May Transition Update

SteiraMan

Nothing moved forward, beside other issues, Movescount does still not show “Progress an Metrics” from moves uploaded with my Ambit 2. Therefore, I phased out my 6 year old Ambit 2, and purchased a sport watch from an other manufacturer. To transfer all my Suunto moves to the software from my new smartwatch was easy, and I can see progress and metrics in apps and on a PC perfectly again. I’m very happy with my new sport watch, and wanted just to say good bye Suunto.

BernhardT

@SteiraMan Just out of curiosity: where did you move to?

SteiraMan

@BernhardT I moved to Garmin, to a Fenix 5 Plus. Like it very much, data recorded at moves are similar to data from Suunto. I can still prepare routes on a PC, or on my smartphone. User interface on PC is great, and the Android App is great, both are more user friendly than Suuntos solutions.
I hope, quality of the Fenix 5+ and Garmins heart belt is the same than from my Ambit 2 and Suunto heart belt, because both work very well after 6 years in use…

ThomasR

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos Does that imply that the desktop tools for using my Suunto Spartan Trainer Wrist HR vanish in a few months? Will the apps be useable by desktop? (By the way, I did not find a way to use movescount on a linux desktop) I am not interested in acquiring a smartphone …

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@ThomasR unfortunately yes that is what the statement says however, please wait for the next one. There was tons of feedback about this here as you can see.

You will always receive and email about this subject as a Movescount user.

That said, I have run the app with VMware although I could not manage to get BT working.

freeheeler

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos
dimitrios… i don’t know whats wrong… i’ve signed in for the suunto newsletter beginning of 2019 and also have MC account registered to my email but have never received an update email ever since…
i always needed to gather news in this forum…

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@TELE-HO Not about this as well?

This is not related to newsletters but to MC account email

freeheeler

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos
about what “this”?
i’ve never ever received an email from suunto, only support reply… and i don’t have it blocked or in spam filter

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@TELE-HO Strange. Lets check with the next one. I always create the thread here as well.

freeheeler

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos
let’s do that …can’t wait for updates… the latest one doesn’t pull ambit users off their flipflops…

lohtse

@TELE-HO said in May Transition Update:

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos
dimitrios… i don’t know whats wrong… i’ve signed in for the suunto newsletter beginning of 2019 and also have MC account registered to my email but have never received an update email ever since…
i always needed to gather news in this forum…

Actual same as me. Only time I ever got a message/email was to tell me to start using the Suunto App… Since then NOTHING only way to find out a damn thing is here in the forum… Also NEVER had any messages in the Suunto app…

lohtse

@TELE-HO said in May Transition Update:

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos
let’s do that …can’t wait for updates… the latest one doesn’t pull ambit users off their flipflops…

love the flipflops…

ThomasR

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos Thanks for the info. Do you have tips for a cheap smartphone on which I can use the app for my watch? (I have no idea about smartphones. I am only interested in using the watch-support-softwares, not in anything else with smartphones)

freeheeler

@ThomasR
xiaomi redmi go

sartoric

any old (2 year max) samsung model to be (almost) sure about compatibility and usability

lohtse

@ThomasR said in May Transition Update:

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos Thanks for the info. Do you have tips for a cheap smartphone on which I can use the app for my watch? (I have no idea about smartphones. I am only interested in using the watch-support-softwares, not in anything else with smartphones)

lol just as well you aren’t interested in anything else lol as nothg much works anyway…

As to phones well as long as it is android 5 and above it should work fine… I use is on a redmi note 2 android 5.1 phone from time to time to see if there is a difference in features between that and my samsung 6 active android 7… And nope still the same shitty features(for ambit users) …

@sartoric said in May Transition Update:

any old (2 year max) samsung model to be (almost) sure about compatibility and usability

Well I have ran it on a HTC desire S with android 5 and a HTC HD2 with android 5 and both ran it. . was a little slow but it worked…

If you want it to run well at least quadcore and 1gig ram is what I would recommend as ran very nicely on our spare redmi 2

sartoric

@lohtse said in May Transition Update:

Well I have ran it on a HTC desire S with android 5 and a HTC HD2 with android 5 and both ran it. .

Sure
I do some test on my old Galaxy S2 too (LineageOS)
It works, but I wouldn’t use it as an everyday “platform”, but of course it would be ok as a sync device only.

ThomasR

@TELE-HO @sartoric @lohtse Thanks!

ThomasR

By the way: Does switching off the desktop support software not decrease the usefulness of the watches? E.g. Apps have to be compatible with the smartphones (e.g. I had read somewhere that for political reasons, Huawei switches off google apps), the SIM cards of smartphones may not work in the country which one is visiting, I can not imagine that creating routes is on smartphones as easy as on a desktop,… Because it happened elsewhere that decreasing customer-support etc. was an instrument of brand-deconstruction in cases where big companies got rid of competing brands after buying them, I wonder…

lohtse

@ThomasR said in May Transition Update:

By the way: Does switching off the desktop support software not decrease the usefulness of the watches? E.g. Apps have to be compatible with the smartphones (e.g. I had read somewhere that for political reasons, Huawei switches off google apps), the SIM cards of smartphones may not work in the country which one is visiting, I can not imagine that creating routes is on smartphones as easy as on a desktop,… Because it happened elsewhere that decreasing customer-support etc. was an instrument of brand-deconstruction in cases where big companies got rid of competing brands after buying them, I wonder…

YES YES AND HELL YESS!!!

Depending on your watch you could end up with a very dumbed down version of your beloved device… Just look around the forum for what has been suggested could end up happening so far… I do stress that the suggestions are only possiblities but considering there has been VERY LITTLE TO NO input from SUUNTO as to whats happening and almost no real movement in the Development of the Suunto App it would seem the suggestions could be the sad truth…