high processor/power mode.
If you are referring to the 24/7 HR monitoring - it didn’t used to take that much additional power. Normally run at around 2% per hour (battery usage) with AOD on; with 24/7HR it used to add less than 0.5% per hour to that consumption.Note that google fit only takes a reading every 15/25 mins (so it is only waking up watch occasionally out of low power - probably as often as you get a notification).
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@Jamie-BG I usually use it to sleep track on IOS.
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@Ander-Lehena assume you are using Sleep as Android as no native sleep tracking yet? Note this 3rd party app doesn’t use the co-processor, so its battery consumption will be high. Most people seem to say its takes an extra 1-1.5% of battery per hour - and switching off flight mode isn’t going to save battery due to this. Any battery save due to bluetooth will be reasonably minimal.
Hope you are switching AOD off and locking touch screen (I know people who have had major battery issues their actions while sleeping were keeping the screen alive. -
@Jamie-BG With maps no routes. Not much time spent on maps page.
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@Brad_Olwin That makes sense based on what I am getting which is around 13-16 hours but connected to phone (btw 6-8% battery use per hour)
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I’ve just had an interesting and frustrating battery experience with my Suunto 7.
I went for a lunchtime run which lasted 1hr17min. I had GPS set to max accuracy, map screen always on, following a route, and streaming music from the S7 to Bluetooth headphones.
When I set off, the battery % was somewhere in the mid 70’s, more than enough for a run such as this.
As I crossed the finish line and stopped the run, it alerted me that the battery was down to 5%.I have never seen battery consumption like this before! I have minimal apps installed on the watch with nothing running in the background. I used the same settings, apps, and headphones as I always use, nothing has changed as far as I can tell.
I have added a screenshot of the watch battery (from WearOS app on the phone) to show the steep drop in battery. (the gap in the graph is overnight where I take the watch off and put it into battery saver mode).
Battery life on the S7 is typically stellar, so I am a little confused as to why it wa so poor during this activity.
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@olymay well, check if it happens again. I can expect one-off strange behavior from something like WearOS, but if it becomes common there must be something wrong.
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@olymay - is your play store app set to auto update or manual update? I assume you were running with watch in GPS only mode?
My experience is that rapid battery drain is often due to play store trying to update and it not working for lost connection or some reason. Rather than going into sleep mode and trying again later it seems to continously try and connect and rapidly drains battery.
If leave play store in manual update you will still get a notification when there is an update. I also prefer it this way, as then can trigger the update at a more convient time and or when I have watch on charger so uses wifi instead.
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@isazi Yeah, I’ll keep an eye on it. I have shorter runs now until Wednesday when I am looking at 14km (today was 12km). I will make sure it is at 100% when I start.
I know that streaming music to BT headphones uses more battery, but I have done a 1hr45min run in October and it easily survived.
As I’m starting to do more longer runs and it’s getting darker, I may start taking my phone with me again, for safety. I can stream my music from my phone instead which will allow me to do a comparison to see how much it does actually affect it.
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@Jamie-BG I have the Play Store set to auto update. How do you mean GPS only mode? It was connected to my headphones via Bluetooth.
I may try your idea of turning Play Store to manual. Like I said, I don’t have many apps installed so it won’t be an issue.
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@olymay GPS only mode. So that it isn’t connected to your phone i.e. running off only the watches GPS - seems as though this uses less power than when connected to phone too.
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@Jamie-BG Ah, then yes, GPS only mode. As my phone was left at home
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@isazi & @Jamie-BG , I’ve just had a thought. When I checked the map screen on the watch during the run, a few times the GPS seemed to very off from my actual location. I have double checked this just now and it varies from pretty accurate, to wildly off. It’s normally pretty decent.
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@olymay could do I suppose, and if hunting it will use more battery power. Have you run that route before? If yes, then would check against those routes.
Before I start recording an activity I start my suunto app while getting ready, so that normally by the time i am ready to start recording my HR is steady and ready, and I may already have a GPS fix - if not I then go into the map screen, which forces a GPS fix quicker. Once it has my location I go back to tracking screen and start. It at least makes sure it starts from that point and not 100m down the road where there are less over hanging trees and easier to get a fix.
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@Jamie-BG It was my first time running this route. The first half or so is along a canal with lots of overhanging trees and my track is all over the place, often has me in the water
I do the same you in that I start the app whilst getting ready and doing my warm ups. I always ensure that I have HR and GPS lock before starting the run.
I won’t be running this route again until Wednesday (that is the day I currently do my longer runs) and this coming Wed I will be increasing from 12K to 14K, but I plan to run most of the same route (it was a beautiful route to run!). I will start with 100% battery and see how it gets on.
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@Jamie-BG sorry for my bad English, but you really understand me. İ want quiet times sample 23:00-08:00 watch must be sleep…
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@fatih-varol press DND settings in top pull down menu. White round circle with line through it. If you want to automate use an automation tool from play store.
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Hi guys. Just got my S7 for Xmas. The watch is now set up and has done a software update from what I could tell yesterday on the charger.
I have just taken the watch off the charger and it says 7 hours until the battery runs out!!
It is on my wrist but it only says Android system has used 1% of the battery which would be right as it has only been off the charger for 5 mins.
Any idea what is causing this, is there a setting which is draining the battery?
