Suunto 9 Baro crashes / restarts at the beginning of a training
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@DMytro Perhaps, but 20mins to lock the GPS is strange. In my case, it might take up to 1 min to lock the GPS (after the crash) or the watch simply doesn’t restart at all
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Yes, whatever your watch has agps or not, it should not take 20mins, it’s definitely a bug.
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Without AGPS data my watches sincronice GPS in 1-2mins as maximum time.
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Had the same issue with locking the GPS after unexpected restart. It was not locked for more than 30 minutes. It happened 4 times since the update to 2.23.30 (at October 2022).
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I have the same issue. Suunto 9 crashes on starting an activity. Watch restarts and then takes ages to get a GPS and then crashes again on start of the activity. Obviously some software issue due to the amount of people experiencing this.
I’ve pretty much walked most of my running route by the time I can get my watch to record properly! Watch is almost not useable at the moment!
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@Geoffwilli This really is getting out of hand! I’d like to know what is being done about it. Are they even looking at this issue?
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@Geoffwilli Try hard resetting the watch by Suunto Link. My watch eventually ran into an error that Suunto Link required to hard reset my watch (you can see in one of my previous post). After the hard reset the issue calmed down a little bit, though still doesn’t go away. At least, the watch is temporarily reliable at the moment (3 crashes over 2 weeks though).
Before that final error, my watch was like yours, it was almost unuseable. Each time I started a training it crashed. The last time it even crashed three times consecutively and ran into the error…
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is it just my feeling or ist Suunto getting more and more instable? had in last months 2 crashes. Before for years nothing…
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@mountainChris Definitely not just your feeling. I have no idea how they manage to do this. Each update is a new “surprise”. It makes me wonder whether they even validate their releases!
Let’s hope the next update is not postponed for 6 months plus (like it was last time) and we get bug fixes.
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@Dave-Vella …And again this morning!
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@Dave-Vella I think this might be because suunto cares ‘too much’. I mean they try to keep our old watches up-to-date for as long as possible, providing more and more features. But since HW is quite old now, it is very strained.
This would explain why S9 crashes at least. I’m not sure about s9p/s9pp. -
@DMytro Ha! Tell that to Spartan owners.
There’s no point in new ‘features’ (mostly gimmicks if we’re brutally honest) if there are fundamental bugs like this, and the ‘fixes’ take half a year to materialise.
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As said in another topic, Suunto is aware of the issue, not sure about how widespread it is as I have never had a crash, but it has been escalated few weeks ago, and all your logs have been forwarded and brought to the attention of the developers.
I asked for more information that I can share, I will share them if and when I receive an answer.I’m sorry to hear about watches crashing, I would be pissed if it was my watch, but please make yourself heard without speculations about how and how not the software development process work inside Suunto.
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@DMytro Mine hasn’t crashed/restarted yet. Not with normal use or with structured intervals (I use structured intervals more or less every two weeks on average, so I’m not a heavy user).
I wonder if all this crashes are with some Suunto guides screen or custom sport, things that previously have given issues.As @isazi says Suunto is aware of the issue so I’m pretty sure they will take care of it.
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@cosme-costa I use suunto guides all the time and my watch didn’t crash either.
But I don’t use navigation and related metrics (ETA, ETE, …) and I don’t use S+. -
mine crashed twice in last two months. in both cases it was basic cross-country skiing mode without any guides nor sport apps. I was doing lot of custom backcountry and indoor cycling and it haven’t crashed.
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@cosme-costa Mine is on the other side. I mainly use the default settings that come with the watch, sometimes with intervals and/or distance target, but nothing fancy. My watch crashed quite regularly until about three weeks ago.
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@chargerunner Hard reset has been done so will see if that helps, but from reading on here its not really a solution! After being faithful to Suunto for many years a several watches I can hear Coros calling my name!
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@cosme-costa Let’s hope it doesn’t take 8 months again… This one almost makes the missed metrics in the previous update look like a slight oversight!
@isazi As an aside, perhaps this information might help: Mine always crashed with default bog-standard use (no apps, or special features enabled by me, and no custom settings). Seems more likely to happen when the activity involved GPS. My hunch would be that there is some background processes, or some changes in data /comms protocol(s) causing the processor/RAM to crap-out and restart itself. But that’s obviously a very hazard guess.
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@Geoffwilli I’m on the same boat. I’ve had Suunto products for ever (diving equipment, compasses etc). I’m not sure there will be others in the future, not with this sort of thing happening time and again and the kind of alternatives coming to the market, the Coros offerings being very strong contenders.
Shame really; the S9 is a very solid platform in my humble opinion, and aside from these very irritating let-downs it could be a great watch. If I had any say I would take a step back and give a ‘minimalist’ option for those of us who value reliability over ‘gimmicks’. even better would be to give users a bit more freedom - Similar to what Garmin does with the open source stuff. I bet there would be way better face options - to mention just one example - if that was the case.
