Logos Library is Amazing, Mobile use is not.
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James Neuendorf said:
I created my own custom guide for the desktop version that runs a series of searches on a pretty sophisticated list of resources. I absolutely LOVE my custom guide, but once it has done its work, all I have to do is start wading through READING everything I found. If there were a way to export the contents of the guide on the desktop as a "reader's edition" so that it were essentially a downloadable printout of everything I check off the guide that I want to read, I would then be happy to open that on mobile and start working through it, offline.
You could get close to this - not exactly as you describe - by using Favorites. Set up a Favorites folder in the desktop app and drag the starting point of the articles you are interested in to it. Do this for all of the articles your guide returns. Favorites get synced to your mobile device and so you could access all the resources by going through the various items in your Favorites folder. What this doesn't do is limit the resource to just the article you are interested in - it would give you the starting points.
I don't want to go into more details here - it would divert the thread too much - but more details on use of Favorites are at https://wiki.logos.com/Favorites. If you want to explore this further please start a new thread in the Logos 8 forum.
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I agree that the highlight function could use some work. Whenever i try to highlight it takes a number of times to get it done. Also, it takes you to a page where you need to select the colour. This takes much valuable time just to highlight text. Perhaps the app could use default highlight colours first then allow the user to change the colour if its needed later on.
The mobile search functions are also very limited, personally i would hope to see more porting of desktop searches to the mobile platform so that the mobile users would be able to benefit more from the app.
I am open to paying a small sum for the mobile app if needed to improve the funcitonality to make it more on par with the desktop version.
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What are some of the primary offline improvements that you'd like to see?
Bring back SD card use..........
On the previous version, I had a lot of my books downloaded to a SD card
and had no problems at all. Around 5 gig worth, this was for a tablet.
If this newer version doesn't allow this, then they have taken a step
back not forward. There may be a time when you can't get internet access
and if you can't download most of your library to a SD card, then you
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My wish list is incredibly simple: continue working with the downloaded books when internet connectivity is lost. I learned something interesting tonight. I've mentioned here a few times that the app doesn't work at all if I'm not connected. Now I realize that is only true for the iOS app. I fired up the Android app on my Chromebook, turned off WiFi, and tried to use the app. It continued working! So, I got out my iPad and tried the same thing there--no dice! Without WiFi, the iOS app became completely unresponsive. I can't imagine this is intentional.
Logos employees, if there's anything you want me to try for you, let me know.
Bob
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Bob Price said:
I got out my iPad and tried the same thing there--no dice! Without WiFi, the iOS app became completely unresponsive.
Have you done a delete and reinstall?
macOS, iOS & iPadOS |Logs| Install
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Yes 1k times over.
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Chris Lane said:
Have you done a delete and reinstall?
No, I have not, but I will do so. It's certainly easy enough to do, and I should have tried that already.
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I deleted the app and reinstalled it, and it seems to be working with my downloaded resources when I don't have internet connectivity. I'm thrilled that I'm able to use the app when my internet connection is spotty, so this is a big win for me! Is it really that simple? Question for the Logos folks: when I brought up the fact that the app didn't work at all when offline, no one spoke up to say that this is abnormal and not what I should have been seeing. Does that mean that this really is a problem, or did I just have a corrupted installation somehow? Thanks for any light you can shed on this.
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There's a long-standing anomaly in the iOS mobile app - not sure if it's still there in the 8.x series - that manifests with the symptoms you've described.
If you migrate from one device to another and use iOS backup / restore to do that, and/or the built-in migration feature (which uses bluetooth under the covers, I believe), the Logos app will show up on the new device. Within that app, all the resources that had been downloaded on the previous device will still show up as downloaded - even though they aren't actually on the device. So you have to "remove" them (even though they're not there) and then re-download them. I believe the same behavior would be observed if you reset an existing device to default settings and then restore from backup.
When you're offline and trying to use resources that show as downloaded, I see the behavior you've described. So my process in such situations now is to plan for that step when migrating / upgrading to a new device.
FYI...
Donnie
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I hadn't run across that before, but I think that is definitely what happened to me. Thanks Donnie!
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Hi Daniel!
It is way to early to start talking about improvements when the basic functionality issues of LOGOS 8 mobile are still a disaster zone. Simple things like the book covers don't appear on a huge percentage of resources in the Android app. I've given up even trying to do anything very much on my iPad because of crashes, freezes failures to load and download and the host of other problems many others are reporting. We're almost 3 months into the new launch without fixes to basic functions.
The most infuriating thing of all is the sparse information from FL on many of these issues. Given the past history of FL's communication on problems, which was always reassuring, the current silence communicates to me that FL has no idea what the score is on many of the current plagues affecting this release. In my view you released too soon, and I for one would much prefer to be able to return to LOGOS 7 than to continue the frustrating use of this disaster. If this is an option please let me know how to do it.
I do think it is time for a response from the top of FL.
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ManilaDave said:
We're almost 3 months into the new launch without fixes to basic functions.
So.... 2 months & 2 days = "almost 3 months"?! In all fairness, there have been fixes and it's the holiday season so we should allow for more time (both for communication and fixes).
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