Suunto 9 Picasso Edition

[Tomas5]

@theguyfromthesummit i reported openwater swimming problem on this forum few weeks ago, since i noticed that while swimming i need to keep hands out of water for very long time until watch get locations. I hope that if this will get fixed in future, than this initial fix would be faster too. Since I believe that while openwater swimming, it is same issue because it must fix GPS again when watch get out of water.

[TheGuyFromTheSummit]

@tomas5
in my case, the watch is always connected to gps, but then looses signal for a couple seconds

But as long as it only occurs from time to time, I am ok with it.

Here you see the a 1 month window and the lost signal track

[Tomas5]

@theguyfromthesummit i had initially some problem with GPS on S5 because while hiking in hard conditions (narrow valleys), usually during longer stops, GPS position jumped arround and recorded lot of distance while not moving. After i started use galileo + GPS it resolved partly this issue and i learned to manually pause hiking when i stop for while which helped a lot too

[Brad_Olwin]

@tomas5 said in Suunto 9 Picasso Edition:

Isn’t there some overall problem with newer suunto watches ? My S5 always takes around 20-40 seconds to get initial GPS fix, even when they was synced with phone just few minutes before. With older Ambit 2 when it was synced for AGPS it was often under 10 seconds to get initial fix. Maybe used sony GPS chip is not so good in non ideal conditions ?

@Tomas5 @TheGuyFromTheSummit Do not sync immediately prior to an exercise, it takes time to unpack the ephemeris data for the satellites, maybe 10 min or so. If your AGPS file is 5d old or less it will be fine and your watch should have a solid green icon within seconds.

[Tomas5]

@brad_olwin well in ideal conditions maybe on open area. When i stick my hand out of balcony, right now it took 39seconds for icon to turn green (synced around 8h ago) Ambit 2S (synced 4days ago) did it in 14seconds in exact same conditions right now. From the balcony i have view on south west and there are no other building, trees hills so at least half o sky is visible directly. Only NorthEast is blocked by building itself. So not ideal conditions but not either worst.

Edited: just opened user manual, it says first gps fix can take 30seconds or longer based on coditions. So it is as designed.

[zhang965]

@tomas5 said in Suunto 9 Picasso Edition:

Ambit 2S

the Ambit 2’s gps chipset is from SIRF which is more powerful than Sony’s, the good side of Sony chipset is the power saving.

With SIRF’s chipset (Spartan Ultra), I can connect the GPS even in my apartment/a building, with Sony’s chipset is a big NONO.

[Prenj]

I noticed the same. With A3P I would get a lock in 5 seconds or even less while with the S9B this takes 20ish seconds in the same conditions. GPS tracks are quite comparable for me, but it is much slower to acquire GPS lock definitely.

As already said, it’s probably due to different GPS chip. It doesn’t bother me too much, but I’d love to see this improved.

[Tomas5]

@prenj yes it doesn’t bother me either while hike or bike. Only openwater swimming is anoying but there is thread about that already.

[freeheeler]

just locked satellites… 2 seconds

[zhang965]

My last S9B run VS an old one, there is a big drop from satellite,

[TheGuyFromTheSummit]

Some nice oHR roller coaster during hiking.
Actual HR was around 85-95.