Comments on: Some FAQ we anticipate before you ask them!

By: Tam

Tam — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:19:05 +0000

Jason,

I have used the top lock button on my iPhone on several of runs to save battery life and found that it does not turn off the GPS. Can you please confirm if this feature has been fix with the new iPhone firmware 2.2

By: face

face — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:07:15 +0000

Great product, hope to see soon:
- calories burned
- export data on external site (other than runkeeper)
- maps data on iPhone
- export saved data when wifi connection is avaible

Is it possible to use runkeeper with phone off ?

By: valterb

valterb — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:58:59 +0000

Hi Jason. I have a couple of other thing I’d like to see in RK.
The first is related with calories burned. You know that very often people run to loose weight, and for this reason they want to say how many calories they consumes during thier activity. Do you think could be possible to put somewhere data about calories?
I hope my english is good enough to explain this.

Well, I know that for running there is a formula that says that are consumed 0,9-1.04 kcal per kg per km, but also depends on age, genere, efforts, etc., so a good guess is 1.0.
http://fitnesslogs.com/calories2.htm (uses 1.03)
http://www.runtheplanet.com/resources/tools/calculators/caloriecounter.asp (uses 0.9)
http://www.runnersworld.com/cda/caloriecalculator/ (uses 1.036).

When you walk you consum 0.45-0.5 calories per kg of weight and per km walked.

In both walking and running speed doesn’t modify the amount of calories.

Unfortunately the amount of calories consumed during cycling depends to speed (because the body is supported by the bike, and it becomes important the wind resintance). So it becomes hard, but not impossible, to calculate it. You could give a look at http://www.nutristrategy.com/fitness/cycling.htm
or http://draco.acs.uci.edu/rbfaq/FAQ/9.23.html or… google it.

Valter (forgot the other thing I would talk about…)

By: admin

admin — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:46:41 +0000

Thanks Bob. As of last night, we are too! We just submitted that revision to Apple this morning in our latest release. Look out for a blog post shortly catching everybody up on our status.

Jason

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:19:09 +0000

Based on the description on their website, iTrail is able to override the auto-lock functionality.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:31:51 +0000

Valter,
Which applications have you seen that have done this? We have not seen this behavior on the iPhone.

Jason

By: valterb

valterb — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:07:58 +0000

It seems possible to set the application to automatically switch off the auto-lock as soon as you open it. I’ve seen it in other gps application (but I want RunKeeper!!!)

By: wari

wari — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:21:28 +0000

It would be nice if RunKeeper would use the accelerometer as a pedometer.

By: ke6cat

ke6cat — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:42:10 +0000

The GPS being turned off in airplane mode Apple support document is: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1355

By: valterb

valterb — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:38:53 +0000

Doh!