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    • freeheelerF Offline
      freeheeler @wmichi
      last edited by

      @wmichi
      it happens also to older watches with different screens. I saw this several times and seems to be a minor bug, nothing to worry about IMO

      living sideways

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      • wmichiW Offline
        wmichi @freeheeler
        last edited by

        @freeheeler Right, it’s minor. I think I never saw this before, because the S9PP charges so fast.

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        • freeheelerF Offline
          freeheeler @wmichi
          last edited by

          @wmichi
          I saw it first on S9PP. I think it happens more often than we think, but we don’t watch the watch charging, right? 😉
          it was coincidence in my case

          living sideways

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          • SimonS Offline
            Simon Bronze Member
            last edited by Simon

            The good, the bad and the ugly 🙂

            The good:

            I’ve received my Vertical yesterday, configured it and did my first multisport activity today. First off, the battery life is crazy!!! Started this morning with 96%, did a 1 h 40 min hours activity with performance GPS - which was also perfect - and now, the watch shows 97%. It’s a very sunny day 😉 Using the map is quite useful.

            The bad (no bugs):

            1. With former Suunto watches (e.g. S9P), when leaving the track during navigation, the map would zoom out and show me where the track was. That’s no longer the case. I need to manually zoom out. If the track is further away than 500 m, I need to move the map around and search for the track, because there is no indication where the nearest direction is back on track. Not a bug, but not so nice.

            2. When panning the map, it snaps back to the current location quite fast. And just after each panning, the map shifts around a little bit. Both makes planning an off-track route a bit difficult. In an emergency situation (blizzard, cold, etc), this could be quite bad.

            3. The onboard HR and particularly the spO2 sensors are still just toys. A waste of space, weight and battery. The acquired data is sometimes quite good, in the case of HR even accurate, but they are just as often absolutely incorrect. Hence, unreliable toys. Yeah, many people want to have that still. I don’t :'-D

            The ugly (bugs):

            1. Using the display “Intensity zones”, one can configure 2 fields. Only 1 is actually shown on S9P/P and on the Vertical. To my knowledge, the second field is only used on S9. Okay, so I filled the field marked as #1 and set the second field to “Empty”. This didn’t work. During the activity, the display did show the current heart rate, but all other data was garbled up. Now I set both fields to the same value and it seems to work now.

            2. When I wanted to start the second activity via the multisport option (long press upper button during activity), there there were no names given for the options to choose from - only blank fields. My configuration: I deleted all default sport modes and created 4 custom sport modes. I can select each of them to start an activity, but their names didn’t appear as multisport choices. A rather ugly bug!

            I noticed a lot of other minor bugs, which are not critical. I’m a software engineer myself and - oh boy - I wouldn’t dare to publish a software that has so many issues. IMHO, Suunto did a quite sloppy job here. But okay, lots of different users with lots of different configurations … and everything should be there and working from the first day on. It’s a tough task. On the other hand, e.g. the above mentioned “Intensity zones” display issue with 2 fields when only 1 is available on the watch, has been known for years. That’s embarrassing 😞

            Not sure if I keep the watch. It seems to be very unreliable all in all.

            S9P Ti - ex Altimax, A3P, SV Ti

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            • ? Offline
              A Former User @Simon
              last edited by

              @Simon I was also impressed about the battery, but don’t forget to calibrate the battery (discharge from 100% to 0%) 🙃 I went out with 30% battery remaining on my first charge and boom the watch discharged in 30 minutes… Just a FYI to avoid unpleasant surprises 🙂

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              • SimonS Offline
                Simon Bronze Member @Guest
                last edited by

                @tomasbartko Oh wow, that’s kind of nasty! 🙈

                S9P Ti - ex Altimax, A3P, SV Ti

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                • TieutieuT Offline
                  Tieutieu Platinum Member @Guest
                  last edited by

                  @tomasbartko said in Suunto Vertical: Bug Collection:

                  @Simon I was also impressed about the battery, but don’t forget to calibrate the battery (discharge from 100% to 0%) 🙃 I went out with 30% battery remaining on my first charge and boom the watch discharged in 30 minutes… Just a FYI to avoid unpleasant surprises 🙂

                  Did you had the backlight on ? That is THE major bug that over-consume the battery

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                  • ? Offline
                    A Former User @Tieutieu
                    last edited by

                    @Tieutieu no, not really. I however had 2 Suunto apps on. I guess this combination with no calibration was the issue.

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                    • ? Offline
                      A Former User @Guest
                      last edited by

                      @tomasbartko

                      S+ apps eat through your battery faster than it takes a Golden Retriever to finish a bowl of spaghetti. 😬

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                      • mikekoski490M Offline
                        mikekoski490 Bronze Member
                        last edited by mikekoski490

                        Finally got hit by the reset bug - 60k gravel ride, at about the 30k mark just turned off and restarted. It was going into activity pause mode as I was taking a photo. Profile was just basic. 2 apps running - big numbers and CO2e. Not a big deal but would be nice to stitch the 2 workouts together in SA. Just missed a section of HR, which is seperate from 15 minutes earlier when a fairly large black bear ran across the logging road about 100 meters infront of me - that shows an HR spike lol.

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                        Current: Suunto Race Ti

                        Past other GPS watches: Polar Vantage V; Garmin 6X Pro Solar; Coros Vertix 2

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                        • runomaticR Offline
                          runomatic Silver Members
                          last edited by runomatic

                          After all that negative feedback, i’ve got a positive one: Went out for a 25k run with just 7% battery left. Coming home with 4% after 2:40h. Call me Mr. Brave!

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                          • freeheelerF Offline
                            freeheeler @runomatic
                            last edited by

                            @runomatic
                            going out on 7% is living on the edge 😂
                            👍

                            living sideways

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                            • seanvkS Offline
                              seanvk @Simon
                              last edited by

                              @Simon On the subject of the widgets. One item I would add to your mentioning of HR and spO2 is that I think they should entirely avoid putting the widgets in a pipeline so to speak. Not just because of the lag, but there is no quick way to get to the one you want. Instead, they should have the following flow:

                              middle button or side swipe -> list of widgets with some partial information.
                              top or bottom buttons, scroll up or down
                              middle button select for more detail

                              I just really dislike the side scroll for the widgets and coupled with the lag, it’s not a very good experience just to get to one widget you wanted to look at in more detail

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                              • ? Offline
                                A Former User @seanvk
                                last edited by

                                @seanvk Like Garmin you mean? Would make more sense imho.

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                                • BrunoHB Online
                                  BrunoH Gold Members @seanvk
                                  last edited by

                                  @seanvk my solution was first to hide the ones I never use. Then I arranged the remaining ones so that the most used widgets are next to the watchface, left and right.

                                  I don’t think Suunto will abandon their chosen UX and replace it with something copied from the rivals.

                                  Having said that, I’d really like to see Suunto solve the lag…

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                                  • ? Offline
                                    A Former User
                                    last edited by

                                    Btw. that 9pm thing about the Week Report was true. lol

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                                    • Frederick RochetteF Offline
                                      Frederick Rochette Bronze Member @runomatic
                                      last edited by

                                      @runomatic On Saturday, I also had 7% left and after going out for a 2-hour run, I also had 4% left.
                                      After completely discharging the watch on Saturday, I recharged it to 100% at around 11.30pm. When I woke up at around 8am on Sunday morning, the watch was at 98%. I went out for a 2-hour run and only 92% remained (6% for 2 hours…).
                                      So battery consumption seems to be random… because one 2-hour run = 3% and another 2 hours = 6%.

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                                      • surfboomerangS Offline
                                        surfboomerang @Frederick Rochette
                                        last edited by

                                        @Frederick-Rochette I don’t know if this is some kind of calibration. I noticed similar behaviour.

                                        I charged the watch in the evening but it wouldn’t get over 99%. Next morning it was at 97%. I did a 1:30hr sunny run and it dropped to 95%.
                                        That afternoon I had a 2:30hr car trip where sun hits the watch a lot, but never full bars. Suddenly the watch was at 100%.

                                        Normally it took approximately 1hr of full bars to charge 1%

                                        Next day I did a 2:30hr hike and the watch is down to 93%. I did noticed I left one S+ app active so I don’t know if that was the cause.

                                        Suunto Vertical Titanium Solar
                                        OnePlus Nord 4

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                                        • freeheelerF Offline
                                          freeheeler @Frederick Rochette
                                          last edited by

                                          @Frederick-Rochette
                                          always same settings?

                                          living sideways

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                                          • isaziI Offline
                                            isazi Moderator @babychai
                                            last edited by

                                            @babychai no updates, it is not a firmware thing, I believe the maps do not have contour lines for Malaysia at the moment. It probably needs an update of the map. Before release most non European maps had not contour lines.

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