Losing faith on the S9 (treadmill & HR) latest firmware
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@Brad_Olwin I understand that but my surprise is that I had excellent results before. With the same watch and the spartan. Not 20-25% difference.
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Had a talk to my coach today and he confrimed that the treadmills are calibrated.
Did a 15k run and the S9 logged 9.89k!Will try to downgrade the firmware
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@nassosc Need to have @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos check on this. Should not have been worse. Can you confirm that GPS is off?
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@Brad_Olwin yes gps is off.
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Do some running with GPS outside and it will calibrate accelerometer. Because every update wipes calibrated data.
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@SlaSh said in Losing faith on the S9 (treadmill & HR) latest firmware:
Do some running with GPS outside and it will calibrate accelerometer. Because every update wipes calibrated data.
Right.
The problem is, that you need some technical background to explain the behavior of the watch…
And even then there is a lot of guessing about the functions happening in the background.
Why not add an indicator in the watch information about if calibration für walking or running has been completed? Just two flags should not be too difficult to add.Or a warning when starting a run w/o GPS, that the accelerometer has not yet been calibrated.
Or at least a hint in the manual.
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@SlaSh unfortunatly I have done a run with the GPS, actually it was the run before the 3 horrible treadmill runs. Will do another one since my options are limited. Thank you.
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There was nothing touched regarding the accelerometer. Try to reflash the FW or reset
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Did a FW reset and a GPS run and accelerometer seems to be calibrated. Just to set the record straight…
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@SlaSh said in Losing faith on the S9 (treadmill & HR) latest firmware:
Do some running with GPS outside and it will calibrate accelerometer. Because every update wipes calibrated data.
I’m curious, am I reading this right that if you update the watch, the calibration data for indoor distance, etc is wiped, and you must again do the run outside to recalibrate before it’s accurate indoors again?
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@oeagleo I have updated the watch several times before in the past and callibration was not needed. Not sure it was a bad update (if that is possible) or it just needed calibrating.
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@oeagleo watch update is clearing cached data as accelerometer calibration profile and other, so you need to do activity with GPS to get it calibrated again. This is nothing new Farmin watched act the same after upgrade.
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@nassosc and how treadmill distance and etc looks like now?
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@slash treadmill distance is correct now.
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@nassosc what solved it ?
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not sure, did a watch reset and a gps run. after that the treadmill distance was again ok
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I totally agree with you…
I am 45 years old…y I was sustaining 219 BPM for more than 20 min at the beginning of my work out…
Incredible… or I am a SuperHuman
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@Marcel-Baliño its all the good training! well i get the same error and after about 8-10min it drops to normal levels. As far as I know it is problem with the sensor software that some encounter and it will most probably be fixed in the next update.
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@Marcel-Baliño ohrm or belt?
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@nassosc I can’t vouch for the treadmill distance issue you have, because I don’t use them unless injured. However, I will say that the one time I did use the watch on the treadmill it was surprisingly accurate. Interesting one from @SlaSh on the watch resetting the calibrated data after update, I never knew that.
More importantly for me, as it doesn’t appear to be getting much air time, is the HR issue. I contacted Suunto over this issue, blaming the update, because the HR is consistently poor since then. I have seen it once or twice before, it’s every run since I updated.
After I made first contact with Suunto support, I was asked to link moves from Movescount into the email reply so that they could be checked by the technical guys. I replied with the links from Movescount and within 24 hours a different support agent replied telling me to update to the latest firmware. I’d already explained that I had the latest fw in the original email. Therefore, I was simply receiving the big FINGER, like go away, we’re not interested! Therefore, it was time to get shirty - ending with “I’ll just get a refund then, it’s under warranty!” This provoked a 5 minute response time, with the suggestion that it was being escalated to a more technical level. Do I believe it? No! I know some on here think Suunto are a great company. However, if they go down the same route as Garmin support used to, which they just tried to do, then their name will become mud every time they come up in conversation.
All I ask is that they look into it, acknowledge that it isn’t right and tell me if they can correct it or not! What I don’t want the have to do is repeat myself over and over again to different support agents!
