Critical update submitted for both versions

By iStudiez Team July 30, 2011

After the latest update we bumped into the bug when users reported creation of long-lasting semesters caused the app to freeze. Short-lasting semesters could be created with not problem at all.

Funny that we could in no way reproduce this on our devices. We got to the idea that it might be territory related bug when we paid attention to the names of the users who sent us their complaints: after short investigation it appeared that all of them are located in the countries of Latin America (Brazil, Peru, Chile). Some more investigations, and we found out it was related to the daylight savings specifics in the Latin America.

There were more bugs reported by you and we appreciate all your comments and valuable input. So, we fixed it and submitted critical updates for both iOS and Mac versions.

iPhone/iPod and iPad version:

Fixed occasional crash on start after recent update
Fixed crash while creating regular schedule
Fixed crash related to overnight performance of the app
Fixed occasional crash while syncing
Fixed occasional crash in Calendar

Mac version:

Fixed crash related to overnight performance of the app
Fixed crash while creating regular schedule
Fixed occasional crash while syncing
Fixed weekdays control view for Lion

NOTE: if you experience any of the problems described above, do not delete the app, just wait for the update.

UPDATE: iStudiez Pro for Mac version 1.0.3 and iStudiez Pro 1.5.3 now available in the App Store.

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~abhimat Abhimat

Nice investigative work!
Maaz

I installed this recent update on my iPod Touch 2G. When I ran it for the first time nothing would load and it would eventually crash. I kind of need this app for this summer semester grades as it ends this week and I put all my grades in it haha. Hopefully you guys can fix this soon.
Tiago

That’s great news! I hope the new release comes out in the App Store soon.

However, there are two things that have been bothering me in the app (in 1.5.2, the release that is out for us) and since I don’t know whether you’ve already taken care of them or not I’ll post them up here.

1. I think there might be a problem in the Notifications menu in the Settings part of the app. I’ve been wanting to have the app tell me I have an exam the next day, but I don’t want it to tell me that I have classes. So, I try to turn notifications ”off” for classes, but the ”when” page for the exam notifications goes blank. I’m not very knowledgeable in the field of programming but I take it this should be easy code for you to correct.

2. I don’t know if this is actually doable within the app and I was just too dim to figure it out, but I’d like to make the exam grades be worth twice as much as other assignments (homework, papers etc) because that’s how it works at my school. So, for example, if in you got 80% in an exam and 60% in an assignment, your GPA would be calculated taking the 80 into account twice (80 + 80 + 60 divided by 3). I know this can be done by adding the exam grade twice, but I believe there should be easier workaround to this, and it could also help people with similar school systems.

Then again, I don’t know if it is actually possible to do this using the ”weights” menu for assignments. I read something in the FAQ about you wanting to add the ”weights” function for exams as well and maybe that’s what I’m suggesting you do here. I dunno.
Daniel

Waiting for Apple aprove the update!
Alexandre

I’m having that problem when I want to confirm classes it freezes and I have to restart the applicattion.
Raul

I cant wait for the update!! Hope it works for iOS 5!!
Peter

Just updated and it’s crashing all of the time during creating of schedule! Please fix it.
esteban

I just updated it. I restarted my iPod touch 2nd gen And it is still crashing :(((((
- https://istudentpro.com iStudiez Pro Team
  
  Esteban, please send us your data backup. Try removing the app and restart it again.
Cesar

Great update. That was fast!
Update 1.5.3 solved the crashing issues (at least for me).
Emma

Just installed update and is still crashing straight after opening. Please help. I’m dying without this!
- https://istudentpro.com iStudiez Pro Team
  
  Emma, same question as for Raul: did you update both versions, iOS and Mac?
Raul

Just updated and it is still crashing on start.
- https://istudentpro.com iStudiez Pro Team
  
  Raul, did you update both mobile and Mac versions?
Marcella

Thank you!! Awesome update!! Super fast too.
Seems like this new update solved all of the crashing and freezing problems I was having when trying to add a class or anything else.
Antonio

It’s working fine here. Any kind of issues I’ll back here. 😀
Jackie

I’m a homeschooling mom and have a couple questions about the functionality of the app. What I’m looking for is one app/calendar to keep track of ALL our assignments, field trips, dentist appointments, music lessons, swim classes and enrichment programs. So the app would need to sync with gcal or iCal, so that when I’m on my iPhone I can see evything that on our calendar for a certain day. I don’t what to just see the full calendar on my iPad. Hopefully this makes sense. Does your app do all that?
- https://istudentpro.com iStudiez Pro Team
  
  Jackie, using iOS 4 (Mac OS 10.6 for Mac version) and later allows you to see all your events from the native device calendar in iStudiez Pro (though not vice versa so far).
Rodolfo

It’s working perfectly now!!! =)
Maybe on next update work something out for printing schedules, just a suggestion!
Great app!
Raul

Only have and updated the mobile version on iOS 4.1
It is crashing on start since upgrade to 1.5.2 from 1.4.5. Not solved with critical update 1.5.3
michael

syncing does not work from ipad 2 (4.3.3) to iMac (2011) with osx 10.6 or 10.7!

keep getting: sync error, Please try again in a few minutes.

i tried everything on the guide, nothing works.

who has gotten past this error and has gotten this to work between an ipad 2 and a iMac (2011) with lion or snow leopard??? (without sending an email of the data backup, that is not sync!)
- https://istudentpro.com iStudiez Pro Team
  
  Val and Michael, try to reinstall the app on your devices.
Val

I updated it, It’s still crashing when I try to go to the Semesters section. (I have iPad/iPhone version).
Raul

Reinstalled app and restored data. By the moment ok.
Steve

Is there anyway to print or email the assignments? I have the pro version. Also, any way to copy or extend assignments to more than one day. For example, I want to copy all my classes. They all have the same assignments each day with minor variations. Is there any way to copy them without having to input them again?
- https://istudentpro.com iStudiez Pro Team
  
  Steve, no print option so far. As for repeating assignments, we are working on it.
Pedro P.

Just waiting for a promo to get my copy!
Daniel Cortez

I bought today the MAC, and IPHONE versions of the program and I want to congratulate to all. This is very good piece of software. But…
A thing that lacks is the possibility of attach archives and documents on the schedules and tasks. I cant beleave a professional software like this do not have this basic feature option!

Other important thing is create a text or notes to courses with dates. Like a real notebook. You have some forecast to add this new and fundamentals features?

This changes can make your software the best.

Thanks

Daniel
Peter

Since the last update, my ‘today’ classes are not showing – it says, all the time, “no more classes today” – I use it on an Iphone 3GS, at 4.3.5, last version of IStudiez and on an Ipad 2, same settings. Any idea?
Dee

Short Evaluation:

MacApp (on Lion)

Bugs: * Not possible to fully step through a Formular via Tab-Key (It’s working from Course-Name to first Date-Field, then stops) (ISO 9241-110)
* Not possible to in- decrease Date and Time Values via +/- Keys (ISO 9241-110)
* Overview: My Semester starts on 12.10.2011 and ends on 2.2.2012, Dates after 3.11.2011 are NOT shown in the overview
* Crashbug: Adding a new Teacher with most of the Fields filled, except, web-page and Times, switching to another teacher, switching back to the new made teacher -> Crash, after restart the new teacher is an double entry
* Inconsistency, wherever there is a “plus”-Button to add something, there should be a “minus”-Button to remove something aswell (ISO 9241-110).

iOSApp (on Beta5 5)

Bugs: * Crashbug: App is crashing at the end of Sync, no sync possible

Wishes: * iCal/XML-Export
* Month-View in Overview
Dee

* Overview, Event, Contextmenue, “Show Details”, “Edit Details”, doing the same, when I click “Edit Details” I expect to be in Edit-Mode righat away (ISO 9241-110)!
http://twitter.com/jp3dro João Piedade

Is there any intention of having a fullscreen option in iStudiez Pro for Mac? It would be quite awesome
- https://istudentpro.com iStudiez Pro Team
  
  Joao, we will definitely work on that.
Vu

Ummm I have a macbook and an iPad but I also have an android phone (Galaxy S2)

I was wondering if there will be an android app anytime soon or will I have to bring my iPad to school every day
Cintia Davila

Are there any plans for developing a website “app” so users on the go, on different computers, and on Windows computers can have access to their synced data on the cloud? Soft of like the dropbox online account access…. This would be an amazing feature for many of us who already own iStudiez Pro!
- https://istudentpro.com iStudiez Pro Team
  
  Cintia, we already thought of that, but not for now, maybe later in the future. Right now we are working on one more interesting project and will announce details very soon
Shantall

Hi, don’t know if this is a good place to post this question, but here it goes. Since I installed the app on my iPhone (yesterday), I haven’t been able to see anything in my “Today view” screen. it just says no more classes today, all day. Is there a way I can make it show my schedule for the day on there?

PS, aside from that, both the Macbook and iPhone apps are awesome! Thanks!
- https://istudentpro.com iStudiez Pro Team
  
  Shantall, please double check your time frames for courses/classes/semesters.
Caroline

I am having the same problem as Peter. My today classes aren’t showing. Please help!
Emily

I was just wondering if there was a way to add multiple professors for a course. I know different professors can be added for various exams, but I was curious about the entire class in general.

Also, a full-screen version for the Mac would be so awesome – can’t wait for that!

I love these apps so much!! Thanks!
- https://istudentpro.com iStudiez Pro Team
  
  Emily, sure you can add multiple instructors to the Class: just tap any class and when editing it you will see the Instructors field. Tap it and you will see the list of all your instructors to choose from.
Omar

I have the 1.0.1 version on my mac, and I can’t find a way to update it. I have been searching online on how to update but I couldn’t. Is the update automatic? is it available somewhere else? Should I delete that app and re install it?

Thanks
Omar
John

Many of my classes are online. Exams open at a date/time and are open for 48 hours. It would be nice to allow for this in Exam set-up.
John

also, for online classes, assignments are due at a time on a day rather than just a day. Could you please allow for a time?
- https://istudentpro.com iStudiez Pro Team
  
  John, you can add your online classes as all-day events in your iCal and they will be shown on the top of Today screen.
Omar

How can I update my current version?
I’m having so many problems synchronizing information and loading.
- https://istudentpro.com iStudiez Pro Team
  
  Omar, you can update the app through App Store app on your device or via iTunes under your App Store account.
Billy

please please please release an update with at least minimal iOS 5 support. I bought the mac app because I was unable to add semesters (meaning I couldn’t add courses or classes either) in the iPhone app. So I bought the mac app hoping that I could add the semesters, courses, and classes on the Mac and use cloud sync to get them on my iPhone but the iPhone app crashes when I try to do cloud sync!!! This is getting seriously aggravating.
- https://istudentpro.com iStudiez Pro Team
  
  Billy, we are working on this.
Thomas

It happened to me too. Please make an update for it.

Cheers
Dalia

@Peter Shantall and Caroline

I don’t know why they don’t care about our issue but I got that bug too. All my timeframes were correct and my today classes would not show up all day. I backed up my data and reinstalled and was able to add an exam to my today screen. Also while malfunctioning my week view had two Wednesdays. This also happened to my boyfriend. Otherwise I adore the app!
- https://istudentpro.com iStudiez Pro Team
  
  Shantall, Caroline, Dalia: we are working on that and we always pay attention. It is just that things take time. Your data backups to our support mail would help greatly.
  Thank you.
Kelly

I have updated both the desktop and iPhone version of the app, and both are now closing. Prior semester information looks like it is missing — don’t know since when I click on it in the desktop version, nothing happens, and on the iPhone, I can’t even GET to the planner without it crashing. Classes start on Monday, so it would be nice if I could get my summer information restored and the fall ready to go!
Than

My ‘Today view’ haven’t shown anything since I updated the lastes version. Plz help me fix this up…this app is the most important app to me T_T

I”ve already check the time frame time frames for courses/classes/semesters as you suggested, but there is nothing change with them.

Plz help me out>>>by the way I love this app so much
Eduardo

I +1 Billy. This app is great, especially with College starting next week, but I can’t get my schedule on my iPad 2 and my iMac is staying at home so its kind of pointless right now since with my iPad running IOS 5 Beta 6 can’t sync or create courses. I would like any kind of update to give me any way to add my courses to my iPad.
koby

mac version is very bugious and has a lot to improve.
you can’t even copy classes or semesters, the view is not refreshed so sometimes it’s completely not updated, you can’t create a course that is on more than one semester and you can’t add instructors on the fly.
Michael

Hi,

Thanks so much for fixing the bug where the notes get erased when you modify the class details, that was really annoying me. The only problem I’m having now is the same one that Peter and Shantall have, none of my classes show up in the Today overview. My calendar events show up fine, but my classes don’t show up at all after the 25th of August. Before then, the classes show up, but the calendar events are listed first, then the classes, regardless of what time of day they are. This bug has only existed since the update.

Other than that the app is great,
Cheers,
Michael
Michael

Oh, I forgot to mention that I have checked my course/semester dates, and they’re all correct. The classes just don’t show up in the Today overview.
- https://istudentpro.com iStudiez Pro Team
  
  Michael, we already fixed that and will be submitting the update asap.
Dalia

update: it didnt work… Now I have two Thursdays on my week view.
Jeffrey Stevison

I can’t even enter instructors any more. Deleted all the data started over and I go into the app with a clean DB try to add more than 1 instructor and the app crashes. Continues to crash over and over and over. I’m a student. What a waste of TIME and MONEY. I have the latest version. I have deleted the app, cleared the data and still problems. At this point I’m un-istalling the app, posting a review on iTunes for both the mac app and the iOS app of 1 star. This is not the time to be having problems. The first week of school.
- https://istudentpro.com iStudiez Pro Team
  
  Jeffrey, We are sorry to hear that. Right now we are working hard to fix this problem and submit update asap.
  Thank you for your patience.
Baldo

Hi!
In the Mac app (in Lion), I’ve encountered the following problem:

In several occassions, the application crashed. The main problem is not that the application crashes, but the fact that when it does, all the changes from the last time you opened the app are lost.

If the application crashes, you may loose 5 seconds until you have it working again. But if changes are lost, you may have to spend minutes or even hours to input all the information once again.

Finally, some labels are not translated to Spanish.

Although the app concept is quite good, I have some suggestions as well:

– I have a calendar in iCal, retrieved from Google calendars, which doesn’t appear in Preferences/Calendar, thus that events are not shown.
– Also, it should be fine if classes and tasks could be shown in iCalc (select a Calendar where all iStudiez events can be shown).
– When you write a start time for a class, the final time is automatically calculated +1 hour. It is fine, but in the university it is frequent to have 1.5 or 2 hours classes. It would be good if I could input somewhere the class duration, so that the final time is calculated. A good place could be “semester information”, where you define starting and ending dates for the semester.
– I would suggest a better use of gestures and Lion features. For example, agenda page changes when moving two fingers left and right. Full screen support would be nice as well.
– An option for printing the schedule would be fine.
– And I think it would be a good feature to be able to attach some files to task or classes.

Thanks!
- https://istudentpro.com iStudiez Pro Team
  
  Baldo, in case you have crashes, please send crash logs to our support mail, we will investigate and provide a solution.
  
  Now, as for your suggestions:
  – Using iOS 4 (Mac OS 10.6 for Mac version) and later allows you to see all your events from the native device calendar in iStudiez Pro (though not vice versa so far).
  – You can customize your default class duration time in iStudiez Pro internal settings.
  as for the other, we will think them over
Miguel Angel Cabrera Mouzo

Since the last update, my ‘today’ classes are not showing – it says, all the time, “no more classes today” – I use it on an Iphone 4 with iOS 7.0.4, last version of iStudiez and on my Mac with 10.9 Mavericks, help please.
- https://istudentpro.com iStudiez Pro Team
  
  Hi Miguel!
  
  Did you create iStudiez Pro data backup before update?
  Please send us the backup to support(at)istudentpro(dot)com.
  
  Hope to hear from you soon.