As off yesterday I noticed a severe error in the Roon Remote app on my Samsung Tab S5e tablet.
After starting up the Roon Remote app for the first time after the recent update I saw the exact same warning (as posted here Screen resolution error) about my screen resolution being too small to run Roon. After clicking on “maximized”, all appeared to work without problems.
“Appeared” indeed.
Because now the opening of PDF booklets from the Roon Remote app does not work anymore. Might there be a relation with the resolution warning?
After clicking on the “Open File” link (see the above screenshot of my tablet) nothing happens.
Opening booklets from within the app was for me one of the most important reasons to start using Roon, so I really hope this can be fixed asap!
Just to prove that the problem does not lie within the tablet itself I tried successfully to load a PDF booklet via the ES File Explorer on my S5e. But that’s way too cumbersome for reading booklets on a regular basis!
Oh, and opening the very same booklet that I tried in the above screenshot is indeed possible from within the Roon Remote on my PC, so, I assume the Core is not at fault here.
And I get the same failure to load a pdf on a Huawei M5 Lite tablet which I believe uses a slightly different version of Android than the Samsungs. Like Hans I am able to open pdfs outside roon.
Just now tried the same on my older Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 where the previous version of Roon Remote (build 528) is still installed. Here the downloading and showing of PDF booklets still works.
I then copied the .apk file of the app from the S8.4 to my S5e. After enabling “install from unknown sources” I tried to install the .apk after uninstalling the 536 build. But at the end of the installation procedure it simply says “App not installed”. I have no idea why. Maybe because the older tablet still runs on android 6.0.1 and the newer on android 9?
Anyway, it would be useful if Roon could make the older build available as a download and in a way that it can be installed on any device and any android version, at least until this bug has been removed from build 536.
@dylan, thanks for picking this up. But could you, for the time being, roll back the Remote app to the previous version which seems to work just fine with the updated core. Or at least give us the choice.
I suppose it’s not all that hard to make the .apk of the previous build available for download?
And by the way, am I correct in assuming that different versions of Android require different versions of the .apk? (which would explain why the .apk of my Android 6 tablet cannot be installed on my Android 9 tablet)
I really can’t live without this booklet function which I use multiple times a day!
Thanks in advance!
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“Open File” for any PDFs found in the album directory and listed on the Album display does not do anything. I use this all the time and know it was working before the latest Android update. Opening a PDF on the Windows Client (on Windows 7) works fine in 537 update.
Hi @WillK — I moved this post to another thread where this is being discussed. We have a ticket open with our team about the issue with Android devices being unable to open PDFs. We’ll be sure to keep everyone updated as soon as we have more information.
Did you have the Roon Remote updated, @Bluebeat? I have not noticed any change in behaviour on my tablet but then again, it’s still the same build 537 that’s running…
And there does not seem to be a new update ready for download in the Google Play Store, at least not where I live (Holland, aka The Netherlands)
Hi @Stan_Jones
I’m using build 537 on a Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e (Android 9).
It’s still working. Right now listening to an ECM album, Baida, by Ralph Alessi through Qobuz: pdf booklet available and I’m able to open it.
Hi @Bluebeat, imho it would be impossible for a problem that came with a new build to suddenly disappear without the implementation of a new one.
Perhaps the on/off successes that you witness on your tablet have to do with the fact that it concerns booklets that come from Qobuz? I don’t use Qobuz, so I couldn’t comment on how that works exactly, but I assume that these booklets reside on the Qobuz server and not on your own?
My booklets are all stored on my NAS. And since 572/573 I have systematically not been able to open any booklets on my Samsung S5e tablet.
@Hans_Valeton
I’m not so sure it can’t be solved without an update downloaded from Google Play. I guess it depends on the problem too. But I’m no expert.
I have pdf’s from Qobuz and on my NAS. Both didn’t open when I first noticed this problem.
A few hours ago I only had time to try with a pdf from Qobuz. Maybe later today I’ve time to try a pdf located on my NAS.
Groet!
