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I don't think I'm having the same experience here. Is side-loading when you transfer the app from 1 phone to another or am I totally confused?
In July we switched from T-Mobile to AT&T and we upgraded my Galaxy Note 10+ to a Galaxy S22 Ultra (among other phones). DVD Profiler was working fine on the old phone and the app was copied over to my new phone. The app has always opened up on the new phone but it could never download my online collection. It would always hang while trying to download information and sooner or later I'd always have to cancel the download. I tried downloading my collection MANY times over the months since then (the last time being about a month ago) but always without success.
Then, earlier this afternoon I accidentally clicked on DVD Profiler when I tried to open something else. I closed DVD Profiler quickly at that time and went on with the other application. An hour or so ago I noticed that there was still a DVD Profiler window open on my phone. I looked at the screen, saw a warning about this program being designed for an older version of Android and asking if I still wanted to give it the same permissions that it had before. I clicked that, yes, I still wanted it to have the same permissions.
Since the app was open, I went ahead and tried to download my list and this time, for the first time on this phone, the collection downloaded and I can see the whole thing on my new phone. Hallelujah!
I realize that this isn't really a 32-bit vs 64-bit question but something changed for me today that's been a problem since last July. If this post should be moved to a new topic, that's fine with me but if copying DVD Profiler from 1 phone to another is side-loading, then side-loading worked for me today when it hadn't really worked for me previously.
Thanks,
GWGuen | Posted: Topic Replies: 5, Topic Views: 1429 |  | Thanks for the links to Comicbase. I know that I have the documentation around here somewhere but I can't find it right now.
Anyway, just adding UPC-A did NOT fix the problem. There was a quirk. I'll go thru how I fixed it in the unlikely case that someone else has this same problem.
So, I got this bar code scanner from Comicbase with the program. The included documentation lists both a recommended Easy Setup & an Expert Setup. Since there are potential problems from the Expert Setup, I stuck with the Easy Setup. BUT, what I realize now is that part of the Easy Setup includes requiring the supplemental codes (the extra 3-4 digits at the end of the normal UPC code which publications like comics will have). The bar code scanner would NOT recognize a normal UPC code.
I went ahead and did the Expert Setup now. Virtually the only difference between the 2 setups was that it does NOT require the supplemental codes to be a good scan. The bar code scanner DOES still read comic bar codes (with the supplemental digits) so that's good. I guess the possible drawback to this is that if I scan a comic UPC code but do NOT pick up the supplemental digits then the scanner will pass the scan to the program. The program will NOT identify the comic without those codes so there will be an error, but I can deal with that.
Thanks,
GWGuen | Posted: Topic Replies: 17, Topic Views: 10939 | | It never occurred to me that I could scan DVD bar codes and use them with DVD Profiler! I've already got a bar code scanner! Unfortunately, it isn't working for me with DVD Profiler. I think I know why but I want to see if someone here has a suggestion about it.
I collect comics as well as DVDs & I bought a bar code scanner at the same time that I bought Comicbase to manage my comics. The bar code scanner has worked great for scanning comics in for years, so it certainly works, but it's not working when I try to scan DVD bar codes. It doesn't seem to recognize that the DVD bar codes ARE bar codes.
I'm guessing that that's due to the way I set up this scanner a long time ago. Programming the scanner involved using the scanner to scan various barcodes to set up its features. I wasn't told to scan all of the bar codes so I only scanned the ones suggested.
One thing unusual about comic (& other magazine bar codes) is that the comic doesn't get a new bar code every month. It adds an extra 4 characters or something like that to the end, to identify which instance of the comic or magazine this is. I certainly scanned a barcode during setup that allowed the scanner to recognize the extra characters in these comic bar codes.
So, my question after all of this is whether I need to use a different bar code set to read DVD bar codes than I do comic bar codes? Does anyone know if these sets of codes are mutually exclusive or if the scanner can hold more than 1 set of codes at a time? I buy a LOT more comics these days that I do DVDs so I don't want to do anything to mess up the comic scanning. If I can only use the scanner for 1 type of item then I'll stick with comics.
Thanks for any suggestions you might have!
Thanks,
GWGuen | Posted: Topic Replies: 17, Topic Views: 10939 | |
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