Is there anyone here with an iPod Touch or iPhone that has upgraded to iOS4?
If you have upgraded, what model do you have and does Nike+ still work for you?
I was going to upgrade but mine it failed on the backup. When I went to the Apple support forums to workout how to fix it I saw a number of people are having problems with Nike+ since upgrading. It is hard to tell if the problems are widespread as typically only people report problems, they don't report the absence of problems.
I have both upgraded my 3GS and got a new iPhone 4. In both cases everything seems to work fine with some exceptions:
- You will lose all your running history on your phone. The runs will be there in XML format but they will not be imported into the SQLite database that apparently the Nike+ app now uses. I've succesfully imported them myself, though, and I'm writing a desktop application to do that automatically.
- Apparently you will lose your calibration (you will not). Everything will look as uncalibrated until you log your first run (it can be a 1s one), then the databases are updated and your calibration will show.
- You might not see the Nike+ in iTunes until you log a first run.
- There are some volume problems when using another music application that's not the iPod (for example, Pandora). I'm also running RunKeeper at the same time, so the problems might be with it and not with the Nike+ app.
- Careful if you also switch devices. Upgrading from iOS 3 to iOS4 is ok, but it you change your iPhone from a 3GS to a 4 and restore your backup, the Nike+ token will be incorrect. Everything will show up fine in iTunes and your run will upload but silently fail, leaving you with nothing! You have to manually copy the xml from from the synched directory to the latest one and try again! To fix this issue uncheck the "Upload workouts to Nike+" box and check it again to go through the authentication process again.
Overall, I can say that everything works fine with iOS4 -once you go over the initial hurdles I described-. Running RunKeeper and Nike+ at the same time no longer seems a hack and I can freely switch between the two and/or use Pandora (with volume issues). The running history is a non issue for me because I have this site, but it's a matter of importing XML files into a SQLite database.
I hope this helps!
Pedro
I'm still not game. http://forums.nike.com/thread.jspa?threadID=32029
Yes, I would strongly recommend not to upgrade. Too many problems and issues.
I was fine with all the things I had to do to get back to where I was with iOS3, with the added problem of now having to select a predefined workout because if you pick a custom one you won't get a distance/pace announcement when pressing the home button, but yesterday I had to restart my workout two times in the middle of a 10 mile run and lost almost a mile until I realized that it wasn't measuring (but the clock kept ticking, killing my pace)!
Sigh, I wish they just made the APIs the Nike+ app uses public so third parties could use it. Apple clearly dropped the ball on this one. It looks like they reverted at the last minute (iOS4 betas had the ability to upload workouts to the website directly) and released without testing.
I was forced to upgrade to iOS 4.0.2 last week when my 2nd generation iPod Touch hung. Not only is Nike+ very flaky now, but battery life on the iPod is almost non-existent. My iPod went from 100% to 55% in 10 hours and I wasn't even using it. Last night it went from 95% to 20% in 6 hours when not in use.
I have read the only way to solve the battery problems is to restore to a new iPod (i.e. lose all settings, apps and music). You can then sync apps and music back, but all settings, passwords, emails, documents in apps, etc. will be gone.
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