@Egika - have the same issue with paddleboarding, and have been advised that a fix will be coming. I don’t know about you, but I generally don’t spend all my time looking at my watch, I only tend to look at it occasionally to check heart rate, pace etc, thus I don’t find it a major issue to turn it on and off as it is very easy and quick to turn off the screen - pull down settings bar and press screen off. And just as quick and easy to see tracking - just press suunto button. Do that all the time when paddleboarding, Considering the ambient tracking screen doesn’t show much if any detail anyway, you need to wake the screen, and I suspect that whatever solution they come up will probably be manual -like maybe a long press of the suunto button to turn off screen, short to wake up (as I can’t see how they will find a tilt function that paddling will not activate - maybe hold wrist flat and deadstill, or hold up to waist hight facing face) the current solution isnt that onerous. Would be good to see a long press option on all the buttons, just like the menu/assistant button and have the ability to customise the other long presses with apps/settings.

No worries, every day we learn something that could be useful in the future BR

@regger also, leave it for a night in lukewarm water, helps with keeping the sensor clean.

Try to place the watch well over the wrist. Suunto’s HR readings seem to be very affected by that. I come from a Spartan WHRBaro and we’ve never been friends in relation to optical HR measurement. I remember once that I forgot the chest HR strap and has to rely on optical when I was just doing easy warm up at -supposedly- 192bpm… Now I have a Polar Vantage V and it reads HR properly with the watch where a watch should be places, not that over the wrist. 24hr HR reading is spot on. There must be some reason why I have such different experience with these two well-respected brands. The Vantage is smaller and lighter than the Suunto. So I guess that could be a key factor? Who knows… Give the different placement a shoot and see if that helps!

Check BeiDou now

@Cookiemonster It only happened once to me (well, except kayaking, that’s a different topic though) wearing the watch inside the jacket during a very strong storm, with very strong winds. I guess you didn’t wear long sleeves in Singapore right? I never did Maybe your arms were bent enough to create some kind of vacuum around the baro sensor?

@General_Witt I’m not a jewelry expert, but I think these quick change system requires an elongated hole to operate the quick change bar, too… not 100% sure if every other 24mm strap is equipped with that by default…

@pauladhirst Atm this is not possible and update existing route is bugged there is an existing topic about this

I found on aap thanks for everything …

S9 will likely get another substantial FW update soon. Just go and get one, waiting for a successor will keep you always waiting and never getting anything…

@AndyD2574 Clunky may be a personal opinion, the UIs are quite different for Garmin vs Suunto, funny I bought and returned a 5x because it was difficult to navigate the UI and seemed “clunky”:). During navigation there is a red arrow that points north, that is the best you will get for now. If you charge the watch, the charger is a strong magnet and will require a re-calibration of the compass. In fact, I have found the magnets on hydration tubes to hold them in place a PIA as every time the watch goes near one I have to recalibrate. The other questions have been answered I think. The Suunto is rock solid with its features, mine does not crash and works effectively, whether I use Navigation or Intervals. The S9b does not have the features that a fenix 6x Pro will have so you need to decide which features are essential. However, Suunto is constantly updating the watch and likely will continue updating until a replacement comes out. Typically the updates contain new features and occur quarterly. The firmware updates undergo extensive field testing by real users…I am one of them, and typically the updates have few bugs. Try the Navigation features, they are well integrated with the app, it is simple to find and upload a route or to draw one. I draw most of my routes on my iPhone, it is painless and quick. Long, complicates routes I do on Gaia on my iPad and drop them into a folder where I can easily import into SA. This is one area where Suunto is well above anyone else imo.

@Brad_Olwin thanks this is helpful. its a bit hard to find some of the more elevation oriented information on a variety of devices online…not very many of the user guides or forums or reviews really address it specifically enough, though this one is probably by far the best and most thorough place!

@margusl Thank you for the satisfying answer.

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos I sometimes find HR interesting but spot on regarding steps. Would also disable sleep monitoring as I don’t use it

@Lars-Ulrich-Herrmann Okay, I’ve read the thread about fitnesslevels

When I go to SuuntoLink, It prompts me to restart. I click it, it does upload files and the green ring stops just after half![image: 1595963896148-img_2360-resized.jpg]

Yes, version 3.0.56…