Suunto 9 Peak GPS problems

zhang965

@mrg-morozova said in Suunto 9 Peak GPS problems:

Tieutieu

Already restarted the watch
But that didn’t help

You need to hard reset the watch to test it.

Swaddy61

Just note that a hard reset will delete everything - your history, set-ups, data, the lot! Still… could be cheaper than getting a new watch!

Elipsus

@Swaddy61 said in Suunto 9 Peak GPS problems:

Just note that a hard reset will delete everything - your history, set-ups, data, the lot! Still… could be cheaper than getting a new watch!

Humm, I may be wrong, but hard resetting the watch won’t impact the Suunto App, so, you will only loose the info stored on the watch, like the journal, stored map and such, but nothing more, and nothing really impactful IMO

Swaddy61

@Elipsus Correct - I wasn’t so clear. A hard reset will mean you will have to set the watch up again, but as I was trying to say (badly…) - 30 mins fiddling about is a lot cheaper than a new watch!

mrg-morozova

@zhang965

Thanks very much.
A hard reset did work. Today’s training went without any troubles. Hope, that will work further!

prssn

@Brad_Olwin
What does ‘syncing a new AGPS file’ mean? How can I do that?

My watch takes very long to find a GPS signal, typically 2-4, even 5 minutes. Occasionally, but annoyingly rarely, it locks onto the GPS signal in less than 30 seconds. This is in quite an open street, not surrounded by tall buildings, at a T-shaped crossroads, so it shouldn’t be a problem, and indeed it is not for mobile phones. I was thinking the watch may be faulty, but is there something I could do? Many thanks.

Tieutieu

@prssn just sync your watch with the app regularly (at least 10min before any activity). This file contains satellites position informations. It helps your watch to get signal quicker

cosme.costa

@prssn As @Tieutieu just recommend you should sync your watch with the app often or have the phone and the watch in range to do it automatically, depending on your phone you should check that it doesn’t kill the Suunto app on the background and let it running always).

Differing on what @Tieutieu says I would sync 30 minutes before instead 10, depending on the watch it needs 10/15 minutes to deploy the AGPS file and if you try to lock the GPS without AGPS it can take 2 to 5 minutes that you comment.

This AGPS file is a daily file but you can have good GPS locks with it being 2 to 3 days old.

prssn

@cosme-costa @Tieutieu Thank you very much to both of you – this is very helpful. I’ll see how this works the next time aroundl.

Mauerwegler

@cosme-costa said in Suunto 9 Peak GPS problems:

This AGPS file is a daily file but you can have good GPS locks with it being 2 to 3 days old.

This is the important bit: you don’t have to sync watch and app every day and before every training – every third day (or every evening when you want to look at your metrics like CTL etc.) is sufficient.