Battery LIfe

olymay · 21 Apr 2021, 19:45

With the tilt to wake, wifi, bluetooth activated, whithout sport activities, what battery time do you have? My watch would turn battery saver mode on after the 24 hour limit.

Since the new update on Monday I haven’t had too much opportunity to test battery life properly.

However, I took my S7 off the charger at 1300hrs yesterday at 100%.
At 1300hrs today the battery was at 47%.
So 53% usage in 24hrs.
I reckon I can eek a bit more out of it too.

I have AoD off
Power saver tilt to wake on
BT on
WiFi on auto
24/7 HR
Sleep tracking for 8hrs
I get a lot of notifications, control media, and reply to messages.

Jamie BG · 22 Apr 2021, 11:23

@olymay
Running Solstice watch face with AOD off, touch to wake on, power save tilt on, nav gestures off. BT on, Wifi auto, 24/7HR &resources, Sleep 6 hrs (use cinema mode, DND and touch lock).

Took off charger at 9am yesterday morning, was at 53% this morning when I put it on charger at 8:30, and that includes tracking a 20min walk with dog. It also includes reviewing a lot of notifications, replying to quite a few, at least an hour of media control. And a more than usual use of watch - am still playing around with it due to the suunto updates.

So yes 2 days is still very possible with AOD off, not so sure with AOD on based on previous days results.

olymay · 22 Apr 2021, 11:52

@jamie-bg said in Battery LIfe:

@olymay
Running Solstice watch face with AOD off, touch to wake on, power save tilt on, nav gestures off. BT on, Wifi auto, 24/7HR &resources, Sleep 6 hrs (use cinema mode, DND and touch lock).

Took off charger at 9am yesterday morning, was at 53% this morning when I put it on charger at 8:30, and that includes tracking a 20min walk with dog. It also includes reviewing a lot of notifications, replying to quite a few, at least an hour of media control. And a more than usual use of watch - am still playing around with it due to the suunto updates.

So yes 2 days is still very possible with AOD off, not so sure with AOD on based on previous days results.

That’s awesome! Great work and thanks for doing a longer test than I did

Also, if it helps at all I have found that by enabling ‘Cinema Mode’ it automatically puts the watch into DND and touch lock (although it still allows alarms to come through which is good).
That might save you a bit of time and faff each evening/morning

Jamie BG · 22 Apr 2021, 13:46

@olymay
Thanks - I hadn’t realised that the cinema included both of those. However will probably still use the touch lock as it also locks the buttons and prevents them from launching apps. Will still wake screen, but with cinema on it quickly switches it off again.

olymay · 22 Apr 2021, 15:33

@jamie-bg said in Battery LIfe:

@olymay
Thanks - I hadn’t realised that the cinema included both of those. However will probably still use the touch lock as it also locks the buttons and prevents them from launching apps. Will still wake screen, but with cinema on it quickly switches it off again.

No worries, I only recently learnt it myself from using cinema mode whilst asleep

drunners · 30 Apr 2021, 17:43

Hello to everyone, id like to have your feedback about my suunto 7 performance.
I was used to reach 12/13h of activity with my Ambit 3 without never think to my battery, the next day too…that’s why im trying perform a long activity with my suunto 7 too and it seems I cannot reach this in any conditions.

I’m actually at 7 hr of activity and 5% battery remain.

I’ve wifi off, Bluetooth on, tilt to wake off and I’ve enabled cinema mode but it does not affect battery (saw battery graph), and GPS every 10s.

Honestly I probably bought the wrong watch and I’m thinking to replace it but please before I’d like to have your feedback and see if something can be differently configured.

Aleksander H · 30 Apr 2021, 18:17

@drunners you certainly won’t get ambit level of battery for the simple reason that this is a WearOS smart watch. You might want to look at the S5 or S9 if longer battery is important.

That said, with fusedtrack (GPS at 10s) I would have thought you’d get more than 7 hours.

drunners · 30 Apr 2021, 18:36

@aleksander-h honestly me too…I also expect to save battery configuring cinema mode but it’s not…wear os I suppose is continuing draining battery, so sad because watch itself is very well made…

I think suunto should however explain those info better, If I had known i’d not bought it

Harboe · 30 Apr 2021, 18:40

With GPS set to good/10 sec it seems to drain around 10% a hour for me, so 7 seems quite low. And mine was with the screen on.

drunners · 1 May 2021, 03:48

@harboe did you keep bluetooth connected to smartphone?

JANTIKAINEN · 30 Apr 2021, 19:28

I get consumption ~7-8%/ hour with the following settings,
-GPS 10s
-Airplane mode on
-Screen on

I get this if I don’t have routing or glancing at the map because those obviously consume more battery.
For my training this is more than I need since I don’t do any ultras etc.

drunners · 30 Apr 2021, 20:03

@jantikainen understand, probably bluetooth connection and notifications drain more battery than I expect, I’ll do tomorrow a test with your settings and give a feedback just for comparison, thanks

Harboe · 1 May 2021, 03:48

@drunners yep connected to my phone and checking map a few times on the watch.

drunners · 1 May 2021, 17:37

@harboe tried without bluetooth, reached 8 h……try to see how to exchange with suunto 9

Nigel Taylor 0 · 1 May 2021, 18:18

Today I did six hours in airline mode and “Good”, starting at about 98%, ended up on 48%, following a route, with approx 25 WayPoint notifications on top of the 45 lap notifications, I looked at the map quite a few times in full power mode to get my bearings…I’d guess maybe 10 to 15 times of up to about 10-15 seconds.

The one odd thing I had at the end was Google Pay didn’t work, it said I had to enable NFC, but clicking did nothing, I toggled out of Airplane mode, and still NFC wouldn’t work, and couldn’t get to the setting in ‘Settings’/‘Connections’ either.
Paid for a drink with my phone, rebooted Watch and then NFC worked again.

olymay · 1 May 2021, 19:55

@drunners Do you run with your phone on you? If you do, then do not turn off Bluetooth or WiFi, as when connected to a phone they barely use any battery.
However, if the phone is not there, then the constant searching will drain the battery (in the same way a phone will drain it’s battery searching for a cellular signal when there is none).
If you do not take your phone with you, turn on Aeroplane mode on the watch.

Getting just 8hrs of life while tracking an activity is not normal, so please don’t assume this is standard for the watch and write it off. There will be something unusual draining the battery.

As an aside, do you have any bluetooth devices connected to the watch? HR sensor, headphones, etc?

JANTIKAINEN · 5 May 2021, 19:27

My current settings are AOD ON and touch to wake ON.
I get approx. 36-48hrs depending on the usage (activity, notifications, etc.)

If I change the AOD OFF and power saver tilt ON, what is the effect on battery life?

This is just out of curiosity so not complaining about the current battery life.

Jamie BG · 6 May 2021, 11:56

@jantikainen: of course it will depend on usage, but at its worst its the same as AOD on / Touch to wake on, but generally you are 48hrs plus.

Jamie BG · 7 May 2021, 09:46

@jamie-bg being running the suunto marine watch face with AOD off, power tilt on, touch to wake on, 24/7HR, Resources and Sleep on.
Took off charger at 10am yesterday. Its is now 11am today and am at 54% battery. Tracked activity was before charge yesterday and haven’t had a chance to go out today yet, but I think that using these settings 2 days is probably pretty feasible.

isazi · 10 May 2021, 16:56

About battery life with the new features: https://www.uhrenundtouren.com/en/suunto-7-battery-life-with-sleep-tracking-daily-hr-body-resources/