@jamie-bg I agree, there’s no one size fits all. As I said already, I owned all Garmin Fenix watches (excluding the original one), 6 included. I owned more Garmin devices, and used them for more years, than Suunto ones 🙂

@eurohiker
you can test this even in a dead flat area. If I recall correctly @Aleksander-H had to test this in the flatlands, too. And our unenviable friends @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos and @isazi don’t have mountains nearby eithere… 😕

Here’s a bad example of one of my workouts. It was at one single spot. No running, no jumping, just TRX, lunges, dips etc… but I know for sure that during workouts my arm is blocking off the baro holes. I wear my watch pretty loose. Same wearing style as when I go ski touring and mountain biking. I’m glad it happens during workouts only, because I do filter workouts in my QS summary.
…ascent on this single spot: 222m!
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Thanks @brad_olwin 🙂

@steff maybe try what Brad has suggested and convert to hiking afterwards, just as a comparison.

Also, I’ve had a thought regarding GPS fix. If possible, do the same route you have done before, on both good and best GPS modes and screenshot the difference. Before and after each activity, maybe use an app on your phone to check how many GPS satellites are visible from that spot.
Also compare this to doing the method Brad suggests.

I understand this is asking you to do a lot of work, but I feel it could help to rule out some potential issues.

What do you think?

@Egika said in Suunto 7 - Tips and tricks, apps and watch faces:

@pilleus yeah, but this is only possible with an Android phone. I have iPhones, so that stand-alone myradar would have been nice… 😔

I have an iPhone and MyRadar works perfectly

@alberto-cabrera-cuevas said in Update time in Europe?:

Thanks to both of you so I will wait a few more days!

Hey Alberto,

did you try to press many times (20 seconds) on the screen “system updated”? that should force the download.

you can see that screen on system -> Info -> System updates

@aleksander-h yes - if you look at you watch post the auto lap notification you will notice that the Active Hr zones are slightly thicker than usual - which of course means the main coprocessor is active.

Nice feature, should be added to Suunto wear app too… 👍

https://www.xda-developers.com/google-fit-wear-os-automatically-detect-workout-finished/

@jamie-bg said in S7 roadmap: what are Suunto plans here?:

@nigel-taylor-0 - to get back from ambient screen you would need to press button, as you only have power save tilt on, so will only show you ambient screen when you tilt your wrist

I know I need to press a button to get from the ambient low-power screen to ‘fully active’ - that works fine and is just how I want it. I’m only using a Suunto face, so thats fine…and the tilt in NORMAL circumstances is so good that its fine for me to have a blank screen, which shows time only when I move arm to look at it. I find the display too bright and distracting at night time to leave AOD on.

What I’m saying is, in the night (or also seemingly under sleeves) - the tilt gesture itself often doesn’t work so I just have a BLANK screen no matter how much tilting I do.

Its almost like there’s a proximity sensor which decides that if the watch is covered then power tilt to get to the ambient ‘time only’ display shouldn’t happen.

I love the sleep tracking, it’s spot on to my sleeping. Even when I say I’m awake and fall back to sleep it just knows. Awesome functionality.

Since the sleep seems pretty accurate for me, can we get sleep cycle based wake up smart alarms? That would be awesome.

Got a response regarding reboots, let’s have discussion in one topic https://forum.suunto.com/post/66719

@hqvkamil You need to have the lastest firmware installed. You can longpress (2s) the watch face 📖 to change to the watch face selection mode on your S7, also you can change from the WearOS app.

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H RM2 arrived today on my Skagen Falster 3 and the limit of 5 tiles disappeared. Why does it exist on the S7? 🤔

@sky-runner said in Silence of Mind...:

@nigel-taylor-0 said in Silence of Mind...:

THREE notifications for every turn!

I agree. I get incredibly annoyed by notifications too. They distract me. I much more prefer to have a permanently visible next turn arrow at the bottom of navigation screen. Then I can just glance at it from time to time and be aware of when my next turn is. That is possible with a Garmin watch where it displays next turn at the bottom of map and all notifications can be individually configured.

Oh, I prefer notifications - but just one per notification please!

Although - I do like the idea of a stat that is “distance to next RoutePoint” that I could choose to put as a data item on a screen.

I just did a short workout on the crosstrainer without starting an activity in the Suunto Wear app.

The 20 minutes were recognised as “walk” in Google Fit on the smartphone and the title and activity type can be edited.

And distance and steps are equal to the earlier workouts recorded with the Suunto 7 or Spartan Ultra.

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@trinitao the question about the overlay can be answered by Suunto only.

I used the S7 for a few weeks without any Suunto apps and services (all disabled via ADB). I just used Ghostracer to record my rides.

In this time I recognised that the sync with Google Fit and the shown data are correct and nothing is missing.

From a Mobvoi Ticwatch Pro 2020 I knew that there was an overlay too which can be disabled to speed up the watch.

So I let the salmon.overlay disabled after reenabling all Suunto stuff.

No problems and nothing is missing in the S7 functions up to the moment.

@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.

@jamie-bg Okey, I nevermind used the DND in quick settings. The slider does the job alright and without any settings issue like you describe.

@Bulkan - thanks will try it and see if things improve.

@EbertsR
You can have a nice bedtime reading today 😁

https://forum.suunto.com/topic/3722/suunto-7

What I really hate is autolap in running mode after each km. When I look at the watch during the running usually there is summary of previous km. I have to wait about 5 sec to see real data. Realy annoying

@giulio i just got THE update