Hello Suunto community. Is there anybody living in Belgium, and more specific in Limburg or nearby ? Or in Limburg in the Netherlands ? I want to check if my HR monitor has a steady connection with somebody else his Race S . With kind regards, S

@Squirrel & @martej_cz thanks for the tip => I managed to create my own swimming activity 🥳 with 4 main data to display: Total Distance Last lap Duration Temperature Total Duration Translations done in french of these “data fields” are a pity making their choice a bit of a guess, now I need to go to the swimming pool to experiment this new setup ‍️. Thanks to both of you (I didn’t know this Suunto watch feature allowing to create personal display for an activity using the smartphone app !).

@André-Faria ahahah, best prediction I’ve seen

@2b2bff said: @MarTej_cz I think I experienced the shut off behavior of the power bank as the charge of the watch approached 90%. However the iPad charger is a wall plug with USB A, powerful enough to charge an iPad. It has been the only USB-A charger I had with me that time. Output shouldn’t be an issue… The real problem is that the software in the watch freaked out big time. Will try different chargers that I have laying around as the next holiday is soon… Check the amps and type of charger. I think it may be too powerful…on small devices and old devices (not the case here) I always prefer to have slow old chargers between 0.5A and 1A max. I had a race S, charged with 1A charger till 100% and no issues, latest firmware

@Thomas-Gilquin I’m with you. For me it happens occasionally, but still. Very annoying. And I create routes 99% in Suunto app.

@elbee yes I saw it but I am on vacation / so will take time to update for now till behind a proper pc

I was wondering the same thing! I found the calendar and can log it, but I was expecting a bit more. Especially because my runs and activity vary so much when I’m bleeding. I hope this gets improved in the future.

@peterderooij try to remove all Guides - or most of them - and try again… helped me.

Yesterday I had a casual bike ride with a predefined course that I navigated on. About an hour of actual ride and two hours of paused activity. So, about 3 hours in total. Took down 28% of battery. Equals about 11 hours of activity including navigation? Way less than the 30 hours (yeah, without navigation) advertised…

@elbee said: Let me be clear: I’m doing all I can to push Suunto into doing a better job. I think it’s really needed. Sending everyone to support is one thing (it is fair, as support is there officially for supporting). But forum is still a community and “be assured” that active readers have understood your pain with your issues . But, spreading pain everywhere will lead to other feelings.

So the conclusion given to me by support is that it’s actually supposed to be like that due to different power modes - power management and sensor pooling/data processing etc. So as an engineer I am even more amazed about the watch and its software lol…

@itsxtt-liu Last month, I did a not so long hike (7 hours) stating with 48% battery left. That should be enough but wasn’t. Just before the end the watch went into low battery mode (not recording a thing and only showing the time) and just after I finished the hike the watch shutdown because of a completely empty battery. Charging again till 100% took a really long time. But since then, battery life is back to being okay (charge every 4, 5 days with almost 10 hours gps usage per week). Overnight it uses 5% batteries instead of 15%. There seems to be a problem in the battery management system that pops up after months of use. I don’t expect any fix from suunto (given their reaction I got from suunto support). In the meantime, I do regularly reboots and when needed I will deplete the battery again. That helps me to mitigate my 2 big race s problems: bluetooth disconnects and battery drains. (or more general suunto problems, since more models are plagued by it).

A new development, same firmware (the latest one). I searched the internet to find whether it is possible to downgrade the current firmware to the previous firmware version. In theory, it is possible. In practice, my watch started the downgrade process and then reported an undefined error and reverted to the latest firmware again. I did this procedure 3 times, unsuccessfully. Each time after the unsuccessful downgrade, I did the hard reset of the watch. Plenty of time was spent on these activities. Finally, after the last attempt to downgrade the firmware and a hard reset of the watch, I connected / paired the watch with the Suunto app in my mobile phone, and went to sleep. Yesterday morning, the watch warned me if I had wanted to switch on sleep tracking. I switched it on. Last night I went to sleep hoping that sleep tracking would work. And it did. I see this problem as one similar to firmware upgrades in mobile phones. Sometimes the new firmware doesn’t “sit” well and had to be reinstalled. I’ve been doing this on my phones for years. Now I did the same on the Race S watch. I’ll see whether the problem is finally resolved.

@Pandametal I have the exact same issue. Were you able to solve it?

Squirrel, thanks for your answer and for the forum link, which contains a very useful screenshot clearly showing how map updates are displayed in the Suunto app . Personally, I think Suunto watches and the smartphone app lack documentation. I’m glad this forum exists, with so many advanced Suunto users!

+1 I would also appreciate to have tides displayed “somewhere” on my Race S watch .

@tomvanacker Press lower button to enter Control panel Scroll down to Power saving and disable

@athinakap30 memory. You’re handling a very low resource device that has to do plenty of hard work every second to display accurate workout data - while being active for 70 or so constant hours on one battery charge. Suunto+ apps can be very demanding, especially if you want to draw something more than just a number.

@HonzaS Today had to send also the HR smart sensor bought two months ago. Let’s see how it goes this time. Glad to hear more people had good experience with service

try removing all Guides and sync again other Apps and Watch Faces. If that doesn’t work, a hard reset probably will…