@VoiGAS thanks for the heads up. For similar price tags the Vertical 1 seems severly outdated compared with the Apex 4, feature wise. Thinking about it… For me, AMOLED is not an option.

@Reino-von-Wielligh Suunto service repairs have been looking at this issue for 20 weeks, and there is no resolution yet. I handed in my watch on 03 July 2025 at Ultimo Service center in South Africa, who sent the watch to Finland. Does any user have the same problem with the Race S?

Nope, the issue is still there. I charged my Stryd last evening and today I had to repair it to use it. Another ‘dead’ entry showed up in the paired devices list.

@Ian-Beveridge Instead of replacing the Polar strap I decided to buy the CooSpo HZ9 rechargeable chest sensor combined with a new strap. Total cost including postage 22€. This strap gives 0.14 KOhm for both electrodes and for the month I’ve been using it there has been only one single glitch when the strap had worked itself a little bit loose. Otherwise it works really well for HRV data at high intensity workout levels. Unlike the previous CooSpo strap it wont allow me to swap the sensor for the Polar one so I’ve dumped the Polar and will be returning it to Polar for repair or replacement. I don’t think this CooSpo model can be used for swimming (not sure) - but I’m not interested in swimming for at least the time being.

thanks - I know an external HR belt is an option, but my race s is very accurate for all other sports. It just fails entirely for the indoor cycling app. Hoping someone has some suggestions for that.

Charged last Thursday to 100%. Had my usual one and a half hour club training Thursday eve. (My stryd was connected, my polar chest strap refused to connect) Had a 10k trail on friday of about 1 hour (used navigation, no connected devices) Had a 30k trail on saterday of about 3 hours(also with navigating, no connected devices) Gps setting is on the highest (because of some stupid design decisions of suunto you cannot turn down gps accuracy without loosing maps). I don’t use aod. Now on sunday, 3 days after charging, battery is down to 39%. It’s okayish. My previous watch (forerunner 965) did worse. Watch before that (forerunner 935) did way better, but had a mip screen, which is better for sport, and didn’t have maps, only breadcrumb navigation.

@valeR This sounds like two different things. What I saw on my watch was not a safe mode with limited functionality, it reported that it was restoring the watch to a safe state after encountering an error (1403, whatever that means, in my case). It had no functionality other than the progress bar showing the restore progress. No time, etc.

@Steven-Hambleton I bought Barton spring bars that somebody else recommended for Race S. They are a bit thicker and fit perfectly - not loose at all. Also, I compared them to spring bars that came with Suunto nylon band.

@pilleus hi there. Thanks for this. How far back should I go? Or do you know which firmware version I should jump to for the suunto race S. Much appreciated

@ChrisA it is Runalyze… yeah, possibly it’s a me problem

@laufbursche7 I think you should wait - official 26.1 probably will be released tomorrow. I couldn’t stand iP 17 BT issues and installed Beta 4 (not RC) and everything is perfect now. Just as I suspected, battery drain in watch and phone is over - unstable connection was draining watch and phone 24/7. Hope they don’t break something new in the stable release.

I’ve had similar chronic issues with the heart rate on my Race S. Not registering an accurate heart rate until a mile or two into a ride or run, dropping heart rate during an activity, reading overly high during a ride or run. On some activities like cross training, I’ll never get a reasonable heart rate reading. I tried posting a review on Suunto’s website describing this and other issues I’ve had with the Race S and Suunto refused to publish the review saying my feedback “is not a common issue.” I contacted customer support hoping for some resolution since they apparently regard my experience as abnormal. Instead of a resolution, I got a bunch of excuses as to why I can’t really expect the watch to perform any better. All in all, my experience with this watch has been a disaster. I’ll never buy another Suunto product. Going back to Garmin.

@Sixeela29 en tout cas ce n’est pas Suunto qui bloque puisque les segments strava sont une fonctionnalité strava. Je n’utilise pas strava. les infos pour mettre en œuvre sont dans le manuel.

@sartoric actually if I check the activity on the watch, I see HR for the whole run. [image: 1761392386169-img_4023.jpeg]

@Stefano-M64 bummer, doesn’t seem like it’s widespread enough to get attention or maybe people don’t realize it.

This is insane. I remember 9PP had an issue measuring HR when off the wrist, then it was fixed in 2024. And now they are back to square 1. Most likely they could’t reuse any of the OHR sensor code from 9PP due to different hardware and are writing it from scratch making the same mistakes. ‍️