Suunto Race S bug collection
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Since there is no post dedicated to posting Race S bugs, I am starting one. Here are we go!
- When using a graphical HR field in a custom sport mode, it shows some arbitrary flat HR in a beginning of a run. Just to be clear, the actual activity HR starts in the middle of the graph - the graph horizontal scale seems to represent the last ~40 min, but the activity has lasted for only 22 minutes in this case.
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If I use Spint SuuntoPlus app, when on the app screen, I can pause the activity by pressing the upper button, but it doesn’t stop the activity by pressing the lower button next to “stop” icon. Instead it creates a lap - that is while the activity is already paused.
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When I bring up the Timer (via the shortcut), if I press the lower button, instead of going to the timer options (e.g. Stopwatch, 1 min, 3 min, etc), it goes back to the watch face. The only way to go to the timer options is via the touch or the wheel. Also, if I use a custom timer time, it isn’t remembered anywhere so the next time I can’t recall the option. Ideally, a custom time should be added to a short list of presets and presets should be ordered by the last used order. When I make tea, I commonly use 3, 4, or 5 minute timers depending on the tea. There is no way to make the watch remember 4 minutes, and switching between these options is kind of a pain.
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@sky-runner thank you!
Will have to check #1
Reported #2
And #3 I think is by design. Bottom button in Race is for going back. You get the same if you open the timer through the widget.
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@Egika said in Suunto Race S bug collection:
Bottom button in Race is for going back
That seems inconsistent to me - I still make mistakes with that. Sometimes the bottom button goes back, sometimes it does something else, and sometimes long press on the spin button should be used to go back.
Anyway, may I suggest to not pre-populate the timer with specific times - that makes it difficult to go to the custom time at the end of the list. Instead it should remember the last few used times in a short list. I think that would be more usable.
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@sky-runner I agree 100% with your suggested changes to the timer!
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One bug I encountered is that my OHR stopped working after I was charging my watch to download maps.
Didn’t realise until next day when i had no resources, sleep or HR data. I had to reboot the watch which fixed the issue.
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Another OHR-related bug from me. I had already reported it trough the feedback system in the but now I have more information and it seems @Egika can actually report bugs where they are read by developers.
I have 24/7 HR tracking enabled. Sometimes, the watch is in a state where it reads/shows the heart rate just fine EXCEPT if I want to start an activity. It will then stop showing HR on the start screen after a few seconds and also stop recording HR soon after starting the activity if done quickly.
Last time the watch was in this state, I noticed a possibly related problem: “Do not disturb” also did not work any more. It did not dim the screen and also did not prevent the time from being shown without a button press when “Raised to wake”.
It was resolved by a power off/on cycle. I presume a soft reset would have had the same effect.
(Personally, I use a chest strap for most sports activities so my training is not usually affected by this bug BUT I do not want to wear a strap during orienteering competitions and was quite upset when OHR did not work at the start.
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@Jan_B I’m having the same problem. It takes a minute or two to shut down the watch and restart it but this is inconvenient. Hopefully this will be reported as a bug and fixed in a firmware update.
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Here another bug I encountered:
Upon finishing a treadmill run, I was unable to end (save) an activity - it simply did not respond. I think what happened is that I started to walk after pausing the activity but before saving. It popped up an alert that said something like “motion detected”. And then, even though my intention was to end and save my run I was unable to do so. Eventually I restarted the activity, and then I was able to stop and save it again.
Also, with regards to the HR graph bug I mentioned above, that happens every single time in my custom trail run activity. But there isn’t such issue in a built-in strength training activity that also has a HR graph data screen.
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The bug with the HR graph is still present in the latest firmware. Interestingly enough, the first first time when I used the watch after the update, it worked correctly, but then the bug resumed.
Furthermore, there is another bug that I’ve noticed. When a next turn notification pops up when I am right at the previous turn, if I dismiss that notification manually, it pops up again right away. Yesterday, I ended up dismissing the same turn notification 4 times in a row until I moved enough for it to stop popping up. That is a minor issue, but an issue nevertheless.
Furthermore, there is one more annoying issue:
If go on the same path more then once, then the light blue direction arrows end up being rendered behind the red breadcrumbs track, which makes it very difficult to see. In this particular case the path that I needed to take was obvious, but I experienced other cases when I come from one path on the way out and need to take another path on the way back. In the latter case it becomes difficult to distinguish between the dark blue route and the light blue direction array when they both are rendered behind the red breadcrumbs track.It would be better to change the Z-order so that the light blue arrows are always on top of everything. In other words the order should be the following: the dark blue route on the back, the red track is above the route, and the the light blue arrows are on top of everything.
Finally there is one more issue, that is perhaps not a bug, but something that I initially thought was a bug. I was wearing a long sleeve jacket that covered the watch. On 3 different occasions when I looked at the map, it appeared off-center and not oriented correctly, which made me wonder what was going on. Finally I realized that perhaps the wet sleeve was touching the watch and made it pan the map. What would be the best way to avoid it. Should I change the touch mode so that it only wakes up the display and not the watch? In that case, how can I pan the map? Should I press some button first?
