Try opening the music app and playing a song in the background, put it on repeat and turn it all the way down. It should keep it from sleeping. Sorry about the exchange server thing, the second way is quite a workaround - hopefully background sync is up next on the list.
thats a great idea.....good thinking!
I've got a jailbroken iPad and I was hoping to find a tweak or something I could do to help me with this issue but so far no luck. thanks guys
While the implementation detail changes sound like a bummer for Plex; this is must-have functionality for a top-rate IOS app. Having to carefully "coax" a device into getting everything synced up greatly undermines the awesome "it just works" that makes Plex so great to begin with. Hopefully it's worth the effort to make this happen.
It doesn't seems to be a priority for the team. I agree with you, it will add a lot to the iOS application. iOS7 is out for almost a year now (and the first beta for more than a year). Haven't you had time to rethink the sync process?
strange thing is, plex is already listed in my "background syncing applications" inside iOS-settings .. but it just does not take advantage of it. really sad
This is getting ridiculous.
iOS allows for background updates for more than a year now, and still no advancement on this point. Are you at least looking into it? It's really annoying to have to launch the application (and let it on foreground...) when we only want to sync.
This is getting ridiculous.
iOS allows for background updates for more than a year now, and still no advancement on this point. Are you at least looking into it? It's really annoying to have to launch the application (and let it on foreground...) when we only want to sync.
Yeah, it's been a while...
+1 iOS 8 now, surely this should be on the roadmap?
+65,536
I thought I could have my alarm clock app run in the foreground to keep the screen from locking and let Plex sync in the background, but no. Many sad faces litter the streets until this gets programmed :mellow: :mellow: :mellow: :mellow: :mellow: .
It's been a full year since this feature has been made available to developers, please add this!
A workaround for now: stream anything to your phone, just mute it. Should work (haven't tested though). Try music so as to not have server transcode too much.
I'm not sure this can presently be done on iOS since iOS doesn't allow developers to create system services (processes that run in the background), if I recall correctly. Perhaps there's other tricks on iOS that I'm not aware of but I haven't used iOS since the iPhone 3G. Since then I've been using Android and it's not good on Android either.
Android can have services, but I've found Sync to be extremely unpredictable and unreliable. It's a feature that really needs some work. The service will randomly die on me, show me incorrect or not up to date info. For example the sync section in the app on the onResume() method in Android shows everything is unsynced until it talks to the server again... which requires hitting the sync button again. At this point the notification will show that the service is running again. If I'm lucky, it will make it past all the initializing and gathering media info steps and start to actually sync. Sometimes it just dies during the first 2 steps. Sometimes it works and says it's syncing, and you get no information as to how far it's completed. You can't find this information within the sync section of the app (as all titles, even synced ones, say not synced at this point) or from the notification from the system service.
I would use sync a heck of a lot more if it actually worked because upload speeds from my home internet connection suck hard. I like to watch a few shows while I'm on break at work.
You can, it’s how the photo uploads on iOS work. Last I heard it was an issue because they designed sync before the background feature was implemented so it would have to be rebuilt from nothing (their words not mine) I will try to find the post later: but that was the last time I believe a Dev addressed the issue
This is something I would love to see. The beauty of sync is that you just set it up and forget about it, and your media is there whenever you need it. A lack of background sync completely undermines what makes sync great in the first place.
this is requested almost a year ago .. and i think we have to wait a year or two more...
Plex for Android : 75 Updates since Q1/2013 (265.631 views)
Plex for iOS : 18 Updates since Q1/2013 (74.324 views)
there are 4 times more updates on Plex for Android, than for iOS .. and 4 times more Views .. so it's equal. but sure, i know there are more Android Users out there than iOS-Users ... so i can live with it.
but knows whats funny??
Plex for Windows Phone : 28 Updates since Q1/2013 (14690 views)
these are 10 Updates more than for iOS and 7 times LESS Views ...
Sales 2013 :
Android 758.72
iOS : 150.79
WindowsPhone: 30.84
You can't base it off of views and number of updates.
1) People with Windows Phones might not look at the updates page, I don't look at the iOS updates page.
2) The number of updates are not indicative of the amount of updates. There may be 20 things updated in a single update, especially with iOS because it takes Apple days to approve updates and if they get something wrong they need to resubmit it causing more of a delay for users so they will add a lot of updates into a single update through Apple.
While I would love to see this feature I am not positive that it is possible within iOS. Yes, other apps can "sync" in the background it is not hundreds of megs of data. For instanace Google updated their Gmail app not to long ago to be able to pull down your email in the background but required you to have notifications turned on which to me says that they were able to figure out a way to send your email through the notification service. This is different than downloading a movie or tv show in the background. I really don't think this is possible right now, the infrastructure within iOS is not there and I really don't see it coming anytime soon because then you will get tons of apps trying to download tons of data in the background and your battery would drain quickly, this is a problem with Android.
You can't base it off of views and number of updates.
1) People with Windows Phones might not look at the updates page, I don't look at the iOS updates page.
2) The number of updates are not indicative of the amount of updates. There may be 20 things updated in a single update, especially with iOS because it takes Apple days to approve updates and if they get something wrong they need to resubmit it causing more of a delay for users so they will add a lot of updates into a single update through Apple.
While I would love to see this feature I am not positive that it is possible within iOS. Yes, other apps can "sync" in the background it is not hundreds of megs of data. For instanace Google updated their Gmail app not to long ago to be able to pull down your email in the background but required you to have notifications turned on which to me says that they were able to figure out a way to send your email through the notification service. This is different than downloading a movie or tv show in the background. I really don't think this is possible right now, the infrastructure within iOS is not there and I really don't see it coming anytime soon because then you will get tons of apps trying to download tons of data in the background and your battery would drain quickly, this is a problem with Android.
+1 on the bg sync, it's derpsy to have to manually do this...
+1 from me too.
absolutely +1 from me.
+1 for me as well!
+1 definitely
