Software update 2.13.18 for S series (S3,S5,S9)

pacos

Hello
“ Fix increased power consumption when in endurance or ultra mode and at the altitude chart screen (navigating)” could you explain this please? Not too clear for me. Thanks!

Brad_Olwin

@pacos It means when you are in ultra or endurance mode, and have a route loaded, best GPS fix will activate only when you are on the route screen or altitude profile screen. So if you use those modes, you do not want to leave the watch on either of those screens, but use them only when you need them. In Performance mode it does not matter.

pacos

@Brad_Olwin ok, very clear, that is great! Thanks

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@Brad_Olwin said in Software update 2.13.18 for S series (S3,S5,S9):

or altitude profile screen.

We fixed that @Brad_Olwin ( I triple checked) .

So now also at the altitude screen it will retain it’s endurance or Ultra settings.

Only in Navigation / breadcrumb screen will it go to full power mode.

Brad_Olwin

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos Thanks, did not know that, super

lexterm77

I don’t what magic sauce was put into Sony FW but my tracks are as good as they can get now, and that is GPS only. I do not use BeiDou as every time I set route on it, it notifies me every minute that I am off route then back on route then on route again. I will give it a try next time I do a trail run where half of the sky is obscured by a river dam.

surfboomerang

@lexterm77 I can agree. I use GPS+GLONASS at the moment and last track I recorded I could even distinguish on which side of the road I was running and where I changed sides.

Mff73

@surfboomerang
And do you remember passing near those people ?

surfboomerang

@Mff73

stromdiddily

@lexterm77 thirded - tracks, instant pacing, and distance have been pretty stellar. Now hopefully they remain that way

lexterm77

There is one thing that remains unrealistic.

My running effectivenes seems to be out of wack by a lot.

pacos

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos this is great, you anticipated this a while ago… guess like me, many ultratrail runners use at most the altitude navigation, so we can use at full the endurance mode!
I am thinking Suunto should describe better this on the fix/enhancements as it’s valuable.
Thanks

stromdiddily

@lexterm77 I haven’t found that useful with any of the watches listed in my signature tbh

lexterm77

@stromdiddily

It keeps going up for some reason

stromdiddily

@lexterm77 well that’s positive news I guess lol

surfboomerang

Is it coincidence or just my perception, but has the altitude drift in watch mode got worse since the update?

Last evening I had a evening run and came home with an altitude of -2m which is very accurate, because I live 1m below sea level. I left the watch on the table overnight and this morning when I picked up the watch, it showed me an altitude of -20m.

Shouldn’t the watch interpret pressure change while stationary or in standby as weather change instead of altitude change?

Some extra info:
The pressure at an official station is 1018.6 hPa (altitude: +0,86m) at the moment this station is 11km from my location. My watch, corrected to an altitude of +1m, reads 1021 hPa. I know the watch shows sea level pressure, but 1m off won’t make that big of a difference

After the update of the watch I also did an additional soft reset

stromdiddily

@surfboomerang I’m down 100ft at my house in the day since the update…

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@surfboomerang living in the same place no issues but but but.

The watch if it gets vibration it can get chnages.

Especially in NL that the pressure can change sometimes rapidly.

I do get some days this issue. Home at -2 after 2 days of doing nothing (and wearing the watch at home ) it’s at -15m.

But I have this issue mainly at NL.

That said we can monitor this. Just in case.

To be clear we didn’t change anything there.

Radu Negoescu

Ah sorry just posted a new topic, did not see this one. I am unable to update the firmware to 2.13.18, the watch remains in the dreaded 4 dots, 3rd dot blinking pattern, and SuuntoLink complains it was disconnected (I swear I didn’t touch it, especially the second time around!). Consistent behaviour, no way to update. I’ve had to reset it twice (disconnected for real, reconnected, SuuntoLink reinstalled 2.12.20 with no issues).

Is this a known issue or am I just unlucky? Support/Isabelo says “faulty cable likely” but wouldn’t that mean 2.12.20 cannot be restored either? @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos what do you think? (well done for landing the job, this is recent isn’t it?)

isazi

@surfboomerang what happened to me was that before the update altitude was +2, after the update it was -5. Since then it had no sudden drops/ups anymore outside activity. But this week has seen wild pressure changes in NL.

P.S. I am still not sure at which altitude my home is, is there a proper way to check this