An aircraft maintenance technician recommended his air carrier fix the malfunctions with their ipad/...

Attributes
ACN	1287823
Time
Date	201508
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Airbus Industrie Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Parked
Component
Aircraft Component	Data Transmission and Automatic Calling
Person 1
Function	Technician
Qualification	Maintenance Powerplant Maintenance Airframe
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Procedural MEL

Narrative:

August 2015; I was called onto an aircraft due to a 'sys 2 reg' fault. Deferred item through lead and maintenance operations control (moc). Aircraft blocked out and I connected the MEL through ipad/digital communications under 'deferred aircraft maintenance technician (remove from work)'.upon arriving to work four days later; I was informed of the inadvertent fact [clearing] of the MEL. I explained the events that took place four days earlier to my manager and senior manager and came to the conclusion that there was an ipad digital communication malfunction. I believe we can prevent this event from happening again by fixing the ipad/digital communications [software] issues. Ipad facted [cleared] MEL.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An Aircraft Maintenance Technician recommended his Air Carrier fix the malfunctions with their IPAD/Digital communication software program that cleared a 'System-2 Regulator' fault discrepancy instead of deferring the Logbook item.

Narrative: August 2015; I was called onto an aircraft due to a 'Sys 2 Reg' fault. Deferred item through Lead and Maintenance Operations Control (MOC). Aircraft blocked out and I connected the MEL through IPAD/Digital communications under 'deferred Aircraft Maintenance Technician (remove from work)'.Upon arriving to work four days later; I was informed of the inadvertent fact [clearing] of the MEL. I explained the events that took place four days earlier to my Manager and senior Manager and came to the conclusion that there was an IPAD digital communication malfunction. I believe we can prevent this event from happening again by fixing the IPAD/Digital communications [software] issues. IPAD facted [cleared] MEL.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

An aircraft maintenance technician recommended his air carrier fix the malfunctions with their ipad/digital communication software program that cleared a 'system-2 regulator' fault discrepancy instead of deferring the logbook item.