Chicken SCUBA
Contributor
When my Eon steel was new a full charge would show 34 hours. After the firmware update in June it now only shows 24 hour with a full charge and the screen setting on bright. A number of people at MySuunto website have the same issue, are any of you experiencing this?
Another thing is it seems to be doing is using power somehow when stored. I had fully charged it a week ago to 24 hours and it is now down to 22 hours. Other than these two issues I've been very happy with it. Hopefully this info helps with any kind of firmware tweak.
Cheers, Dennis
So as I mentioned in a previous post I always had the update since I bought the EON 2 days before the update came out but, apparently before the update the EON only gave one "hours remaining" regardless of the brightness setting that was based on average power consumption of the EON (AKA medium brightness). After the update the "hours remaining" change with the brightness to give a more accurate estimate. So that is normal.
As for power loss, even a Li-ion battery looses charge over time in an idle state though at about a 30th of the rate of a NiCd. Plus there has to be some usage to maintain the settings or else you would loose everything every time it went to sleep. Is it using more than it should? I don't know. If you let is sit for a couple weeks then record the loss I'll tell you how it compares to mine. Keep in mind that it will almost certainly not loose the hours at a steady rate in idle state.