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Hi all - is anyone using the above combination of technology? More importantly, are they using it successfully?
I've got a support call in to Magnetospeed down in Texas, but while waiting to hear back from them (very nice folks on the phone), I thought I'd see if anyone up here was either using the same setup as I've got successfully, OR if other folks are getting or had gotten the same error (with or without the exact same setup as I'm using) - if anyone did get the message and managed to figure things out, I'm all ears...
Background: the MS Sporter unit arrived last week, meaning I had to schedule a range trip to use it, where things went very smoothly. All shots were registered after I bumped up the unit's sensitivity setting (heavy barrel = larger distance from bullet to plane of sensor deck), and I was congratulating myself on making a useful purchase (not always the case...).
The trouble arose after I got home, when I tried to connect the Sporter thru the XFR dongle to my iPhone, in order to transfer the data from the Sporter to (eventually) Excel to spend even more time thinking about shooting, er, analyzing the data...
After some initial handshaking between the unit and the phone, I am consistently getting the error message "Data transfer Error!" on the XFR app on the iPhone when I try to do the "sync" operation (which moves data from the Sporter to the iPhone). The initial handshaking must be at least partially successful, however, as the XFR app does figure out that its talking to a Sporter, along with displaying the correct speed unit and sensitivity setting from the unit, but it doesn't get anywhere past that point.
I had to upgrade my iPhone from iOS 5.x to 8.4, as the XFR application requires iOS 8.1x or higher. I don't see a way on the Apple site to go backwards from 8.4 to 8.1, so I don't think downgrading the OS is an option.
Any experiences that folks have encountered with the XFR unit would be appreciated.
Cheers,
ShooNew.
I've got a support call in to Magnetospeed down in Texas, but while waiting to hear back from them (very nice folks on the phone), I thought I'd see if anyone up here was either using the same setup as I've got successfully, OR if other folks are getting or had gotten the same error (with or without the exact same setup as I'm using) - if anyone did get the message and managed to figure things out, I'm all ears...
Background: the MS Sporter unit arrived last week, meaning I had to schedule a range trip to use it, where things went very smoothly. All shots were registered after I bumped up the unit's sensitivity setting (heavy barrel = larger distance from bullet to plane of sensor deck), and I was congratulating myself on making a useful purchase (not always the case...).
The trouble arose after I got home, when I tried to connect the Sporter thru the XFR dongle to my iPhone, in order to transfer the data from the Sporter to (eventually) Excel to spend even more time thinking about shooting, er, analyzing the data...
After some initial handshaking between the unit and the phone, I am consistently getting the error message "Data transfer Error!" on the XFR app on the iPhone when I try to do the "sync" operation (which moves data from the Sporter to the iPhone). The initial handshaking must be at least partially successful, however, as the XFR app does figure out that its talking to a Sporter, along with displaying the correct speed unit and sensitivity setting from the unit, but it doesn't get anywhere past that point.
I had to upgrade my iPhone from iOS 5.x to 8.4, as the XFR application requires iOS 8.1x or higher. I don't see a way on the Apple site to go backwards from 8.4 to 8.1, so I don't think downgrading the OS is an option.
Any experiences that folks have encountered with the XFR unit would be appreciated.
Cheers,
ShooNew.
