Software Update 2.40.38 (2025 Q1)

SamuelP

@duffman19 i went for a walk to test TbT. I share your thoughts.

Its a good improvement but not perfect.
The 20m feels just too short. When walking it was ok but i can imagine when running or cycling its not that great.

I also found it a bit confusing that when you pass the “waypoint” it starts to count how many meters you have passed it. Yes, you literally move away from the waypoint once you have passed it, thats true. But it felt weird to see the distance increase instead of showing “distance to next waypoint” for a few seconds.
Before the problem was that the watch showed the next waypoint before you even crossed the the upcoming one,that was confusing.

So its a bit better now,and not as confusing as before

fritzbt2013

@duffman19 I agree 100m notification needs to happen as well. 20m is too little notice for me when cycling. I’m already into my turn sometimes … Hopefully they can still change that. Have both at 100m and then 20m would probably be ideal.

Also, there is a full screen notification presently. I actually find it useful because I can see part of the street name and the turn arrow is nice and big (older eyes). Sad to hear it is going away personally. I did find the next turn notification in the middle of the current turn confusing at first so I can see why some change here is being attempted.

kriskus

On the other hand, when there are two consecutive turns within less than 100 meters, this might be confusing…

Anyway, for the firmware - right after installation I had my Vertical Week watchface, just like prior to it. But a while later I noticed it was reset to the default Vertical face.

Ecki D.

Navigation works way better than before!
Well for cycling maybe 50m countdown would be great.
And a final „now right/left“ would be cool.

safari

@runomatic So how do we go back to the previous stable version if necessary?

althaea35

Sleep tracking.

Retired at 21:30
Awoke 00:15 installed update finished around 00:30
Retired until 06:00

Result sleep tracked all of this even with update in middle of the night!

Tracking works well!

Tami999

Installed Beta.
As user of Vertical since end of 2023, for the first time I can say this watch works SMOOTH. (At least when using buttons, i always scroll with buttons) Its biggest update if we talking about smoothness of this watch. I tested in shop Race and Race S 1-2 months ago, and they were smooth, compared to Vertical which has lazy animations and scrolling in menu that gives bad first impression for such a premium watch. I feel like I got completly different device now. That’s how it should works in release day. So far noticed that also HR seems to… refresh more often?

But i must say I still have bug that appeared first time with last official update. Sometimes (mostly when dont use watch for a few minutes) when I go from watchface to menu/sports or widget (middle button) my screen freezes.
For example When i dont use my watch 10 minutes, and press lower button to go widget list, it freezes between watchface and my first top widget (menu) for 5 seconds or longer.
I could re-create this bug, but I just took some video from youtube and stopped at right moment so show what I mean At this point Vertical likes to freeze. I noticed after beta update, problem still is. A bit annyoing sometimes.
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duffman19

@kriskus said in Software Update 2.40.38 (2025 Q1) Beta:

On the other hand, when there are two consecutive turns within less than 100 meters, this might be confusing…

Perhaps. As has been stated elsewhere many times, having two turn notifications, one as a “heads up” and a second one at the turn, is how nearly all other navigation systems work. Even SatNavs and Google Maps do this. (Think, “Left turn ahead… Turn left now.”)

If there are two turns within 100m, the second turn simply wouldn’t have the initial “heads up” notification, and that’s ok. However, I can imagine having only one notification at the turn causing more troubles.

Think about how accurate, or I guess inaccurate, some trail maps are, and therefore the GPX files created from them. I’ve had to re-map (OSM) some local trails that were hundreds of meters off. If I’m following a route created from an inaccurate map, the Suunto turn-by-turn notifications will obviously be off. If I get a pre-turn notification, I know to be on the lookout for a trail junction and am less likely to miss a turn that might not be accurately mapped.

Further, if you are following a route in an urban environment, the turns are set at the middle of the street intersections. If you are running or cycling, you are more likely to be on the side of the road or a sidewalk farther removed from the center line. So that 20m turn notification turns into a 5m or less turn notification.

2b2bff

I had some activities where I disabled the “Feeling” evaluation after the activity. This setting has been reset and is enabled all over again.

GiPFELKiND

@pavel-samokha snorkeling is now missing in the sport modes

SamuelP

@GiPFELKiND i still do have snorkeling on my vertical

A Former User

@GiPFELKiND It is there on 9PP as well.

timecode

Hm, tried to downgrade to the previous version, but I only have this version and an “incomplete” version of the same file, no previous version. Can someone advise if this is expected behavior?

2b2bff

@GiPFELKiND I have it on the Race S…

MirkoP

S9PP user here, just an easy question: I was expected to see gps version Sony 00.173, instead i found 00.151. Could you explain that?Thanks!
@pavel-samokha

Ecki D.

@2b2bff same here with Autostop and autolaps. This happend on every update till now.

cs2nd

@Artus-Diver must be for floor waxing intervals - wax on… wax off, repeat.

dulko79

1st sleep tracking went smooth.

Tieutieu

Perfect sleep tracking with update on my SRs and my wife’s S9pp

Kaiphi

first night with the uodate and without any problems. The battery consumption also seems normal. Also had all dials on standard. But I didn’t lose sport mode for that