Battery drain
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@GKnoll I created a separate topic for this here: https://forum.suunto.com/topic/14502/backlight-bug-2.50.26
Maybe you can post about your experience so it’ll gain some traction and attention from Suunto. It’s odd that they haven’t recognized this yet.
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My Vertical titanium solar has battery draining from the biginning, more than two and half years ago. I don’t use notification from phone, but I use hr and sleep monitor. Of course backlight off and rise on low.
My best results with some firmware where 7-8% for 24 hours whitout activity, maximum with some activityes from fully charge to 5-6% was two weeks, sometimes 15 or 16 days.
Now after last two or three update I’m on 11- 12 days maxymum, about 8-9% per day. I tried everithing in the past: discharge till 0%, soft reset, soft reset pressing for a long period (also one minute), hard reset. Never changed.
After last update and this worst performance, I tried to recalibrate, but now it is impossible to totally discharge, because at 2% the watch enter in a safe mode and you have to wait many hours to drain the last enerergy, without can using it (before this energy saving mode I used to switch on the torch to quick discharge from 1% to 0).
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@GKnoll How did your race go in that horrendous weather & did your Suunto last the distance (to keep the mods at bay for going off topic) ??
A friend of mine did the Challenger South & said it was some of the worst weather he’s experienced in this country, he finished in just over 53hrs
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@franky23 You should have sent it for battery replacement at the beginning while under warranty. There certainly are faulty batteries with much smaller capacity than designed out there, or it could also be another hardware problem causing excessive power consumption.
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@duffman19 said in Battery drain:
Maybe you can post about your experience so it’ll gain some traction and attention from Suunto. It’s odd that they haven’t recognized this yet.
Maybe, they’re still deciding if taking this bug seriously or just replying “I’m not affected by this bug.”, just saying…
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@Squirrel
You are probably right, but I asked to a firned of mine, tester for Suunto, and is opinion was that suunto probably would sent me back my watch without any change, because battery fault has to be very serious to have warranty replacement. Anyway, now I’m in late… -
@Mattg576 Well, I got to the end in one piece! Yes, the weather was pretty awful at times up on the mountains. Freezing rain and black ice were additional hazards during the first night and one poor chap was limping badly as he came back into the village of Thwaite having slipped on the ice.
As a matter of course I put the watch on charge at each main checkpoint. I had no idea how bad the backlight issue was affecting battery life and did not want to risk losing navigation.
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That’s a great achievement @GKnoll , well done mate .
I hope Suunto sort the backlight issue so you don’t need to worry about it when you undertake the full Spine next year
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Under 2.50.26, I notice that my overnight, off-wrist battery consumption approximately doubles (vs 2.46…)
My only change for the new FW was to enable North-up mapping.
2.50… did add the wifi weather updates (which do not work for me … could there be repetitive attempts by the watch to connect to wifi and the App that drain power?)
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There is still a battery drain issue.
Yesterday : leaving the watch next to my polar h10 (i forgot to remove the sensor from the strap and i usually use Suunto’s strap but i had to clean it this time so i used the h10…) , vertical 1 dropped from 85% to 55% overnight . …30% !!
One could argue about minor deviations of 1-2% difference or whatever being random observations/glitches or whatever , but this is a very strong indication that something is not OK. It is very hard to classify it as a hardware/battery degraded related because it’s not consinted against various changes in the setup . (E.g. removing HR , turning off , Bluetooth or removing WiFi , brings makes the watch operate in a rather expected long lasting way, even just wearing the watch overnight is a lot better than taking it off and leaving it on the bench with a Bluetooth/wifi device nearby ).
I know Vertical 2 , Race 2 etc are a lot fancier and great to talk about but this is device is still sold, (supposingly being) supported and is promoted as the top of the line for it’s long lasting battery etc. In my opinion… someone needs to look over it again because it seems there is something wrong here
