Unable to connect / sync vertical with suunto app since last update
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I’ve had this issue since the update. One thing I’ve noticed is that the two activities that I did outside of cell service synced to the app instantly. The ones I’ve done within cell service haven’t synced.
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I found a support mail address for Suunt on Reddit and got a swift reply, including a support ticket - kudos to Suunto!
For your information, I have included the mail conversations, there you also see the address to Suunto support. -
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@Mats-Djupsjöbacka clearly suunto support has no idea what they are doing. This is clearly a software issue seeing as everyone got it at the same time with the latest update. So sending the watch in for repair will do absolutely nothing except take a lot of watches away from people
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@Niclas-Brundell said in Unable to connect / sync vertical with suunto app since last update:
I’ve had this issue since the update. One thing I’ve noticed is that the two activities that I did outside of cell service synced to the app instantly. The ones I’ve done within cell service haven’t synced.
Just tried putting my phone in airplane node before i stopped the activity. WiFi and data off but Bluetooth on. The watch synced instantly with the app. So it seems like the issue is that the app tries to connect with suuntos servers and that blocks the ability to sync with the watch or something like that. Don’t know why. But turning off internet makes the watch and app sync like normal.
I would let suunto know. But they don’t have a public email and I can’t reach their chat support even though it is supposed to be open
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@Niclas-Brundell said in Unable to connect / sync vertical with suunto app since last update:
Just tried putting my phone in airplane node before i stopped the activity. WiFi and data off but Bluetooth on. The watch synced instantly with the app. So it seems like the issue is that the app tries to connect with suuntos servers and that blocks the ability to sync with the watch or something like that. Don’t know why. But turning off internet makes the watch and app sync like normal.
I would let suunto know. But they don’t have a public email and I can’t reach their chat support even though it is supposed to be open
Thanks for the info, but no luck for me - no sync of long (>60 minutes) activities in airplane mode and just BT on. By the way, I reached Suunto support via the email support-en@suunto.com
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@Mats-Djupsjöbacka weird. I’ve done a 1.5h a 2.5h activity out of cell service that synced instantly. But even hour long runs wing sync if I have cell service.
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So now its 2 weeks off from suunto support. It’s clearly unacceptable !!!
If i do th esame in my job i’m revoke after 2 weeks.
So the issue is coming from the update did end of march and pushed by SUUNTO.
So for me the must give a new update in order to close the issue. I do not knoww in the world how many we are but it’s clearly a Suunto crash. In terms of profesionalism we reach the bottom.
So please can you keep up us posted here how we have to do except cash back the watch !!!
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@denis_barberot This may be difficult to solve and implement. It is not affecting everyone. I have no issues whatsoever syncing nor do any of my friends using Suunto on Android or iOS. I know this is frustrating but an SA update (I believe this is an SA problem not watch problem) should be issued with a fix. Suunto is aware of the issue.
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@Brad_Olwin
Thank you for the info.
However saying that not everyone is affected is kind of a lame argument. Even if a small proportion of user is affected, it does not mean suunto shouldn’t do every effort to correct it rapidly…
Suunto should at least communicate publicly to acknowledge that there in, in fact, a problem…
The most frustrating thing is not to have bought a non fonctionning 450€ watch but to have no idea when the bug will be fixed. -
@Charles said in Unable to connect / sync vertical with suunto app since last update:
@Brad_Olwin
Thank you for the info.
However saying that not everyone is affected is kind of a lame argument. Even if a small proportion of user is affected, it does not mean suunto shouldn’t do every effort to correct it rapidly…
Suunto should at least communicate publicly to acknowledge that there in, in fact, a problem…
The most frustrating thing is not to have bought a non fonctionning 450€ watch but to have no idea when the bug will be fixed.It is not a lame argument. If the bug is affecting everyone it should be a straightforward fix. If only affecting some it can be quite difficult to figure out why and then implement a fix that does not cause further problems. I do not think Suunto is sitting on their hands here. There are some testers (although a minority) affected as well.
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@Brad_Olwin said in Unable to connect / sync vertical with suunto app since last update:
This may be difficult to solve and implement. It is not affecting everyone. I have no issues whatsoever syncing nor do any of my friends using Suunto on Android or iOS.
Yes, I’m (we are) aware that this does not affect everyone - that’s obvious!
Likewise, I understand that bugs can be difficult to fix.
What I don’t understand is that Suunto does not give us clear information. As you see above I got different information from email support and support chat. I have not received any reply to my last mail to Suunto support (see above). This is most disappointing and frustrating. -
Hi all,
over the weekend I did a hard reset of the watch, i.e. a factory reset via the watch settings menu. It is quite annoying, as I lost a couple of activities. Also you have to re-adjust your settings and re-program the customised sport modes and download the offline maps again.
Nevertheless, the hard reset did it for me. Now I can sync the activities as usual. I used pre-defined sport modes as well as my own customised sport mode. Activities with both sport modes synched as expected.
The SA is running on an iPhone and I haven’t done any changes w.r.t. the app.
Maybe this is a solution for some of you…
EDIT: I have Suunto Race.
Cheers
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@Brad_Olwin said in Unable to connect / sync vertical with suunto app since last update:
I do not think Suunto is sitting on their hands here
So you don’t really know that they are working on it …?
We are juste really frustrated of
- Clearly the update was released without proper bêta testing
- Sunnto does not communicate about the problem et how/when they think it will be fixed
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I run daily and have only had one instance of the watch not connecting to sync - turning BT off then back on resolved it. Latest iOS beta and watch firmware.
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@Brad_Olwin
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I don‘t think it‘s a problem with the app.
Took my old ambit peak 3 for some longer trips in the alps the last days and sync with it worked fine as always.
So it must be the new firmware of vertical. Maybe it doesn’t interact with different variations of the hardware as it should (hardware may differ in detail even if it is the same product).
For suunto, this clearly is a disaster, if an update makes one of their products inusable - even if only a minority of users is affected (what makes it probably difficult to figure out what the problem is). Never experienced something like that before.
As suunto is responsible for their products, in my eyes they should admit that something has gone wrong and clearly communicate what we can expect. The problem is not that something has gone wrong. This might happen. The problem is that everything is left unclear and we don’t know what we can expect.
I don‘t want to rant about that, but again, the bug should be fixed as soon as possible - even if the price would be to temporarily return to the old firmware as far as sync is concerned (a new version free of bugs could then be delivered with the next update). In the end we all would be happy if we could use our watches again.
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@ortles said in Unable to connect / sync vertical with suunto app since last update:
I don‘t think it‘s a problem with the app.
Took my old ambit peak 3 for some longer trips in the alps the last days and sync with it worked fine as always.
So it must be the new firmware of vertical. Maybe it doesn’t interact with different variations of the hardware as it should (hardware may differ in detail even if it is the same product).not specific to your comment, but …
It is said somewhere that it might be an app issue (i don’t know, just reading here and there): app is not managing properly the new FW, thus only for new watches.We can debate eternally, it is known at Suunto, and they will fix.
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Maybe the sync performance/speed “improvements” brought by the last firmware do not work well with the SA, possibly depending also on the BT hardware/software installed on the various smartphones. It’s frustrating, but errors occur. I’m confident a solution will be found soon and a new firmware will be released, but this need the time it needs, such kind of things can’t be done in hurry.
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Synchronisation problem is back after five activities. The last one is not able to be uploaded to the SA again. So a hard reset did not help.