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    Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!

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    • florin2528F Offline
      florin2528 Bronze Member
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      from my side after more than 1.4k km with S9 Baro.

      cons:

      • sleep tracking, was not working properly. Taking movie watching and reading as sleeping. Garmin fenix5 didn’t do that. I’m not using it at all
      • display: light during evening/night
      • daily stress(WHR), battery was going low too often
        - GPS - less accurate than Ambit2 or phone, this is the most important one for me.
      • missing shortcut for airplane mode
      • you can’t see the time(hour) during an activity
      • WHR not working properly, I would prefer not to show the numbers instead of wrong readings

      pros:

      • well made, robust
      • good battery life compared with other
      • navigation - helped me a lot, by loading routes from colleagues, or defining new routes when running in new places.
      • good information on screen depending on the type of activity
      • I wouldn’t change it for Garmin, I tried fenix5 and was very bad on battery
      • nice straps

      Suunto issues:

      • difficult to order accessories in Romania
      • I like the Suunto app, I would like to have it on the web also

      Cheers,
      Florin

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      • MarynM Offline
        Maryn Silver Members @florin2528
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        @florin2528 said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

        you can’t see the time(hour) during an activity

        yes you can.

        Suunto Vertical, Suunto Race, Edge 530, Vantage V, Suunto Wings, Polar H10&Verity Sense

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        • freeheelerF Offline
          freeheeler @Maryn
          last edited by

          @Maryn
          maybe he did not do the firmware update?

          living sideways

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          • MarynM Offline
            Maryn Silver Members @freeheeler
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            @TELE-HO maybe yes.

            In latest sw version time is shown if you set more than 3 fields on the screen.
            Of course, you can also put time(hour) as a seperate data field.

            Suunto Vertical, Suunto Race, Edge 530, Vantage V, Suunto Wings, Polar H10&Verity Sense

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            • MarynM Offline
              Maryn Silver Members
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              @florin2528 said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

              • less accurate than Ambit2

              By the way, if you say that Ambit 2 has better gps then is highly likely that you are running an old software 🙂

              Suunto Vertical, Suunto Race, Edge 530, Vantage V, Suunto Wings, Polar H10&Verity Sense

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              • Brad_OlwinB Offline
                Brad_Olwin Moderator @florin2528
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                @florin2528 said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

                from my side after more than 1.4k km with S9 Baro.

                cons:

                • sleep tracking, was not working properly. Taking movie watching and reading as sleeping. Garmin fenix5 didn’t do that. I’m not using it at all
                  Florin

                This does not happen for me. If you have your normal sleep hours set and autoDnD set I never get sleep counted when reading or watching a movie. If you do not have sleep hours set it might be possible.

                Vector/T6c/Ambit 3 Peak/S5 Copper/S3/S7 Ti/S9 baro Ti/S9P Ti/S9PP Ti/Vertical Ti/Race Ti/RaceS/Ocean/Wing

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                • zvonejanZ Offline
                  zvonejan Bronze Member @florin2528
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                  @florin2528 said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

                  • you can’t see the time(hour) during an activity

                  double tap or bottom button (2 sec)

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                  • isaziI Offline
                    isazi Moderator
                    last edited by isazi

                    Doing an alpine climbing tour this week. The altimeter of the S9b is amazing, I have been sitting on a couple of summits with the watch agreeing with the map, same for huts. On the same group a Fenix 5s (or maybe 6s, but looks more a 5s to me) user got readings far by even 100 meters. And being this the first alpine tour I did with the S9, I’m very very happy.

                    Watch: Suunto Vertical Ti

                    Blog: isazi's home

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                      Bogdan1921 Silver Members Bronze Member @isazi
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                      @isazi

                      I can confirm this. Also, last week I was one day for 9 hours on a hiking tour. When I’ve arrived at the peak of the mountain, the wrote altitude of the peak was exactly the same with the altitude from the watch and I was really impressed👍

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                      Suunto 9 Baro [sold]

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                      • MarynM Offline
                        Maryn Silver Members @isazi
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                        @isazi what gps system did you use ? Beidou?

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                        • isaziI Offline
                          isazi Moderator @Maryn
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                          @Maryn since it became available, I’m always using GPS+Beidou. Maybe GPS alone would be enough, but I’ve had good results with this setup so far and I’m not changing it for now.

                          Watch: Suunto Vertical Ti

                          Blog: isazi's home

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                            lexterm77 Bronze Member @isazi
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                            @isazi said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

                            @Maryn since it became available, I’m always using GPS+Beidou. Maybe GPS alone would be enough, but I’ve had good results with this setup so far and I’m not changing it for now.

                            I used gps+beidou and tracks were wobbly like a drunk going home on St. Patrick’s day. I turned off and use gpu only and tracks became clear.

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                              A Former User @lexterm77
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                              @lexterm77 my experience is following: the best results I get, when I am waiting a few minutes when I got GPS conformation… I have always something to do… shoes etc. I think more satellites will connect then. I also try to connect in free areas and not in the woods. I think these start conditions are leading to best gps, even if you are afterwards in the woods… only connecting fast in not so free areas is not so good… Think this is also not Suunto specific…

                              Especially do this, if I am following in mountains or in the woods. Not if so much when I am running in flat free areas…

                              @Brad_Olwin @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos right?

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                                lexterm77 Bronze Member @Guest
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                                @mountainChris

                                My experience with trail running or hiking along a side of a river dam in heavily wooded area is best with gps only, any other combination reveals worse results as eastern sky is obscured. I always wait for gps lock, and I always start my hike on same stone and finish it to have a reference. I don’t know why is wobbly when it connects to more satellites. My ascent descent don’t match either if i use combination of gps-s, where gps only matches within 1m.

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                                  A Former User @lexterm77
                                  last edited by A Former User

                                  @lexterm77 Do you have a statistic behind it? Could be also random…

                                  I think there is a difference waiting for gps lock and waiting after gps lock further a few minutes if you plan running in woods. And also connecting first in free areas… I think I read this somewhere. Also just my feeling with runs…

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                                  • lexterm77L Offline
                                    lexterm77 Bronze Member @Guest
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                                    @mountainChris

                                    I’ve figured it out, its nothing to do with a watch.

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                                    • florin2528F Offline
                                      florin2528 Bronze Member @zvonejan
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                                      @zvonejan nice, thank you. I will try it.

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                                        florin2528 Bronze Member @florin2528
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                                        Anyone knows how to get altitude during Trail Running?

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                                        • sartoricS Offline
                                          sartoric Moderator @florin2528
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                                          @florin2528
                                          What do you mean for “get altitude” ?
                                          In the results ? Watch ?

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                                          • cosme.costaC Offline
                                            cosme.costa @florin2528
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                                            @florin2528 said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

                                            Anyone knows how to get altitude during Trail Running?

                                            If you mean know the altitude during the run, I do not know with the standard sportmode but I use a custom sportmode where one of my fields is the altitude.

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