Suunto 9 raise to wake feature

DMytro

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos that disagrees with my experience.
If standby is off and raise to wake is either on or exercise only, raise to wake is present only during an exercise.
My setup:
S9 non-baro, circuit training
However I don’t think that my results are limited to either one of the above.

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@дима-мельниченко s

According to the above picture when standby light is off raise to wake does nothing. Right ?

If it works for you (I just tested and doesn’t for me) then it’s out of the specs so a bug right ?

DMytro

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos said in Suunto 9 raise to wake feature:

@дима-мельниченко s

According to the above picture when standby light is off raise to wake does nothing. Right ?

I should think so.

If it works for you (I just tested and doesn’t for me) then it’s out of the specs so a bug right ?

Probably, yes

kabzior

OK, so two questions:

I do not have standby options fixed/adaptive/off, for me it is just simply on/off.
How one does turn off light completely? Now I have standby off and raise to wake off, but light is still triggered by pressing any button. Can I turn it off completely?

DMytro

@kabzior 1. that’s because the picture is for s9p not s9: adaptive means using the sensor
2. I think now you can’t, earlier it was possible with toggle, but now it’s gone

kabzior

@дима-мельниченко thanks, regarding first one - that’s what i tought, but that’s ok.
but the second one is a bummer, I go for long trekkings and often change between nav screen (with track) and ETA screen, but I do not need backlight, now I think battery efficiency will be lower due to the fact I cannot turn light off. I suppose it might be noticeable in 10-12h activity.

DMytro

@kabzior doubt it. I never had my backlight on toggle and still was able to meet the predicted battery life. Granted I rarely train for longer than 3h in a row, but still…

zhang965

I’m very happy about this feature come to S9.

but I just… don’t understand why it turns on the back-light on the moment where I don’t need it; when I need it, it doesn’t turn it on.

last time, when I was running, I rise my arm to watch the time, the back-light is still off, so, I put my arm back, but I noticed the light is ON!
so I raise my arm, and I see the light just turns off just before my eyes.

Brad_Olwin

@zhang965 said in Suunto 9 raise to wake feature:

I’m very happy about this feature come to S9.

but I just… don’t understand why it turns on the back-light on the moment where I don’t need it; when I need it, it doesn’t turn it on.

last time, when I was running, I rise my arm to watch the time, the back-light is still off, so, I put my arm back, but I noticed the light is ON!
so I raise my arm, and I see the light just turns off just before my eyes.

If you raise your arm fast enough to hit yourself in the head you will see the watch lit:). Just kidding, I think the light is on for too short a time as well. I think if you experiment a bit you will get used to it. I often will raise my wrist then flick my wrist to see the data on the watch before the light goes out.

Tomas5

My wife was curious how this rise to wake works, so on suunto 5. In settings in backlight section i set standby to ON, rise to wake to ON. But it doesn’t work at all. I tried restart watch but no difference. I even disabled do not disturb, auto do not disturb and sleep traking as i thinked that maybe watch think i sleep already. But no luck. Rise to wake doesn’t work for me. Should i use some specific arm movement? Or just is enough to rise hand and turn wrist to direct watch at me?

DMytro

@tomas5 this indeed should be enough. Maybe try exaggerating the movement a little?
Also could it be that the backlight is just dim and you don’t notice? Try in dark room?

Tomas5

@дима-мельниченко you are right, it is too low intensity to notice in room where is light so it works fine. Is it possible somehow lower backlight when button presed to this lower intensity too?

Rob33

Raise to wake mode test: the lighting comes on very frequently only with the usual arm movements of running …
Similar experiences?

DMytro

@tomas5 don’t think so

Rob33

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos Are there data on the loss of autonomy according to the choices offered?

gerasimos

@rob33 @dimitrios-kanellopoulos same problem…with simple movement on run (e.g. skipping) lights on very frequently(without turn wrist)
kinda bug or just high sensitivity…??
everything else perfect.
(s9 non baro.)

(Raise to wake mode test: the lighting comes on very frequently only with the usual arm movements of running …
Similar experiences?)

Rob33

@gerasimos It seems that many people wonder about this function … Lack of explanation?

gerasimos

@rob33 its a very useful and new function, need more time and daily tests from customers to check out …
Just little patience and feedbacks and experts will solve it…(if it’s real problem and not an isolated issue)

isazi

@gerasimos Dimitrios already said he’s collecting feedback for Suunto on the backlight behavior 🤟

Radu Negoescu

I’ll add my two bits of feedback on this feature too - last night, while putting the kids to sleep, the light kept coming on. I’m on S9Baro, backlight off, standby on, raise to wake on. Let’s say that in last night’s scenario I can’t complain - the room was dark, it was 9pm, and it was working as expected.

However, with it being quite reactive/sensitive to hand movement, I am wondering if it wouldn’t make sense (at least for us on S9B without adaptive settings) to take into account the time of day (and probably day of year / location) as a heuristic to determine if backlight is really needed. I don’t need it to react, even at low intensity, at 10am, but I would need it at 7am in winter months here in Europe.