race s step count problem
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@otutay 1)
Are you sure? I have a Race, and the steps for an activity ARE included in the daily total. Can you include a screenshot for a day with an activity?
- Steps are always going to deviate slightly, a phone is measuring steps from your pocket, a watch from your wrist.
also, steps a re a terrible metric anyway as not all steps are equal. I’d look at duration or times in HR zones as a better metric to judge week by week
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I’ve just checked my app and the activity I did yesterday was 20K steps - and they’re added to my step total. And this was from an activity with 500m climb so quite hilly.
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I can confirm with my Race S that the measured steps are extremely inaccurate.
If I wear a second watch, the Race S only counts less than half of the actual steps. Observations show me, that there are phases in which no steps are recorded, even though nothing has changed in the walking style. A while later, the watch counts correctly again.Of course, the usefulness of counting steps can be discussed, but if you offer the measurement, it should be roughly correct.
Is there perhaps a tip on how to get the Race S to count more accurately?
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I always wonder if someone count the real steps to compare with the counted ones
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@sartoric
I would love suunto to change the word “step” by something else. But I guess it will not happen, step is a ““metric”” which need to exist at least for marketing reasons. -
@Mff73
afair in the manual it was described as an “active life” metric, but of course named “step count” -
I am having the same issue with my Race. I know steps aren’t a great metric but we use as a proxy in our family to make sure we are pushing each other to be active.
When an Activity is in progress my Race stops counting steps. After going to the gym first thing Saturday morning the Race showed 547 steps, the gym app showed +4,000. The gym app isn’t 100% accurate BUT this isn’t a small discrepancy.
This is my 4th Suunto and never seen this behaviour before.
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Same issue here. The watch grossly underestimates the number of steps. It is difficult to understand why Suunto cannot make such a simple feature work properly. I hope they will make a fix because monitoring activity is one of the reasons I bought the watch, to have all data in one place.
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Also seeing this. I did a walk just over 4 miles and recorded just 4393 steps. I had nothing in my hands and was swing my arms normally.I don’t know what the right step count is, but it’s significantly more than that. At that step count it implies my average stride length is around 4.8 feet, which I’m not sure i could manage if i tried.
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@jumpysprinkles 1 mile is about 2000 steps for me. I guess depending on a person height it could be anywhere between 1600 and 2400 steps. But what you report seems like a gross underestimation.
I’ve just bought Race S and will be testing this soon.