Sonos Roam - Battery drain

I didn’t read the entire topic but I think the battery of the Roam is a nightmare.

In my use, it last not more than 2 days.

Basically, when in stand by, it drain too much battery, I am aware that is always with wi-fi on, waiting to be waking up by the app, but for my use, the battery drain too soon.

Especially for my night use, I usually fall asleep (with the sleep-timer on), while listening to the unit, so it stays all night in stand-by. This mean that the battery last is very poor in my case.

First, I really my Sonos products. But I’m unsure about the Roam. I’ve noticed significant battery drain as well; unlike my regular portable Bluetooth speakers. I experimented, charging the Roam to 100%. Left it unused for 4 days. It is not sync’d to any voice activation. After 4 days I “turned it on”. The battery was 63%. This should not be the case for a portable speaker. If I was to take it camping and did not have a power source, I could not rely on this speaker.

If you want the Roam to not discharge you can turn it off completely by a 5 second long press of the power button, there’s a tone initially followed by a power down tone after the 5secs. Otherwise if you leave it on standby you should think of placing on a wireless charging pad. 
I don’t need mine to be on standby so I just power them off completely. 

This is odd. If you left it on standby/sleep mode (by tapping the power button) the Roam drains about 20-25% battery per day based on most people’s anecdotal experiences. If you left it powered off (by holding the power button for 5s) it should be negligible drain, closer to 1% per day.

So either your standby battery life is puzzlingly excellent (and actually in line with what Sonos advertised), or you should call support to diagnose if you have a defect

Thank you Bockersjv, obviously I need to read the manual more fully. I’ll be sure to “completely turn off” the speaker. I suppose leaving it on standby easily allows us to directly play music to it from the app, but the trade-off is battery drain. Thanks.

I have a similar issue, but perhaps worse… I turned my Roam OFF, thinking I would use it for rehearsal at a theatre. It was fully charged according to the app. I didn’t need it for four days and when I tried to turn it on, it was dead. 

Is it expected behavior for a device that is literally turned off and experience battery drain in less than a week with zero use?

How exactly are you turning off the Roam?

Sounds very much like you put it into ‘standby’ rather than powering it off.

Not that I’m aware. It does certainly sound like instead of turning it off completely, you put it to ‘sleep’ instead, where both the WiFi and Bluetooth antennas would remain energized, looking for a ‘wake up’ signal, and draining the battery much more quickly than the full ‘powered down’ state, 

@cpking You should return your device. Even if you put it in standby and not fully off Sonos says standby battery should last 10 days.