Watch stopped measuring mid run
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My suunto Race, stopped measuring mid run.
Fortunately I glanced at the map I was following throughout the run and noticed I wasn’t in the workout.This happened to me before when my vertical just came out. Happily it was dealt with with one of the fixes.
I really can’t understand or accept that the watche’s basic and most important function as a sport/running watch just stops mid run.
I don’t know if is related to last update, which seems to have multiple problems: lousy sleep tracking and now this….
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@peegee Hi, had the same behaviour today on my Race S. As you said thats an absolute No Go and I will also not accept a device thats not reliable in the main function.
I’m using GPS watches from Garmin and Suunto since about 20 years and never had a device failing like that.
I’ll take a look at what Garmin and Coros can offer -
@VoiGAS Garmin Fenix 7 / Epix range has a similar issue currently. Longer activities might stop in between… Nothing is perfect…
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@2b2bff Really? Thats a bummer. I just want a working watch without watchfaces, sleep tracking, HRV and everything. It seems the companies cannot handle all the stuff.
So no idea, maybe I will use the old Ambit3 with Belt again. But I really started to love the maps for runs in unknown terrain…Edit: Found bug reports for Garmin and Polar with the same problem, but nothing for Coros. But maybe thats only due to the limited users / history
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Same happened to me on the latest update. Around the 20km mark it just froze. I had to soft reset to make it work again. The activity was tracked until the watch was turned off. The last 10km of my 30km run I wrote in manually as I didn’t have time to fiddle with my watch during the run. Have had long runs later on and haven’t experienced it again. Seems like it happened randomly.
Suunto Race
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This happened to me yesterday as well during a very short hike with my Race (running the latest firmware). The total distance was just under 10 km, and after about 2 km, my Race froze and then automatically restarted after approximately 60 seconds. If I hadn’t happened to look at the display at that moment, I wouldn’t have even noticed it. However, since I did, I was able to restart the activity after the reboot. In the end, the first 2 km were still saved, but at the end of the total distance, I had two separate recordings, and a few hundred meters were missing.
The real issue, though, is that I can no longer trust my Race. I never had such a crash with my S9B-Ti, and I will probably switch back to it and sell the Race. A watch that fails in such basic functions is useless to me. It doesn’t matter how much I like the Race otherwise.
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@Arju-Ambin said in Watch stopped measuring mid run:
Same happened to me on the latest update. Around the 20km mark it just froze. I had to soft reset to make it work again. The activity was tracked until the watch was turned off. The last 10km of my 30km run I wrote in manually as I didn’t have time to fiddle with my watch during the run. Have had long runs later on and haven’t experienced it again. Seems like it happened randomly.
Another crash happened mid run yesterday at the 5km mark, I ran 10km in total. I couldn’t be bothered to fix it mid run but the watch eventually rebooted by itself. Half of the run was tracked. This is the second time it happens. Half of the screen turned black and everything just froze. Anyway, I went for a 10km run today at the same time as yesterday and the watch didn’t crash at all. I’m on the latest firmware 2.40.38. last time I was one the previous firmware. This seems so random.
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I had this issue so for with every update on my Race…
I would love to see a solution for this or a work a round like Garmin that you can resume the activity after the reboot… -
@VoiGAS lol what ? you’re talking about garmin for reliability ? the same Garmin that had a WORLDWIDE CRASH of all their watches a few months ago ?
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@Elipsus Did I? When?
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@VoiGAS said in Watch stopped measuring mid run:
I’m using GPS watches from Garmin and Suunto since about 20 years and never had a device failing like that.
Here ? The way I read it you never had a Garmin watch fail on you.
But Garmin did have a world wide outage that left -all- watches that ever synchronized their GPS that day non-functional
https://the5krunner.com/2025/01/28/garmin-global-crash-2025/And its considered as the 3rd Garmin-pocalypse
Remind me how many times it happened for Suunto ?
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@Elipsus What I meant and also wrote is that it never had happen to me with the older watches, including different watches from Garmin and Suunto.
I think as sportwatches shifted from beeing watches to become computers with Operating Systems. Easier to add features, but having the same problems like crashing and rebooting.
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@VoiGAS Slight misunderstanding then, because when I read :
@VoiGAS said in Watch stopped measuring mid run:
I’ll take a look at what Garmin and Coros can offer
That sounded a lot like you thought that grass was greener on Garmin side ^^
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@Elipsus No, I wanted to check if the others have similar problems. For Garmin I found reports, for Coros not.
As Suunto is also Made in China now and Kilian Jornet moved to Coros this would be my first idea. But the Race S is quite ok, for the price its really hard to beat.
But still I hope this stability issues will be adressed. I this happens to me during an important Race I think I would throw it against the wall and buy a competitor watch just out of anger…
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@VoiGAS said in Watch stopped measuring mid run:
As Suunto is also Made in China now
This is no indicator about quality. Even more so as the mid-run crash is a software issue.
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@VoiGAS FYI: A couple of weeks ago my F7XSS rebooted during a multiband activity. A watch that was launched in mid January 2022, we are in the middle of 2025 almost and the watch still crashes. I bought it a couple of weeks after launch. For all those months it’s been the third or fourth reboot now. So, the competition does have issues as well.
Are you implying “Made in China” = inferior quality? Cause I have both the SR (made in China) and SV (made in Finland) and both watches are top build quality. -
@Highlands @2b2bff No, I don’t imply it has something to do with Made in China. What I meant is that “Made in Finland” was a reason for me to buy Suunto in the past, and not Garmin or Coros. But this reason is not here anymore, so that quality issues like this one could make me change to another producer.
I hope its clear now what I meant. Not that China is bad, not that Suunto is bad. But without uniqueness Suunto has to compete with others on quality and features.
Thats why I will compare all competitors instead of only taking Suunto models into account like I did the last roundabout 10 years (Ambit3 - Suunto 5 - Suunto 9P - Suunto Race S). -
@VoiGAS Personally, as a European, I do prefer to buy european products to help European jobs. Is that what you mean when you say you buy Suunto because of the label “Made in Finland”? The problem with that is Suunto has been for a while now a Chinese company as we all know. So, if I want to buy a European watch, made by Europe owned company, I’m out of luck. I always compare quality and features. That’s why I chose Suunto: great quality and unmatched accuracy with the right set of features. Garmin: useless Mickey Mouse features, inferior quality, bad software, for my use case only the maps are better.
I’m all in for testing different products and I follow with interest posts where users share their experience with other watches. -
@Highlands said in Watch stopped measuring mid run:
Is that what you mean when you say you buy Suunto because of the label “Made in Finland”?
Thats sounds like a pretty compeling reason no ?
European jobs, safety laws, industry, knowledge, etc -
@Elipsus As I wrote, personally for me, yes. But not for the majority of customers otherwise Suunto wouldn’t have ended up in a financial predicament before being bought by the Chinese. Nowadays, European made means higher costs. In the end of the day, majority of customers vote with their wallets. Whether we like it or not the Chinese turned Suunto around and saved it from disappearing. And the know how now is in their hands.
