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    • OutdoorManO Offline
      OutdoorMan Silver Members @Audaxjoe
      last edited by OutdoorMan

      @Audaxjoe I am not sure what was the trigger now - either when I downloaded map of Czech republic, or the update itself. One of them caused this black grid to appear. I didn’t have issue back then when multiple people were having this issue… so let’s see.

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      • pavel.samokhaP Offline
        pavel.samokha
        last edited by

        Merged topics.
        If after watch restart the same map loads okay then we now identified one cause and it should be fixed in the next watch firmware update

        Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer

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        • cpinkyC Offline
          cpinky @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
          last edited by

          @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos

          Black grid at
          37.77090
          122.45639

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          • cpinkyC Offline
            cpinky @sartoric
            last edited by

            @sartoric

            Ive had this happen to me on nearly every single hike/walk that I use the map. Too often for me to share coordinates every time. Considering its been nearly 3 years since this was first reported, what is the main issue?

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              cpinky
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              I know there already is a topic at (https://forum.suunto.com/topic/9741/black-grid-issue?_=1777389273886), but it has nearly 3 years without a fix. I took this watch on my first hiking trip and I had a horrible experience. There were many issues but this post will focus on the black grid issue. Every single time I used a route (or just looked at the map) there were a black grid. It was the normal to not see half the map or the whole map. I had to repeatedly zoom in and out to get the map to show. Doing this while hiking up 3k ft and trying to see the next turn was ridiculous. This makes navigation nearly useless which is the main reason I purchased this watch.

              The other thread asked us to report coordinates, but throughout a 8 hour hike, 7 hours of that had black grid issues so I’m not going to report 1000s of coordinates.

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                pavel.samokha @cpinky
                last edited by

                @cpinky no need to create new topics if the existing one is active

                Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer

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                  cpinky @pavel.samokha
                  last edited by

                  @pavel.samokha i understand, but that one has received no updates so I was hoping to get a response here. My dad’s $100 amazfit watch has better performing maps than my Race 2 and its incredibly frustrating because otherwise this watch is amazing.

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                  • pavel.samokhaP Offline
                    pavel.samokha @cpinky
                    last edited by

                    @cpinky I understand and sorry for your experience, but I already answered above on that, wait for the next update. Even if this issue for you specifically happens often for majority of users it doesn’t happen or rarely, so it was hard to reproduce.

                    Creating new topic doesn’t help with solving issues, quite the contrary - many topics no one can read, hard to report and use as evidence. Should be one problem - one topic

                    Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer

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                      cpinky @pavel.samokha
                      last edited by

                      @pavel.samokha Thank you for the explanation… I didn’t see that update so apologies!

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                        Sascha Domres Bronze Member
                        last edited by Sascha Domres

                        Hi, was not at Suunto for a long time but now have a Vertical 2. Unfortunately, the map (black grid) problem still doesn’t seem to be solved? Unfortunately, there was a card error at the address this afternoon:

                        Augustusstraße 29A
                        55131 Mainz
                        Germany

                        49.999019°N 8.259030°E

                        https://photos.app.goo.gl/MLvDx2mP31Spgj3F8
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                          MikeC30 Bronze Member @Sascha Domres
                          last edited by

                          @Sascha-Domres

                          A soft reset cleared the map cache and solved this issue for me a couple of weeks ago.

                          Suunto Ambit3 peak
                          Suunto 9
                          Suunto Vertical 2
                          Suunto Wing 2
                          COROS HR monitor

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                            Sascha Domres Bronze Member @MikeC30
                            last edited by

                            @MikeC30 thank you… Unfortunately, the problem has existed since Vertical 1. I was hoping that Suunto had solved this by now. Soft reset as an emergency solution I just did… Thank you

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