Finds not showing ... why?

[+Valeites]

I went out today (as a newbie) and found 3 local caches using my iPhone. I logged each as being found using the app, but on looking at the listings tonight those events don't show. Please would someone tell me (politely)the stupid mistake I made?

[+Bear and Ragged]

Are they still 'Pending' on the phone?

(You did link the phone/account didn't you?)

 

Are they in 'Field Notes' here > http://www.geocaching.com/my/fieldnotes.aspx

 

Other than that I have no idea. (I'm not an iPhone user/cacher!)

[+mellers]

I went out today (as a newbie) and found 3 local caches using my iPhone. I logged each as being found using the app, but on looking at the listings tonight those events don't show. Please would someone tell me (politely)the stupid mistake I made?

I'm afraid I'm not an i-phone cache either (I use a GPSr, & a PC) but I'm wondering if the i-phone app works in the same way as the GPSr bit only so perhaps I can hazard a guess for you.

 

Perhaps logging the find on the app, simply registers it off-line as found for your own personal "count" (in the same way as logging it as found on a GPSr would). When I've come home after a geocaching trip - I then have to log on on-line to geocaching.com and register my finds again (in an on-line stylee) together with any descriptive log I may wish to write. It's only when I've done that second on-line step that my finds register against my name.

 

It's entirely possible that the i-phone app only does the first bit and doesn't talk to your on-line account. You may still have to log on to geocaching.com and log the find against each page as a separate action. Or there may be a way of getting the 2 (the app and the site) to talk to each other. But obviously an i-phone user could confirm this or perhaps explain it better!

[+HazelS]

This is going to sound really vague....

 

It's been a good few months since I used the icrap to cache with, but I remember you "write a message" (log it) and then have to remember to separately send it...... I know I stuffed up a few times.

 

I'd not bother while you're out in the field, people get funny about very short "TFTC" or non existent logs, so just take a note book, jot down a few notes, then write a good quality log when you get home!

 

[+eusty]

I'd not bother while you're out in the field, people get funny about very short "TFTC" or non existent logs, so just take a note book, jot down a few notes, then write a good quality log when you get home!

 

Top tip...wish more did this

[+Robbie65]

I had the same problem with the android app.

I deleted the log and then re-found them when I got home using my laptop.

 

Problem now solved.