@Jaakers Same here ️

@GiPFELKiND man your reactions are like you really don’t like Suunto, yet you end up buying every Suunto watch. Why is that?

@Inge-Nallsson maybe I had to be more clear. All I want to make clear is that there are multiple preferences and so for only the ‘opposite as it is now’ had a voice. If Suunto does something about it, I just hope they add a configuration and not just reverse the current behavior.

@elbee indeed … I noticed that too . Still seems better than before .

@VoiGAS said in Race S - Customize battery mode: @Brad_Olwin You get 40h on Race S without maps in Performance Mode? 31h is my maximum with dual band. Or do you mean 40h if you switch to endurance and sacrifice the maps option then Correct, Endurance with no maps but you still get breadcrumb track climb guidance etc.

@Egika said in Race S (new) OHR sensor: Race S has 1 green emitting LED. No idea which second you found. yes, just one green, but 2 red …

@Egika thanks, yeah that threshold might be the reason. In fact that terrain is mostly flat with a small ascent in between. But it might be below that 3m.

@isazi up

@Brad_Olwin Thank you for your comment! Yes, I think this happens more when I wear gloves.

I had the same issue on my Race S… HR stop working few second after starting the activity (while green sensor was still active) Strange thing, I noticed that before the run the 24 HR had detection failure on the 12h monitoring and the HR was taking more time to display in the watch menu. I had to soft reset my watch to get back to normal behaviour. 1st time I saw this issue, was ok before the update.

@Egika Thank you, it wasn’t present in the app. Found it in the Webapp thanks to your help!

@nhojb said in Race S pool swim accuracy got really bad: I pool swim very regularly and up until the last update distance / length accuracy has been great. Since my watch updated to 2.39.44 a couple of days ago accuracy has got really, really bad. For example I did a 1040m swim yesterday and it measured 700m. Today I did 1240m and it registered even less distance. Previously it was pretty much bang on. Seems like a serious regression. Anyone else having similar issues? Yes. The update brought a lot of bad changes. It broke the distance measurement, swimming style reading and interval splitting.

this is such an interesting post to me as I am also an ex-garmin user (ancient FR 45), trying out the race s, and getting annoyed with a few things which are making me think to bite the bullet and get a FR 965, but this has given me pause!! A really big problem is an annoying function garmin recently added: forced audio tbt alerts. Either your connected phone or your headphones will give spoken tbt alerts and those cannot be turned off. Obviously a lot of users complained. Garmin is aware but couldn’t be bothered. a big pull for me with the garmin was that i could use spotify with it direct, leaving my phone behind. but that issue would make that useless, and to see that this has been around for 8+ months with no fix is wild. The charge cable on my suunto is better. But that is mainly because I don’t like the plug garmin uses. yeah this kind of ‘magsafe’ charger is much better. can’t believe garmin are still using plugs in 2025, for $500+ watches no less! Garmin has 2 buttons on the rightside, the top one for start and stop activities, the bottom for lap. Suunto also uses the bottom one for laps, but sometimes the digital crown is in the way. Stopping an activity on a suunto is a bit weird. It doesn’t work on the maps/breadcrumb screen. Also, you have to press the top button, then the bottom one, and lastly the digital crown to really end and save the activity. On a garmin, if you just want to end an activity it’s only 2 buttons clicks. strong agree. the maps thing is particularly annoying (and unnecessary). i feel like a running watch should allow you to always blindly stop and resume activities with one or two button presses. also the touch screen seems to not work in some contexts (eg stopping and ending a run). one thing i can’t seem to get nice on my suunto is the smartwatch notifications. on garmin i could turn the notifications on for ‘during activity’ (useful), but for suunto it’s either on or off for everywhere. so after a run i need to turn on DND or turn the watch off to avoid having it beeping and vibrating, when i have my phone covering that anyway. what was pulling me to the 965 was the on-watch map routing, and the ability to connect spotify and payments, but mostly it was because the basics of starting/stopping activities and how the buttons worked seemed logical and intuitive to me, whereas with suunto i feel like i’m finding all these weird quirks where things don’t work how i would expect them. BUT the 965 seems huge, expensive and ugly to me, whereas the suunto S is extremely cute and feels expensive, despite being about 40% cheaper. plus the garmin app has never made any sense to me. i think my worry is that (like Garmin), suunto don’t seem to have a great feedback loop of user feature requests/bug reports. you can find the same/similar issues with maps and notifications logged in the forums months or even years back. nothing is perfect, but i am going to keep trying with my race s to see if i can live with this stuff.