Suunto 2.50.26 – Q4 2025 Release Notes
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Regarding new OHR algorithm on the Race S, I’m honestly impressed about my ride to work today. You can argue about the absolute values of the HR, but the general direction of HR changes are very plausible do not feel as random as before the update.
Today:
Same ride before the update:
So, overall an improvement, but still could be better…
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My structured workouts I created dissapeared from my peak pro too, even app say that they are in my watch.
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@Tieutieu I already wondered when you replied that it was always that way
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@MdzOtt said in Suunto 2.50.26 – Q4 2025 Release Notes:
So, in order to change this map behaviour, the supplied maps will have to change.
I don’t think so. Trail visibility has been changed to the worse as a result of 2025 Q3 update without new maps being downloaded. Before that I update I could see trails at 0.5 mi zoom level (800m). After the update I immediately noticed that trails now were visible at up to 500 ft (150m) zoom level. So for anyone in the US trail visibility radius was suddenly over 5x worse.
Furthermore, in October 2025 at a race expo I looked at Suunto Ocean watch and it did still show trails at 0.5 mi zoom level unlike all other Suunto models available at the Suunto tent at that race expo.
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During my first run after this update I had 2 issues:
- black screen instead of suuntoplus wing2 screen
- not possible anymore to command media from media screen (play, pause, volume). Only title of the song is diplayed on the watch. Time of song stay to 0 but title is displayed
Note: i am in a custom sport (trail).
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@Calando I noticed an increase on the resources widget. Usually I had a 75 but currently it shows 95.
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@borgelkranz said in Suunto 2.50.26 – Q4 2025 Release Notes:
@Calando I noticed an increase on the resources widget. Usually I had a 75 but currently it shows 95.
Same weird Resources behaviour on the Race 1. Full day at work (desk job) but work is detected as Recovery! Never seen this before - at best it would earlier show Inactive while being at work. I’m really not that lazy at work
Maybe the new OHR algorithm/behaviour is not properly taken into account in the Resources algorithm?!
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@Mads-Hintz-Madsen I have the Race1, too. The time before and after work was registered as inactive, the time at work was registered as recovery.
Lucky us that work does not stresses us out.
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@sky-runner The Suunto Ocean is so far behind in terms of updates that what you saw was most likely due to the watch running an old firmware version. I use an Ocean myself and have been following Ocean-related posts for a while. Dive users are very dissatisfied with the delays. According to unofficial statements, this is because the diving functions require additional safety testing, but doubts are increasingly growing about this explanation. Many features are lagging behind, even though the Ocean’s hardware is very capable and its price reflects that. It seems that there is at least one advantage to the delay — in some cases, the older version actually works better.
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@borgelkranz I’ve also a Race 1 and I also notice a different behavior because it reports more “Recovering” during the day than before. At the same time I also noted that the built-in sensor no longer falsely measures too high HR during the day. The values were often too high, now they are quite comprehensible.
Which behavior is more correct from the “Resources” widget point of view I don’t know to be honest. I don’t care that much about the Resource thing but I assume always showing values >90% would probably miss the point. -
@Calando This is great to hear. I had a previous Sunnto watch, which I would have nights in the 30% range (after a couple drinks) up to 100%. When I got the SRs my quality fell in line with yours (78% to 82%) and hardly ever fell outside that, so I stopped believing it. Seems they fixed this.
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@ISztárek said in Suunto 2.50.26 – Q4 2025 Release Notes:
The Suunto Ocean is so far behind in terms of updates that what you saw was most likely due to the watch running an old firmware version.
Isn’t that what he was talking about? The updated firmware and not the maps are the source of the trail removal, as both watches likely have updated maps…
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@2b2bff said in Suunto 2.50.26 – Q4 2025 Release Notes:
as both watches likely have updated maps
or outdated maps, because I heard some regions have not been updated since maps came out
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@MarkusG said in Suunto 2.50.26 – Q4 2025 Release Notes:
Which behavior is more correct from the “Resources” widget point of view I don’t know to be honest. I don’t care that much about the Resource thing but I assume always showing values >90% would probably miss the point.
Good point. The Resources metric may actually be more “correct” now if there is such a thing. Like you, I don’t really pay much attention to the Resources and Recovery metrics - I trust my feelings more
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@rooldaa said in Suunto 2.50.26 – Q4 2025 Release Notes:
The screen brightness wouldn’t go off during time. The screen keeps to be illuminated and a watch doesn’t go to sleep mode. The soft reset didn’t help.
“Stand by” illumination is off.
Well, my 9PP is affected by a similar issue and yes, I’ve already checked what suggested below:
@Egika said in Suunto 2.50.26 – Q4 2025 Release Notes:
@rooldaa have you checked the backlight setting in the control panel?
Earlier than the update, all the settings related to the display light were OFF, and so after the update (
after the update, I’ve soft reset the watch). But, during the first run after the update, I’ve noticed that somehow the raise to wake setting was ON.I troubleshot the issue and:
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all the settings related to the display light are still OFF, so backlight, standby and raise to wake;
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however, when I start any (default) activity, the raise to wake setting somehow turns ON;
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once the activity is stopped and I return to the watch face, the backlight stays ON;
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furthermore, once passed the locking time, so the touch is disabled, the light is still ON!!
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in order to somehow “reset” the display light, I have to trigger any light command, so the watch returns to work properly.
I’ve tried to reproduce what described above several times and the watch behaviour is still the same.
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@Matúš I noticed something similar after the update on my 9PP. I updated in the morning and I think the raise to wake kicked in outside of activity, but I’m not too sure as I was in the office with bright lights. In the evening it definitely turned on during an activity. Then all I did was click again on OFF (Settings -> General -> Display -> Raise to wake) even though it was already set up that way before. It seems resolved. No reset.
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Is there somewhere I can read up on the changes to the interval training integration. It’s clearly changed but none of it is making sense to me. In particular what does “Correct visualisation of all workout phases” mean?! is it a new screen on the watch?
I’m hopeful! I would love to see the interval workouts created on the app be improved, this is main reason why I went back to Garmin - intervals and guides screens on the watch, and the limitations on the data fields were really poor.
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It appears that the issues with bluetooth sensors still persist. I have a Verity sense and H10. Many times the sensor will be detected, but there will be no heart rate reading shown. So I have to go start another activity with that sensor, then go back to the original activity. It is a bit of an annoyance and should be fixed.
Related - I also started a run today with the live t S+ app, and my verity sense was also connected. About 30 minutes into the run, I noticed that the live t app was displaying an error message on my phone (it said not connected). So I went in and reestablished the bluetooth connection through the S+ app on the watch. I didn’t stop the activity for this. However, this reconnection caused the connection to the Verity sense to terminate - so there was no heart rate shown after the reconnect to live t.
The first issue is the one that’s more important. I mention the second because it might shed light on other problems.
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After this Q4 2025 update, I guess I’ll need to buy a Suunto Run as a dedicated road-running watch. The new running features and training data finally make it worth having a separate watch just for the road.
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was heisst das genau ??
#speedup #race2
Triathlon und Trailrunning 👿
