SOFTWARE UPDATE 2.35.34 Q2

[Marton Attila]

Hi, I did multiple cycling sessions under clear sky mid day when the sun it’s above your head literally. I use handle bar adapter for the watch so it “sees” the sky/sun. After 2 hours and 15 minutes of cycling I lost almost 10% battery life. This is ridiculous by any shred of imagination, basically solar doesn’t work anymore. I did a test with 1 hour and 30 minutes 5-6% battery off.

Display standby is disabled (If you have it like this your watch has it’s brightness completely turned off during your bike ride and you can read the display because of the MIPs) even though battery drops crazy fast
Brightness - low
Raise to wake - low

I had the vertical solar like this since day one.

I also use chest strap for heart rate so the HR from the watch is disabled (it does not consume the battery).
I did not used any suuntoPlus Apps in the testing above.

Overnight I noticed it drops 4%. It was 2% before.

With all of this and that the battery drops way too fast in 5 days 45% off this is not acceptable. I’ll try to let it drain completely and do a clean charge.

[Stefano M64]

@peegee said in SOFTWARE UPDATE 2.35.34 Q2:

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos
Is there a list somewhere of all the small features that have been added to update?

it is rather odd that new features introduced with upgrades are not properly listed and explained, and that users must dig into to learn something more, wondering how much users that do not follow this forum can understand. The most exhaustive list is likely on the top of this discussion, the Release Notes in the official Sunnto Support pages is quite incomplete
https://www.suunto.com/en-gb/Support/Software-updates/Release-notes/suunto-race-software-updates/
(NOTE: on my Race zooming is possible to 25m, NOT 20m)

[Antoine]

Something has changed ? Routes synchronization with Suunto app seems faster today

[ajjvbeek]

@Tami999

I agree. I love the fact that I can now see the altitude/barometer on the main watch face. But being able to toggle between the complications (baro/alto/solar/weather) would be even better.

[Egika]

@sartoric said in SOFTWARE UPDATE 2.35.34 Q2:

@Mitch9
so it could be a bug

works well for me

[The_77]

A note on the new pause screen - now it counts up your total paused time, which is nice, but somehow this isn’t saved as elapsed time in the app, or total paused time or anything like that. Could do with adding as it is clearly recorded by the watch.

[Mitch9]

@Egika Okay, so it seems to be a bug. If somebody needs further information, contact me.

[Egika]

@Mitch9 if it works for me, I’d say it is not a bug, but maybe a configuration thing…?
Maybe someone else can check on Vertical?

[sartoric]

@Egika
Yep, I mean on Vertical (mine too) it doesn’t work in that wf

[Radoslav Elias]

Hi, the new display options per activity are great. But can we get an option to never dim the screen? Without it, the watch is unusable as a cycling computer / navigation mounted on bike handlebars.

[BastMaSVSRS9PP]

Two Suunto sport apps I really like as part of the update is ultra walking and indoor climbing.

I mostly run with my dog and there times when I have to stop to let her pee or drink or sniff etc. knowing how much time of my overall run I actually spent walking vs standing vs actually running is great and useful information.

Indoor climbing is great for my climbing session. Combined with the gym timer it really provides useful info for more productive training sessions.

Amazing Suunto well done! Keep it up !

[Mitch9]

@BastMaSVSRS9PP For you the Indoor Climbing app works?

Not for me:
https://forum.suunto.com/topic/11059/indoor-climbing?_=1720445103151

Can you describe your set up in the other thread and show us your display?

[Luis Andés Olmedo]

@Danny-poleg said in SOFTWARE UPDATE 2.35.34 Q2:

@Luis-Andés-Olmedo
This is an option only in RACE because of the screen

THanks!!! that is a pitty. I thought it would be possible to configure backlight options (intensity) per sport mode…

[Antoine Lancrenon]

I think I have an issue with battery drainage.

i am loosing > 5% every 24hrs. I do not use it that much. without gps for example lately (i am injured and cannot do my weeky run with Gps)

i have charged 100% the 3rd of July. I have 34% battery leftntoday (8th of july) i have registered less than 10hrs exercises.

My config is fine, appart the 24hrs Hr tracking. every thing is off:
brithness: low
standby: off
raise tonwake: off

i think my watch is far from the numbers announced by suunto and by some of you in this forum .

i have the vertical solar… and I am getting a week of baettery now. I used ot have 10-11 days. and I am supposed to get at least the double of that with such a watch.

What do you recommend, think?

[mikekoski490]

@Luis-Andés-Olmedo said in SOFTWARE UPDATE 2.35.34 Q2:
Hope folks understand this is not a Suunto thing, it’s pretty much any watch with an OLED screen (think Apple watch and 24 hour battery life - Race still far exceeds that). It’s a trade off - superior display, colours and readability, but screen has to time out to save battery and screen burn in.

That’s why there are choices with brands between MIPS (Vertical/Garmin Fenix) and OLED (Race/Epix). I had the Vertical and only miss the battery longevity one trip per year (multi day backpacking).

For cycling I use a Hammerhead Karoo 2 as it syncs to Suunto App and much easier to read at a glance.

@Danny-poleg said in SOFTWARE UPDATE 2.35.34 Q2:

@Luis-Andés-Olmedo
This is an option only in RACE because of the screen

THanks!!! that is a pitty. I thought it would be possible to configure backlight options (intensity) per sport mode…

[Iggge]

A follow-up regarding step counter;

Today my watch and the step counter works flawless. Still a little bit low, but that’s 100% acceptable because thats better to be on the low side, than other way around.

Before today, Monday the steps almost entirely did stop counting between 4000-5000 steps and that i find strange.

[Luis Andés Olmedo]

@mikekoski490 said in SOFTWARE UPDATE 2.35.34 Q2:

@Luis-Andés-Olmedo said in SOFTWARE UPDATE 2.35.34 Q2:
Hope folks understand this is not a Suunto thing, it’s pretty much any watch with an OLED screen (think Apple watch and 24 hour battery life - Race still far exceeds that). It’s a trade off - superior display, colours and readability, but screen has to time out to save battery and screen burn in.

That’s why there are choices with brands between MIPS (Vertical/Garmin Fenix) and OLED (Race/Epix). I had the Vertical and only miss the battery longevity one trip per year (multi day backpacking).

For cycling I use a Hammerhead Karoo 2 as it syncs to Suunto App and much easier to read at a glance.

@Danny-poleg said in SOFTWARE UPDATE 2.35.34 Q2:

@Luis-Andés-Olmedo
This is an option only in RACE because of the screen

THanks!!! that is a pitty. I thought it would be possible to configure backlight options (intensity) per sport mode…

Fully agree! but I have a Vertical and I meant it would be a great idea to have the backlight intentity configurable per sport mode.

[peegee]

@Stefano-M64
I really can’t understand why everything is so secretive…‍️

[BrunoH]

Hi everyone,

What is this blue X in the centre? (I tried to search but my keywords didn’t return any results, sorry if this is a duplicate…)

[SamuelP]

@BrunoH I think its a bug. Do you have DND on? I got it on the same WF. For me it indicated that DND is on. When i pressed a button to activate the screen it changed to the right “DND icon”.