Tff and Samsung s5

DieselRob

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North Yorkshire

• Dec 22, 2014

• #1

Just got an s5 and downloaded tff from play store but it doesn't run very smoothly, spends a lot of time "connecting to server" and not getting past that message unless I go into app manager and force stop then come back in to app, at which point it runs fine. Anyone shed any light or experienced the same problem?

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Great In Grass

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Cornwall.

• Dec 22, 2014

• #2

Try "Tapatalk" https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quoord.tapatalkpro.activity&hl=en_GB

I believe that is what the TFF app is based on.

 

Notquiteretired

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West Lothian

• Dec 22, 2014

• #3

DieselRob said:

Just got an s5 and downloaded tff from play store but it doesn't run very smoothly, spends a lot of time "connecting to server" and not getting past that message unless I go into app manager and force stop then come back in to app, at which point it runs fine. Anyone shed any light or experienced the same problem?

@admin
@FarmGeek

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Do you have any other apps to kill that are running ie try it with just TFF as it sound like low on resources on the phone.

 

DieselRob

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North Yorkshire

• Dec 22, 2014

• #4

FarmGeek said:

Do you have any other apps to kill that are running ie try it with just TFF as it sound like low on resources on the phone.

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No there is very little running, I haven't bunged it up with much yet but tff was near top of the download list, there is certainly less going on than on my s4 previously and tff ran almost seamlessly on that

 

Notquiteretired

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West Lothian

• Dec 22, 2014

• #5

Have a go at clearing data and do an uninstall and re-download - just in case a glitch on install

 

Boysground

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Mixed Farmer

Location

Wiltshire

• Dec 22, 2014

• #6

my s5 does the same. I have given up on the app for now and just use chrome to see tff. Its a bit of a pain as it was much easier to post photos using the app.

BG

 

del_boy

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Location

Herefordshire

• Dec 22, 2014

• #7

DieselRob said:

Just got an s5 and downloaded tff from play store but it doesn't run very smoothly, spends a lot of time "connecting to server" and not getting past that message unless I go into app manager and force stop then come back in to app, at which point it runs fine. Anyone shed any light or experienced the same problem?

@admin
@FarmGeek

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Mine does exactly the same, got to go into setting and force stop then it might go! Have tried un installing it then re installation but exactly the same. Used to work perfect untill the app was updated.

 

DieselRob

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North Yorkshire

• Dec 22, 2014

• #8

FarmGeek said:

Have a go at clearing data and do an uninstall and re-download - just in case a glitch on install

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Ok I'll try that, the heaviest things running were Facebook and settings, both using about 180mb of ram, I've stopped Facebook to see if that might help, didn't someone else have a tff/Facebook problem?

 

Notquiteretired

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West Lothian

• Dec 22, 2014

• #9

Does it crash out with any errors? @admin or @alan01252 do you get reports of these fails to load/initialise behind the scenes - crash analysis type reports.

 

Great In Grass

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Cornwall.

• Dec 22, 2014

• #10

I gave up on the TFF app over 12 months ago use Tapatalk if on data connection or Firefox browser with WiFi.

 

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theboytheboy

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Arable Farmer

Location

Portsmouth

• Dec 22, 2014

• #11

I find I hit the tff app then when it says connection to server just hit back to go back to the main/hone screen and then just go back into tff and it's loads ok.

 

Against_the_grain

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S.E

• Dec 22, 2014

• #12

Yeah I'm the same on s5. I find that if I close it then re-open it it works ok. Thought it was just me!

 

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Bob c

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Cotswolds

• Dec 22, 2014

• #13

on my s5 mini i use Google chrome

 

Major

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Scottish Borders

• Dec 22, 2014

• #14

I just use Chrome too.

 

del_boy

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Herefordshire

• Dec 22, 2014

• #15

Against_the_grain said:

Yeah I'm the same on s5. I find that if I close it then re-open it it works ok. Thought it was just me!

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+1

 

alan01252

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• Dec 22, 2014

• #16

From the sound of these errors the application isn't even getting to our servers Currently our server error log is completely empty so there's not much else we can do from our end.

I've had the app running on my HTC ONE - M8 since we first started getting reports of problems but so far I've been unable to reproduce anything similar. That being said there's "always" been issues with TapATalk on Android and Xenforo ( the software that runs TFF ) it seems to be on an ongoing battle.

See this thread for other people experiencing issues on several other forums.

http://androidforums.com/threads/tapatalk-and-xenforo.884514/page-5

Part of the problem is Xenforo doesn't have an official API by which to access the forum data which means any mobile application developer is always going to have to write their own software to parse the website text and then display it in the mobile app.

These guys are making money from this though, so hopefully a fix will be out soon, I'd recommend keep updating the software and trying again.

Sorry I can't be of more help here!

 

Last edited: Dec 22, 2014

DieselRob

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North Yorkshire

• Dec 22, 2014

• #17

Thanks for all the replies, I've taken a screenshot of what is happening

I can click on the screen at any time and the message disappears leaving just the tff sign in the top left corner, when I click that it goes back to the connecting message rather than to the pop out menu

 

ford4000

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Livestock Farmer

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north Wales

• Dec 22, 2014

• #18

DieselRob said:

Thanks for all the replies, I've taken a screenshot of what is happening

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I can click on the screen at any time and the message disappears leaving just the tff sign in the top left corner, when I click that it goes back to the connecting message rather than to the pop out menu

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ford4000

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Livestock Farmer

Location

north Wales

• Dec 22, 2014

• #19

I've just had an S5 and similar problems with mine, I can open the TFF app and read posts no problem, but when I sign in, all I get is that "connecting to server " like in the post above

 

del_boy

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Location

Herefordshire

• Dec 23, 2014

• #20

DieselRob said:

Thanks for all the replies, I've taken a screenshot of what is happening

View attachment 92388

I can click on the screen at any time and the message disappears leaving just the tff sign in the top left corner, when I click that it goes back to the connecting message rather than to the pop out menu

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+1 . Exactly the same as mine,
When i get a notification in the top left of my screen if i click on it it takes me straight to the site, but i cant access via the app icon!