Bumpy and inaccurate altitude data with new Suunto 7

freeheeler · 16 Jan 2021, 18:30

@daltonthomas
I hope you’ll be ski touring tomorrow, too… and just for the hell of science, could you both wear the watches very loose and ignore the HR results? Or even put it on your backpack shoulder strap?

daltonthomas · 16 Jan 2021, 19:42

@freeheeler
Tomorrow the conditions are not so good, i guess we are going to stay at home. Next event it`s planned to change the watches and then we are going to wear the watches loose.

daltonthomas · 9 Feb 2021, 19:16

Thank you all for your great help in finding the root cause of the bad behaviour of my Suunto7.
At the end I found out some tricks like attaching the watch to the backpack, fix the watch very strong on my arm to get better altitude results.
Because thats not the way i would like to use this watch i decided to look for another sport watch or go back to my old Ambit2.
Cheers and again thank you
Thomas

freeheeler · 9 Feb 2021, 21:42

@daltonthomas
hmm… unfortunate to read that…
I would have preferred that the forum and the guys at Suunto could find a solution on that.
But eventually you need to be happy and focus on the activity you like rather than messing around with technology.
Enjoy the sports

themrdjj · 9 Feb 2021, 22:30

Perhaps I should also give an update. I think the results were a bit better after receiving the new watch, but still not as accurate as I would have expected.

Anyway, I stopped caring about this, to be honest. I don’t really use the altitude profile in my training anyway and if I ever decide to do so then I still have the Strava correction (I only use Strava to analyse my activities anyway). Also, the comparisons I made in the beginning with my old watch were a bit unfair because there the Strava correction was applied automatically (as it doesn’t have a barometer), so I never got to see the raw data anyway.

I really like everything else about the watch and maybe I’m just expecting too much from it (my OCD wanting perfect data). So for now I’ll keep using it, until it’s time for a new watch.

freeheeler · 10 Feb 2021, 05:03

@themrdjj
I don’t want to undermine the valuable work from the field testers, but I think if the watch itself appears to have issues it would be good if you keep sending this info as feedback to Suunto. Where there’s no issue reported, nothing can be fixed. I know that myself with customers having issues with a new design and some of them fix it themselves, you rate the issue not as high as you simply don’t know that they are affected, too.

Brad_Olwin · 10 Feb 2021, 18:26

@themrdjj said in Bumpy and inaccurate altitude data with new Suunto 7:

Perhaps I should also give an update. I think the results were a bit better after receiving the new watch, but still not as accurate as I would have expected.

Anyway, I stopped caring about this, to be honest. I don’t really use the altitude profile in my training anyway and if I ever decide to do so then I still have the Strava correction (I only use Strava to analyse my activities anyway). Also, the comparisons I made in the beginning with my old watch were a bit unfair because there the Strava correction was applied automatically (as it doesn’t have a barometer), so I never got to see the raw data anyway.

I really like everything else about the watch and maybe I’m just expecting too much from it (my OCD wanting perfect data). So for now I’ll keep using it, until it’s time for a new watch.

This is clearly a problem and should not be occurring. Are the images you have in the initial post from QS or from SA? iOS can’t do landscape graphs. Just want to know how you got them. I often run with an S9 and S7, in virtually every run they match.

daltonthomas · 11 Feb 2021, 18:43

@freeheeler
Thats the point, focus and enjoy the activity itself and not messing around with technology…:).

themrdjj · 12 Feb 2021, 14:09

@brad_olwin They are from a program called GPXSee. I first download the initial gpx file from Strava, then I apply the correction on strava.com and redownload the gpx file.

Mff73 · 12 Feb 2021, 15:31

@themrdjj said in Bumpy and inaccurate altitude data with new Suunto 7:

@brad_olwin They are from a program called GPXSee. I first download the initial gpx file from Strava, then I apply the correction on strava.com and redownload the gpx file.

Hi,
I read again this post, and this last answer makes me feel that we never see your real Suunto data
only strave and GPXsee representation, with some gpx export.

Do you have a QS account ? or any other account where you can view the “real” data from Suunto fit file ?

or eventually share a suunto app link of an activity of yours with the issue, and experts may have a look at them.

Brad_Olwin · 12 Feb 2021, 15:38

@mff73 said in Bumpy and inaccurate altitude data with new Suunto 7:

@themrdjj said in Bumpy and inaccurate altitude data with new Suunto 7:

@brad_olwin They are from a program called GPXSee. I first download the initial gpx file from Strava, then I apply the correction on strava.com and redownload the gpx file.

Hi,
I read again this post, and this last answer makes me feel that we never see your real Suunto data
only strave and GPXsee representation, with some gpx export.

Do you have a QS account ? or any other account where you can view the “real” data from Suunto fit file ?

or eventually share a suunto app link of an activity of yours with the issue, and experts may have a look at them.

Agreed! We need to see the original data.