GPS normal?
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@djordje-s said in GPS normal?:
@miniforklift also,I would add a notification feature(beep+vibration) in a case of week/lost GPS.
Yes please, that would be great. Maybe even a little cluster of vibrations as it’s easy to miss the single ones when you’re running. If it was a small cluster of vibrations you’d also know exactly what it means without having to even look at your watch
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@miniforklift but then… What would you do with such information during the workout? That the signal is weak?
There is an alarm when the signal is lost. At last there was in 2019’s firmware.
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@łukasz-szmigiel said in GPS normal?:
@miniforklift but then… What would you do with such information during the workout? That the signal is weak?
Probably not much you can do, but good to know nonetheless
@łukasz-szmigiel said in GPS normal?:
@miniforklift There is an alarm when the signal is lost. At last there was in 2019’s firmware.
Yes, there could well be. I don’t know if I have ever completely lost GPS during an activity so it’s not something I’m familiar with
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@miniforklift speaking from an S5 user’s perspective: There is one “fantastic” notification that I have to deal with - typically when I need my watch the most - ie. when navigating rocky terrain uphils slowly. I don’t want another one of a kind: “hey, you know what, gps is weaker here, just sayin’”
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@miniforklift but then you are back to the same issue - people will wait for the glass to be fill and complain how long its taking.
much prefer @Lukasz Szmigiel’s idea - as it basically tells you are good to go, but if you hold on we will be even better. A bit like fused tracking in some ways - 1s less battery, 10s more battery. Its making it a choice.
Traffic light symbol does really signify choice, it more signifies we aren’t there yet…
And I know - the difference is small and really irrelevant, but to the general population - that is a major difference, and is the diference between people saying it takes 10s to get a fix and 30s to get a fix.
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@isazi after the hard reset it is even worse.
Today during a race even snap to route did no work.
Route started in the middle and the height profile did not work… so I had to rely on the marks during the race…
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@theguyfromthesummit did you sync with the app afterwards? It needs to download agps file + unpack it during first activity.
If nothing helps - contact support maybe? I have never experienced such bad GPS, even during fog + rain near a gorge. -
FWIW I had a marathon this morning, it was in a park that was completely unobstructed from anything and not a cloud in the sky. GPS was awful from the start, although I admit this is unusual as I’ve personally never had any issues with my S9B. Before the race I plugged my watch into my laptop and did a sync, optimised GPS etc
After the first few laps I honestly gave up looking at it; I was running a steady pace however the average pace on the watch was continuously fluctuating between 4.30 /km - 6.00/km. I basically ran the marathon by feel which was not ideal, and it ended up recording 42.65km on what was apparently a very strictly measured course
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@dmytro the activity got tracked
But during the race I had no height profile, my POI (aid station) were no working and the overall navigation was totally off…
But after saving the track, it looks normal…I opened the sports mode 10min before pressing start to get a perfect GPS signal etc…
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@miniforklift sounds exactly like my problem.
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@theguyfromthesummit ok, this I experienced too, but it he harshest conditions. Was actually happy to have a semi good track for post workout analysis.
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@miniforklift
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@sartoric said in GPS normal?:
@miniforklift
Out of curiosity, any pond near the track?Yes, I ran by a pond for a couple of hundred metres for each 2.5km loop. Intriguing, so what’s the relevance with the pond?
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@miniforklift Scattering of GPS signal on water surface.
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@dmytro said in GPS normal?:
@miniforklift Scattering of GPS signal on water surface.
Yes, but running by the pond would have only been for 200-300m of a 2.5km loop. It was pretty bad and generally all over the place for the whole loop as opposed to just that section
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@MiniForklift
Did you wait some minutes before starting the activity to let the watch have a good fix? -
@sartoric said in GPS normal?:
@MiniForklift
Did you wait some minutes before starting the activity to let the watch have a good fix?Race started 8am, I acquired a GPS fix about 10 minutes prior to that
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@dmytro said in GPS normal?:
@miniforklift Scattering of GPS signal on water surface.
Here’s a quick screenshot of one of the sections that is furthest away from the lake. FWIW I hugged the same line for each loop with, but you can see from the recording it’s fairly erratic
It even has me out in the middle of a busy road which I was nowhere near at any point during the race
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Just to update this thread.
I sent my watch to Suunto support (GPS, and the buttons got stuck) and they replaced - besides other things - the GPS unit.
Good news first: the watch finds a GPS signal much quicker now
Bad news: the GPS track still looks really nervous and looses signal as often as before.
So I have no clue what causes this problems.
I just have to figure out, if this affects my navigation with preset routes etc.
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@theguyfromthesummit I think I suggested this before: have you tried GPS only?
Could there be anything blocking the watch’s view to the sky? Is possibly the antenna obstructed in any way?
Can you try another watch maybe from a friend to check if the issue is an issue of your use case or your watch?
