Navigation orientation issue

Vrba007

@isazi No, the watch didn’t vibrate, or showed any message

Prenj

I thought about all this possible reasons but I don’t think they are to blame… I had no magnets anywhere with me, no powerlines (total wilderness, high in the mountains), mobile phone in the right jacket pocket, watch on the left. And, as I said, this did not used to happen before to me. And I have not started using any new equipment in meantime.

Anyway, I think the watch should either calibrate the compass itself when it detects such a difference between the GPS data and magnetic compass, or notify a user that the calibration is needed. Also, I don’t understand why there is no way to initiate calibration manually by user during the activity, without stopping it. That would make sense, no?

isazi

@Prenj the ability to start manual calibration during activity is present from the S9PP, unfortunately not in the previous models.

Prenj

@isazi said in Navigation orientation issue:

@Prenj the ability to start manual calibration during activity is present from the S9PP, unfortunately not in the previous models.

Could a feature suggestion in this forum for this be considered at all? Or do you think there is no chance Suunto would port this feature to s9b?

inkognito

Cool, here we go again Necessity for manualy triggered compass calibration during excercise has been discussed many times already…

In this thread: from this post bellow https://forum.suunto.com/post/112036

And in this thread: https://forum.suunto.com/topic/7692/compass-loses-calibration-after-charging?_=1673957569729

It indeed is cool that it was solved for S9PP… But I do really dislike this attitude… Now, if I buy S9PP and find some similar troubles, will I need to wait for S9PPP for solution?

isazi

@Prenj as pointed out by @inkognito this has been requested already, and I reported it to Suunto (together with other people) and some action has been taken in the new UI, but I do not know if this or other features will ever make it to the older models.

Prenj

@inkognito @isazi

Thanks for the links to the threads discussing this before.

Now that I read the other people have had similar experience, that probably means this is not so rare. Might this be considered a bug and not only feature request? The watch seems to sometimes ignore the difference between the data from GPS and magnetic compass. There seems to be a software feature that asks user to recalibrate the compass if it detects it’s wrong, but for some reason, sometimes it doesn’t engage at all. That seems like a bug.

If you reported it as a bug already than just ignore this

surfboomerang

Is the watch using the compass in the first picture?
If I recall correctly, the watch shows a dot instead of an arrow when the compass is used. As soon as you move, it changes to an arrow again.

inkognito

@surfboomerang Yes, it is. Watch with compass shows dot only when you stop (or move too slow) while the watch knows that the compass is not calibrated, e.g. when you dismiss the calibration prompt with middle button. It shows an arrow when it uses compass and thinks that the compass is calibrated.

David Young

@Vrba007 Here’s the test I use to see if the compass is calibrated when I don’t know where North is.

Hold the watch level and let the red North pointer settle. Note the pointer’s direction and ideally line it up on a terrain feature.

Now rotate the watch in your hands and see what the pointer does.

If the pointer returns quickly to its original direction then that direction should be North and the compass should be calibrated.
If the pointer wanders around the edge of the screen before stopping at some arbitrary point then I assume it’s not calibrated.

Of course, you need to recalibrate every time you charge your watch, as the charging cable connects magnetically.