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Suunto 9 baro - GPS track not accurate

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    florin2528 Bronze Member @freeheeler
    last edited by 13 Jun 2019, 07:48

    @TELE-HO - that looks nice 🙂

    First I wanted to buy Suunto Ambit 3, a friend of mine has an Ambit 2 and never has issues with the tracks. But it’s still expensive for a 6 year old watch, which means was a very good one.

    I tried Xiaomi stratos 2, good tracks - not such a good application, was too much of a smartwatch than sport watch.
    I tried then Fenix 5, good tracks, problems with software/battery, even with no run and WHR stopped the battery was out in 2 days.
    So I was looking at suunto spartan and suunto 9.

    …and seems i have to get back to ambit 3. 😞

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      freeheeler @v.sacre
      last edited by 13 Jun 2019, 07:49

      @v-sacre
      I have once in 1.5 years had an issue where the gps signal was totally crazy for half of the activity. After that, no bad signals ever again. Not one out of 10… never.

      living sideways

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        freeheeler @florin2528
        last edited by 13 Jun 2019, 07:50

        @florin2528
        I will receive my brand new A3 Peak Sapphire tomorrow 🙂

        living sideways

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          florin2528 Bronze Member @freeheeler
          last edited by 13 Jun 2019, 07:52

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

          brand new A3 Peak

          what do you mean by brand new?

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            freeheeler @florin2528
            last edited by 13 Jun 2019, 07:55

            @florin2528
            I used to buy second hand watches and they were always quite good. But now I have decided to order a new one from a shop.

            living sideways

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              sartoric Moderator
              last edited by 13 Jun 2019, 07:59

              @florin2528
              Maybe I’ve missed it, but did you already try a different path ?

              Back to that “faulty” track, Is there any kind of electric stuff along that road (plant, pillar etc)?
              Do you wear any kind of magnetic stuff near your watch.
              You can’t imagine the mess … 🙂

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                zhang965
                last edited by 13 Jun 2019, 08:00

                I don’t know the true factors, there are some rumors:

                • A3P has more simple components then new products, this makes its GPS has less interference.
                • A3P has a GPS not under screen, it makes its GPS has less interference, (well let’s see S5?)
                • A3P’s GPS (Sirfstar V) has better tune

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                  Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager
                  last edited by 13 Jun 2019, 08:08

                  Hi, these drops in GPS looks like you have a power saving enabled. I am here to help on this.

                  How does the prestart screen look like?

                  Also very soon comes a new GPS FW so I would encourage you to wait a TINY bit for it.

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                    florin2528 Bronze Member @sartoric
                    last edited by 13 Jun 2019, 08:09

                    @sartoric

                    I tried different paths and sometimes the tracks are decent. But 1 from 5 had accuracy issues.

                    not really, but along the road there are some 380v cables.
                    Screenshot from 2019-06-13 11-04-41.png

                    No magnetic stuff. I was thinking to buy this watch in order to get rid of phone.

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                      Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager @florin2528
                      last edited by 13 Jun 2019, 08:10

                      @florin2528 Lets solve this. Check my message above.
                      S9 has a good GPS reception I am sure, something is going not well with your setup

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                        v.sacre Silver Members @freeheeler
                        last edited by 13 Jun 2019, 08:23

                        @TELE-HO When I talk of bad accuracy 1/10 times, I don’t talk about crazy things, just small off track problem like @florin2528 has reported.

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                          florin2528 Bronze Member @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
                          last edited by 13 Jun 2019, 08:24

                          @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos

                          Power saving is off, I didn’t consider using that option since i’m not an ultra runner.
                          the watch has now 71% of battery, yesterday could have like 80%.

                          I was waiting to get GPS signal before starting the run. I was running with phone(runtastic app, running for the oceans) and the distance between S9 and runtastic was getting bigger with every kilometer i made. I spend like 10 seconds on the finish before stopping the run, on an open space. Not visible on the track.

                          I can share the GPX file if you would like.

                          Screenshot_20190613-111605_Runtastic.jpg

                          Screenshot_20190613-111730_Suunto.jpg

                          I can wait till 29 of june, last day for retuning the product back.

                          Thanks,
                          Florin

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                            freeheeler @v.sacre
                            last edited by 13 Jun 2019, 08:27

                            @v-sacre
                            yes that’s how I understood it 👍

                            living sideways

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                              zhang965 @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
                              last edited by 13 Jun 2019, 08:27

                              @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Suunto 9 baro - GPS track not accurate:

                              Hi, these drops in GPS looks like you have a power saving enabled. I am here to help on this.

                              How does the prestart screen look like?

                              Also very soon comes a new GPS FW so I would encourage you to wait a TINY bit for it.

                              hold on, that’s a tricky way to confirm the new FW comes within two weeks

                              Winners Wear Winners

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                                Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager @florin2528
                                last edited by 13 Jun 2019, 08:27

                                @florin2528 hmmm strange to be honest. I saw the tracks and there are drop outs on the reception.
                                Just to confirm once more, at the prestart screen the color is green right?

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                                  Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager @zhang965
                                  last edited by 13 Jun 2019, 08:28

                                  @zhang965 yeah lets give some insight to @florin2528

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                                    zhang965
                                    last edited by 13 Jun 2019, 08:31

                                    I think his GPS lost randomly the signal, it’s why he had the straight line sometime and sometime not

                                    Winners Wear Winners

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                                      Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager @zhang965
                                      last edited by 13 Jun 2019, 08:31

                                      @zhang965 yup that is suspicious here.

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                                        florin2528 Bronze Member @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
                                        last edited by 13 Jun 2019, 08:32

                                        @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos
                                        yes, was green.
                                        My second run with S9 was on Sibiu 10k marathon and I din’t wait for GPS to be green and start running. I didn’t get the GPS at all. Run was recorded but with no GPS. So now, I always wait. 🙂

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                                          sartoric Moderator @florin2528
                                          last edited by 13 Jun 2019, 08:32

                                          @florin2528 said in Suunto 9 baro - GPS track not accurate:

                                          @sartoric

                                          I tried different paths and sometimes the tracks are decent. But 1 from 5 had accuracy issues.

                                          not really, but along the road there are some 380v cables.
                                          Screenshot from 2019-06-13 11-04-41.png

                                          No magnetic stuff. I was thinking to buy this watch in order to get rid of phone.

                                          Well … Let’s say that this is not an optimal environment for GPS and Compass, that’s a magnetic net 😁

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