A truly unfortunate purchase

[far-blue]

@msa2025 Regarding the alt/baro functionality you mention you set it to 0 but I assume you weren’t laying on your back in the ocean at the time so why did you set it to 0? The Alt/baro function tells you your absolute height above sea level so if it’s jumping back to ~40m then maybe this is because you are ~40m above sea level?

[Audaxjoe]

@msa2025 in my experience the barometer on my Suunto is incredible accurate. The best I have ever used including older hand held barometer back in the day, several watches and GPS units. And I do use it in the mountains for navigation.

Good luck with your search for a replacement. I really value my Suunto but would be careful of the user case before recommending it.

[surfboomerang]

@Audaxjoe The barometer is very accurate. The derived altitude isn’t when the watch isn’t properly calibrated.
My experience is that a substantial drift can happen in watch mode, but in an activity the auto-calibration results in spot on values.

@far-blue said in A truly unfortunate purchase:

you set it to 0 but I assume you weren’t laying on your back in the ocean at the time so why did you set it to 0?

It depends where @msa2025 lives. Here in The Netherlands we have huge areas that are well below sea level.

[msa2025]

@far-blue
No, I’m in Treviso, the part of Italy near we produce the famous but not so good Prosecco! wikipedia says 15 mt up sea level. (same wikipedia syas 9 meters for Venice… not so reliable?)

[msa2025]

@Audaxjoe The problem is that when i reset it, and it takes the altitude with gps, then it should keep it. The altitude. Then, of course, the barometer must change based on the weather conditions.

[msa2025]

@surfboomerang This can be the reason… in watch mode it is not updated/adjusted with GPS data.

[Audaxjoe]

@msa2025 I live at 30 metres above sea level, so quite similar. I seldom adjust the readings. Occasionally it has a rogue reading. 95% of the time it doesn’t shift, even with pressure drops/gains. It is sometimes a few meters out, like just now it reads 38 meters. But I think that is totally acceptable.

My Garmin would float me up to 8000 meters when watching TV… Older model, Fenix 5 so no doubt greatly improved with newer Garmin watches.

[2b2bff]

@Audaxjoe said in A truly unfortunate purchase:

no doubt greatly improved with newer Garmin watches.

Garmin usually adjusts altitude during sleep. The pitfall is that Germin adjusts it to street level, although you might sleep in a skyscraper. Ususally my Garmin is set to about 115m in the morning for me. My Race S tells a more realistic 128m, as I live in the 5th floor.

[Łukasz Szmigiel]

People learn how barometric altimeters work and are upset that the measurements change with time and motion. Edition 2137.

[maszop]

@Łukasz-Szmigiel Suunto used to have an option: altimeter/barometer mode.
Now there’s some kind of crude automation - living in a relatively flat place, with normal movement, pressure changes are often interpreted as altitude changes.
Why such pseudo-improvements, which instead of helping, causes new problems?

[t-Dox]

@BrunoH you typed “awesome battery life”… and up until a year ago it was true… I charged the watch every 10-14 days with all the sensors active. But since October it doesn’t last more than 4-5 days for me (even without recording activity). Haven’t you experienced any problems with battery life after the latest updates?

[BrunoH]

@t-Dox I was giving a general reason why MIPS displays are still being used, since the original complaint was about bad colors. Bright colored amoled displays are more power hungry.

I don’t have 9PP and my Vertical’s battery usage is almost normal. Sorry, I wasn’t aware how bad it is with 9PP users these days. But that’s a SW issue which might get resolved, but the bland colors still remain.

[Łukasz Szmigiel]

@t-Dox which fw version are you using?

[t-Dox]

@Łukasz-Szmigiel hi, i’m using the 2.39.34

[Łukasz Szmigiel]

@t-Dox you have a battery drain on this version?

[t-Dox]

@Łukasz-Szmigiel yes, exactly!

[Łukasz Szmigiel]

@t-Dox that’s strange. I had it in the previous version - the unfortunate one that was downgraded. But it went all back to normal after downgrade. Try the new, just released beta, let’s hope it’ll fix your battery drain.

[Elipsus]

@Łukasz-Szmigiel I’m also having battery drain, but it seems that the new beta doesn’t include any form of fix (at least not mentionned in the changelog), so not really hopeful

[t-Dox]

@Łukasz-Szmigiel Hi, do you mean version 2.40.38? I’ll try to install it right away, thanks for the info. I hadn’t seen it was released yet (today)