Battery drain

[A Former User]

So this happened today…

Yesterday I went to bed and had still more than 30% of battery left.

I however woke up with 16% battery left, not sure what happened overnight, but I have also had only 51 minutes of sleep recorded. 16% is still enough, so I went out for a bike ride. When I started the activity, the battery prediction showed only 2 hours of activity left - that was strange. I changed the Battery mode from Performance to Endurance, which showed 3 hours - so I went for the bike ride. After 30 minutes the watch turned the power saving mode on, and shortly after that turned itself off.

So yesterday at 22:30 it was 30%+ and today around noon 0%. Standby is OFF. Brightness and Rise to wake on Low. Any idea?

[Brad_Olwin]

@tomasbartko First, did you check Standby backlight? Second, has the battery cycled from 100% to 0% to calibrate? The percent battery may not be correct, see posts on this.

[A Former User]

@Brad_Olwin I have Standby turned off, but I didn’t go through the first cycle. I have read comments about the first cycle, but have never experienced this with previous watches (also from other brands). Is this “Vertical specific”?

[isazi]

@dombo using two S+ apps results in twice the battery consumption

[Łukasz Szmigiel]

@isazi even if an app just displays the notes or some very simple stuff?

[isazi]

@Łukasz-Szmigiel seems so to me, I think it needs further optimization

[Jose Luis]

Hi, I want to cycle the battery from 100% to 0%.
Currently it is 20%, is it necessary to completely drain the battery or do I have to charge it before?

Thank you

[Tieutieu]

@Jose-Luis said in Battery drain:

Hi, I want to cycle the battery from 100% to 0%.
Currently it is 20%, is it necessary to completely drain the battery or do I have to charge it before?

Thank you

Interested with the answer too ! Currently 4%…it’s hard to get it to 0% !!

[freeheeler]

@Tieutieu
I’ve done a dummy activity to drain completely to 0%.
it’s not too hard when gnss is active, it actually goes very fast… at least in my case

[Jugger]

@Tieutieu I did battery draining with max light (always on) and maps open inside my home.

[babychai]

may i know under what condition need to do battery calibration? is it every new watch recommended to do battery calibration?

[sartoric]

@babychai
basically every electronic gadget need a battery calibration once

[babychai]

@sartoric haha alright, thanks. trying to drain the battery to 0% now. seem like the battery is very tough. using hiking mode with turn on the backlight and battery very stubborn to drop

[plopes73]

@kamarasm I’ve accidentally turn on backlight several times in my S9P after a workout because I was wearing long sleeve, and as the touch screen was still active, when I pull down the sleeve it navigates randomly through the menus, activating back light. Sometimes it starts another workout, sometimes changed to HR measurements…
Chck if this can be the cause
Cheers

[Egika]

@babychai you can also just use it

[Tieutieu]

Here is my feedback after first complet battery cycle :
@Tieutieu said in Suunto Vertical is here:

@isazi said in Suunto Vertical is here:

@Tieutieu it does not change battery mode without telling you. Only at 1% it will go to power saving mode on its own.

Actually it switched to power saving mode tonight when 2% where remaining.

I finally succeded to drain battery to 0% !
Here are the final results of my first whole battery cycle (I had a “small” one before a big race).

Last full charge 13 days ago.
H24 HR and sleep tracking on, no notifications, turn to raise to low. Backlight to low.
39,50 hours of activities with GPS to best for all, maps almost always on. Few apps used. Few sun received (my skin commands me to seek for shadow…).
Activities : Trail running, hikking, climbing, cycling and moutainbiking, cardio-training…achieved around 300km, 10000meters D+ in various and demanding terrain.

• I estimate daily consumption to 1,5% to 2% max. So around 20/25% for 13 days. That means almost 40hours of activities for about 80/75% battery used in exercice.
• Even if I mostly use chest strap, the OHR battery consumption is very low compare to my S9B. Almost same consumption as with chest strap.

Perhaps few people haven’t set properly the watch or may use functions combinations that lead to bugs or extra battery consumption…
But my point of view is that this is a really fu**** awesome device for all my adventures !!

[ericjean]

@Tieutieu agree! Pretty good battery life after a week and 20 hours of training, everything on except backlight get 55% battery life still and according the watch 35h of gps to go.

Except map which might be slugish at start of using a region every thing is fine.

Suunto has done a terrific job.

PS: to do not damage battery cell, my watch is recharged when it reach 40/30% battery level.

[A Former User]

@Tieutieu The only thing that causes high battery drain in my case is using S+ apps. With 2 S+ apps enabled battery drain increases by 400 - 500%.

[BrunoH]

I finally managed to calibrate the SV battery; drain it to zero, recharge it to 100% and then did a soft boot. Now the solar charge won’t do anything. The charging circle won’t lit all the way, only the lightning icon in the center lights up. The bars remain in the minimum as well. I guess that’s how it should be, right? Turning off the solar charge and all indicators when the battery is full?

[surfboomerang]

@BrunoH I just charged my watch for the first time since Suunto started shipping the watches. (Holy sh*t Suunto. Impressive! )

My watch only charged to 99%, even after a soft reset. I tested the solar charge icon and it lit not only the flash icon but also the first ring. The sun is very low now so that could also be the case.