Software update 2.16.26 June 10th 2021

Egika

@inkognito said in Software update 2.16.26 June 10th 2021:

@egika Raise to wake seems to work only for the standby backlight. Give it a try. This makes sense, turning the brightness to 100% everytime would probably drain the battery more.

It seems like there is no option to turn the backlight off completely, now it is activated upon every button press. The toggle functionality seems to have transformed into the possiblity to turn on/off the constant backlight from the shortcuts menus accesible from the normal watchface or during excercise by holding the middle button.

For me it makes no sense (and the manual is also suggesting differently).
I set the backlight to low and no standby light. Then I would expect raise to wake to switch on the backlight in low intensity.
Can’t see the need for standby to be coupled to it.
Plus the two finger tap made it easy to briefly switch the light on at night, when a message came in.
Going through a long button press and the shortcut twice to enable and then disable it is a big step backwards in my eyes…

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

The standby light is not required

Egika

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos said in Software update 2.16.26 June 10th 2021:

The standby light is not required

Ok, now I got it.
The standby light switch needs to be on for Raise to wake to work.
Standby will actually be off and only come on when raising the watch.
I understand this implementation now

Still missing the two finger toggle tap…

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@egika try the shortcut from the watchface long press.

Egika

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos said in Software update 2.16.26 June 10th 2021:

@egika try the shortcut from the watchface long press.

I’ve seen it.
Still it is two long buttons plus selection of the menu item.

I often used the two finger tap if I received a message and am in the dark.
As long as the message was displayed I could toggle the backlight on and off. Super easy and quick. The light would stay off otherwise.
In darkness it is difficult to get the shortcut right as long as the light is not on yet…

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@egika yeah I get it.

Prenj

Is baro trend arrow gone in outdoor watchface or does it just need some time to catch up?

halajos

@prenj as the firmware update clears all data, it needs some time to collect some for trend analysis

surfboomerang

@prenj Normally it takes a couple of hours

inkognito

@egika But, the light will now turn on with every button press and it will even turn on automatically on every notification (messages etc.) unless you have DND on. So, you don’t need to get that shortcut without backlight.

I really loved the toggle mode on my Spartan Trainer with a dedicated button press for backlight. But on Suunto 9 it wasn’t very practical for me. To check the time at night, one had to wake the touchscreen by a button press and then tap the screen with two fingers (which usually failed for me like three times before I managed to turn the light on). So I switched to automatic backlight (turns on with every button press), but from time to time I was missing the ability to turn the continuous backlight on easily. Now I have both

Tomas5

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos with suunto 5, Will I still be able to toggle backlight with long press of upper left button or this functionality is removed ?

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@tomas5 to be honest I don’t know but I would expect that it ain’t removed. I’ll check with evening with my s5

Egika

@inkognito thank you, I got it.
Think I will have to live with this, as it was necessary to streamline SW to the Peak model which has advanced backlight features.

Anyway, those new possibilities are not so much for me. I like no backlight at all most of the time (partly to save battery, partly not to disturb others).
I like no light with every buton press, nor with every notification. Just with notifications and the toggle tap.

Let’s finish this as it can’t really be resolved, and check out some other new features

DMytro

Great update, thanks suunto! That’s a lot of features btw.
Does the altitude also gets “corrected” using snap to route?
This would make my non-baro hill repeats so much better XD

isazi

@дима-мельниченко nope. I agree it would make sense, and I asked for this.

DMytro

@isazi oh, I see. Well, maybe next time!

DMytro

I didn’t find it in the manual: what does this colourful circle in the new watchface mean?

A Former User

For using snap to route do not abuse it. No loops (ie track and field) and no reverse routes.

OK, so if I have 4-5 mile trail loop I intend to run 2-3 times, will snap to route work in this case? Or a 1.25-mile loop in the park that I intend to run, say, 8 times?

ChrisA

@дима-мельниченко as far as I understand it, it shows your Resources (green) steps (blue) and calories (orange) …

DMytro

@chrisa ah, ok, that makes sense. Thanks!