@Matúš My hypothesis is that there are some extra features that do not really work well together.
Test 1: new battery installed because watch could not last for more than two days which is somewhat below specs. Before battery switch the sleep tracking was unstable, after the change it never came back.
Test 2: turned of heart-rate measurement completely since it is no use … Surprise it is still trying to ignite the measurement LEDs ???
Restarted it several times, being more than a week since I received it back.
Multiple trainings done, they worked out OK and battery time seems to have improved since I can use the watch more than two days on a charge now.
However it is entirely unlike the other Spartan Sport WHR I own which can be worn a week and still has 80% of battery power. Both have new battery but remarkably different performance, sleep recording broke something in the 9PP as far as I can deduce.