Alot of new updates and things happening. Hopefully this takes care of some of the issues we've been having. And yeah, that's me in the top 10 Ric "Da Rula". Haha
Windows Mobile SportyPal 1.0.2
Posted June 17, 2009 by SportyPal
Categories: Updates
Tags: Windows Mobile
A new update is now online for Windows Mobile users. It is highly recommended that you upgrade to 1.0.2.
Here are the changes in this version:
- Fixed a bug which would allow you to record a workout correctly, but it would upload a weird version of it with weird lines all over and a starting point in the middle. If you’ve had one of these, once you’ve installed 1.0.2, you can delete the workout on the site, and upload a correct version from your device with the re-upload trick.
- You can now make the taskbar appear in SportyPal by clicking near the top of the screen.
- Attempted to fix the auto-sleep bug. We can’t test this, so tell us if it works for you. If it doesn’t, don’t worry, we have some more ideas to try out by the next version.
- Fixed a bug where the final coordinate of a workout would not get filtered correctly and therefore end up halfway across the world.
- Changed the distance display to always show miles if you’re using imperial units, also updated the main workout display to autoswitch to kilometers after 1000 m.
- Made the record type visible when viewing records for a specific type. This is what it was supposed to look like all along, we just never noticed it was wrong until a while ago.
- Patched up a bug that would cause SportyPal to crash on startup, thanks to Adam Stein. This seems to be limited to WM Standard, which isn’t supported at the moment anyway, but better safe than sorry.
There is now no reason why SportyPal shouldn’t start on a 320×240 WM Standard device, although it’s not very usable. Smartphone support is not on the top of our list right now, but we’re moving a little closer with each update.
- Added version numbers and device names to local error logs (this should’ve been obvious, but Adam Stein had to point it out before we did it). Hopefully, SportyPal won’t crash anymore and you’ll never get to see them.
- Sped a few things up slightly. You probably won’t even notice, really, but it’s good to know it’s there.
- Cleared the landscape view on the “My profile” screen up a bit. This screen will be split into more screens as more features are added, so hopefully it’ll become even less messy in the future.
Users upgrading directly from version 1.0 should read
this note.
Download the new CAB here.
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Top 10 users
Posted June 17, 2009 by SportyPal
Categories: Updates
Tags: sportypal.com
A new feature has been added to
the Community page of
the SportyPal website: top 10 users. The users featured on the list are ranked using a point system which uses the data from the workouts that they’ve uploaded from their devices using SportyPal (GPX uploads don’t count).
Top 10 users for 17.06.2009
Some of you have been asking what the profile pictures you’ve uploaded are for. Well, this is one place where you’ll see them.
Expect more features on the Community page soon.
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Re-uploading workouts
Posted June 16, 2009 by SportyPal
Categories: Q & A
Tags: Windows Mobile
Sometimes, you need to upload a workout that’s already been marked as uploaded. Some of you that have been having trouble with the WM 1.0.1 update will want to re-upload some of your problematic workouts once they’ve installed 1.0.2.
There is a way to do this in the Windows Mobile version. Open the workout from “My Workouts”, and go to the workout graph. You’ll see the “Upload” button there, and if you’ve uploaded your workout, it should be gray and non-clickable.
Hold the upload button for several seconds until it turns white. When you release it, you will get a dialog box asking you if you want to upload your workout again.
The upload button
Note that if you do upload the workout again, nothing will happen on the site unless you deleted the old one first.
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Sleep mode in Windows Mobile
Posted June 15, 2009 by SportyPal
Categories: Bugs,
Unresolved
Tags: Windows Mobile
Early into the developement of the Windows Mobile version of SportyPal, we noticed an interesting feature of the operating system that bugs us to this day: even if there is work actively being done by an application (such as, for example, recording the coordinates of a GPS-tracked workout), the device will go to sleep mode if it’s set to do so and you don’t press any keys in the meantime. Unfortunately for us, sleep mode also kills the GPS signal, and we don’t want this to happen during a workout. To work around this without having to tell the users to change their power settings for every workout, SportyPal disables sleep mode during workouts (where having a constant GPS fix is obviously pretty important) and handles the screen state itself. So far, so good. But there are two problems that remain:
First, if you press the power button to turn the screen off, the device goes to sleep and your signal is lost. Don’t do this during a workout, the screen will turn itself off pretty soon, and you can turn it back on by pushing any button on your device.
Second, unlike the devices that we tested on, some devices completely ignore our attempts to disable sleep mode and sleep anyway. Over the next few CAB updates, we’ll be looking for a way to disable sleep mode for all Windows Mobile devices. However, since we can’t test if this works (we haven’t had any problems with this on our devices to begin with), we’ll need your input to tell us if what we’re doing is any good.
Until we sort this out, users with the auto-sleep problem are going to have to set their power settings manually. To do this, go to Start -> Settings -> System -> Power -> Advanced and uncheck the “turn off device if not used for…” option.
Power Settings