No possibility to quit and resume the Trekking activity: so DISAPPOINTED

nico1234

Hello all,

I bought a Suunto vertical 2 for my treks.

I’m a doing around 2 or 3 trek a year of several days each.

I was so happy when I bought this watch : I’ll be able to record my trek as one trace and use all the functions while trekking.

And now after my first trek in the Alpes I’m so disappointed and angry : it is not possible to leave the activity. So if you want one trace, and so if you keep the activity running your whole trip, you will NOT be able to access other functionalities of your expensive watch …

So many times during my trek I wanted to leave the activity. For instance to check the weather. Or the set a timer for my food when cooking. Or just to access the mountains wallpaper (vertical Week for example ). All of these were just not accessible.

Why I’m angry ? Because I paid my watch 600 euros, the 250 euros Coros watch of my friend can do this, same for the old garmin of my brother ….

At least we can access the light of the watch through the configuration menu of the activity.

Anyone feeling the same ? Suunto if you are reading me, please, I love your watch, your app. But this is a serious flaws. I mean come on, we are on a adventure watch here. It makes no sense.

Thanks for reading me.

GiPFELKiND

@nico1234 hmmmmm i never missed this function! You could stop the Activity then you have all like watchface and / or Countdown Timer!

nico1234

@GiPFELKiND yes but I don’t want to stop the activity: I need one single trace…

nico1234

@GiPFELKiND the point is I don’t want to stop the activity, to keep one trace

André Faria

@nico1234 it was never a function of the watch, it has been asked so many times, guess you should have checked before buying. if not, merge gpx with any tool.
In the last survey I also asked for it, but not a life changer.

GratefulDeadpan

This is a working feature on the Run, though it wasn’t a feature at launch but has since been implemented. Works perfect.

VoiGAS

Try this:
https://forum.suunto.com/topic/15652/new-suunto-stagequest-app/6

Stavrogin

@nico1234 Sounds like you need a Garmin. Sorry, but you should have done a little homework before purchasing. I think Garmin is the only brand that gives you everything you have on your list.

Seems like a lot of emotion for 2 or 3 treks a year. That is about what I do as well and there are still over 300 days of use a year that I love my Suunto for, but to each their own.

elbee

@Stavrogin said:

@nico1234 Sounds like you need a Garmin.

Yes garmin has this function, but the last garmin I had also had 3 or 4 annoying bugs in the “resume for later”. It alerted every 5 minutes an activity is to be resumed, alerts suddenly beeped, although I had beeps only for sportmode and I sometimes got of course alerts, indicating that the gps was stil on and rendering the resume for later useless.

I don’t think a lot of people used that function because there were only 2 people complaining on the garmin forum (including me). And of course this was 1 and a halve year ago, so bugs could be solved (or garmin added some more)

jobtoll

I just used ILoveGPX org to merge 2 GPX. Tracks. It is free, easy to use and works great

elbee

@jobtoll said:

I just used ILoveGPX org to merge 2 GPX. Tracks. It is free, easy to use and works great

My activities are automatic pushed to strava, stryd and intervals.icu.

It’s quite cumbersome so have to keep those all in sync when you combine 2 gpx files. A resume later function is much more convenient.

But like I said, I don’t think it is used or wanted by many so it should not be suunto’s top priority. On the other hand, I’m completely puzzled by what is their priority.

André Faria

@elbee They should be kinda aware because it was on one of their surveys and @gratefuldeadpan already said the cheaper Suunto Run has it. But we also know the suunto run , runs on a different platform, maybe why it was not implemented…idk…just a guess.

elbee

@André-Faria

I can only share my experience. On the garmin forum, with bugs in popular features, there were soon several people complaining. On my bugreports about resume later only 1 other confirmed the bug.

It could be that suunto product manager looks at the garmin feature list and decides he want that too.

jj-frl

I feel the same! And yes, I’m coming from Garmin as well. So weird you have to stop the activity to use the other (great) functions of the watch (Race 2 in my case). You can imagine there are a lot of situations where using the functionality of the watch during a session will greatly improve the over all satisfaction and usability of the Suunto.

User reacting: ‘do your homework’ or ‘I don’t need it…’ well, that’s not really the point. Not being able to use basis functionality while on a session is not clearly communicated on the Suunto website.The watch is great with lots of useful functionality. It is only crippled when on an activity.
Want to see battery status: nope
Want to see total steps: nope
Forecast: nope
Temp sensor: nope
Set timer: nope
Set alarm: nope
Use flashlight: nope
etc.
That is also disappointing to me…

elbee

@jj-frl said:

I feel the same! And yes, I’m coming from Garmin as well. So weird you have to stop the activity to use the other (great) functions of the watch (Race 2 in my case). You can imagine there are a lot of situations where using the functionality of the watch during a session will greatly improve the over all satisfaction and usability of the Suunto.

User reacting: ‘do your homework’ or ‘I don’t need it…’ well, that’s not really the point. Not being able to use basis functionality while on a session is not clearly communicated on the Suunto website.The watch is great with lots of useful functionality. It is only crippled when on an activity.
Want to see battery status: nope
Want to see total steps: nope
Forecast: nope
Temp sensor: nope
Set timer: nope
Set alarm: nope
Use flashlight: nope
etc.
That is also disappointing to me…

“will greatly improve the over all satisfaction and usability” greatly? meh. I see the use of the function and I used it on my garmin. But not daily. Not even monthly.

And the other stats you like to see? I don’t see that. I don’t say your use isn’t right, I’m only saying, not everybody shares your views.

runyx17

@elbee Well, I would use it at least once a week. I would really appreciate this feature. If I could pick just one single thing for Suunto to add, this would be it. Well, except for bug fixes — I would like those even more.

jj-frl

Of course, it’s perfectly fine that you don’t need or miss certain features. Others do, however. The fact that you can use them on Garmin from time to time is because they’ve implemented it there. That way, as a user, you’re free to choose for yourself whether you think it’s worth using or not. Now, Suunto has made that choice for you. And for a watch costing €600, I’d personally like to be able to use all the features whenever I want, not when Suunto or a user on the forum decides whether or not it’s useful.

VoiGAS

@elbee I think the examples above give a good idea:
Multi Day Hike: As you cannot resume later, you maybe let the activity run paused. Then you cannot set the Alarm to get up early next day or use the torch to light the way to the toilette
Running/Hiking in the Dark: No Access to torch
Hiking: No weather forecast (Now solved with Gustin, thanks for that)

For me its also no problem, but for multi day adventures like UTMB - sponsored by Suunto - thats absolutely a great feature. Or something you for sure miss when switching to Suunto

elbee

@runyx17 @voigas
I’m not the one you have to convince.

I shared my opinion. I shared my experience how much I think it is used on a garmin. That’s all I do.

brechtvb

@elbee we all are puzzled on what the priority is. It would be interesting to see the results of the questionnaire that was sent out, and the delivery of features and bug fixes that came around.