Elevation issues with my Elemnt Rival

SYSTM Software
#1

I’ve had my watch for a few weeks now, I did a hill hike with the family for the first time with it yesterday. Elevation ended up being way off, often looking at the watch as I was ascending steeply but the Grade was showing 0.0 and the elevation was not being counted. I was definitely going uphill but the watch was simply not registering anything :roll_eyes:

The watch ended up recording 40m less than what it should have been; after the Strava correction there was a difference of 20% and this was only on a short hike. Is this a known bug that is likely to be fixed with a future update or do I have a watch that’s not working properly?

#2

Wahoo
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Here’s what the Rival calculated (it also underestimated the distance by 30m but that’s been corrected on both images)

Strava
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And here’s what Strava corrected it to, obviously picking up the elevation lost where the watch wasn’t counting it

#3

A run in the hills yesterday which produced an even worse reading, distance was incorrect and elevation was completely off. It’s a shame as I love the way this watch operates and the legibility of the display is great, but think I’m going to go have to back to my Suunto 9 :pensive: