S7 Navigation Issues

Jamie BG

@olymay - Curve works similarly as pure pass through - so no credit line with them. Plus my bank already does that too, to a degree - all my card numbers etc are my actual account numbers. PITB - cause in the past if I needed an account number could just look at the card, now I have to go into my app and go through all the authentication rituals.

Brad_Olwin

@olymay said in S7 Navigation Issues:

@olymay whilst replying to these posts it reminded me of another issue I had, this time with battery life…

I have used the watch for navigation in the past, but just to keep an eye on the route, not for turn-by-turn nav.

When checking the map screen, it takes a couple of seconds for the screen to wake up, and then a number of seconds before the location updates. This can be anywhere from 5-15 seconds. Sometimes not an issue, but always an annoyance.

As I knew I would be using the map screen a lot yesterday, I set it to be ‘always on map’, to avoid this delay when checking.
I knew this would be a hit to the battery life, so I charged the watch to 100% before leaving and as I was only going 14km I wasn’t overly worried.

By the time I had done my warm ups and hit start for the run, the watch was on 98%, more than enough for a 14km run.

It was. JUST!!

When I stopped the watch at the end of the run it was down to 19%!!!

The run lasted 1hr39mins (99 mins!) and the watch dropped 79%. That seems excessive to me, especially I was only actually on the map screen for 2/3 to 3/4 of the run (there were a few sections I knew well and didn’t need the map open).

Be advised that having a map screen always on will seriously hit battery life on Garmin as well!

A Former User

@olymay I don’t think we will see any further firmware updates or features added to the watch. The last update was April 2021 and I strongly believe Suunto have dropped the S7

By things like this I’m hopeful that at least there should be an update that fixes it:
https://forum.suunto.com/topic/7381/no-screen-timeout-on-s7/20

Jamie BG

@brad_olwin - map usage - depends on the model - on the MIP screens it really isn’t that bad, and on the Epix I estimate it around +15hrs of continuous tracking with map (as long as not using dual-band GPS) - that is with AOD and heavy map usage. Based on around 10% for 85min hike. Most of time was on map (new area to me) with a bit of climbpro screen in between. Occasionally just on data tracking screen.