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Check in, flag watched and collected

Each episode displays a button bar with four actions:

Episode action bar

  • Check in (via GetGlue or trakt)
  • Watched flag toggle
  • Collected flag toggle
  • Create calendar event

How check-ins work

Check-in to let friends or the world know what you are watching right now. With SeriesGuide, depending on which service you use, check-ins behave a little differently.

trakt
Checks into single episodes, so look out which episode is displayed when you check in.
GetGlue
Checks into a show. You can use the Paste episode button to include the watched episode title in your check in comment.

Remove a show

To remove a show:

  1. From the show list, touch and hold a show.
  2. Touch Remove.

Manually update shows

Update all shows:

  1. From the show list, touch Menu .
  2. Touch Update (outdated only) or Update (all).

Update just a single show:

  1. From the show list, touch and hold the show.
  2. Select Update.

Backup or restore your show database

To backup or restore your show database:

  1. From the show list, touch Menu .
  2. Touch Settings.
  3. Touch Advanced.
  4. Touch Backup/Restore and follow the given instructions.

Tip Some users sync their backup file with e.g. Dropbox around devices as an alternative to a trakt account.

Change the app language

To use the app in English you have to set your devices language to any variant of the English language. Android will take care of the rest. By the way, all translations come from volunteers who translate free of charge (!) on crowdin. Please consider helping to translate or proof read!

Fix an issue

Quality of translations

All translations come from volunteers who translate free of charge (!) on crowdin. Sometimes these are not as accurate as they could be. Please consider helping to translate or proof read!

Playing episodes or movies

Sorry, SeriesGuide does not offer shows and movies for viewing.
However, below each episode you will find links to popular services like Google Play or Amazon where you can (depending on your country) watch episodes.

Missing or incorrect information about shows, episodes or movies

First of all try updating (see here). Otherwise the information on thetvdb.com (shows) or themoviedb.org (movies) might be wrong or outdated. SeriesGuide gets its data from thetvdb.com, an open user-maintained TV database and themoviedb.org, an open user-maintained movie database.
You may consider helping those projects to add or update show and movie information. Look on their websites for further information: Guidelines for thetvdb.com, About themoviedb.org.

Wrong air times for some shows

SeriesGuide gets its data from thetvdb.com, an open user-maintained TV database (see above). The air times there do not carry any time zone information. For now SeriesGuide assumes those to be US Pacific time (west coast) and from there converts it to your time zone. For some shows this can be wrong (most of the time for international shows, like e.g. anime or British telly).

GetGlue check-ins end up with the wrong show or do not work

  1. From the check-in dialog, touch Fix GetGlue check-in.
  2. Select the show you want to check in to. If it is not listed, touch Looking for something else? and enter a search term, then press Enter or Search on your keyboard.
  3. Touch Save selection.
  4. Touch Check-In to repeat the check-in.

The app widget displays no data or is missing in the list of available widgets

You may have moved SeriesGuide to the SD card. For the widget to work, SeriesGuide has to be on your phone or internal memory. Move it back and everything should be fine again (if not, try rebooting your device).

Changing the device time zone leads to wrong air times

Please stop SeriesGuide and restart it:

  1. From your home screen, go into Settings.
  2. Touch on Apps.
  3. Find SeriesGuide in the list of downloaded apps and tap on it.
  4. Touch Force stop.
  5. From your launcher, start SeriesGuide SeriesGuide icon again.

trakt integration

If you want to know exactly what is going on with trakt.tv integration, read ahead!

Add shows from your trakt library

  1. From the show list, touch + .
  2. Swipe to the Library tab.
  3. Touch on the + next to a show to add it to SeriesGuide.

Info SeriesGuide will try to load which episodes are already watched and collected from trakt when adding a show.

What is synced

Check-Ins
Submitted to trakt. On the next update checked-in episodes are marked as watched.

Watched flag
Changes are sent to trakt. Other SeriesGuide installations will mark episodes as watched, but never remove the watched flag on the next update.

Collected flag
Changes are sent to trakt. Other SeriesGuide installations will mark episodes as collected, but never remove the collected flag on the next update.

Info If you want to match up unwatched episodes, read the section below.

Manual sync with trakt

Sometimes you might be in need of manually syncing watched flags, for example to match up unwatched episodes with your trakt library.

  1. From the show list, touch Menu .
  2. Touch Settings.
  3. Touch Services.
  4. Touch Manual sync with trakt.
  5. Follow the given instructions. If you want to match up unwatched episodes, check the box on the bottom before syncing.

Still lost?

Ask on the SeriesGuide Google+ Community. Or if you are up to it report a bug on GitHub.