Software Update 2.40.38 (2025 Q1)

althaea35

Sleep tracking.

Retired at 21:30
Awoke 00:15 installed update finished around 00:30
Retired until 06:00

Result sleep tracked all of this even with update in middle of the night!

Tracking works well!

Tami999

Installed Beta.
As user of Vertical since end of 2023, for the first time I can say this watch works SMOOTH. (At least when using buttons, i always scroll with buttons) Its biggest update if we talking about smoothness of this watch. I tested in shop Race and Race S 1-2 months ago, and they were smooth, compared to Vertical which has lazy animations and scrolling in menu that gives bad first impression for such a premium watch. I feel like I got completly different device now. That’s how it should works in release day. So far noticed that also HR seems to… refresh more often?

But i must say I still have bug that appeared first time with last official update. Sometimes (mostly when dont use watch for a few minutes) when I go from watchface to menu/sports or widget (middle button) my screen freezes.
For example When i dont use my watch 10 minutes, and press lower button to go widget list, it freezes between watchface and my first top widget (menu) for 5 seconds or longer.
I could re-create this bug, but I just took some video from youtube and stopped at right moment so show what I mean At this point Vertical likes to freeze. I noticed after beta update, problem still is. A bit annyoing sometimes.
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duffman19

@kriskus said in Software Update 2.40.38 (2025 Q1) Beta:

On the other hand, when there are two consecutive turns within less than 100 meters, this might be confusing…

Perhaps. As has been stated elsewhere many times, having two turn notifications, one as a “heads up” and a second one at the turn, is how nearly all other navigation systems work. Even SatNavs and Google Maps do this. (Think, “Left turn ahead… Turn left now.”)

If there are two turns within 100m, the second turn simply wouldn’t have the initial “heads up” notification, and that’s ok. However, I can imagine having only one notification at the turn causing more troubles.

Think about how accurate, or I guess inaccurate, some trail maps are, and therefore the GPX files created from them. I’ve had to re-map (OSM) some local trails that were hundreds of meters off. If I’m following a route created from an inaccurate map, the Suunto turn-by-turn notifications will obviously be off. If I get a pre-turn notification, I know to be on the lookout for a trail junction and am less likely to miss a turn that might not be accurately mapped.

Further, if you are following a route in an urban environment, the turns are set at the middle of the street intersections. If you are running or cycling, you are more likely to be on the side of the road or a sidewalk farther removed from the center line. So that 20m turn notification turns into a 5m or less turn notification.

2b2bff

I had some activities where I disabled the “Feeling” evaluation after the activity. This setting has been reset and is enabled all over again.

GiPFELKiND

@pavel-samokha snorkeling is now missing in the sport modes

SamuelP

@GiPFELKiND i still do have snorkeling on my vertical

A Former User

@GiPFELKiND It is there on 9PP as well.

timecode

Hm, tried to downgrade to the previous version, but I only have this version and an “incomplete” version of the same file, no previous version. Can someone advise if this is expected behavior?

2b2bff

@GiPFELKiND I have it on the Race S…

MirkoP

S9PP user here, just an easy question: I was expected to see gps version Sony 00.173, instead i found 00.151. Could you explain that?Thanks!
@pavel-samokha

Ecki D.

@2b2bff same here with Autostop and autolaps. This happend on every update till now.

cs2nd

@Artus-Diver must be for floor waxing intervals - wax on… wax off, repeat.

dulko79

1st sleep tracking went smooth.

Tieutieu

Perfect sleep tracking with update on my SRs and my wife’s S9pp

Kaiphi

first night with the uodate and without any problems. The battery consumption also seems normal. Also had all dials on standard. But I didn’t lose sport mode for that

Ecki D.

Sleeptracking and Battery Life looks good today on SPP9
Maybe found a tiny bug.
I wanted to start a timer for my coffee. The slept hours did show up. I switched to timer again, as configured long press on the top button here, 3min show up and wanted to start it but I couldn’t. The green triangle was missing.
I had to scroll down, select 3 minutes again and it worked.
If this is the only problem - great update so far.
Even there is a sports mode Meditation 🧘 with Box Breathing S+ included. I just created my own sportsmode for that recently and hey now there is it officially.
Sync works much faster than before too!
UI on the watch feels more responsive.

Stefano M64

Hello, I just did a short walk on a route with turn-by-turn notifications. I would say that this new version is way better than the previous one, the notifications are shown about 15/20m before the next turn, and after each turn another notification remember the distance left to the destination. My route was very short (1.5km) with several turns separated by few tens of meters and the messages didn’t overlapped each other as before, that’s great, no more messed up notifications!
However, a couple of times I deliberately walked away from the route, the first time for about 20m, the second one for more than 60m and I didn’t get the OFF ROUTE warning, I hope this is just a bug since it was a very useful feature, a fundamental one I would say.
EDIT: I read other users stating that 15/20m is too short for fast activities and I have to agree, I think it’s perfect for walling/hiking but definitely too short for skiing, cycling, maybe even for running, it would be better if each kind of activity could have its appropriate distance for the next turn notification.

Ecki D.

@Stefano-M64 Got the of Route Warning Yesterday quite quickly just about 20m after missing a turnpoint by decision. This was on the 9PP. Maybe it comes a bit late.

Stefano M64

@Ecki-D said in Software Update 2.40.38 (2025 Q1) Beta:

@Stefano-M64 Got the of Route Warning Yesterday quite quickly just about 20m after missing a turnpoint by decision. This was on the 9PP. Maybe it comes a bit late.

mmm, I’ll give a try again in the afternoon, thanks

Clément Lavabre

@Clément-Lavabre said in Software Update 2.40.38 (2025 Q1) Beta:

@pavel-samokha Well installed.
First observation: we no longer see the airplane mode logo, even though airplane mode is activated.

The same bug happened on my partner’s 9PP