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ray carlisle
08-07-2003, 20:50
I have a suunto vyper which I purchased new approx a year ago. It has and still does work extremely well and apart from one annoying problem I am very pleased with it. The problem, in April of this year I went to the Maldives and there did 10 dives, on retuning home they were downloaded to my PC. OK.
Now everytime I download my dives these same 10 dives are downloaded again. This happens everytime. I have contacted suunto who suggested some ways of eliminating them without success. So is there anybody out there who has had the same problem and knows a cure?
Annie Hanley
10-07-2003, 07:49
I had a similar problem with my Solution a.

A group of about eight dives kept reappearing each time I downloaded onto the PC. New dives were recorded after these dives, so I had to keep going back and deleting the repeated ones on the PC.

Eventually, the number of new dives reached the maximum the computer can store (is it 99 dives, or a number of hours? - can't remember) and the mysterious group of dives disappeared.

So I didn't find a way of wiping them out, but they did eventually disappear all by themselves. My suggested answer would be to do loads of diving. What an excuse!

Annie
matt
10-07-2003, 12:11
How about taking the battery out for a couple days. No idea if it will work but probably worth a try.

Err...obviously you need to do this when you are not planning to use it for a couple days.

Regards
Matt
aquabin
10-07-2003, 13:31
How about taking the battery out for a couple days. No idea if it will work but probably worth a try.

Err...obviously you need to do this when you are not planning to use it for a couple days.

Regards
Matt

Not sure if its an Urban myth but that is supposed to be a bad idea as there is a rumour that some memory is kept alive by the battery and removal isnt liked if over a day or so.

Matt
Nick McV
10-07-2003, 16:05
Not sure if its an Urban myth but that is supposed to be a bad idea as there is a rumour that some memory is kept alive by the battery and removal isnt liked if over a day or so.

You're right, a lot of memory chips need power to keep 'remembering', but it won't damage them to loose the power for a while, you'll just loose the data in the memory.

On your dive manager programme, don't delete the extra (old) dives, but set the 'Ignore' flag (right click & select from the menu, if I remember correctly..) This should cause the dives to dissapear from the list AND not be shown on subsequent downloads.
PeteM
11-07-2003, 09:29
On your dive manager programme, don't delete the extra (old) dives, but set the 'Ignore' flag (right click & select from the menu, if I remember correctly..) This should cause the dives to dissapear from the list AND not be shown on subsequent downloads.

If this problem is the same as the one on my wifes Vyper it won't - it still comes back each time. We are coming up to the point when it should drop out of memory so I'm hopeing I don't have to keeping telling it to ignore dives
Beanie
15-07-2003, 10:53
funny that my vytec does this but my solution doesn't

its is a special dive its does it on though

i think the main problem is that the suunto software is full of bugs
Anke Otto
24-07-2003, 16:43
I have the same problem whenever I have done dives in a different timezone to the one on my PC at home used to download the dives to (i.e. Vyper was set to Maldivian time, PC is set to UK time) If the time stamp in the dive log on your PC is different to the time stamp of the dives stored in the Vyper the Suunto dive manager software is not smart enough to work out that it has already downloaded these dives. They do disappear if you do enough dives to clear them out of memory (i.e. after 36ish hours of further diving). So keep diving!

Best

Anke
ray carlisle
24-07-2003, 21:24
Thanks all that replied.
Most of the remedies had already been tried with no success. The last thought was good but unfortunately I did not bother to alter the time on my computor in the Maldives. I left it on BST and changed the times on the PC after download, it seemed easier that way.
It looks as if I will have to do more dives as suggested and get rid of them that way.
Nigel Hewitt
24-07-2003, 21:30
It looks as if I will have to do more dives as suggested and get rid of them that way.

Oh... We are so sorry for you... Must go diving more.

I'm sure it won't be too bad.

nigelH
ray carlisle
26-07-2003, 12:05
It will be hard but I am sure that I can cope

Cheers