WARNING! Do not trust Nike+ sensor sleep mode button!!

I have always pushed the sleep button (push once firmly) on the Nike+ sensor when traveling, then when I get where I'm going I push the button again and I assume I'm taking it out of sleep mode. Hah!

I didn't test it. I followed instructions and assumed the sleep mode button was working. Wrong! This time after a 4 hour trip I forgot to take the sensor out of sleep mode before going out for a run. Once out, I realized that it was working but it should not have been working because it should still have been asleep. That meant it was never asleep for the trip--and probably all the other trips I had taken. So the battery is getting used up FAST. Nice for Nike, bad for Nike customers, bad for the environment (all those battery powered sensors getting trashed)!

I then tested the sleep mode button. Out of more than ten tries it would not go to sleep. Then out of about the same number of tries I could not get it to come put of sleep mode. I kept testing with the same result. The sleep mode button is a bad joke! We have no way of knowing that it is working without testing it with the whole kit. If it's not working, your sensor is using up its battery very fast because the sensor is live while traveling in your backpack, car, plane, etc. If you get the sensor off and cannot wake it up, you may think it has died (like Sleeping Beauty) but it just needs the sleep button pushed and tested about a dozen times! So I wonder how many people have bought a new Nike+ kit thinking that their sensor battery had died prematurely but it was just stuck in sleep mode?

I would appreciate it if others would test their sleep mode button and see if the button is really working. It could be that I am in the minority and and have a dud sleep mode button. Hope this is true and it is not a problem shared by all of us who love our Nike+ kits.

Hap

PS (Don't tell me this is a Nike problem not a Apple problem so I shouldn't be posting here. When two companies get together to market a product, they share responsibility for the product not working! Now, I'm going to go call Nike support! The sensor needs to have a real on/off button or some way for it to be easily read by the Nano as being on or off. Apple can encourage Nike to provide that.)