Battery drain
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@MacMIllan I have my SV since 05/23, and there is always a ‚crazy‘ behavior of solar charging when the battery was full loaded on the charger… sometimes ther is no solar activity in plain sun until the charging level dropped under 95%, sometimes the normal behavior of the charging icon comes back after dropping under 98%… and after that, I always recognize that the solar charging can bring the battery back to 100% in about 30 minutes of plain sun… I was told that this is a protection of over-loading… nothing new!
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@MacMIllan said in Battery drain:
I am also noticing strange behavior with my Vertical Solar when it comes to solar charging. Sometimes the watch is charged within 15 minutes with a battery level of 95% to 100% by solar charging and on other days without activity and the entire day in the sun there is no charging.
Happens to me too. I think its just show wrong value after full charge. If its 95% -> 100% in 5 minutes by solar charging, its just 100% not 95% in real. 1% of solar charging takes 3h+ from my observation.
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@isazi said in Battery drain:
A fix is being tested, if everything works out should be here in a week or two.
Any news, soon ?
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@Antoine no, last I know it says September for the hotfix.
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T Todd Danielczyk referenced this topic on 10 Sept 2024, 17:40
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@isazi Do you know if the the hot fix is also for the 9pp ?
I purchased my watch 2 weeks ago and the battery is far from what is advertised.
First charge 5 days (with about 5hrs of gps activity).
second charge, this time I disabled the OHR during the day, and pulse ox during the night, as well as stand by display. About 3hrs of gps activity: it was 6 days ago, 18%remaining.
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@Robin123 all watches, but in my experience S9PP is the least affected by the drain
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@Robin123 I agree with you that the advertising claim ( Daily use: Smartwatch mode
up to 30 days (60 days with solar)) is not true. With a fully charged battery, I have a battery consumption (without activity and without HR or Oxi Monitor) of approx. 10 - 12 % within 2 days. The advertised runtimes will never be achieved.This advertised battery life was a reason for me to switch from the Suunto 9 Peak to the Vertical Solar. -
M Miloush referenced this topic on 11 Sept 2024, 07:18
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@Klaane My experience vith SV (non-solar) is as follows: in exactly 10 days, the battery charge dropped from 100% to 27%, with the fact that during this time I played sports for 7.5 hours (trail running and MTB). I estimate that the watch consumes 4%-5% of energy per day (with 24/7 OHR), and during sports training 3%-4% per hour (full performance mode).
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@Mouse-Cruiser I can confirm your findings. I am on the same consumption. I average about 2 weeks of battery (100% -> 15%) with an average of 6 - 8hours of gps recoding a week. Minimal notifications because I have dissabled most to try and squeeze more out of the battery.
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@MacMillan said in Battery drain:
@Robin123 I agree with you that the advertising claim ( Daily use: Smartwatch mode
up to 30 days (60 days with solar)) is not true. With a fully charged battery, I have a battery consumption (without activity and without HR or Oxi Monitor) of approx. 10 - 12 % within 2 days. The advertised runtimes will never be achieved.This advertised battery life was a reason for me to switch from the Suunto 9 Peak to the Vertical Solar.Et ça fait vraiment avancer le schmilblick.
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@MacMillan As @isazi for ex. and many others wrote in this post the hotfix is on its way, just be patient. In the meantime you can do just a little trick advised here many times. And I don’t know since when you have your SV but mine, from november 2023 with first firmware v. 2.25.66 keep battery life as expected, easily up to 45 days (no solar version). Even with this battery drain but applying temporary solution my battery lasts 4 weeks now with 5 workouts every week and with one exception, it was only charged to 87%.
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Hello, I got my suunto vertical on Friday, I was messing arround with it, installing maps until saturday, when i fully charged it. Since then I did 16h of activity until wednesday and now i have a 9% battery!! Do you think it is normal?? What could it be?? Thanks!!
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@EdCaballer said in Battery drain:
Hello, I got my suunto vertical on Friday, I was messing arround with it, installing maps until saturday, when i fully charged it. Since then I did 16h of activity until wednesday and now i have a 9% battery!! Do you think it is normal?? What could it be?? Thanks!!
You have to wait for a hotfix release, coming soon, which should correct the battery drain. Suunto teams are aware of this issue.
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@EdCaballer said in Battery drain:
Hello, I got my suunto vertical on Friday, I was messing arround with it, installing maps until saturday, when i fully charged it. Since then I did 16h of activity until wednesday and now i have a 9% battery!! Do you think it is normal?? What could it be?? Thanks!!
Do you guys even take the minimal effort to read at least part of what is included in the post?
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@EdCaballer Not sure if you’ve read this thread. What is your firmware version? If you have not updated yet, I would try to discharge it to 0% and then charge again to 100% and check if it’s better. If you have the latest version, then you have to wait for a hot fix, unfortunately.
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Sorry for not read the previous posts. And thanks for the answers!!! i will whait for the hot fix! I’m also having issues with the sleep traking, it says I’m awake 2 or 3 houers before I do, it’s also a firmware issue?? Is there any post to see the firmware issues??
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@EdCaballer to your defense, there are already 507 posts here
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@isazi Don’t demoralize forum members
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@isazi said in Battery drain:
A fix is being tested, if everything works out should be here in a week or two.
Are there still issues to investigate or is there a corrected FW under tests ?
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@isazi but not all with this problem. I don’t have.