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[About XDA developers] omega_warrior:
A strange issue faced by me and a friend of mine, we both use Galaxy Ace S5830.

Issues

1. When threads are opened from mobile app, strangely 1st three coloumns appear empty.

2. If we select any post to quote the post above it or below it is getting selected.

3. Sometimes on selecting the post causes the app to FC.

It would be really great if this is fixed soon as we are not being able to thank or quote anyone...

Thanx in advance...
[About XDA developers] omega_warrior:
Screenshots to explain my issues...

Sorry am attaching as sepeeate post coz could not select my previous post to modify...
[About XDA developers] jatin@1:
[MENTION=5117509]omega_warrior[/MENTION]s

Thanks for addressing this problem.

I am also facing this and this one is really annoying.
[About XDA developers] bitpushr:
We have updated the Tapatalk server-side app to the latest version, I am thinking maybe it broke functionality within your app. Is anyone else seeing this problem and if so what version of the app are you using?
[About XDA developers] bitpushr:
FYI I'm rebuilding search again - Participated/Latest tab will be unavailable while this is running.
[About XDA developers] omega_warrior:
Tried the app again just now and I would love to admit that one of my issues is solved. I mean I'm able to select posts, thank and quote without issues, but still those blank lines above any page remains...
[About XDA developers] bitpushr:
Search index has been completed.
[About XDA developers] SaintCity86:
I finally got to the right place and was coming to see if anybody was talking about the participated section not working...

It was down all together a while ago, but for the past week it hasn't shown any threads I've posted in. Just the ones from before that random day it stopped. I switched to the tapatalk app but that might have been when you said you were working on it. I guess I'll find out now.

-----------edit----------

Still isn't getting the new ones as I go. It has a couple from a while ago. I've found a place in the all that shows all my posts though. So I think I may have found a solution of sorts...
[About XDA developers] idcrisis:
Hi,

Thanks for looking into this.

I'm getting these issues too on multiple devices with the latest XDA app. Just to summarise the issues with the app:

1. Two blank posts on every page of every thread, clicking which crashes the app

2. Clicking on the OP crashes the app ( so can't thank the OP for this thread for example ;)

3. Clicking on any post below the first selects the previous post.

4. It is nearly impossible to select and reply to the last post of the page probably due to point 3 above.

5. Clicking on certain posts from certain users crashes the app too.

Also don't know if it's related, but an edit post in the browser, any browser, Windows or Android, goes into an infinite submission attempt. It does edit the post in the background after but the post attempt never finishes in the GUI and has to be cancelled. Then if you refresh the page you see that sometimes the post has been edited according to your attempts.

Once again thanks for looking into it.
[About XDA developers] omega_warrior:
I had already posted about this issue few days back with screenshots but no solution till now... :(
[About XDA developers] SaintCity86:
Can anyone tell me quick,

When I go into the settings, and click on cache storage, external is selected with "download" typed in.

However, I do not have a download folder on my external. I do have one on internal, but there's nothing to do with Tapatlk or cache in there.

What folders I do have though are:

1. comquoordtapatalkxdapreactivity(cache folder) 610kb

2.tapatalk 3.36kb

3.tapatalk4 3.14mb

One had about 310mb in it, which I manually deleted, but I can't remember now. I'm running version 4.

Can anyone tell me which one is the actual folder. I guess I'll just wait to see which one gets bigger?

The first one is new though and I'm not sure where it came from.

Also, if there was 310mb of cache in a tapatalk cache folder , how come it wasn't detected and deleted by my cache remover? Was that an old deleted apps data and that's why it wasn't detected? And that's why I've got multiple folders?

Tapatold from my Galaxy S4 running Wicked v7
[About XDA developers] habylab:
I'm getting a reset now on my participated. First it was blank, now only topics I've posted in since then!
[About XDA developers] Stryke_the_Orc:
You're doing better than I am. Search is being indexed, a little patience and it'll be back;):beer:

Slithering from the nether regions of a twisted mind and tarnished soul
[About XDA developers] GROOVYJOSHCLARK:
I agree, I hate that I cannot remove from this option. I hate seeing posts from forums I rarely visit. I use the participated view strictly and work from this method so it would be nice to be able to manage it.
[About XDA developers] sylvernick:
:D

Enviado desde mi GT-I9300 usando Tapatalk 2
[About XDA developers] doctor_droid:
as said

its TEMPORARY

on the contrary

if they wont disable few functions of those app.. the whole server would go down making ur ENTIRE app useless... so plz b patient and trust xda...
[About XDA developers] bsmitty83:
Well unless i wanna troll all day it pretty much is useless right now......

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Xparent Cyan Tapatalk 2
[About XDA developers] detdett:
In 2 weeks

---------- Post added at 04:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:15 PM ----------

Temporary is couple hours. It's been almost three days now and still no updates. For people who purchased the app, this is very frustrating.
[About XDA developers] conantroutman:
Yeah it's a nuisance but it's not our fault. This is a necessity not a choice and we're all in the same boat of having paid for the app (which still works btw).

Whining about it won't fix it.

Sent From My Fingers To Your Face......
[About XDA developers] domini99:
2 weeks? Kidding me right??

Sent from my bigger sending thing..

Android throws apple trough window, double kill :cool:
[About XDA developers] PanchoPlanet:
Hey, maybe they can fix the "search" feature so that it actually works!

When you search for info it's not good at giving you the info you want instead it gives you all kinds of non specific content using every word in your search query. :confused:

Pp.

Transmitted from another galaxy with a Jellybean infused P-5113 full of Unicorn porn.
[About XDA developers] detdett:
It's not your fault? Really? This is the first time I've seen a forum app go down for extensive period of time...

EDIT: for the record, rootzwiki is accessible by tapatalk as well and their app is running fine...
[About XDA developers] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
The app works, the search feature is over capacity so had to be shut down until they can find a way to better manage the bandwidth used by search based features. :rolleyes: and temporary isn't "a couple of hours". Temporary simply means it's not permanent it could be 1 second or 1 millennium it's still temporary as long as it comes back. Maybe you could contribute something useful and write a new search plugin "in a couple of hours" for them instead of crying about your first world problems. In the last 2 or 3 days you cried about not being able to search from the app, 10s of thousands of people died, I don't think your loss of search is really all that important. I mean, don't your thumbs still work? Then scroll down the page and look at all the highlighted threads with unread new posts, stop being lazy FFS.

☆SoA: Son's of Android™☆

I like to break stuff! :D
[About XDA developers] detdett:
Your point would be perfectly valid if this was a free app. However, for a paid app that hasn't been updated for over half a year... That's another story
[About XDA developers] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
The app works fine, its the search plugin which is separate from the app used on the backend to query results to the app. Why would an app that's working need an update, less compatibility issues? All the updates that need to be done for the app to function don't go to the app, rather the backend the app uses to communicate with the forums it polls, in this case XDAs search plugin needs to be updated to manage bandwidth more efficiently so it doesn't crash their servers. If the servers tank the entire site is out for everyone including PC/Browser. You act like that app cost you hundreds of dollars, I'm sure you spent more on the afternoon snack you'll sh!t out later than you spent on the xda app.

☆SoA: Son's of Android™☆

I like to break stuff! :D
[About XDA developers] moparfreak426:
If they just soaked everything except participated, i think that would be a better position right now

Sent from my SPH-D710 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2
[About XDA developers] oae08:
For me, using the Xda premium app is USELESS without the participated tab. I usually never subscribe and only look at the participated tab as all the threads im interested in are in different sections. Hope this can be fixed ASAP. On the bright side, FINALLY maybe an update to the xda premium app that doesnt get any attention anymore.
[About XDA developers] Stryke_the_Orc:
Guys, it's temporary. Yes its a nuisance but get over it.

I'd rather lose the participated function than the entire app, and for the record I've paid for xda premium and tapatalk on various devices, but they aren't "useless" and I haven't subscribed to every thread I've posted in.

A little understanding and a bit of initiative and I haven't missed anything.

Slithering from the nether regions of a twisted mind and tarnished soul
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
FOR THE RECORD, RootzWiki DON'T have 5 million members. The server load/demand from this many users plays a significant part in the performance of our website.

Please be patient. Shit happens.
[About XDA developers] ALD3:
Good Luck with getting everything back running. Thanks for all the great forums. I miss using the app and look forward to it being fixed. Stuff happens people. Just deal with it. Life hands you lemons, just make lemon aide.
[About XDA developers] Prawesome:
The app still works, its just search that doesn't work

For the record, xda is STILL accessable by xda app and it still works great(nvm, I meant good). Pretty sure they will bring it back up soon since this is an important feature of the app
[About XDA developers] bsmitty83:
I don't mind a temporary inconvenience, nor do i care about an eta for a fix, i don't think its understood that the functions that have been disabled are the features that set the app and the website apart from each other, by doing this you effectively killed the functionality of the app , its easier to use the browser on my Phone for now . i think if different tabs were disabled other than the chosen it would be different . again i understand what is going on , it just sucks that the only option that xda had was to disable the (probably) most used tabs , anyways sorry for the book , just missing my fully functioning app :(

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Xparent Cyan Tapatalk 2
[About XDA developers] Febby:
Blah blah.... everyone complaining needs to calm down. If you want a participated tab buy forum runner as it works to access xda as well.

Thank you XDA staff for working on improving service! I don't turn around and complain 7 months later about 2$ I spent on an app because of a couple of days of down time with service. :)

Sent using XDA prem!
[About XDA developers] habylab:
No way :/ I can see this not being fixed any time soon. Virtually useless the app to me, at the moment, luckily I only check a few threads.

Sent from my Galaxy S3. Long live the original Galaxy S :)
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
Guys, enough of the negativity, arguing and complaining. I'm frankly sick of it. If I see any more I'll take further action, because it's just ridiculous.

I understand you paid a few $ for an app, and you expect to be able to use it fully. But as already said, this had to be done and will be resolved ASAP.

We put our members first in ALL our decisions, and we don't make these decisions without careful consideration. The server admin know what they are doing. It's their job.
[About XDA developers] crnkoj:
bad attitude, people should be allowed to state their complaints in such a thread (reasonably polite and mannered) and shouldnt be threatened by a senior member of the forum/organization for that. After all xda is nothing without its users..., be it developers, admins, mods or just normal users.
[About XDA developers] NardVa:
Even though the participated tab is not functioning, you can still mark threads as a favorite and pull those up without any issues. Just go to Favorites tab then topics.
[About XDA developers] doctor_droid:
as in the very first post... admin has clearly stated by himself....the temporary problem...

so why complaint for it then?? something which is already known

and assured of being fixed...

and i didnt saw any "THREATENING" by the_scotsman....

he NEVER said... ANY USERS COMPLAINING WILL BE BANNED..Plz bro interpret it correctly

instead he clearly stated that xda puts USERS IN FIRST PRIORITY....
[About XDA developers] mfsr98:
For God's sake, would you prefer the servers to "explode" or waiting for a fix?? There are way more expensive that if they did this you would shut your mouth and wait. I'm pretty sure that the action XDA is doing is totally legal even for a paid app so stop complaining!
[About XDA developers] freakboy13:
And this is a great way to get them to fix it faster. Yell at them some more! :rolleyes:

Its the weekend give it sime time.

Personally all I want back is the "participated" thevrest ..meh.

Favs still work so temp fix just mark the topics your reading all as favs.

Im sure xda did not "rip us off" :p
[About XDA developers] jdsingle76:
That's what I did. Great temp fix. Just subscribe to all the ones you're currently participating in, refresh every so often, and unsubscribe when you want. Cut 'em some slack folks. Even God rested on Sunday! :D
[About XDA developers] GEKTHEBOSS:
Or just use forum runner!
[About XDA developers] askpcguy:
One feature request I have is to remove threads from the app's participated tab. Sometimes I'll post in an unrelated thread and not get the answer I was looking for. In this case, having the ability to delete that thread would reduce the number of participated threads.
[About XDA developers] detdett:
+1. I know this request has been brought up numerous times. Now that the IT is working on improving the forum, that feature will further separate this app from the rest. I don't think other forums apps have this feature yet and it would be nice to be the first to have this
[About XDA developers] BLADESMAN1889:
+2

Idk if it makes much difference to the server but there are 60 topics in my Participated tab - many I don't use as related to previous phone etc.

Sent from NEXUS⁴ via XDA app [AOKP_B6]
[About XDA developers] GEKTHEBOSS:
+3
[About XDA developers] orangekid:
100% agreed on the "participated tab" thing, can't we just turn that into a subscribed thread tab like we have here when we hit "user cp"? with a chance to unsubscribe?
[About XDA developers] habylab:
Im not being negative, arguing or complaining. Be sick of it if you like :) I'm fine with it, the featude has always been intermittently working anyway. Hooe the issues are resolved.

Here here!

THIS THIS THIS! Is this down to Tapatalk though? I'm thinking it isn't the amount of threads but just the checking that causes the high server load. Hope this feature arrives though.

Sent from my Galaxy S3. Long live the original Galaxy S :)
[About XDA developers] oae08:
+4

Sometimes we change phone or Rom or kernel .. etc and dont want the older threads to appear in participated..
[About XDA developers] EndlessDissent:
Yes. I have at least three hundred participated threads, many of which I no longer view but are still active, and therefore clutter the topics in which I'm still interested.

Putting the ILLA in KILLA since 1985
[About XDA developers] BLADESMAN1889:
Which the app has to load up using it's search feature - (I may well be wrong on this) many of us would delete a large proportion of these threads that are no longer relevant to our current devices - easing the stress load on the server ?

Please correct me if I'm wrong :)

Sent from NEXUS⁴ via XDA app [AOKP_B6]
[About XDA developers] soccerfan6789:
Totally agree. It'd be amazing if they did that. This was also one of the complaints in the discussion thread of the app
[About XDA developers] ahmyani:
Me too :confused:
[About XDA developers] Mattix724:
I for one have no problem with the app being temporarily "crippled". I have my favorite forums and topics subscribed and I rarely search for anything because I already have most of everything I want subscribed.

The one thing I have noticed that bothers me just slightly is when you view someone's profile and try to check posts/topics by that user.

But we all have smart phones right? Click a post, hit more, open in browser, search from there. Problem solved!
[About XDA developers] _Variable:
Its working again for me!

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

Sent from a dark and unknown place

Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 P3100
[About XDA developers] bitpushr:
Just so everyone knows I applied a patch from the vendor which at least gets 'Participated Threads' working again, as well as posts by user. The Latest/Unread and Latest/All tabs are still not working so I'm looking into that.
[About XDA developers] MoHoGalore:
Thank you for working to get this resolved.

One small note of interest; it seems that the Participated tab is truncated to more recent activity and does not include all actual Participated threads. (If i'm looking at this right, looks like the patch was put in about 14 hrs previous to the time stamp of this post)

Is this due to the patch/fix you're awaiting for Latest as well or should this be expected for an "as is" fix?

(Thought I'd ask before the complaints come in about it, hope the question made sense.)
[About XDA developers] jdsingle76:
Good job. I know people have been busting chops about this issue, just wanted to give ya a :thumbup:
[About XDA developers] bitpushr:
I believe Participated should act the same as it did before.

Here is some technical detail to the issue. Nothing really changed on our side except for us adding a couple of forums. Out of nowhere our server loads spiked through the roof, I traced this to a slow SQL query happening from the Tapatalk server-side plugin. This query shouldn't actually happen, it was relating to search - and since we are so large we use a specialized search server called Searchlight. The query usually runs through Searchlight and doesn't cause an issue.

For some reason, Searchlight was not returning a result for these queries (apparently, this is caused by the Unread/All tab queries) so Tapatalk was sending it to our normal servers, bringing everything down.

The vendor applied a patch which prevents the servers from overloading when this happens, but it hasn't fixed the core issue.

So essentially, we're trying to figure out why Searchlight all of a sudden stopped returning results for those queries. From our experience in the past Searchlight databases sometimes get randomly corrupted, so I may have to do an index rebuild to fix that, and it takes a while to complete (Search if offline the whole time, so we prefer to do this 'off hours').
[About XDA developers] doctor_droid:
@ butpushr - i didnt understood a word... :D bt i have enough trust on xda... forum runner is still working fine so its okay for me to wait patiently... :) (post by a member is most important for me ;)

its a forum wid 5 million people so anything to prevent server crash is acceptable :) take ur time..
[About XDA developers] Spectre51:
I too have noticed that the participated tab doesn't show all the threads. Like it did before. Thanks for the quick partial fix. Hopefully yoh. Guys can get all the participated threads back. I use that tab more than anything.

Sent from my Xperia Tablet Z
[About XDA developers] Prawesome:
Wrong, i will leave it at that

That's great. Only feature I missed :D
[About XDA developers] EndlessDissent:
I can confirm this. It lists all 457 of my Participated threads in the orange header, but it only lets me scroll through 20 topics. It's still better than no Participated tab, though.

Putting the ILLA in KILLA since 1985
[About XDA developers] SPBoss:
Uploading images is like the lottery, most of the time it doesn't work. Regardless if I use the xda or tapatalk option it has never worked more than once in a row.

I have no idea how to fix this
[About XDA developers] c5satellite2:
Same here......ponderous. It should work every time. Why does pressing the pm tab crash the app for over a year now? Why does search in the app work POORLY at best?

Xda makes millions of dollars a year from advertising, but doesn't spend nearly enough on fixing, maintaining and bringing hardware online before issues like these happen.

Sent from the HOXL dimension of S-OFF
[About XDA developers] jerdog:
XDA app = tapatalk app. You have the problem in one, it will most likely be in the other
[About XDA developers] zelendel:
Odd indeed as I don't have an issue uploading images or using the pm system in the app

Wayne Tech S-III
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
Quoting this for emphasis...

Millions of dollars a year in advertising??? Is that really what you guys think??

Far out, you really have absolutely no idea....:rolleyes:
[About XDA developers] detdett:
according to statistics found on this site, yes
[About XDA developers] Stryke_the_Orc:
In reality its only tenths of a cent on the dollar (and that may be me being generous) for every ad that actually gets clicked, and probably a flat monthly or quarterly rate just to host.

I can't comment on xda's behalf as I truly don't know what deals they've worked out with who, but a simple google search will yield the average payouts for ad hosting. We're talking thousands of sites to make millions a year.

General rule of thumb, if you don't know what your talking about, and haven't bothered to take the time to do some very cursory research, probably best to say nothing at all;)

Slithering from the nether regions of a twisted mind and tarnished soul
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
Do you know how those websites work?

They have a very generic "calculation", likely based on traffic. It's absolute nonsense. If you think ANY websites makes MILLIONS each yer through ads alone then you're in la-la land...
[About XDA developers] bsmitty83:
Lol totally just stole that pic , love it

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Xparent Cyan Tapatalk 2
[About XDA developers] doctor_droid:
from xda app issues to xda website traffic and money making....

who took the wrong turn btw?? :screwy:
[About XDA developers] WibblyW:
+1

Update

Actually I'm now trying Tapatalk with the default set to 'Favorites'. I think this actually works better for me anyway as it tracks subscribed topics. I subscribe to topics I participate in - until I lose interest. Then unsubscribe, and they're gone from the Favorities view in Tapatalk too. :)
[About XDA developers] immortalneo:
It seems the issues with the XDA app/Tapatalk are half over. I can see the posts in the profile, and do searches! :thumbup:

"To err is human, to forgive is divine"

Sent from my SGS II
[About XDA developers] dabeez98:
Search not workin for me too

Sent from my GT-I9100 using muffin premium
[About XDA developers] bitpushr:
Just a heads up - Participated threads and related tabs will be broken again as I am currently re-indexing the search database. This should take about 4 hours to complete but may be longer. Will update this thread once search is back online again.
[About XDA developers] Deadly:
Thanks for the heads up.. much appreciated :thumbup:

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"The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking."-Albert Einstein
[About XDA developers] habylab:
Thank you for the post.

Sent from my Galaxy S3. Long live the original Galaxy S :)