Open water swimming suddenly stops reading gps
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@thanasis
I am sorry that you have bad experience with tracking OWS. OWS works very well with my S9B and S9P shouldn’t be any worse.
There was another thread where S7 users mentioned basically inexistent recording and my wife has no issues with her S7 whatsoever.
I know for sure that any other swim style than crawling does not work as the watch is submerged too much to record.Did you try to change settings, too? like different battery modes, power settings, different combination of satellite systems?
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@freeheeler said in Open water swimming suddenly stops reading gps:
@thanasis
I am sorry that you have bad experience with tracking OWS. OWS works very well with my S9B and S9P shouldn’t be any worse.
There was another thread where S7 users mentioned basically inexistent recording and my wife has no issues with her S7 whatsoever.
I know for sure that any other swim style than crawling does not work as the watch is submerged too much to record.Did you try to change settings, too? like different battery modes, power settings, different combination of satellite systems?
I have Done all of them . I mentioned that many other users have reported the same and it seems that it is device specific . My ambit 3 peak has no issues whatsoever
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I’ve done OWS with both A3P and S9P quite a lot recently and S9P convinced me to leave the A3P at home, the GPS tracks are better than with A3P, the only issues I have with S9P are no temperature recorded unless S+ weather is used, and heart rate summary (avg, min or max) not displaying for my auto laps when using the smart belt, think both are reported to Suunto
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@herlas i am not talking about marginal differences… my s9p stops recording the track and resumes after some time or even not at all …
See the posts above to better understand. If this is hardware related I am happy to send it but some other users seem to complain about the same
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Right I do get it, I’m doing freestyle swimming and haven’t seen your issue with my S9P, hope you get it sorted out soon
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@thanasis have you added + glonass on you gps system?
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From my experience if the s9p is submerged a coupe of minutes it takes more to recover than other watches I have used.
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos It seems i have a similar issue with my s9p on open water swimming only on start though.I allready locked gps 3 minutes before swimming, i press start, i start swimming and meters stay at zero . I have to stop swimming, keep hand out of water for 15 seconds and then it starts counting. That would be a big problem on open water swimming race. This did not happen at all on my s5. Anyone have found a way to resolve this? Thank you.
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@angela-angela said in Open water swimming suddenly stops reading gps:
@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos It seems i have a similar issue with my s9p on open water swimming only on start though.I allready locked gps 3 minutes before swimming, i press start, i start swimming and meters stay at zero . I have to stop swimming, keep hand out of water for 15 seconds and then it starts counting. That would be a big problem on open water swimming race. This did not happen at all on my s5. Anyone have found a way to resolve this? Thank you.
actually I feel it is not possible to rely on my watch as it stands at the moment. Maybe it is hardware related and maybe applies to specific LOT but unfortunately I have had major issues that make it useless for OWS including your case @angela-angela
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@thanasis Today on open water swimming i pressed start 5-10 seconds before i enter water and my watch recorded everything correctly from start. No stops or missing gps. I hope it works.
