Syncing reading position across platforms

Please provide some more information,

What version of the various apps are you using?

Does syncing work in either direction?

Do you have the resource open on multiple platforms at the same time?

Oliver said:

Interestingly, my highlights were synced. Just not the reading position.

Strange - I've just tried it on my Android phone (using the Bible app - I don't have the Vyrso one installed on that device) and it opens to the last-read position

Some further questions:

• Are there any indications of sync problems on the desktop? (Red exclamation mark in the "sync circle")
• Which way are you trying this? Desktop-> mobile or the other way round. Does it work in either direction?
• Are you finding this in all resources or just some?

alabama24 said:

Graham - Does the Android app provide a pop up "toast" to allow you to sync?

I don't believe so. I don't remember seeing one but I don't use the phone for reading much

alabama24 said:

Also, if a user has a resource in a saved layout, it will stay put, because that is what it is supposed to do... right?

This won't affect syncing down from desktop to mobile though.

Oliver said:

I have looked for a "sync" button or command in Vyrso and have not found one, either. I would be happy if Vyrso would just sync across the two mobile devices... which it still does not.

1. There is no sync command... sync is just "supposed to happen."
2. Sync doesn't work as well as it should, in my opinion.

In the iOS apps (at least in Bible!), a "toast" pop up <should> appear, allowing you to advance to the furthest read location. 

Previous to the Toast being implemented, sync would only occur when you opened the resource from the library... not when you left the resource "open." As far as I know, that is the current behavior on desktop as well. If you want to have a resource synced to the location from a mobile device, you must open the resource from the library. 

Oliver said:

I have tried syncing either way: Dasktop -> mobile, mobile -> desktop, mobile -> mobile.

If you pick a random, never been opened resource and open it on either mobile or desktop, find a new location in the resource (i.e. "page 100" or "chapter 5"), give the app a minute to automatically sync, you should find that the resource will open to that location across all of your devices. The reason you are running into trouble is because your resource is already open. [:s]