Member Tools is missing members and organization leadership

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rmdunford
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Member Tools is missing members and organization leadership

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Post by rmdunford »

This has been going on for weeks now. It's in the app reviews and in several other forums.

When I update Member Tools, it is not downloading my entire stake, nor are the leadership positions filled in consistently.

I have updated multiple times and uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times.

For example, my ward membership list appears complete, as does the leadership list.

However multiple wards show zero members or maybe dozen members (out of 300+).

Under Organizations, some wards show a few leadership positions and some show none at all. I mean the positions themselves are not even on the screen. I can attach screen shots if that will help.

I still have LDS Tools version 3.6.1 on another phone, and it is updating and showing info correctly. So I'm thinking it's just this newest version.

I reached out to Tech support through the app and was told the problem was fixed and to re-update everything. That was useless. Nothing has changed.

Everyone is complaining because we can't do our callings very effectively like this. Going to the website and copying and pasting individual emails does not work very well, especially when I have to do it for 40 or 50 people across the stake.

When will this problem be addressed?
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Re: Member Tools is missing members and organization leadership

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Have you submitted in-app feedback so that the team has the details they need to isolate the issue?
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Re: Member Tools is missing members and organization leadership

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I have been attempting to help a member with the same problem. I am Stake Technology Specialist and have tried clearing cache and data, un installing and re installing. We did submit an in app request for help but have yet to have any success. The odd thing is that this member couple have identical phones but only one is experiencing problems. I am thinking this is probably an account related problem.

Does anyone have any other thoughts I could try?
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Another thread has some posts regarding this same issue on Android. I am on the beta and have not had any problems with missing data using the beta version (4.0.4). If on Android, you might have them go to the play store and tap the link the join the beta, then update to that version and sync again. If I recall correctly, there are some filtering apps that have been known to block the data servers (again, search the forum for info on those) so if they are using a filtering app it could be the culprit.
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dansbell wrote:The odd thing is that this member couple have identical phones but only one is experiencing problems. I am thinking this is probably an account related problem.
It's possible it could do with different callings, depending on their calling.
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It was doing that on my Android phone for a while. Not sure what I did, but it went away after a few weeks.
So we can better help you, please edit your Profile to include your general location.
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Post by russellhltn »

Mikerowaved wrote:It was doing that on my Android phone for a while. Not sure what I did, but it went away after a few weeks.
It's possible a problematic event passed outside of the sync window.
Have you searched the Help Center? Try doing a Google search and adding "site:churchofjesuschrist.org/help" to the search criteria.

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9256steven
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I've just noticed that I have disappeared from lds tools app, I can login but I'm not visible on any lists but other members can see my name. Reinstalling and rebooting phone hasn't fixed it?
glpage
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Post by glpage »

Thank you 9256steven. At least it's not just me!
Tried to meet with the RS Pres. last night. Three separate phones were missing several people in the ward, and they aren't set to private. One is the YW Pres, and she's not in the YW leadership list, either. The membership clerk can see them...... and so can his wife. There should be no restrictions on the RS Pres. We did manual updates, but that didn't make a difference.
Help!
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Re: Member Tools is missing members and organization leadership

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Post by BrianEdwards »

Most members experiencing this data loss in the Tools app (myself included), have found that manual sync updates generally are not sufficient. Usually logging out of the app is sufficient, as the login to the app forces a complete download of all information into the app. Some have mentioned that deleting and reinstalling the app was required, although perhaps logout/login would have also been sufficient for them. Perhaps there are some kind of cache issues that need to be cleared on your phone for the Tools app, I don't know much about that.

That said, it definitely may be that you have tried this and are unsuccessful. I doubt that anyone here in the Forum can provide a solution that will resolve your data loss, if those options don't work. Submitting Feedback is a good idea, as the quantity of bug reports for a specific issue like this, appear to have some kind of effect in prioritization. In any case, it seems that the best current workaround is to use the web info instead of Tools. Obviously not ideal, but it should at least be workable.
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