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      RyanD
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      I’m in the market for a new watch. The vertical has peaked my interested. It seems like it checks most of my boxes at an acceptable price when it goes on sale. My only concern is reliability in not losing activities.

      Here’s my situation that worries me. I do lots of big multi day activities in areas with little to no cell coverage. My concern is that I sync the watch with my phone but then what if my phone breaks before I can reconnect to internet/cell service. What happens to my activities? It’s my understanding that you cannot directly access the activities on the watch like you can with Garmin watches?

      I have been using a Coros apex pro for a while now I have had activities disappear in similar circumstances and they have been lost forever. Suunto seems like a good company/watches for me but my number 1 concern is getting a watch with a very low chance of losing workouts. I want as little risk as possible and only syncing through Bluetooth concerns me. I think I’d rather go Suunto than Garmin but I like the peace of mind that I can access those workouts on the watch directly.

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        sartoric Moderator @RyanD
        last edited by sartoric

        @RyanD
        Well, it depends.
        If the activity is still in the watch logbook you can sync it again. If it’s not , you know the answer 😁

        But what would you do in a similar situation, considering a “direct” access ? would you bring your laptop to download and backup every activity ?

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          Egika Platinum Member @RyanD
          last edited by Egika

          @RyanD you will not loose activities with the Suunto Vertical. It uses the internal eMMC storage to save your activities, so storage space is almost unlimited until your next sync.

          I have just come back from a 4 week hiking vacation to Kyrgizstan, where I used my Vertical daily for long hikes with very rare access to a power supply. Vertical is the right tool for this.

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          • Brad_OlwinB Offline
            Brad_Olwin Moderator @RyanD
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            @RyanD You have two choices

            1. Don’t break the phone.
            2. Don’t sync the watch. You can turn off syncing while on multiday hikes but you will lose sleep tracking if you don’t sync. I used the vertical for nearly a week with no cell phone service, starting and stopping the activity each day and tracking sleep at night. With ~90h of battery life in GPS mode you should get a week of 12h GPS tracking. Using other battery modes will get you longer battery life.

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              Mff73 @Brad_Olwin
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              @RyanD
              As @Egika wrote, the memory capacity is now almost unlimited.

              Synced or not synced, phone destroyed or not, with any other new phone, i may think that activities in the watch will resync to the phone by bluetooth (except hard reset or FW update in between).

              Latest advise, don’t break the watch 🙂 (except if synced 😂).

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