@AntoniusGaius yes, that’s totally fair 🙂

I would wait a bit to see if next updates do correct it. You are not the only one that has been reporting this problem so hopefully addressed soon

@Dan-Cantir said in Rumors and dreams:
Now, I find the Vertical’s size quite comfortable — I can even sleep with it on — though, >compared to the S9PP, it’s still less comfortable.

Well, I already have a S9PP, so I’d rather have something as comfortable 🙂

@rooldaa There’s this post and thread: https://forum.suunto.com/post/159216, wherein Sweden was the latest.

@danudyk Thanks

I’d like an option to customize the default Vertical watch face. When you press a button, the seconds appear. It would be nice if that could be dynamically changed. If you press the middle button, the seconds appear. When it gets back to normal, it could be something else (not blank/empty like it is now). For example, it could show you your pulse or the solar activity or the altitude. Would be quite nice and it definitely won’t ruin the watch face!

I downloaded Maryland yesterday. It was very slow but did download

@pilleus said in My Vertical Titanium Solar is a mistake:

@Mountain

If there’s his experience and opinion I can read it and accept it. My experience may be completely different

I think there are different “levels”

Acceptance: of another’s opinions (or deeds) is the basic level, the foundation of communication. I can accept people who can have very different opinions and let them be with their opinions. And sometimes that’s all one can do.
Discussing: when it comes to “discussing” opinions and interpretations there can be conflict and in the end this leads at best to a higher level of insight for all involved.

I think most of users here can accept the anger, if something does not work. But saying, that the Vertical does have a bad GPS is a actually a quite quick discussion topic: either the OP’s device is defective or he must doing something severely wrong.

@sacrevache may I know why did you sell the Ocean?

@Oxhill_Runner
Suunto sent me a new watch. It took a week in total, incl.shipping.

this is such an interesting post to me as I am also an ex-garmin user (ancient FR 45), trying out the race s, and getting annoyed with a few things which are making me think to bite the bullet and get a FR 965, but this has given me pause!!

A really big problem is an annoying function garmin recently added: forced audio tbt alerts. Either your connected phone or your headphones will give spoken tbt alerts and those cannot be turned off. Obviously a lot of users complained. Garmin is aware but couldn’t be bothered.

a big pull for me with the garmin was that i could use spotify with it direct, leaving my phone behind. but that issue would make that useless, and to see that this has been around for 8+ months with no fix is wild.

The charge cable on my suunto is better. But that is mainly because I don’t like the plug garmin uses.

yeah this kind of ‘magsafe’ charger is much better. can’t believe garmin are still using plugs in 2025, for $500+ watches no less!

Garmin has 2 buttons on the rightside, the top one for start and stop activities, the bottom for lap. Suunto also uses the bottom one for laps, but sometimes the digital crown is in the way. Stopping an activity on a suunto is a bit weird. It doesn’t work on the maps/breadcrumb screen. Also, you have to press the top button, then the bottom one, and lastly the digital crown to really end and save the activity. On a garmin, if you just want to end an activity it’s only 2 buttons clicks.

strong agree. the maps thing is particularly annoying (and unnecessary). i feel like a running watch should allow you to always blindly stop and resume activities with one or two button presses. also the touch screen seems to not work in some contexts (eg stopping and ending a run).

one thing i can’t seem to get nice on my suunto is the smartwatch notifications. on garmin i could turn the notifications on for ‘during activity’ (useful), but for suunto it’s either on or off for everywhere. so after a run i need to turn on DND or turn the watch off to avoid having it beeping and vibrating, when i have my phone covering that anyway.

what was pulling me to the 965 was the on-watch map routing, and the ability to connect spotify and payments, but mostly it was because the basics of starting/stopping activities and how the buttons worked seemed logical and intuitive to me, whereas with suunto i feel like i’m finding all these weird quirks where things don’t work how i would expect them.

BUT the 965 seems huge, expensive and ugly to me, whereas the suunto S is extremely cute and feels expensive, despite being about 40% cheaper. plus the garmin app has never made any sense to me. i think my worry is that (like Garmin), suunto don’t seem to have a great feedback loop of user feature requests/bug reports. you can find the same/similar issues with maps and notifications logged in the forums months or even years back.

nothing is perfect, but i am going to keep trying with my race s to see if i can live with this stuff.

@Brad_Olwin said in Navigation arrows on the map - can this be improved (see the photo)?:

@sky-runner I don’t often go over my tracks but yes, that looks problematic. I will copy the photo and ask about this

Thank you, Brad!

@MKPotts said in Rest Timer feature:

I’d copy the photos here but can’t work out how to insert an image into a post.

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You may need to swipe to the left to see that in the toolbar

@timecode yes, it has to be something like that. Old picture … but I was confused as she didn’t look that much younger on the picture

@olivier-kasper31130 said in impossible to download maps larger than 360 MB on Suunto race:

, 2.39.20

I have done that : at the beginning I was in 2.39.20 ; I’ve done a first Hard reset , then back to 2.37.48 , then the 2.39.44 and no change .
Did you get my logs ?
I choose Race model because of the maps and I hike in western Europe, mainly in France as you can guess. Basse Normandie , which is 228 MB, was downloaded but Alpes Cote d’Azur (553 MB) stopped at the beginning. Slovenia (647 MB) failed as well.
Thanks for all

@Łukasz-Szmigiel said in Option to Disable carousel UI effect (Race S, but for all):

Oh boy, release day firmware for 9PP was pure sloth.

The one from the Vertical wasn’t much better either. 😄

@MRC01 said in Watch Faces: Not Compatible with Watch ?!:

@isazi The app on my phone did not change. It recognized the replacement watch, downloaded 16 GB of maps, updated watch firmware, and a couple of exercises I did, and lets me install several of the watch faces.

In short, the app is already working 100%. If all of this already works in the app, how could reinstalling it fix anything?

It will start syncing from scratch. Just try it. Isazi knows what he is talking about.

(anyway . I just see that it is now working for you)

On a similar note, I have the same but for pace on treadmill. It has started 1 week ago. No software update in the meantime.
So, probably an hardware issue. Maybe. However, this SV is “new”, was replaced by support in last November due to an issue with my original SV.

Note, a soft reset doesn’t solve the problem.

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Note: a 30min/Km pace is like a baby crawling.

Between hardware issues (like I said, this SV is new, it was replaced under warranty) and software issues, the trust and confidence in the device/brand is getting eroded quite quickly.