Software Update 2.40.38 (2025 Q1)

[steoreggia]

@pavel-samokha said in Software Update 2.40.38 (2025 Q1):

SUUNTO RACE S / SUUNTO RACE / SUUNTO VERTICAL / SUUNTO 9 PEAK PRO

Staged update starting on March 25th 2025

Hello, does the Race S step counting issue will be solved at some point??

Regards,

[SuperFlo75]

@pavel-samokha Please excuse me, but I don’t understand the point of the beta test if the firmware release is already planned after one day. It seems like pure actionism to me!
Almost all problems with the firmware only became apparent after a week or more, so a beta test should take longer than a day.

[kriskus]

@SuperFlo75 My guess is that it was the first step towards more serious beta tests in the future and just to see if someone would find a bug so serious that the deployment would need to be postponed.

[fondueaufromage]

@Egika Also what is the difference between Ski mountaineering and Ski touring ? Is it just the notion of carrying the skis that makes the difference ?

[timecode]

@SuperFlo75 To be fair, he initially wrote that he knows this beta release is quite late and the final version is coming soon. I think it’s a step in the right direction though.

[maszop]

@timecode Hopefully. One week is a reasonable time to get some conclusions from public testing.

However, such “tests” lasting several hours are just a ploy to please the audience.

[sartoric]

@SuperFlo75 said in Software Update 2.40.38 (2025 Q1):

Almost all problems with the firmware only became apparent after a week or more, so a beta test should take longer than a day

Do you really think that the FW tests are limited to 1 day of publicly available beta ?

[SuperFlo75]

@timecode yes, I saw this yesterday, and I expected the release of the new firmware next week… this would be soon, too… but not less than 24 hours later

[maszop]

@sartoric Looking at previous updates, internal tests weren’t quite working. That’s where the idea for some additional public testing came from.

[pavel.samokha]

@SuperFlo75 yes, already mentioned that above. I hope next time we will do it more in advance

[Bogdan1921]

@Stoke80 Yeah, me either.

[Mattg576]

@pavel-samokha

Auto compass calibration no longer seems to work with this update.

First time I’ve been asked to do so since it was implemented (had GPS locked & been out for a walk but still wants me to manually calibrate).

[sartoric]

@maszop
Sure, a wider test base is better to find some edge cases, but that doesn’t mean that the FW is released untested.

[Jeffrey Tillack]

@steoreggia what counting issue? My Apple Ultra and Race S are almost equal every day…

[Jan Suchánek]

@Jeffrey-Tillack
Also my Race is much better than Garmin F7Pro, which was counting steps while tooth cleaning, ironing, etc…

[Łukasz Szmigiel]

Guys, relax. Suunto plays on the safe side. This time - a day before the public release, next time - a week before. Remain calm, no need to rush

[runomatic]

My Vertical is now much faster when scrolling through the settings. Great job!

[Inge Nallsson]

@Stefano-M64 said in Software Update 2.40.38 (2025 Q1):

@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

First try of going off-route (at ca 90 degrees; perpendicular) with my Race S, nothing happened for a long time. It felt like an eternity so I returned, thinking you were right about this being a bug. Afterwards I can now see that I was 90 metres from the route. Second try, also going 90 degrees off-route, I had switched to a data screen showing running distance. The warning about being off-course came at exactly 100 metres (in this scenario).

Regarding the Turn-by-Turn prompts: Setting the Map display at 25 metres I could see, on the watch, that the turn prompt indeed was initiated at 20 metres. But in the physical world my body then already was ca 5 to 10 metres from the turn - this while running at 6:30/km to 7:15/km on gravel roads, trail and technical trail (Avg NGP 6:31/km). Even with this slow pace it felt as quite abrupt turn reminders.

SuuntoPlus ZoneSense App has been updated 2025-03-20 and now are not blocked while running a second S+ app (tried with TrainingPeaks - Run) AND following a route at the same time. Previously this made ZS display ‘waiting for data’ until the second S+ app was disabled.

[Edouard]

Hi,

after the update, the accentuated color doesn’t seems to work on some of the watchfaces, it remains white.

[steoreggia]

@Jeffrey-Tillack my wife’s Race S doesn’t count around 80% of her steps, if we go out together on a walk and I make 10,000 steps in my Race, she only gets around 2500/3000 on her Race S.

We have already tried switching watches and the result is the same, Race S undercount most of the steps