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    • SlaShS Offline
      SlaSh Platinum Member @Svetlin Tonchev
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      @Svetlin-Tonchev please do any activity which requires GPS, this should calibrate accelerometer.

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      • Svetlin TonchevS Offline
        Svetlin Tonchev @Tim4c
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        @Tim4c i bought it on 2nd and did FW upgrade, is there any newer?

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        • Dimitrios KanellopoulosD Offline
          Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager
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          The last is 2.4.14 or at least 2.4 something. Good morning typing on the road.

          The last fw adds the first step of a context engine that understands what you are doing eg biking or driving or washing dishes or having the watch in a backpack.

          Its the first step to this engine and I am interested in your results.

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            PC_et
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            S3F seems to be targeted by Suunto not as a hardcore sportsman watch, but as the “all-arounder”. And I find it exactly like that. So it seems to be perfect for someone like me - not really into sports (not running nor swimming nor cycling intensively), just the amount to keep me fit. For that there are some useful training features (which I find useful) but also “all-arounder” features: resources, pulse, steps and sleep monitoring. They are supported by watch and Sunnto app with different level.

            Resources –16 hours support on watch (which is fine), but none in application. There must be full history in application, so we can track it and draw conclusions. I hope Suunto works on that (it’s your innovation metric anyway). I know – only S3F has license for that feature – but app knows the connected watch, so it can display resources charts only when serving S3F.

            Pulse – 12 hours support on watch (which is fine), but none in application. There is such a nice chart in watch and not a trace in app. Again, there must be full history in application, so we can track it and draw conclusions. As I understand, there are rumors that it’s coming 🙂

            Steps – I’m not satisfied with support on watch – I mean, it works fine during walk/run exercise, but it seems to count too many movements that are not steps during a whole day. In the application we can only find total amount of steps, but I wish I could look into detailed distribution during the day (like every 15 minutes or so). Update: after upgrading to FW 2.4.14 it seems that the amount of steps decreased significantly and is closer to real number but I need more time to confirm (upgraded yesterday)

            Sleep monitoring – I can see some problems on watch: sometimes it does not register wake-up for toilet visit. On the other hand sometimes if I stand up for a while and go back to sleep it probably notices it, but instead of going back to counting sleep, it marks it as ended/final wake up. In the application we can only find total amount of sleep , but I wish I could look into detailed distribution during the night (when deep sleep, when light sleep, when awake during night).

            Thank for keeping up a good work in communication on that forum.

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            • Dimitrios KanellopoulosD Offline
              Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager
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              @solid_dd I don’t know about that since S9 is not focused on people who want step accuracy in a way that it affects their fitness.

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              • Brad_OlwinB Offline
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                @solid_dd said in Suunto 3 Fitness Thoughts:

                @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Suunto 3 Fitness Thoughts:

                The last is 2.4.14 or at least 2.4 something. Good morning typing on the road.

                The last fw adds the first step of a context engine that understands what you are doing eg biking or driving or washing dishes or having the watch in a backpack.

                Its the first step to this engine and I am interested in your results.

                does the engine come to S9 as well?

                I can agree with @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos , I wish the S9 did not count steps…screens and resources I don’t use or need, Except when I have one run with ~200,000 steps…that was a kind of fun statistic!

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                • Luís PintoL Offline
                  Luís Pinto Platinum Member @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
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                  @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos so option on/off is easy to put. Who wants use it, who don’t just put off. Simple. No discussion. All happy!

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                  • Dušan KovićD Offline
                    Dušan Ković @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
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                    @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos but why not put a SF3 features on S9 also? They could be useful sometimes 🙂 they cannot hurt anyways 🙂

                    My wife has SF3 it has Fitness level, resources, sleep quality. It would be cool to see that stuff on S9.

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                    • Luís PintoL Offline
                      Luís Pinto Platinum Member @Dušan Ković
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                      @Dušan-Ković So if you think so, go away friend. Ask for that in Suunto support. Don’t give up. Suunto prefers commercial product segmentation. It’s fair. But don’t give up. We just want to put Suunto products near of God! 🙂

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                        PC_et @PC_et
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                        @PC_et said in Suunto 3 Fitness Thoughts:

                        Update: after upgrading to FW 2.4.14 it seems that the amount of steps decreased significantly and is closer to real number but I need more time to confirm (upgraded yesterday)

                        So after one day of observation: I woke up with 35 steps, which I’m pretty sure didn’t take during night 🙂 But still there is a progress, because before upgrade there were like 150-200 steps… In terms of overall day count - there is like even 40% less steps. Which in my opinion is good, closer to real amount. So the context engine seems to do the job 👍

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                          Frédéric Fiandino @Dušan Ković
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                          @Dušan-Ković said in Suunto 3 Fitness Thoughts:

                          ut why not put a SF3 features on S9 also? They could be useful sometimes they cannot hurt anyways

                          Market Segmentation Probably

                          Race
                          S9P with a firmware too
                          SSSWHR with a firmware inside
                          Ambit 3 Run

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                          • nikolavpN Offline
                            nikolavp
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                            The latest update is in my opinion a huge step in the right direction. I also saw that the watch now shows the calories for the day on the steps view (I haven’t noticed that one in the past or at least haven’t click the alternative information button in that view).

                            I tested it a little bit last night and the step count is far more accurate now. Now if only there was historical heart rate data (ya I know it’s coming), I will have have no big complains and will recommend it to friends.

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                            • SlaShS Offline
                              SlaSh Platinum Member @PC_et
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                              @PC_et 35 steps while sleeping is more than acceptable, huge improvement. My suuntp baro records 400~ steps during the night and I am not lunatic 🙂

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                              • Svetlin TonchevS Offline
                                Svetlin Tonchev
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                                I’m with the latest FW version I woke up with 500-600 steps 3th day in a row 🙂 Also apparently I’m sleeping about 5 hours a day on average so I guess I’m sleep walking the other 3 hours, and this is where the steps come from…

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                                • Dimitrios KanellopoulosD Offline
                                  Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager @Svetlin Tonchev
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                                  @Svetlin-Tonchev said in Suunto 3 Fitness Thoughts:

                                  I’m with the latest FW version I woke up with 500-600 steps 3th day in a row 🙂 Also apparently I’m sleeping about 5 hours a day on average so I guess I’m sleep walking the other 3 hours, and this is where the steps come from…

                                  hahaha!

                                  Ok I would suggest a watch reset but you might not want todo that.
                                  Perhaps too much tossing arround? Are the sleep times ok?

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                                  • Svetlin TonchevS Offline
                                    Svetlin Tonchev @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
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                                    @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Suunto 3 Fitness Thoughts:

                                    tossing arround

                                    Im tossing arround a lot. this is why I would expect not to count steps during the night (i set up my sleep hours). I already reset the watch, will see if the results differ.

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                                    • Armin S.A Offline
                                      Armin S. @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
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                                      @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Suunto 3 Fitness Thoughts:

                                      @Svetlin-Tonchev said in Suunto 3 Fitness Thoughts:
                                      … Are the sleep times ok?

                                      For me the start of sleep time often is one to two hours late.

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                                        PC_et
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                                        I had opposite situation couple of times - for example 3 hours less. But found the coincidence - it happened only if i stood up for a while (during the night) and than got back to sleep. Probably watch recorded it as wake up time.

                                        Other issue: I was at the swimming pool (25 meters) 3 times lately and decided to use swimming option (perfect for someone like me: "how many pools have I already done…?) . Every time first pool was counted as 50 meteres. So I ended up with 25 meters too much.

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                                        • SlaShS Offline
                                          SlaSh Platinum Member @Armin S.
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                                          @Armin-S how do you know exactly when you went to sleep? Laying on the bed is not sleep 🙂

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                                          • Armin S.A Offline
                                            Armin S. @SlaSh
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                                            @SlaSh That’s exactly the problem! If I read in bed for half an hour, the S3F can not cope.

                                            Let’s insert the function/button “start sleeping” (and then gives extra eg 15…30 minutes). The automatic does not work unfortunately.

                                            BTW: The automatic recognition of a workout was indeed already discussed here in another thread and considered not useful. That’s exactly how it is with the start of sleeping.

                                            Sorry for the duplicate entry, but I slept very little - according to my S3F 😵

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