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    • florin2528F Offline
      florin2528 Bronze Member @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
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      @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos I will do the reboot today, regarding the AGPS sync, it’s done daily.
      I will get back with feedback after my next run.

      Do you have some numbers regarding extra battery usage if I will enable GLONASS also?

      Thanks for getting back,
      Florin

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      • Dimitrios KanellopoulosD Offline
        Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager @florin2528
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        @florin2528 those numbers show on your prestart screen. I think the damage is ~2h (on a 100% charge)

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        • florin2528F Offline
          florin2528 Bronze Member
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          had another run where GPS was ok, not very accurate, but ok. Today I had another run where GPS went crazy.
          I’m attaching the route from telephone (galaxy A15) and the one from watch.

          Screenshot_20190612-202354_Runtastic.jpg

          Screenshot_20190612-202507_Suunto.jpg

          I’m sorry to say, but suunto9 can’t be trusted. I was in an area with small houses, nothing that can result in something like this.
          I was previously using a fenix 5 and had no issue with the track(shitty battery - but that something else).

          Please advise.

          Florin

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          • zhang965Z Offline
            zhang965
            last edited by

            I’d advise you to move to another country and give it a try.

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            • freeheelerF Offline
              freeheeler @florin2528
              last edited by

              @florin2528
              they both look quite off to what I am used to 😕

              living sideways

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                florin2528 Bronze Member @zhang965
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                @zhang965 I don’t understand you, what country has to do? My cheap phone has a decent signal, why shouldn’t have the suunto 9. I had a fenix 5 which had no issues in this country.

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                • Mff73M Offline
                  Mff73 @florin2528
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                  @florin2528
                  @zhang965 has a very high sense of humour 🙂
                  But after first joke, he mainly explains his real thougt 😂

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                  • Mff73M Offline
                    Mff73
                    last edited by

                    And surely here, he might imagine that location of your run and/or specific day GPS conditions, may not be perfect.
                    Btw, the straight line in your watch recording is not good 😞

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                      azeanic
                      last edited by

                      GPS is quite cranky this week. Been noticing that the tracks aren’t particularly great.

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                      • florin2528F Offline
                        florin2528 Bronze Member @Mff73
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                        @Mff73 the conditions were not perfect, a couple of thin clouds. Regarding the houses around I attached a picture.

                        google coordinates where it lost signal:
                        https://www.google.com/maps/@45.7875149,24.1385937,3a,75y,200.91h,97.06t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sTKMNfv5IRzW3JO-Yg_GOWA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
                        Screenshot from 2019-06-13 09-56-11.png

                        I still have two weeks for returning the product back. Any chances of getting a software update until then?

                        Thanks,
                        Florin

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                        • zhang965Z Offline
                          zhang965
                          last edited by

                          I don’t think my S9 has a good GPS track accuracy but I think mine has not same as worst as yours.

                          You have to do several tests to make sure where is the problem.

                          Do a 12s reboot and update AGPS.

                          Try once in same route.
                          Try another route (another country)
                          Try another day. (sunny day without thin cloud)
                          Try with Glonass(sometime/some countries Glonass is better than GPS)

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                            florin2528 Bronze Member @zhang965
                            last edited by

                            @zhang965

                            Do a 12s reboot and update AGPS. - Already did that and the calibration step.

                            Try once in same route. - I already did that and the track was decent.
                            Try another route (another country) - don’t see the relevance.
                            Try another day. (sunny day without thin cloud) - don’t see the relevance. If my phone works in cloudy day, suunto should also.
                            Try with Glonass(sometime/some countries Glonass is better than GPS) - I will and get back on this thread.


                            Here i was in the mountains:
                            Screenshot_20190613-100905_Suunto_Stanisoara.jpg

                            but this watch is used for tracking of the rebullXalps athletes. It should work also in the mountains.

                            Florin

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                              florin2528 Bronze Member @zhang965
                              last edited by

                              @zhang965
                              Try once in same route.

                              an example from another run, same place.
                              Screenshot_20190613-102708_Suunto.jpg

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                              • zhang965Z Offline
                                zhang965 @florin2528
                                last edited by zhang965

                                Do a 12s reboot and update AGPS. - Already did that and the calibration step.

                                Try once in same route. - I already did that and the track was decent. so it means your S9’s GPS could work well
                                Try another route (another country) - don’t see the relevance. We’d know if the bad signal relevant the route, for example another route has good GPS signal, it means on your first route, it has some unsure factors
                                Try another day. (sunny day without thin cloud) - don’t see the relevance. If my phone works in cloudy day, suunto should also. Yes and no, GPS watch normally has not the same accuracy as phone
                                Try with Glonass(sometime/some countries Glonass is better than GPS) - I will and get back on this thread.

                                but this watch is used for tracking of the rebullXalps athletes. It should work also in the mountains.

                                Florin

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                                • freeheelerF Offline
                                  freeheeler @florin2528
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                                  @florin2528 said in Suunto 9 baro - GPS track not accurate:

                                  I still have two weeks for returning the product back. Any chances of getting a software update until then?

                                  what product would you choose if you return your S9?
                                  I can show you here my record of an Ambit3 Peak Sapphire on a roadbike tour in a mountian zone where there are rock faces right next to the road and during that activity there was no blue sky… it was pouring down rain like out of buckets…

                                  2019-06-13 09_33_42-Skiingones 2_01 Std. Radfahren Move.png

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                                  • zhang965Z Offline
                                    zhang965
                                    last edited by

                                    https://forum.suunto.com/topic/2647/précision-gps/

                                    They get bad track as well, due to weather factors

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                                    • freeheelerF Offline
                                      freeheeler @zhang965
                                      last edited by

                                      @zhang965
                                      the S9 is weather sensitive and the A3 isn’t?

                                      living sideways

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                                      • zhang965Z Offline
                                        zhang965 @freeheeler
                                        last edited by

                                        @TELE-HO said in Suunto 9 baro - GPS track not accurate:

                                        @zhang965
                                        the S9 is weather sensitive and the A3 isn’t?

                                        I don’t know, maybe? my A3peak works greater than S9/Spartan ultra

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                                        • freeheelerF Offline
                                          freeheeler @zhang965
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                                          @zhang965
                                          it’s really strange… especially since Suunto says “thousands hours of testing in the toughest conditions”…
                                          ok, it’s a new product. I believe “thousands of hours”… but A3 has proofed millions of hours…

                                          living sideways

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                                          • v.sacreV Offline
                                            v.sacre Silver Members
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                                            Bad accuracy can always happen. It depends a lot of parameters such as GPS itself, weather, obstacles, speed… With my S9, I have maybe an issue 1 times out of 10 activites. Don’t forget that you are wearing a watch. Not a big GPS device with bigger antennae.

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