I'm currently using MobileSheets to 3.8.6 on my Galaxy Note 12.2 (Android 5.0.2, which is the most recent version available), and also on my Galaxy Note 9.
Issue #1: You may recall that version 3.7.5 had an issue where it crashed on startup on devices running older versions of Android. I was one of the people who reported that problem, and I'm grateful that it was fixed so quickly. However, ever since then I'm experiencing a significant increase in the time required to sync my library from my tablet to my phone; the sync used to take less than a minute, but now it takes almost five minutes (for example, I just ran a sync that started at 20:26:57 and finished at 20:31:52 EDT, based on the time stamps reported in the status window).
This may be related to the upgrade, but it's more likely to be related to the fact that before I knew about the cause of the crashes, I tried deleting my library and reinstalling it from a backup. Or of course both of those factors may be coincidental, but they seem worth mentioning. The sync operation still works, but I'd be very grateful if there's a way to speed it up again. For the record, my sync settings are as follows:
- on the tablet:
- connect as: server
- sync type: update client
- all options enabled
- merge behavior: always use data from server
- connect using: wifi
- on the phone:
- connect as: client
- connect using: wifi
None of these settings have been changed since before the version 3.7.5 upgrade (in other words, the speed decrease wasn't triggered by a setting change on either of my devices).
Issue #2: This one may not be fixable easily, or perhaps at all, but it's worth mentioning just in case. The other day I needed to edit a PDF file on my computer, after which I used the new PDF to replace the existing one for a song already imported into MobileSheets. During the edit, the underlying images were reduced from 600 DPI to 300 DPI for unrelated reasons. The problem is that after swapping the PDF file, all my annotations were sized for 600 DPI and so they appeared four times larger than they should have been for the new PDF. There were many of them, and the easiest workaround on my part was to delete them all and recreated them (which I could do because I still had the old PDF and annotations on my phone).
...and finally, a feature request. This is very definitely a first-world problem, but I back up my library every time I add a new song. I always use the same backup destination (specifically, a local file, always using the same path and filename). Initiating a backup in this way requires a total of 9 touches, as follows:
1) open overflow menu
2) choose Settings
3) choose Backup and Restore
4) choose Backup Library
5) touch the file folder icon to select the backup destination
6) choose Local File
7) choose the existing file from the "Select Backup File Name" screen
8) confirm that I want to replace the existing file
9) touch OK to start the backup
It would be really nice to have an option (perhaps even directly in the overflow menu, or at least in the Backup and Restore settings screen) to repeat the last backup, intentionally overwriting the previous backup file. I understand that this would be dangerous in general, but I always sync the backup file to my computer anyway, so overwriting it is the simplest and easiest thing to do.
Thanks,
- Steven
Issue #1: You may recall that version 3.7.5 had an issue where it crashed on startup on devices running older versions of Android. I was one of the people who reported that problem, and I'm grateful that it was fixed so quickly. However, ever since then I'm experiencing a significant increase in the time required to sync my library from my tablet to my phone; the sync used to take less than a minute, but now it takes almost five minutes (for example, I just ran a sync that started at 20:26:57 and finished at 20:31:52 EDT, based on the time stamps reported in the status window).
This may be related to the upgrade, but it's more likely to be related to the fact that before I knew about the cause of the crashes, I tried deleting my library and reinstalling it from a backup. Or of course both of those factors may be coincidental, but they seem worth mentioning. The sync operation still works, but I'd be very grateful if there's a way to speed it up again. For the record, my sync settings are as follows:
- on the tablet:
- connect as: server
- sync type: update client
- all options enabled
- merge behavior: always use data from server
- connect using: wifi
- on the phone:
- connect as: client
- connect using: wifi
None of these settings have been changed since before the version 3.7.5 upgrade (in other words, the speed decrease wasn't triggered by a setting change on either of my devices).
Issue #2: This one may not be fixable easily, or perhaps at all, but it's worth mentioning just in case. The other day I needed to edit a PDF file on my computer, after which I used the new PDF to replace the existing one for a song already imported into MobileSheets. During the edit, the underlying images were reduced from 600 DPI to 300 DPI for unrelated reasons. The problem is that after swapping the PDF file, all my annotations were sized for 600 DPI and so they appeared four times larger than they should have been for the new PDF. There were many of them, and the easiest workaround on my part was to delete them all and recreated them (which I could do because I still had the old PDF and annotations on my phone).
...and finally, a feature request. This is very definitely a first-world problem, but I back up my library every time I add a new song. I always use the same backup destination (specifically, a local file, always using the same path and filename). Initiating a backup in this way requires a total of 9 touches, as follows:
1) open overflow menu
2) choose Settings
3) choose Backup and Restore
4) choose Backup Library
5) touch the file folder icon to select the backup destination
6) choose Local File
7) choose the existing file from the "Select Backup File Name" screen
8) confirm that I want to replace the existing file
9) touch OK to start the backup
It would be really nice to have an option (perhaps even directly in the overflow menu, or at least in the Backup and Restore settings screen) to repeat the last backup, intentionally overwriting the previous backup file. I understand that this would be dangerous in general, but I always sync the backup file to my computer anyway, so overwriting it is the simplest and easiest thing to do.
Thanks,
- Steven