A truly unfortunate purchase
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@msa2025 Regarding the alt/baro functionality you mention you set it to 0 but I assume you weren’t laying on your back in the ocean at the time so why did you set it to 0? The Alt/baro function tells you your absolute height above sea level so if it’s jumping back to ~40m then maybe this is because you are ~40m above sea level?
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@msa2025 in my experience the barometer on my Suunto is incredible accurate. The best I have ever used including older hand held barometer back in the day, several watches and GPS units. And I do use it in the mountains for navigation.
Good luck with your search for a replacement. I really value my Suunto but would be careful of the user case before recommending it.
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@Audaxjoe The barometer is very accurate. The derived altitude isn’t when the watch isn’t properly calibrated.
My experience is that a substantial drift can happen in watch mode, but in an activity the auto-calibration results in spot on values.@far-blue said in A truly unfortunate purchase:
you set it to 0 but I assume you weren’t laying on your back in the ocean at the time so why did you set it to 0?
It depends where @msa2025 lives. Here in The Netherlands we have huge areas that are well below sea level.
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@far-blue
No, I’m in Treviso, the part of Italy near we produce the famous but not so good Prosecco! wikipedia says 15 mt up sea level. (same wikipedia syas 9 meters for Venice… not so reliable?) -
@Audaxjoe The problem is that when i reset it, and it takes the altitude with gps, then it should keep it. The altitude. Then, of course, the barometer must change based on the weather conditions.
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@surfboomerang This can be the reason… in watch mode it is not updated/adjusted with GPS data.
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@msa2025 I live at 30 metres above sea level, so quite similar. I seldom adjust the readings. Occasionally it has a rogue reading. 95% of the time it doesn’t shift, even with pressure drops/gains. It is sometimes a few meters out, like just now it reads 38 meters. But I think that is totally acceptable.
My Garmin would float me up to 8000 meters when watching TV… Older model, Fenix 5 so no doubt greatly improved with newer Garmin watches.
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@Audaxjoe said in A truly unfortunate purchase:
no doubt greatly improved with newer Garmin watches.
Garmin usually adjusts altitude during sleep. The pitfall is that Germin adjusts it to street level, although you might sleep in a skyscraper. Ususally my Garmin is set to about 115m in the morning for me. My Race S tells a more realistic 128m, as I live in the 5th floor.
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People learn how barometric altimeters work and are upset that the measurements change with time and motion. Edition 2137.
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@Łukasz-Szmigiel Suunto used to have an option: altimeter/barometer mode.
Now there’s some kind of crude automation - living in a relatively flat place, with normal movement, pressure changes are often interpreted as altitude changes.
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@BrunoH you typed “awesome battery life”… and up until a year ago it was true… I charged the watch every 10-14 days with all the sensors active. But since October it doesn’t last more than 4-5 days for me (even without recording activity). Haven’t you experienced any problems with battery life after the latest updates?
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@t-Dox I was giving a general reason why MIPS displays are still being used, since the original complaint was about bad colors. Bright colored amoled displays are more power hungry.
I don’t have 9PP and my Vertical’s battery usage is almost normal. Sorry, I wasn’t aware how bad it is with 9PP users these days. But that’s a SW issue which might get resolved, but the bland colors still remain.
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@t-Dox which fw version are you using?
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@Łukasz-Szmigiel hi, i’m using the 2.39.34
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@t-Dox you have a battery drain on this version?
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@Łukasz-Szmigiel yes, exactly!
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@t-Dox that’s strange. I had it in the previous version - the unfortunate one that was downgraded. But it went all back to normal after downgrade. Try the new, just released beta, let’s hope it’ll fix your battery drain.
S9PP 2.44.48 beta
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@Łukasz-Szmigiel I’m also having battery drain, but it seems that the new beta doesn’t include any form of fix (at least not mentionned in the changelog), so not really hopeful
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@Łukasz-Szmigiel Hi, do you mean version 2.40.38? I’ll try to install it right away, thanks for the info. I hadn’t seen it was released yet (today)
