The logic behind default GPS mode settings in different sports modes

[Tomas5]

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos hopes you are right and they will fix it later. I still love suunto and suunto 5 watch are great. But this small bugs or simplified features reduce the user experience.

[Tomas5]

Still an issue in 2.14.16

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@tomas5 not going to be fixed soon. In a way it works as designed they say.

[Łukasz Szmigiel]

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos to me it clearly looks like a bug. The only way to get 1 min fix in S5 is via custom battery settings and while they are being saved, the watch doesn’t default to custom. Rather - watch defaults to endurance, but if one goes to battery settings and just selects custom - it seems to remember last custom settings (ie. 1 min fix). So it’s not a matter of the watch not remembering the custom settings but somehow wanting to default to one of its main modes - performance or endurance.

So it’s less than a battery customisation issue (which in essence works OK) but rather a smaller issue of watch forcing the predefined mode instead of custom.

[Tomas5]

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos well it is clearly a bug. When you select custom mode to best. Next time it switch you to performance. This can be accepted because it is same. But when you change custom to good. Next time it switch you to endurance. But endurance means no whr but custom gps good means that you can have whr enabled.

Next problem is that when i choose performance mode or endurance mode i can switch between them by upper right button. When i switch to custom with gps good i can switch between custom (blue), performance (green), endurance (orange) but next time i want do this excercise i am switched to endurance and i can no logner switch by upper right button to custom mode (blue) i need to go to setting again.

It should switch to performance every next time and allow to change by upper right button between green,orange,blue. Or it should save and next time stay on prefered setting meaning if i choose performance next time it will be performance, if i choose endurance next time it sill be endurance, if i choose custom (best,good,ok) i should next time stay with my preference.

But keep it fair, it is not painful bug, at least to me. I need to change to custom very rarely.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

I won’t argue. But unfortunately I cannot push anymore for this one. My bug report got denied.

The reason I am saying this and taking the time to post here , is not to convince you it’s not a bug but rather to indirectly (and now directly) perhaps bother support with this.

I am not pleased with Suuntos take on this bug tbh.

[Tomas5]

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos yeah, i know you do your best. Thanks for feedback.

[Łukasz Szmigiel]

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos I appreciate your effort. Thank you. I’m simply puzzled why it’s so low priority and I get it that it probably won’t be fixed

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@łukasz-szmigiel to be honest and without really knowing , maybe it’s going to be completely reworked or attached to a more bigger task.

I thought there was at least a workaround for this but I might be wrong.

Anyways. Additionally I would say ping me back here in eta 3 weeks after the product + fw is launched to push them again

[Łukasz Szmigiel]

FYI: This is even more buggy than I initially thought. I just realized it as I was too lazy to change it to either Custom or Performance so I left it on broken post-custom Endurance. However when looking at path it seemed strange to me that the points plotted on the map are more like in 1 min fix instead of 2 min fix. So I’ve downloaded GPX from QS and it’s indeed 1 min fix.

It seems that S5 doesn’t switch to Endurance from Custom. It seems so from the UI but judging from the GPX - the track is actually saved in 1 min intervals, so:

There’s no OHR because the watch enforces Endurance and the UI changes to orange.

But the GPS mode is as defined in custom (Good = 1 min).

So what results is some kind of weird amalgamation Not a custom sports mode and not a default Endurance either.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to any outdoor mode
2. Go to battery modes, set custom
3. Set OHR on, set GPS good
4. Confirm custom
5. Notice start screen turns blue
6. Either exit start screen or start the activity (doesn’t matter, it’ll work this time)
7. Go to the same activity
8. Notice the UI changes color to orange, indicating the watch defaults to Endurance
9. Start the activity and record ~15 min or more
10. Check GPX for timestamps - after initial few minutes of 1 sec it defaults to 1 min.

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos I know what you said before about this issue, so no additional pressure - just reporting my additional finding as it seems really buggy now.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@łukasz-szmigiel said in The logic behind default GPS mode settings in different sports modes:

Go to any outdoor mode

Go to any outdoor mode that will be bonkers afterwards

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@łukasz-szmigiel I am a bit confused. Why would it not use 1min GPS ?

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

Btw I have a workarround. In order to remove the custom dbug, you can set the custom to be performance (change the settings as so) and then use it. It will be green the next time.

Maybe the same happened with you @Łukasz-Szmigiel but instead of making the custom performance you made it endurance ?

[Łukasz Szmigiel]

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos said in The logic behind default GPS mode settings in different sports modes:

@łukasz-szmigiel said in The logic behind default GPS mode settings in different sports modes:

Go to any outdoor mode

Go to any outdoor mode that will be bonkers afterwards

Well running, walking, you get the idea

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos said in The logic behind default GPS mode settings in different sports modes:

@łukasz-szmigiel I am a bit confused. Why would it not use 1min GPS ?

It should use 1min GPS as defined in Custom battery mode. However - the GUI indicates that the watch is in Endurance, which is 2min GPS. Also, OHR is off despite being on in custom.

So: UI is Endurance. OHR is Endurance. GPS is Custom.

To sum it up.

[Łukasz Szmigiel]

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos said in The logic behind default GPS mode settings in different sports modes:

Btw I have a workarround. In order to remove the custom dbug, you can set the custom to be performance (change the settings as so) and then use it. It will be green the next time.

Maybe the same happened with you @Łukasz-Szmigiel but instead of making the custom performance you made it endurance ?

I know that you need to set the custom mode to equal performance in order to reset the bug.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@łukasz-szmigiel isn’t endurance 1min ?

[Egika]

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos yes, endurance is 1min, Ultra 2min

[Łukasz Szmigiel]

@egika, @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos, seriously? Is endurance in S5 1 min fix?

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@łukasz-szmigiel I think so. (if you want me I can ask the others)

At least for s9 endurance is 1 min and ultra 5min. But I don’t use those modes personally.

[Łukasz Szmigiel]

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos so it may be that I’m dumb as a rock. I don’t know how but I was quite sure it’s 2 min in S5 so I was fighting with custom mode for my casual walks when I need just an estimation and there’s no need to drain the battery with 1s.

But still ohr would be handy for better calories estimation as without ohr it’s significantly lower and it seems that one can’t force ohr with endurance if it’s not custom.