Resume live scoring after the app closed or your battery died

When you need to resume live scoring after the app closed, you don't want to miss a rally. The app shuts down, your phone dies or your assistant has to take over: below you'll read, per situation, where to tap, what is kept and what isn't.

The app closed or your phone restarted

A point is saved on your first tap on one of the two point buttons. If the app drops out after that, you haven't lost that point. Open Koach again:

• The live screen opens again on the Match tab, with the score, the lineup and the serve order from the moment the app dropped out.
• If the app opens on the dashboard, it jumps to the Match tab by itself once, within the first few seconds.
• If the drawer was still open, the last point is there without a type. Leave it, or reverse it with Undo and record it again; see undoing a wrong point.

What you chose for this match comes back too: Simple or Expert, the roles and the libero, sets to 25 or 15 and the maximum number of serves in a row. How live scoring works in general is in the pillar article on tracking a volleyball match live.

Looking something up: parking the live screen and going back to live

Want to open the schedule or a player profile during the match? Tap the X at the top left of the live screen. The match keeps running. The Match tab then shows a card with the Live label, the set, the opponent and the score, and the Back to live button. You only see the list of matches again once the live match is finished. The screen stays on as long as you're scoring live.

Phone dead: carrying on with another device

Koach sends the running match to the server after every change, as soon as there is a connection. That's what lets another device carry on. It does have to be a device where someone with a coach account on your team is logged in: your assistant coach, or you on a borrowed phone or tablet.

1. Open Koach on the other device and go to the Match tab.
2. If the Live card is there, tap Back to live and keep scoring.
3. If the match is still in the list, tap Start live on the match. Koach sees that it's already being scored and shows Already being scored, with the score and the set. Choose Take over: you carry on scoring on this device from that score.

Anything the dead phone hadn't sent yet, for example because there was no signal in the gym, doesn't come along. So compare the score with the scoreboard in the gym before you tap on. What to do beforehand about a gym without signal is in live scoring without wifi.

After that, let only one device score. If two devices tap at the same time, they overwrite each other's points. Koach warns you about this: "Careful: this match is also being scored on another device. Keep scoring on one device, otherwise you will overwrite each other's points."

A player is already scoring: taking over from a score keeper

Did you pick a player as score keeper beforehand, scoring on their own phone, and do you want to take over halfway? For example because you want to track subs and the libero, which a score keeper can't do. Start the match on your own device with Start live and at Already being scored choose Take over.

• The score keeper's score and points come along. Koach fills in the court, the roles and the libero from your plan, because the score keeper doesn't track a lineup.
• If Koach doesn't know who started serving in the set, the app first asks "Who served first in set 2?", with the number of the current set.
• The score keeper gets a notification that they are no longer scoring the match, and their screen closes.

How to pick a score keeper beforehand and what they can and can't do is explained in scorer authorisation.

What is kept, and what is lost?

• Kept: the score, the sets, every point with its type and player, subs and timeouts, the lineup, the roles and the libero, and the settings for this match.
• Per device: your preference for Simple or Expert and for the maximum number of serves in a row in your next match. If you later start on another device, that device's choice applies.
• Gone with Undo start: this button in the More sheet sets the match back to planned and keeps nothing. If you've already scored points, the question says so: "Note: the points you already scored will be lost."
• Gone with Start anyway: if you start another match while one is still being scored, Koach says "Another match is already live". With Start anyway, that earlier scoring is lost.

If you work with an assistant, have them log in to your team before the match. How to run one team together is in assistant coach duties. With Coach, two coaches work on one team, with Club as many as you like; see the pricing page.

Frequently asked questions

Further reading

Undo a wrong point in a volleyball app during a live match Live scoring without wifi in the sports hall Scorer authorization: a player keeps score on their own phone

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