iPhone app synch

goulnik
 October 28, 2011 at 01:29 PM posted in ChinesePod Mobile Apps

I have a question about Self-Study on the iPhone - I am subscribed (on the main site) to 2 levels, where all lessons get marked as active.

However, when I go into the iPhone app, under Self-Study I get a different list, with levels ranging from Newbie to Intermediate.

How can I get the iPhone to synch? Update doesn't help, there is nothing under Options, and no Settings entry for ChinesePod.

Thanks

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hkboy
 October 29, 2011 at 01:30 PM

Goulnik,

I noticed that in my feed too.  After a closer look I saw I was subsribed to Qing Wen and they have different levels of difficulty.  Maybe that could be it.  It seemed it was for me.

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goulnik
 November 01, 2011 at 06:39 AM

On reflection, the issue seems to be linked to QingWen. I just noticed a lesson marked Upper-Intermediate under Self-Study on the iPhone (How to Say "This").

When I click on it, it is actually marked Qing Wen, so I guess there is some problem between lesson levels and Qing Wen flags.

However, removing and re-installing the app seems to fix things.

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goulnik
 November 01, 2011 at 06:17 AM

I am not subscribed to QingWen actually. I have been unable to study much in the past few months so I went back to Intermediate + Upper, and these 2 levels are correctly reflected in my dashboard. But not on the iPhone. I'm thinking of removing the app and reinstalling it, see what happens

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bodawei
 October 28, 2011 at 10:44 PM

Hey Goulnik, I'm sorry I can't answer your iPhone problem (I use an iPod to listen to podcasts but I don't use the ChinesePod ap because the list in Self-study doesn't look like my list of podcasts - it seems to be a selection not of my choosing).

But can you tell me about your ap that moves text around on the pdf - I can't get it to work on Chrome - is there a problem now with Chrome? (Thinkbuddha was asking about this matter and I suggested your ap.)   

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bodawei
 October 30, 2011 at 11:20 AM

ah, thanks very much goulnik. Believe it or not I used it quite regularly for a while and then after a break could not recall how I did it. I will write the instruction down immediately!

I hope thinkbuddha sees this.

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goulnik
 October 29, 2011 at 03:21 PM

my "ap that moves text around on the pdf" is actually a Chrome plugin, so it does work *only* with Chrome. But with the html rendition, not with the pdf.

Go to the bottom of the pdf file, and click on "visit the ... (text version)" - this goes to the html version (e.g. going from chinesepod_C1787.pdf to chinesepod_C1787.html). Then use the plugin.