Map updates

Mitch9

More than two months ago the SV is released. Until now I have no idea how map updates come to my watch.

I started to participate on OSM to update the map in my environment (great with GNSS accuracy of SV) but don’t get this benefit back on my watch maps. That’s a pity!

isazi

@Mitch9 said in Map updates:

More than two months ago the SV is released. Until now I have no idea how map updates come to my watch.

As far as I know, they don’t. Today when a map is updated (it happens) you need to know, delete and download it again. This will change in the future.

Mitch9

@isazi This is not really satisfying.

I can’t find a date when a map is generated so I don’t know if i take the effort to delete and load a map. At least this should be possible.

isazi

@Mitch9 until a proper update mechanism is put in place, and unless you are in contact with support for a map but and they tell you to delete and update, there is no way for you to know, so the advice is don’t delete and download maps again just for the sake of it.

Mitch9

@isazi I’m still waiting for a proper map update mechanism which you described packaged in a future update.

SV will get a similar software version like the software of SR (if I get the information in this forum correctly.)

Can someone with a SR tell me, if there is some kind of map update mechanism on the watch?

Almost half a year no map updates is really annoying. I help on OSM to improve the map and only get these improvements on SA, not the watch. This is the biggest SV critic point for me!

isazi

@Mitch9 maps on Race are the same as on the Vertical, nothing changed.

GiPFELKiND

@isazi no in the RACE maps you only have 2 map options: light and dark. In Vertical you have Dark, light, Outdoor. Outdoor is complete missing on the RACE

Egika

@GiPFELKiND said in Map updates:

@isazi no in the RACE maps you only have 2 map options: light and dark. In Vertical you have Dark, light, Outdoor. Outdoor is complete missing on the RACE

Not exactly.
Outdoor in Vertical is Light in Race.
Dark is the same.
Vertical has a high contrast variant, that Race currently don’t have…

GiPFELKiND

@Egika thanx

Mff73

@Mitch9
Agree with you, I also update osm maps when needed, and I would also like to have these updates in my SV… one day, but not I decades.

Mitch9

News on this topic in this thread:

https://forum.suunto.com/topic/9955/maps-update-rollout-december-2023

I’m happy!

Wilson75

Hi there
I am struggling with my SV maps update.
The magnet of SV charger is so weak. Do you have the same behaviour when you plug it?
(My wife is starting to hate my SV with the sound )
I tried to couple of time but the same behaviour.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/cKeocaJwssv8bDa79

Shrek3k

@Wilson75 Not really struggling anymore, more like having accepted it somehow and adapted. Yes, the magnets are incredibly weak, so that I see no chance to charge / connect the watch when not lying on a very flat surface where nothing and noone will touch the watch or the cable. A lttle bit annoying, but it works. But, a (physically) more stable connection would be most certainly welcome.

Brad_Olwin

@Wilson75 I have more than one charger cable and some seem much worse than others. One is very finicky and difficult to get the watch lined up on while the other I put the watch on the charger and forget about it. I do not see why they are different but this is my experience.

Todd Danielczyk

@Brad_Olwin Same here. The OEM one that came with my Vertical can be tricky to line up, but the spare knockoff one I bought from Amazon seems to consistently work.

What I have noticed is that it is harder to line up when I put it on a hard surface and the watch on top to charge (I think the band pops it up off the contacts). To alleviate this, I resort to using the OEM one on the carpet floor or put a towel on the nightstand and it seems to work better.

The older design of the Peak charger with its two half circles of contact worked very well (but doesn’t work with the newer watches).

Jugger

I usually wash my watch with a little soap before loading. Last weekend I tried to load it in morning after wearing it at night and got bad connection. Watch was beeping few times while downloading map updates. I washed it and after that no more beeping.

I bought my watch after release and did battery calibration (running battery empty). That was the only time when watch was constantly beeping few minutes while downloading maps but after that it never happened again.

isazi

@Brad_Olwin same, I have charging cables that work better than others, with some Incam charge and download maps, with some I can only charge (downloads are interrupted)

Frederick Rochette

Hello and happy new year!

Sorry for the question, but what is the procedure for updating the maps?

Thanks a lot!

Egika

@Frederick-Rochette have a Wifi set up in the watch that is within reach. Then connect watch to charger.
-> Maps will update

Frederick Rochette

@Egika Thanks! so it’s completely automatic, nothing special to do, not even opening the suunto app?