Battery drain

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos · 28 Jun 2023, 07:53

@Umer-Javed well needed no , but if you want to get rid of your head playing games to you yes.

I personally never bother about battery calibration and allow the usage of the watch, phone etc to happen naturaly

A Former User · 7 Jan 2023, 15:13

So, I haven’t worn my Vertical for a day and a night and apparently it lost 40% of battery. I made sure to deactivate HR, sleep and alarms. What the heck.

My S99P survives being outside my phone’s range just fine, so…

valdis830 · 6 Jul 2023, 18:21

Something similar what happened these days. Timeline for experts

Watch charged on the 17th (eventual daily use, almost always in drawer with HR sensor up to avoid false reading)

training day 18/06- 2:30
long break>>>
training day 3/07- 1:25 (I start with 63% battery and end with 60 which seems great to me. Only 3%)
Watch 2 days in the drawer.
training day 5/07- 2:25 (I start with 33% battery which means a sudden drain of 27% in 48 hours without hardly using the watch) Training comes with another surprise of 10% in 2 hours and a half. I end up with 23%.
in the last 24 hours it has drained another 12% without any use and now at 11%

I don’t want to get mad about an issue, but this was testing my trust in Suunto.
I await clues and clarifications dear friends.

freeheeler · 6 Jul 2023, 18:29

@valdis830
I would restart the watch, charge it completely and observe the behavior.
if it happens again: magic logs would help

valdis830 · 6 Jul 2023, 18:44

@freeheeler
Thanks, that’s the first thing I’m going to do.

e6321 · 23 Jul 2023, 12:56

Adding my experience with Vertical solar as sounds similar.

Charged to 100% 4-5 days ago, didn’t wear until today but it was fully discharged.
Sound like a theme with being off wrist. Have noticed OHR seems to be on a lot when not on wrist.

plopes73 · 23 Jul 2023, 20:08

@em632 I’ve noticed the OHR is always measuring even off wrist, execpt if the strap is folded and in contact with the sensor.
Otherwise if the sensor is in contact with a table it stays measuring.
Cheers

plopes73 · 23 Jul 2023, 20:10

@em632 forgot to mention, I have a black silicon strap.

isazi · 24 Jul 2023, 14:47

@e6321 doubt the two things are related. Even if OHR is always on, your watch should last weeks in a drawer, not 4-5 days. So, something else kept burning battery. Now it could be that after it completely discharged it’ll work fine, but if it does not, send logs and PM me.

e6321 · 25 Jul 2023, 19:37

@isazi sorry Im sure this has been asked a million times but I cant see anything searching the forum - how do I send logs?

Yeah agree about the OHR have noticed the blood oxygen LED is on sometimes off wrist as well, that is a bigger power draw I think?

My battery jumped from 96% to 100% today, wasn’t even that sunny… Theres a few odd things about this watch.

A Former User · 26 Jul 2023, 04:54

@e6321 just go to your profile and scroll to the bottom:

isazi · 26 Jul 2023, 07:38

@e6321 said in Battery drain:

My battery jumped from 96% to 100% today, wasn’t even that sunny… Theres a few odd things about this watch.

This has been solved, will be available with next firmware update.

Ollipolli · 27 Jul 2023, 16:07

@isazi Is there a date for the new firmware?

isazi · 28 Jul 2023, 08:09

@Ollipolli 2023 I suppose.

Ollipolli · 29 Jul 2023, 14:33

@isazi 🫣

GiPFELKiND · 29 Jul 2023, 17:13

@Ollipolli the year 2023 has a lot of weeks, now 5 month…dont know when the next firmware will come. Same answers i get many times here… Noone knows it… Wait for it, hope too for coming out…

Antoine Lancrenon · 28 Sept 2023, 23:52

hello community,

I am loosing 4 % a day without activity. no backlight, basically with all battery tips i have learned so far in the last 4 months. Do you think it is “normal”, i thought it was more arount 2% . I have the solar version.

thank you!

surfboomerang · 29 Sept 2023, 03:22

@Antoine-Lancrenon My SV solar loses 1-2% a day when I don’t record an activity. So 4% looks like too much.

Have you enabled 24/7 HR or something?

e6321 · 29 Sept 2023, 07:44

@Antoine-Lancrenon charged on Monday night to 96%, now at 78% so im about 4% per day, just one short run this week.
Tbh Im not totally convinced by the battery percentage, I wouldn’t pay attention to how much your losing per day, sometimes it goes up!

surfboomerang · 29 Sept 2023, 13:05

@e6321 said in Battery drain:

sometimes it goes up

I have only seen this between 96% and 100%.

Fun fact about the solar version:
At the moment I am on a holiday in a very sunny location. Charged the watch to 100% on Monday. Recorded a couple of hours of activities and the watch still has 95% of battery left today.