Watch stopped measuring mid run
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@Elipsus Did I? When?
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@VoiGAS said in Watch stopped measuring mid run:
I’m using GPS watches from Garmin and Suunto since about 20 years and never had a device failing like that.
Here ? The way I read it you never had a Garmin watch fail on you.
But Garmin did have a world wide outage that left -all- watches that ever synchronized their GPS that day non-functional
https://the5krunner.com/2025/01/28/garmin-global-crash-2025/And its considered as the 3rd Garmin-pocalypse
Remind me how many times it happened for Suunto ?
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@Elipsus What I meant and also wrote is that it never had happen to me with the older watches, including different watches from Garmin and Suunto.
I think as sportwatches shifted from beeing watches to become computers with Operating Systems. Easier to add features, but having the same problems like crashing and rebooting.
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@VoiGAS Slight misunderstanding then, because when I read :
@VoiGAS said in Watch stopped measuring mid run:
I’ll take a look at what Garmin and Coros can offer
That sounded a lot like you thought that grass was greener on Garmin side ^^
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@Elipsus No, I wanted to check if the others have similar problems. For Garmin I found reports, for Coros not.
As Suunto is also Made in China now and Kilian Jornet moved to Coros this would be my first idea. But the Race S is quite ok, for the price its really hard to beat.
But still I hope this stability issues will be adressed. I this happens to me during an important Race I think I would throw it against the wall and buy a competitor watch just out of anger…
Race S
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@VoiGAS said in Watch stopped measuring mid run:
As Suunto is also Made in China now
This is no indicator about quality. Even more so as the mid-run crash is a software issue.
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@VoiGAS FYI: A couple of weeks ago my F7XSS rebooted during a multiband activity. A watch that was launched in mid January 2022, we are in the middle of 2025 almost and the watch still crashes. I bought it a couple of weeks after launch. For all those months it’s been the third or fourth reboot now. So, the competition does have issues as well.
Are you implying “Made in China” = inferior quality? Cause I have both the SR (made in China) and SV (made in Finland) and both watches are top build quality. -
@Highlands @2b2bff No, I don’t imply it has something to do with Made in China. What I meant is that “Made in Finland” was a reason for me to buy Suunto in the past, and not Garmin or Coros. But this reason is not here anymore, so that quality issues like this one could make me change to another producer.
I hope its clear now what I meant. Not that China is bad, not that Suunto is bad. But without uniqueness Suunto has to compete with others on quality and features.
Thats why I will compare all competitors instead of only taking Suunto models into account like I did the last roundabout 10 years (Ambit3 - Suunto 5 - Suunto 9P - Suunto Race S). -
@VoiGAS Personally, as a European, I do prefer to buy european products to help European jobs. Is that what you mean when you say you buy Suunto because of the label “Made in Finland”? The problem with that is Suunto has been for a while now a Chinese company as we all know. So, if I want to buy a European watch, made by Europe owned company, I’m out of luck. I always compare quality and features. That’s why I chose Suunto: great quality and unmatched accuracy with the right set of features. Garmin: useless Mickey Mouse features, inferior quality, bad software, for my use case only the maps are better.
I’m all in for testing different products and I follow with interest posts where users share their experience with other watches. -
@Highlands said in Watch stopped measuring mid run:
Is that what you mean when you say you buy Suunto because of the label “Made in Finland”?
Thats sounds like a pretty compeling reason no ?
European jobs, safety laws, industry, knowledge, etc -
@Elipsus As I wrote, personally for me, yes. But not for the majority of customers otherwise Suunto wouldn’t have ended up in a financial predicament before being bought by the Chinese. Nowadays, European made means higher costs. In the end of the day, majority of customers vote with their wallets. Whether we like it or not the Chinese turned Suunto around and saved it from disappearing. And the know how now is in their hands.
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My Race keeps freezing and rebooting when i use the navigation. I went for a cycle of 1 hour today, the watch crashed 3 times… I tried to change a bunch of parameters (turn off the map, climb assist notifications…) didn’t change a thing. I am now pretty scared of using navigation.
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Happened again Monday on a trail run… Fairly annoying my 3 hours activity is split in 3 parts. This time the watch didn’t seem to have to reboot after the recording of the activity stopped by itself. Has anyone any clue to solve this ?
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@Carmak this clearly should not happen and also not depend an any settings.
I would contact Suunto support.
