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easternNCchick
easternNCchick Posts: 198 Member
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Anyone else having a glitch in the 5k training app? I will be on a 1 minute run and after about 45 seconds or more she will finally tell me I am 15 seconds done...45 to go....also at times my music will stop and I have to pause then hit resume to get it back up and running

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  • FakingFitness
    FakingFitness Posts: 325 Member
    Anyone else having a glitch in the 5k training app? I will be on a 1 minute run and after about 45 seconds or more she will finally tell me I am 15 seconds done...45 to go....also at times my music will stop and I have to pause then hit resume to get it back up and running

    I haven't had either of those issues using the app with my Samsung Galaxy 3.
  • easternNCchick
    easternNCchick Posts: 198 Member
    Mines running on my iTouch
  • dragon1ady
    dragon1ady Posts: 335 Member
    Anyone else having a glitch in the 5k training app? I will be on a 1 minute run and after about 45 seconds or more she will finally tell me I am 15 seconds done...45 to go....also at times my music will stop and I have to pause then hit resume to get it back up and running

    Not here, also Galaxy S3.

    Are you running anything else that uses GPS, while running Z5K? If so, turn it off, and see if that helps.

    To see what you're running and force-close on the S3, you press and hold Home, then tap Task Manager. You get a list of everything currently running and can close them one by one. Use common sense and good judgement on what you force-close.
  • easternNCchick
    easternNCchick Posts: 198 Member
    Only thing on my iTouch is this app. Was my sons and I took it over. As far as I can tell nothing else is running. I cannot even run the GPS on the iTouch within the zombies run 5k app. Not compatible?
  • autumnrunning
    autumnrunning Posts: 103
    I had that suspicion (wrong time) while running the other day. Also sometimes the introductory talking part didn't start, sometimes my own music didn't start playing so i paused for a sec and then it went on properly. (on iphone)
  • easternNCchick
    easternNCchick Posts: 198 Member
    I had that suspicion (wrong time) while running the other day. Also sometimes the introductory talking part didn't start, sometimes my own music didn't start playing so i paused for a sec and then it went on properly. (on iphone)

    Sounds like may be an apple problem then! Glad I am not alone
  • sb4480
    sb4480 Posts: 199 Member
    I think it's a problem with the apple app. I consistently have the issue when I start a run. I have to pause it and restart. Then the other day the app just stopped playing music. The narrative continued, but there was silence. Then, in that same run it didn't track my mileage.
  • Afura
    Afura Posts: 2,054 Member
    I had mine stop playing music, and once stopped verbals, I was able to pause and re-start and it worked again, the music just suddenly came back one day. Their support section I know lists common issues for Android (which is what I'm on with a Droid X), but I don't recall the Apple ones off hand.
  • Bob_Sutton
    Bob_Sutton Posts: 27 Member
    The problem with the music stopping was a bug in the music player they created to fix some problems they were having using the devices built in player. They did fix this in the main Zombies, Run! app, but unfortunately this fix was never brought into the 5K app. Normally pausing and unpausing seems to start things back up, having a pause button on the earbud wire is convenient for this.

    I also had the same problem with the audio cues playing at the incorrect times. I didn't notice this in the later missions, which have longer gaps between these, so I suspect it may be having a problem when it has to start another one pretty quickly.

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