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pdas
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TopperGas
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- Gender: Male
Re: pdas
They seem just the same speed as ever to me, the only issue is when you have a poor WiFI/4G connection.buchanpeter wrote: ↑15 Sep 2025, 16:03PDA's are getting slower by the week.
My whole life is watching that loading circle.
Too much spyware and bloatware installed on them now.
Will need more up to date PDA's in a year or 2.
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Mr Rush
- Posts: 3140
- Joined: 05 Aug 2011, 14:27
- Gender: Male
Re: pdas
Huge pain in the arse when it happens while scanning to Core Route. After the first incidence it's an active deterrent to scanning the 2D barcodes. It makes those cut-down Tracked labels that don't bother with a 1D (or even an address) even more annoying.
The machine stops.
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buchanpeter
- Posts: 113
- Joined: 06 Apr 2013, 20:52
- Gender: Male
Re: pdas
Not sure if ur saying they need to or stating that they already are.SpacePhoenix wrote: ↑15 Sep 2025, 20:20They need to split the software up into a number of separate apps:
* Mail Centre
* Delivery (Outdoor)
* Delivery (Indoor)
* Collections
* Caller's Office
Knowing about computers myself i can tell you that they already have seperated the apps.
Cause the outdoor app crashes on me all the time and throws me back to the menu screen.
Its most likely because i'm going too fast and the app crashes.
Take a pic, press submit, press power button to turn screen off to carry on.
Get to next delivery, press power button and its dropped back to the main menu.
When pressing outdoor it takes long to get back into it because its crashed and has to reload the outdoor app again into the RAM.
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Hitcher
- Posts: 1475
- Joined: 20 Sep 2009, 09:59
- Gender: Male
Re: pdas
Don’t hit the power button right away. Wait until it’s back on the list, then press it.buchanpeter wrote: ↑15 Sep 2025, 22:35Take a pic, press submit, press power button to turn screen off to carry on.
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SpacePhoenix
- MAIL CENTRES/PROCESSING
- Posts: 12067
- Joined: 12 Nov 2008, 17:03
- Gender: Male
Re: pdas
They're not separate apps atm, it's all just one big app.buchanpeter wrote: ↑15 Sep 2025, 22:35Not sure if ur saying they need to or stating that they already are.SpacePhoenix wrote: ↑15 Sep 2025, 20:20They need to split the software up into a number of separate apps:
* Mail Centre
* Delivery (Outdoor)
* Delivery (Indoor)
* Collections
* Caller's Office
Knowing about computers myself i can tell you that they already have seperated the apps.
Cause the outdoor app crashes on me all the time and throws me back to the menu screen.
Its most likely because i'm going too fast and the app crashes.
Take a pic, press submit, press power button to turn screen off to carry on.
Get to next delivery, press power button and its dropped back to the main menu.
When pressing outdoor it takes long to get back into it because its crashed and has to reload the outdoor app again into the RAM.
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LouBarlow
- Posts: 4702
- Joined: 15 Oct 2007, 18:56
Re: pdas
The most annoying bug for this right now, is it seems to randomly automatically group two tracked items together, if you have two or more for the same address. i.e. if I scan one, then the others appear automatically. This could be handy, you might think, but if one of them is a signature then it doesn’t let me deliver the other one without getting a signature for them both. I haven’t yet figured out a way around it, besides photographing the barcode of the post-able non signature tracked and scanning it on another PDA.
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Smoothbackground
- Posts: 1263
- Joined: 21 Sep 2023, 20:01
- Gender: Female
Re: pdas
When it does this, scan the item you don’t want to deliver, ie, the signed-for item, and it will ask you if you want to remove it. Clicking OK will remove it.LouBarlow wrote: ↑16 Sep 2025, 10:13The most annoying bug for this right now, is it seems to randomly automatically group two tracked items together, if you have two or more for the same address. i.e. if I scan one, then the others appear automatically. This could be handy, you might think, but if one of them is a signature then it doesn’t let me deliver the other one without getting a signature for them both. I haven’t yet figured out a way around it, besides photographing the barcode of the post-able non signature tracked and scanning it on another PDA.
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Mr Rush
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- Joined: 05 Aug 2011, 14:27
- Gender: Male
Re: pdas
Just imagine how many man hours are ticking away having to do this at thousands of delivery points a day. This is how we're losing £1m a day... no wait, this just in: we aren't all of a sudden.
The machine stops.
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LouBarlow
- Posts: 4702
- Joined: 15 Oct 2007, 18:56
Re: pdas
That is the problem I was having though. I couldn’t do this as it wouldn’t confirm the non-signature tracked as delivered, it would just present the signature screen.MERLIN681901 wrote: ↑16 Sep 2025, 19:23You can tap individual barcodes and select delivered or not delivered for each one.
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TopperGas
- Posts: 3340
- Joined: 13 Feb 2021, 22:46
- Gender: Male
Re: pdas
That's a bit of an exaggeration as I rarely have to do it, if you do have to it takes seconds, where it comes in useful is when you get to a customer with one item and two or more appear as if you're left on in the van w/o realising.