Software update 2.39.20 (2024 Q4)

[TrailEyes]

@Egika just did my second soft reset, and it appears to be back to normal. 1 reset alone didn’t work 🫥

[Mattg576]

Still being prompted to manually calibrate compass after update but arm/watch haven’t done much ‘moving’ since.
Maybe it needs a lot of movement to work so will keep an eye on it.

[Mattg576]

Compass has now self calibrated & is pointing north, superb

[jariusxd]

Does this update fix the iOS, needing to open the app to sync and find my phone?

[Tieutieu]

Just installed but not tested yet. Event if related to “guides” => does this update brings any improvements in build in structured workouts ? (rep counter and bip to next step ?)

[cs2nd]

@Mattg576 Same here. Prompted to manually calibrate compass on Suunto Race.

[cs2nd]

@Mattg576 ahh, cool. Did it self-calibrate after moving around a bit?

[fv4500]

Impressed by the update on my 9PP: smoothness and feeling of depth in the menu carousel (by making use of smaller fonts) is great.

[kriskus]

@TrailEyes I did 5 soft resets and one regular ‘Power Off’ cycle and that didn’t help. In the end I changed my interface language to English and that finally seems to have helped. Back to Polish now and it’s still OK.

[duffman19]

@pavel-samokha said in Software update 2.39.20 (2024 Q4):

Improved outdoor distance accuracy

Any chance this could be elaborated on? Distance accuracy is what keeps the Vertical on my wrist over other brands. However, I’ve always felt that Suunto watches measure just a touch longer than reality in certain scenarios (heavy tree coverage, for example). Suunto is the only brand where the activity distance is sometimes longer than the measured GNSS distance.

Anyway, excited to test this out. Guess I’ll be running with multiple watches again for a while.

[Egika]

@duffman19 the GNSS firmware has quite a number of operating modes (like driving, swimming, static, moving etc).
Plus there are the dual/single band, energy saving modes.
In all those modes the individual position points are calculated into trajectories, that the watch uses to calculate the distance.
Both positioning itself and the distance calculated plus other things like time to first fix under certain conditions have been improved.
More detail would not really be helpful.

Just my 2c to over/under estimating:
Whenever I use the “follow route” function in my watch I get a distance that is slightly longer than the usual distance on the same route without this. So my conclusion is, that every GPS measurement is under-estimating - the current Suunto’s just least so

[jussim]

Can you believe it: the watch remembers the navigation setting again! Hurrah!

[t-Dox]

@pavel-samokha said in Software update 2.39.20 (2024 Q4):

For Suunto 9 Peak Pro, Vertical, Race and Race S

• Improved outdoor distance accuracy
• New GNSS software: SONY v00.173
• Automatic compass calibration
• Save POIs or start bearing navigation by using ruler point markers in map
• SuuntoPlus Sports App displays device connection status
• New Christmas and New Year watch faces, along with a new green theme watch color*
• Added a button lock option in the control panel
• Enhanced UI visual effect (the zoom effect)
• Fixed battery consumption issues in certain scenarios
• Bug fixes and stability improvements

*new watchfaces for Christmas and New Year not yet released in SuuntoPlus Store, will be released soonish

great job guys! can’t wait to update it and test if all the problems are solved. thank you so much and happy holidays

[sorinus]

Great job! I love the new menu, it even seems a bit snappier on my Vertical?

P.S. Don’t want to take anything from the awesome job the suunto devs did, but I hope we see some interval/structured workout improvements in some future release e.g. counter of current interval repetition.

[duffman19]

@Egika Thanks for the reply and explanation. That’s about what I expected as far as improvements (generally improved distance calculation algos).

@Egika said in Software update 2.39.20 (2024 Q4):

every GPS measurement is under-estimating - the current Suunto’s just least so

Yep, that’s my experience as well. When I look at other brands, it seems they over-apply distance smoothing and overuse additional metrics such as cadence and pace resulting in under-estimated distances. I’ve always viewed Suunto’s results as the most “raw” of the bunch, and usually the most accurate. The only issue I have with Suunto’s approach is that significant GNSS errors or offsets (which I still see occasionally) often result in a matched distance offset.

At any rate, it’s exciting that Suunto is working to improve their already excellent accuracy.

[pavel.samokha]

@duffman19 said in Software update 2.39.20 (2024 Q4):

Any chance this could be elaborated on?

Some internal changes to improve accuracy, no specific details to share.

[GiPFELKiND]

@pavel-samokha news about contour lines on the Maps above 500m zoomlevel!?

[Egika]

holiday watch faces should be available now in the app

[sartoric]

@pavel-samokha
Maybe I’ve found a strange “temporary” bug.
Checking new watch faces in the app (detail view) while the “watch is syncing” grey floating label was showing, reset the watch one to the Vertical default, not the one I was using (classic analog).

It happened a couple of times, now I can’t reproduce it anymore

[dazzlerdc]

On the Suunto Race S. When you go to the logbook on the watch, the activities don’t show any graphs. It will be interesting if anyone else has noticed this.