Screen stays on during activity with navigation, even with AOD off
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Hi everyone,
I’ve noticed that during trail running activities on my Suunto Race, the screen stays on the whole time when I follow a route, even though I have Always-On Display (AOD) turned off in both general and sport mode settings.
This only happens when I activate route navigation. In normal watch mode, the screen turns off correctly when I lower my wrist. But once navigation starts, it stays on for the entire activity—even in situations where visibility isn’t critical.
Additionally, I was running a route in reverse (starting from the end), and I suspect this may have triggered a “recalculation” mode or caused the device to keep the display on permanently.
I would prefer to use wrist-gesture-only activation for battery saving and night running, but this behavior prevents it. Is this an intentional feature or a bug? Are there any settings or workarounds to ensure the screen turns off during activities even when following a route?
My settings:
AOD: OFF
Raise to wake: ON
Thanks in advance!
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@Luis-Andés-Olmedo, I am pretty sure I have experienced this issue once when using my Suunto Race in a 100k ultramarathon. At some point there was a slight course change vs. the planned route, which I think had caused the watch to briefly go off-route and then the route reversed.That part of the race course was an out-and-back section, so it incorrectly locked to the return part of the out-and-back section but tracked it in reverse (isn’t that messed up!). Suunto’s route-auto-reverse logic causes more issues than it solves in my opinion.
From that point the watch display turned on and remained being constantly on for a couple of hours until I passed the out-and-back section. I was really worried about the watch battery running out and not making it to the end of the race. Also, perhaps what triggered this condition is the fact that I had waypoints for aid-stations on the route. I think the watch logic expected distance to waypoint to reduce and turn the display off when I passed the waypoint, but instead distance to waypoint increased because the route was reversed, so the waypoint notification never cleared and remained visible at the bottom of the display.
Also see the following potentially related thread:
https://forum.suunto.com/topic/12994/suunto-navigation-tendency-to-auto-reverse-route-when-it-shouldn-t.-bug-or-misguided-feature?_=1753668306016 -
@sky-runner thanks!!! seems to be a related issue…
This was my route and the watch started to have that erroneous behaviour when at the point that I’ve highlighted in red, I followed the route in reverse. From there the screen was always ON and the elevation profile was not reversed as the route.
