Comments on: Nokia Step Counter beta launched: track how much you walk or run during the day

By: jAi

jAi — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:35:43 +0000

It makes my phone battery running out so quickly!!!!!!

By: Claudio

Claudio — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:24:45 +0000

Nice application! I installed it and tried it for few days; it seems to work very well, it is full of nice features and easy to use. Yes, sometimes I noticed the fact that it can be “fooled”, but in general its behavior looks reliable enough to me.

I just have a concern: is that just my impression, or it affects quite much the energy consumption of the phone??! I realize that keeping an application contantly running in background affects for sure the duration of the battery, but this seems to drain it much faster than I expected…

By: Heiko

Heiko — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:11:08 +0000

Hola,

I am working for a Non for profit Research Company that functions for the improvement of Navigation for the visually impaired and I have tried out your beta version of the Step counter and it totally blew me off. This software very efficiently in using the accelerometer as a pedometer as is very accurate in doing so .The “Step Counter” has a very high potential of being useful in the future.

But there are a few important suggestions that I want to make
1) Make the software’s display of the data accessible to talking softwares such as “Nuance Talks”. I tried the “Step counter” in my Nokia N82 and its text to speech system does not read out the data from the screen.
2) Could you make this software accessible the Nokia 6210 Navigator? {It is not out on the market yet, but I have got a prototype of the cell phone given by nokia for the purpose of accessibility research}

I would really appreciate it if you can look into these two matters

By: mscomms

mscomms — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:04:39 +0000

I am sure I saw a note that you can get step counter to automatically update wellness diary but I cannot find the link now, anyone know where the setup instructions are

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:27:45 +0000

So, I’m into my 7th week of using Step Counter. A couple of feature requests/observations:

1) Can we have a memo field for each day and/or workout? It’d be nice if I could make a note about my activity for the day, etc. (Why didn’t I hit my goal today? Why so many steps today?)

2) Would it be possible to have a separate schedule for autostarting for weekend days? Or not have it start at all on weekends?

3) When using a certain theme on my N95-4 (Silver, by Taieb, available here: http://www.symbian-freeware.com/download-silver-leather-by-taieb.html), there’s a graphical glitch on the Diary view where moving between days will not clear the highlight on the day squares. It’s kinda hard to describe, but it’s obvious if you try it. Other themes don’t have this issue, so it may just be a bug w/ the theme.

Other than that, I’m still very happy with the app, and not only is it useful to me, but it’s a cool app to show off to my friends!

By: BENJAMIN

BENJAMIN — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:03:19 +0000

Hi!I haveinstalled step counter on my n95.but it does not work.should i turn on the accelerometer or something?

By: amnipar

amnipar — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:37:48 +0000

Will you make it work with N96? It has accelerometer but I get the ‘unable to start engine’ error. Is some API different on S60 3.2?

By: Ghazan

Ghazan — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:10:43 +0000

How do I reset the count when I want to?

By: adnroutar

adnroutar — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:08:53 +0000

I accidentaly renamed some DAT files but now sportstracker application doesn’t recongise them any more. Does somebody know how to rename them back (where to get the info it uses in the name from) or what can I do to retrieve information from the files.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:45:26 +0000

Not sure if this is related to Step Counter but since turning off ‘autorun’ on step counter I seem to get ‘invalid access point’ messages 2-3 times a day. I’m running it on a N95 8GB, v20 firmware.