Software Update 2.40.38 (2025 Q1)

[A Former User]

@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…

[HonzaS]

@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

[SuperFlo75]

@sartoric I hope there are many people who test the firmware, but looking back the last month I would say, they didn‘t test enough

[Danny poleg]

@Łukasz-Szmigiel The update has already been rolled out to everyone, at least from the number of phone calls I receive.

[SamuelP]

Any information about when the new watch faces will be available?

[Tieutieu]

Here is my quick feedback after just coming back from a 44km road bike ride :

• even if i’m a reaaaallllly fast rider, the 20 meters turn notification was useless at every turning point. It arrives to late ; I was already turning whe the alert was diplayed
• no more full screen alert might be a good idea, but I missed it

I would have rather kept the full screen notification (unless when two turning point would be distanced from less than 100m) and have a reminder maybe for bike 50 or 40m before turn instead of those 20meters.

For the rest, watch works flowly !
Let’s test further, with trail running when my ankle will be back