No possibility to quit and resume the Trekking activity: so DISAPPOINTED

elbee

@dan21 said:

Can I just ask why such a feature is needed? I had this on my Garmin when I did the Tour du Mont Blanc, which is a multi-day hike. I recorded each activity separately, as technically these are separate activities. Later on, I merged the GPX files to see the whole trek(just curious), but I prefer to keep them separate, as I slept between them, etc.

I do some social rides on a bike and we have coffee half way. It’s convenient to use your watch as a watch during coffee break. And the gps is turned off, which saves battery life.
Have to say, I recently bought a wahoo bike computer because a watch with oled screen isn’t the best for navigation on a bike. A mips watch I had earlier I could attach to my steer and the display would always be visible.

Also, during all day hikes, it’s convenient and saves battery, if you could stop the recording during lunch break. (If you pause and activity on a suunto, the gps chip is still active).

Personally, I would not use the resume later function for multiday events.

runyx17

Yes, I wouldn’t use it for multi-day hikes either. But my use case might be different from others. I often run and stop somewhere to handle something, talk to people, or buy a few things. That is when this feature would be useful for me. The same goes for cycling.

I used to have a Garmin where I used this feature, and I knew when I bought the Vertical 2 that it wouldn’t have it. I just wanted to say that this is the feature I miss the most, but I can live with it. Everyone is different and uses things differently.

snow*

I would prefer merging activities in SA, ymmv ofc.

igalan

@nico1234 I agree, almost all brands now offer this function. I am testing an Amazfit Active 3 Premium, for 150€ this watch can save & resumen later, you can even go to the watch screen during an activity, open any of the apps and seamlessly go back to the activity without having any interruptions in it. Being blocked out of every function during and activity is not a good design decision no matter how you slice it.

brechtvb

@igalan you just destroyed everything here

2b2bff

I think if it is your first watch, you don’t even think about some functionality that is not there. If you already had a Watch before, you expect all the newer ones to include functionality that you are used to. And this is what people see as essential functionality. And other do not miss it.

Just as an example the other way around: If you have a Suunto, you are used to see running timers in the watch face, you are used to the auto sorting of sports mode for last recently used. Garmin - as the usual example - has neither of them. Sure, you can dedicate one data field to a running timer, but Suunto solves this way more elegant.

It’s just expectations…

RichardM

I feel some sympathy with the OP - I bought the Vertical 2 a few months back for multi-day hikes in Scotland, as well as for fell running, parkruns and long bike rides. I felt a bit disappointed that I couldn’t use all the functions during a very long activity - after all, it is marketed as an Adventure watch!

I (thought I) did the research beforehand comparing with Garmin Fenix/Enduro, and felt the Suunto V2 was definitely right for me - the offline topo maps and insane battery life were the main things. But, overall, I wanted something simpler, robust and focussed on the task at hand rather than having contactless payments, phone calls, etc. So I am actually very happy with the V2, and I could always stitch together GPXs if I wanted.

However, I think one big problem is that Suunto’s documentation is really sparse, and they made a big marketing splash out of the flashlight - without making it clear it can’t be used in an activity! So I did miss the issue about not using all the functions in an activity.

One thing I would prefer rather than quit/resume is to be able to change things like GPS accuracy during a multi-day hike to save battery. Sometimes you want precise accuracy and to see all the map detail, but then you might be walking on an estate track for miles, and could just turn the accuracy to lowest.

Stavrogin

@2b2bff I agree with you 100%. Beyond that I feel like the initial post was pretty aggressive. We are a community of people who help others better understand their Suuntos. I am not sure if a random rant on this board will attract the attention from the main designers that you are hoping for. I am guessing they have long term strategies and planning that is not dictated by random posts on this forum.

Would it not be more productive to come here asking for help or work arounds from people who have been using Suuntos for years?

Interesting other info might be that even though Garmin has the feature I have had issues with it slowing down my watch going into a few days of the same activity. Even DC Rainmaker has spoken about how Garmin struggles with such large .fit files as they grow over so many miles.

isazi

@RichardM said:
However, I think one big problem is that Suunto’s documentation is really sparse, and they made a big marketing splash out of the flashlight - without making it clear it can’t be used in an activity!

It can be used during activity. Just long press the bottom button and access the menu to enable it.

MikeC30

@isazi

That does work although it is a bit clunky to do on the move. Once you’ve done it a couple of times muscle memory makes it more intuitive to use.

I would like to be able to customise what a long button press does during an activity like what can be done from the watch face but I do not know how easy this would be to implement in the firmware. A single long button push to turn on the led light during an activity would be fantastic.