Reading Books Offline
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Steve Brannon said:
OK, perhaps I'm naive, but I though "offline reading" meant that I could read
the book without a wireless connection. Today I discovered that this
assumption was wrong.I was out visiting and had some downtime. I pulled out my iPod Touch
(32GB, latest OpSys) and started reading MacArthur's "Ashamed of the Gospel",
which I had previously set to read offline, and I see the little airplane icon
on top of the cover art in my Library. I had no connection, and yet ever
page I turned was met with an error message "Error loading book Logos
could not load the specified book".Steve, I had the same problem until I downloaded each book and then opened them while I had my wifi connection. Once I turned off my wife connection and checked, all of my books worked fine. I don't know if this will help but give it a try. I do have the latestes update - 1.2.1
Lynn
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I downloaded version 1.2.1 this afternoon, and all appears to be working at this time.
I don't know how Logos announces new versions or the enhancements, but somehow I keep missing them ;-)
Thanks for everyone's help.
Steve
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Steve, Logos does not announce it... Logos builds the app, then submits it to Apple for approval, and apple posts it... but you can set your phone to look for updates to the apps or you can manually search things... this particular app was submitted to apple on Monday about 10pm Logos time... it became available about that same time four days later.
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Ryan,
Every time I try to set any book to be available off line nothing happens and the app crashes. Anyone else having this issue?
Paul Henry
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Paul, which version of the app are you running?
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Hello Kelly,
I'm running the latest, 1.2.1. Seems every time I try to set any book to read off line, after about 30 seconds the APP shuts down without downloading anything. It will reboot without any apparent other problems. Strange.
Paul
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Dan,
I believe the mute analogy is a good description; it just stops the information from being updated. Until I did that, I was getting access to my entire library which confused me.
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Sorry about that Paul, go ahead and sync your phone, that will send the data to Logos. They are aware of your issue since you have posted it here. I am certain that one of them will say something here shortly.0
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Lynn Hinman said:
So the verse search by entering the specific verse into the search function only works when the wifi is on?
Navigation by typing a Bible reference is not supported offline at this time.
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Paul Henry said:
Every time I try to set any book to be available off line nothing happens and the app crashes.
This is a known issue that we are working on. It affects some users but not others.
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I purchased my iphone Friday Jan. 1 and downloaded the app. I was able to download about four our five books for offline reading. On about the fifth book the app began crashing during download. I deleated and reinstalled the app, losing the books downloaded. From that point on I have not been able to download any books. I have synced the app program with itunes. God speed on working out the fix.
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I would think that this is a very basic function of a bible, and an absolute must have... am I wrong?
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Is(will) offline reading supported in the web version?
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It appears that with the latest update (1.2.2), the "downloaded but unopened book would not open in offline mode" bug is still there.
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I had trouble updating to version 1.2.2 yesterday. I had to delete the app from my phone and computer, then download the newest version onto my computer, then sinc my phone with itunes. This intalled the updated version (1.2.2) . Then when I tried to download books for offline reading, I would get the airplane logo in my library but the books were not available offline. Then I turned airplane mode off, opened the app, opened the book I wanted to download, navigated to a few different points in the book, and then initiated the download. This process worked for me. All of the books that were opened in the app before beginning the download are now available for offline reading.
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Amy Leung said:
It appears that with the latest update (1.2.2), the "downloaded but unopened book would not open in offline mode" bug is still there.
Hi Amy,
Does this occur with a specific book or any book you've tried to download for offline mode?
Thanks,
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ShikaiRonniePoon said:
Is(will) offline reading supported in the web version?
It is unlikely due to the significant technical challenges with offline web apps.
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Dave,
I updated the APP this morning and the "Reading off line" seems to be working fine now. I downloaded a book, turned the phone to airplane mode and pulled up the book with no problems. turned the Airplane mode off and everything loaded backup with no problems. Really sweet to be reading a book on my phone and get back to my laptop and pull up the book and have it open up to the same page I was on while reading it from my phone. Not sure about the others that are still having trouble.
Thanks
Paul
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If the book is downloaded and available offline will it default to reading it offline first and then go online. Or will it default to accessing online unless the net is not available.
I would assume the first is true, but just wanted to ask.
Dr. Kevin Purcell, Director of Missions
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Yes, I am having the same issue with the App crash while trying to download a book. I am using version 1.2.1 that was suppose to resolve this issue, but still have the problem.
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Kevin A. Purcell said:
If the book is downloaded and available offline will it default to reading it offline first and then go online.
Yes, the app will use the downloaded content before going online. You should therefore see a modest performance increase if you have a book downloaded, even if you're online.
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Gaylon, please update to 1.2.2, released yesterday.
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Gaylon said:
Yes, I am having the same issue with the App crash while trying to download a book. I am using version 1.2.1 that was suppose to resolve this issue, but still have the problem.
Update to ver 1.2.2 and see if that fixes your problem
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Dave Dunkin said:Kevin A. Purcell said:
If the book is downloaded and available offline will it default to reading it offline first and then go online.
Yes, the app will use the downloaded content before going online. You should therefore see a modest performance increase if you have a book downloaded, even if you're online.
Now this is what I call cool[H], thanks for your hard work Dave![:D]
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Anthony Etienne said:
Now this is what I call cool
, thanks for your hard work Dave!
Yes, I am starting really to like my iPhone Logos. It gets better and better.Good job Logos.
Bohuslav
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I downloaded the newest version 1.2.2 and now the books are downloaded and available offline.
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Bohuslav Wojnar said:
Yes, I am starting really to like my iPhone Logos. It gets better and better.Good job Logos.
Yes this is shaping up nicely. If the publishers will cooperate this will become a great app. I think that is the only thing holding it back and of course the search function. I still would love to see the ability to search one Bible and have the list of results all show in one scrollable screen.
Next would be notes sync now that the beta of the Desktop app allows for old notes importing and the notes feature in the desktop app is much better too since 4.0a.
Dr. Kevin Purcell, Director of Missions
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My wife and I just got our iPhones and this was one of the first apps I downloaded. Unfortunately I am unable to download any books so that I can read them offline. Every book I've checked has the read offline option greyed out. If anyone could provide some assistance I would appreciate it.
Thanks.
Chris
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Chris Bolton said:
Unfortunately I am unable to download any books so that I can read them offline. Every book I've checked has the read offline option greyed out.
You need to have a license for the book to be able to download it for offline use. If you don't have Logos 4, you can get it here: http://www.logos.com/basepackages.
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