Suunto 9 GPS very bad and often without signal

Brad_Olwin

@running-L Check Settings/General/About and ensure you have a current AGPS file. It simply seems that the file is not getting synced to the watch. Let me know the data on the AGPS file or if it says NA/

zhang965

Return it to suunto to get repair.

freeheeler

@zhang965
sorry for being offtopic…man where did you hide? I’ve missed your inputs

ontopic: yes, send it in, mine has signal within seconds… even before it detects my cold heart…

tomahawk5000

Hi, in my Suunto I have that situation that once I open navigation then show my location then I have to wait much more than once I go to exercise and I chose any training. Is it normal?

sartoric

Did you check what @Brad_Olwin suggested a couple of post above ?

tomahawk5000

Yes but I don’t see connection (maybe because of my poor English… Sorry)? AGPS is from 20th. Still not sure why location is quick once I chose exercise but once I chose my location from navigation it take much more time

sartoric

@tomahawk5000
Oh,ok. So it’s quick for exercise, but slow for navigation.

Anyway, agps is up to date ?
Did you try a soft reset ?

tomahawk5000

@sartoric
AGPS is up to date 20th of April
Regarding soft reset yes few times mostly due to the issue with notification with calling.

Brad_Olwin

@tomahawk5000 said in Suunto 9 GPS very bad and often without signal:

Hi, in my Suunto I have that situation that once I open navigation then show my location then I have to wait much more than once I go to exercise and I chose any training. Is it normal?

Why are you opening Navigation? when you start an exercise, the GPS icon will go from unfilled to colored when a GPS fix is achieved, there is no need to go to Navigation first.

Saketo Nemo

@running-L
Same settings of GPS ? (only GPS, GPS+glonas/beidou/galileo).
And of course, both are setted on GPS best, right?

all obvious things but … I try to help

tomahawk5000

@Brad_Olwin it was just an example with different fix achieve between find my location in navigation and exercise

Fenr1r

@tomahawk5000 Are you using a national grid system for location coordinates or the GPS Lat/Long default?

tomahawk5000

Not sure how to check that?
Compass unit - degrees
Position format - wgs84 hd°m’s.s

Fenr1r

@tomahawk5000 If you haven’t changed the settings, then that’s the default and it certainly looks right. I was wondering whether conversion to a particular local format might be causing problems.

Without the possiblity of a problem with that extra stage, I agree that a user should see the fix results, whether for recording Exercise (filled arrowhead) or Navigation (coordinate display) within essentially the same timeframe from either request.

Not for me, but possibly for anyone Suunto-side: how much longer (in seconds) does a Nav fix take vs an Ex? Same-ish margin regardless which method tried first?

Brad_Olwin

@running-L It does sound like you may have a hardware issue, I have two S9s and they both fix very fast and rarely (I cannot remember the last time) lose a GPS fix during an exercise. It is possible when in areas that are difficult for GPS (deep canyon for instance). But, I did not get a GPS error when running a race early in March where there was a slot canyon. I would start a support ticket.