Fork works much better on Android, largely because it moves sync conditions into the individual sync jobs (what ST calls folders).
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halm@leminal.space 1 month agoYeah, phone to laptop, and I recently synced all backups and files from an old phone to a new one, too. Once you have the computer setup, you can basically connect phones by reading its QR code.
If the official Syncthing Android app is giving you a hard time, maybe try Syncthing-fork? IIRC that’s only the daemon and web GUI wrapped as an app. But I’ve used the main app only for the past few years.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 month ago
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I have the phones connected, but the app just decides to disconnect and stay that way until I check it. I’ll give that fork a try, thanks!
halm@leminal.space 1 month ago
Perhaps your phone has extra aggressive battery saving settings that kill the background process? The official Syncthing has a setting to run as a persistent service, which always helped me.
Otherwise see if you can make system exceptions for the app to run in the background, and allow it to auto-sync. It’s been a while since I used the forked app, buy it did help me out on a device where the official didn’t work for me.
Hope this helps.