Old K2-Bugs & Feature-Wishlists improved/implemented in K3?

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Andreas Boiselle

• May 17, 2024 11:44
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Hi HH, hi Community

I've read the available tests of the new K3. But for me is still unclear if the bugs and major user-wishes have been solved in K3. Could you guys give a feedback on these topics?

• wrong climb/ascent values: there were massive & since beginning unsolved problems with K2? is this solved?  (a user-test-video of DCRainmaker still shows climb-values to be imprecise and still have issues drifting away)

 

• navigation arrow- position: is the rider-arrow position on screen still fixed somewhere in the middle of the screen and wasting a lot of screen to show "the road ahead".? User-Requests were to have at least the option to select a "down on the bottom-cursor position of the visible map"; HH wanted to "discuss this very interesting idea with the development team....since years...

For me these two points are the buy/no buy criteria

 

Thx, Andreas

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  Grzegorz Ossolinski

  • May 17, 2024 12:55

  still no re-routing completely disabled,

  still no ability to load the application,

  still problem with reading the altitude at the start

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  Anna Ronkainen

  • May 17, 2024 18:04

  The arrow position is also differently broken for north-is-up map orientation (depending on your screen layout) because it is NOT in the middle of the (visible map) screen. In some configs, with a navigation cue  covering over 1/3 of the screen, you can not see the road ahead AT ALL when heading anywhere between southwest and southeast, because the arrow is right next to the navigation cue.

  Rerouting is indeed one of my top software side annoyances with the Karoo as well (the latest update had something about it getting better to get you back to where you left your route, is this mainly designed for countries where you’d better stick to your route or you’ll die or something?), alongside the inability to set one’s own defaults for the map views (regular and automap), too easy accidental activity deletion (and too hard activity deletion when it is something like 0 min at 0 km/h), navigation cues showing up too late for high speeds, not keeping Komoot routes beyond the 50 most recent.

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  Andreas Boiselle

  • May 21, 2024 09:28

  Thanks guy for your feedback; OK, I see there are still some bugs left with no real solution or interest from Hammerhead... I must admit It is disappointing, waiting so long for a great update on the old HW/SW and then no revolutionary improvements have been done :-(

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  Steve MacMillan

  • May 21, 2024 11:34

  @Anna Ronkainen Hi Anna, have you bought the New Karoo (3)? PS ... I always enjoy your balanced feedback :)

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  Anna Ronkainen

  • May 23, 2024 12:19

  No, still happy(ish, see said balanced feedback) enough with the K2, About the only new thing in the K3 that looks interesting to me is the screen, but it does not look like the improvement is worth the money to me, especially as the annoyances on the software side mostly seem to remain. I guess I will wait until the battery life on mine becomes totally unacceptable and reconsider my options at that point, maybe hoping that the K3 price has gone through a reality check or two. (Maybe even considering replacing the battery on my K2, got a heat gun and a guitar pick, what else do I need? :)

  Meanwhile I was recently told about a powerbank on Aliexpress that goes between the head unit and the mount using the quarter-turn system, still waiting for mine to arrive but at least on paper that sounds like a more reliable way to address the battery life concerns on longer rides.

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