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@aiv4r To be frank I see way more influencers (or so called shoetubers) with Coros watches, than Garmin.
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@Enzo-W said in BASIC FEATURES:
Disable the touchscreen - it’s unbearable, all the settings change in the shower or during heavy rain. I wonder if the engineers even test their tools.
This is the worst and the most annoying thing. Settings change on their own without me noticing it and then I wonder why features unexpectedly don’t work. Just in my recent memory:
- Do not disturb mode activated and the display was less bright and I didn’t receive notifications
- Airplane mode activated and I could not use external HR sensor when starting an activity
- Always on display activated, which resulted in higher battery usage
- Power saving activated
- Button lock activated
- Receive mobile notifications option deactivated and I was wondering why my watch didn’t notify me about meetings and phone calls. This particular one took me several days to figure out because this was deep in the settings.
I don’t remember a single case of anything like that with a Garmin watch. I wonder why people think that Suunto watches are buggy. This may be one of the reasons. People may not connect being in a shower with this happening.
I was able to reduce probability of the above happening by changing the default widget (Pin widget function) from Control Panel to something else.
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@Egika said in BASIC FEATURES:
under the shower you can lock the screen. Just assign the lock function to one button as a shortcut.
Or change the raise-to-wake function from full wake mode to display only.In my opinion none of the above are good solutions. Locking the screen is something that is easy to forget. Furthermore, with the watch having only two buttons, both buttons are already used for shortcuts I use daily - Find My Phone and Flashlight.
Changing raise-to-wake function from full wake to display only is bad solution too because it means I would always be limited to a very limited AOD watchface and never see the full watchface unless I press a button. What’s the point of having various watch faces then? I tried this and this option is a non-starter.
This problem with the touch wrecking havoc should not exist in the first place with us looking for a workaround. I don’t want touch. How about giving me an option to disable it permanently outside of map? Alternatively, there could be an option for touch auto-lock that would disable touch on the main watchface after a certain timeout requiring me to press a physical button. This would be less disruptive is this applied only to the main watchface. I would gladly use either option. Finally, Suunto could make an effort and figure out an touch rejection when a lot of droplets are detected on the screen. I know technology like that does exist.
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@Yuurei haha probably depends on place in the world and algo
but very well may be, just wanted to make a point to the statement saying that Garmin do not use influencers, which is clearly not true. -
Hi,
great to have the opportunity here:
- using the watch as a sensor for other devices (especially when doing indoor tracking)
- seeing the battery of the watch somehow, somewhere during an activity
- starting navigation from the middle point of a route (when I did it I just got “off track”)
- ability to import activities from .fit files
- easier access to detailed data from everyday life (aka NOT activities)
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@apparentlypeer said in BASIC FEATURES:
Hi,
great to have the opportunity here:
All of what you list ist already there. Have you asked in the forum first?
- using the watch as a sensor for other devices (especially when doing indoor tracking)
coming with update
- seeing the battery of the watch somehow, somewhere during an activity
depending on the watch model, just press and hold the lower button -> voila
Or you can easily add the battery percentage in your custom sport mode. There’s also battery run time available as a data field.- starting navigation from the middle point of a route (when I did it I just got “off track”)
just start moving in one direction of the route. It will get your position after a short time.
- ability to import activities from .fit files
you can do this using Quantifiedself or Runalyze to upload fit files into your Suunto account.
- easier access to detailed data from everyday life (aka NOT activities)
not sure what “easier” means in specific. I go into the calendar tab, select a specific day and have more information than I need…
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@Egika thanks a lot! Very insightful!
just start moving in one direction of the route. It will get your position after a short time.
As I mentioned, my experience was unfortunately that it didn’t get me starting half way at all but just showed “off route” until the end.
you can do this using Quantifiedself or Runalyze to upload fit files into your Suunto account.
I’m aware, but this is as you show exactly not a feature of Suunto itself, and I find it weird and abbit annoying that I need to go through a third party.
not sure what “easier” means in specific. I go into the calendar tab, select a specific day and have more information than I need…
maybe “access” was the wrong term; I want to export the actual data and not just see the info. I don’t see the option to export the data I see in the daily view you mentioned (and it would be a bit of a hussle to do this for all days by hand instead of me specifying a time frame and getting all data at once. With “easier”, I mean that to my knowledge it is currently only possible to get your data via a request to Suunto where you need to mention EU law and that they are required to give you the data (thoguh this is based on a Reddit post and not my personal experience).
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@apparentlypeer Just go the App settings, then to the account settings and choose “export my data”.
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@soisan thanks!! Wasn’t aware and I just read elsewhere that this was a hassle; my mistake!
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I isazi moved this topic from Feature Suggestions
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@sky-runner said in BASIC FEATURES:
@Enzo-W said in BASIC FEATURES:
Disable the touchscreen - it’s unbearable, all the settings change in the shower or during heavy rain. I wonder if the engineers even test their tools.
I don’t remember a single case of anything like that with a Garmin watch. I wonder why people think that Suunto watches are buggy. This may be one of the reasons. People may not connect being in a shower with this happening.
I do. The shower accidentally turned off the alarm on my garmin forerunner 965. Twice!! And you are right, it took some time for me to realize it was the shower.
On my suunto race s, I can configure that raise to wake only shows the time but does not enable the touchscreen. For me, it’s brilliant. Most of the times I don’t need to know additional info of complications.
Yes, suunto has it’s bugs and annoyances but for me, not nearly as many as my previous garmin.
An other thing you are right about is that suunto is missing basic configuration options, like disabling touch, or only touch in maps. (And there are dozens more, like setting alarms for certain days, or have vibrating alerts in watchmode and beeps and vibrating in sport mode) Unfortunately, suunto is more working on useless features, like track mode (and I train weekly on a track at my athletics club) but they have to. For marketing purposes they have to match the feature list of garmin. And people who look for a watch think things like trackmode is more useful than disabling the touchscreen. They just look at feature quantity.
