Thanks Dave. Great update.  All my offline books updated without a problem.

It does work on the iPad.

Dave,

I have the 32 GB, non-3G iPad (model MB293LL) with the latest OS upgrade (4.2.1-8C148).  When I went to the App store to get the update, it said installed.  I removed the old app, rebooted the iPad and was able to add the new app.  I downloaded the resource, opened it up and saw that my date/title text was missing.

Sorry I can't send you a screenshot.  :-(  It's not a big deal to me.  I just wanted to let you know.

K

Hi all,

Anyone having problems with the new app exiting upon startup for resources that are available offline?  Seems with the MacArthur study bible resource (NAS version and loaded offline), the app will start, then exit as it tries to load the page from that resource.  If the resource is not available offline, it works ok (will load the page)  Other resources seem to work ok offline, but not the MAC NAS one.

I removed the app (the only way to get it working again), and reconfigured.  Seems to work ok as long as "that" resource is not made available offline (from my simple test case).

Others having similar problem with other offline resources (causing the app to exit)?

Curious,

Paul

Jonathan,

Thanks for testing it out on your iPhone.  Must be an iPad only thing.

K

John, I wondered the same thing, and figured that it was because everyone and his brother were all trying to do the same thing at the same time... using up all of the available bandwidth.  Just my thought.

Peter Li said:

Is there a way to keep the iPad from going into sleep mode?

Go to your iPad settings then look under the General tab. Change Auto-Lock from whatever it is to Never and the iPad shouldn't lock/sleep. 

I would tend to assume that the Logos app would continue downloading even if the iPad has locked, so you may be hitting some other issue. Myself and others are having trouble downloading the ESV Study Bible, is that in your download list? There may be some other resources having issues. But you might try removing the ESV Study Bible from your offline books and see if the download will continue as it should.

Overall it is very encouraging to see substantial progress with this current release (Logos for iP-hone/od/ad 1.5.0). True I can't download the ESV SB for offline use on my 3rd Gen iPod Touch but at least I can still view the ESV study notes when I open a cross reference in the ESV bible or open the study notes online.

I thought it was supposed to be faster, it doesn't appear that way to me, takes way more time than the previous version. Also, how do you delete a downloaded resource that keeps trying to update but is no longer on the device. (Bible Knowledge Commentary). I'm actually quite tired of the broken promise that all of our library resources would be available on our mobile devices.

Dave Dunkin said:

Known Issues

• Downloading very large books, e.g. ESV Study Bible, on devices other than iPhone 4 may cause the app to crash

I suppose there is not a fix to this problem until the next release?  The Holman Bible Atlas crashes every time after 10 minutes of downloading.

Dave Dunkin said:

If your primary Bible has been downloaded, but not updated for version 1.5, Bible reference popups will not display correctly

I don't quite understand this one.  My primary Bible is CUV (Chinese Union Version).  The CUV itself displays beautifully (thanks!) but Bible reference popups are still using the old larger font and the sentences are still cut off because of incorrect formatting.  I have the iPad, am on iOS 4.2.1, and Logos 1.5.  What else do I have to do to get my Bible reference popups to display correctly in Chinese?

Thanks!

Peter

p.s. The painful re-downloads of 460+ books finally finished last night.

Dave - maybe I ave missed this, but is it possible to do a clean install of the Logos App on Ipad - removing all downloaded volumes to start again. I have 1600 books downloaded - now with better of idea for using (invaluable) I could remove the books and reinstal, say 100: I need a quick and easy method ... can it be  done?

Colin Wright

Thanks for that - I thot that would remove just the app and not the books. great and thank you!

Kelly Todd said:

I have advocated this for a while now, but have never heard any one else think that this would be a good idea.

I back you! It would be much easier than click the little slider on a few hundred resources.

Dennis Miller said:

If the publishers have already given their permission for me to be able to purchase and download to my computer what is the issue with that same resource being available on my mobile device. Maybe Logos could come up with a way for us to copy the resource from our computers to the mobile devices for our use.

Common sense agrees with you, but the publishers and the law don't. The licence you had when you purchased the resource was a licence for it to be used on a desktop computer only. The fact that it can be copied from a desktop to a handheld device unfortunately is irrelevant. The problem is not the technology (easy to solve), but the publishers.

Kelly Todd said:

I believe that the easy way would be to have a collection set up on the desktop and let the app find it and then sync it to your device.

I'm with you. Great idea!

Cannot get my Bible Reading Plan to sync with my iPad with 1.5.0.

Using NASB95 Bible. Tried deleting plans, re-adding, deleting the app, re-signing in, hitting the sync button on the computer-- all to no avail.

This is very frustrating since I do almost all my devotional reading on my iPad. Anyone else having this issue??? Any ideas on resolving would be much appreciated!

Anywhere from an hour to a day. All that I get on the iPad is the basic "Read the Bible in a Year" reading plan. It used to work fine with my last two reading plans but for some reason I cannot get it synced to the iPad. The Reading Plan on the computer is tracking fine.

Dennis Miller said:

Well, I believe the banner advertisement on this very site for the iPhone logos 4 app states "Your Library in Your Pocket". Unfortunately, that is not a true statement no matter how you read it.

I agree it could be clearer ('A library in your pocket' would be better), but as you say, it's a banner advertisement. As such, it's meant to be clicked on, and the landing page gives a pretty clear indication of what to expect, including a link to those resources which are available.

Dennis Miller said:

What upsets me is that I just paid $99 bucks for a collection of books I was looking forward to being able to read on my iPad only to find out after the fact that they are not available to download to my mobile devices. No where in the description did I find anything stating that "This product is not available for mobile use".

Underneath the product image on every product page, and close to the add to cart button is a box that says "Works on". It will tell you whether it's available on the iPhone, or just Mac and/or Windows.

Works on:

There are a lot of resources available: http://www.logos.com/products/search?Platform=Internet - though some important ones are still missing, as you've discovered.

That said, I'm sure you could return the collection if you needed to, and get a refund.

Dennis Miller said:

I am becoming very soured on this whole in the cloud technology and these net controlled/linked apps.

The problem is not the cloud at all, but rather publishers who are struggling to come to terms with the electronic era at all. It's entirely a permissions issue - will the publisher give permission for you to read the books you have purchase on multiple devices, or not? Sadly some publishers believe they will lose revenue in allowing you to do so, even though (in my view) that thinking is flawed. Nowadays I presume Logos insists that publishers allow you to use the resource on multiple devices, but when your collection was created, that presumably wasn't the case.

Dennis Miller said:

Just give me something I can installed on my devices that works standalone and only requires network access if I want it for updates and such.

If you have a Logos 4 base package, you will be able to read any books that are authorised for mobile use without network access.

My custom reading plans are no longer showing up.  The iPhone app just shows the standard reading plan to read the Bible in one year.  The reading plans are still on my Logos 4 desktop.  The bummer is that the custom reading plans are the main reason I use the Logos software.  I read in the morning before i get out of bed.  I am very disappointed by this bug in the software.  Unfortunately, the other bugs I and others reported previously are still not fixed.  If Laridian or Olive Tree had custom reading plans for their mobile software, I would use those and remove Logos from my iPod Touch.

A very disappointed customer,

Steve