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Catfriend1 / syncthing-android

Syncthing-Fork - A Syncthing Wrapper for Android.
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no reinstallation possible #1074

Closed tooka closed 6 months ago

tooka commented 6 months ago

Hi everyone, the update process of syncthing-fork via fdroid on my pixel7 could not be completed. It always came back to the "install" button. So I deinstalled syncthingfork and tried to reinstall it leading to the same problem. deleted cache and storage of fdroid, tested older versions of syncthingfork from the fdroid list. Strange thing is even I deinstalled, it asks me if i want to update the app after i pressed the installation button. I deleted the folder in android/data. Is there anything i can do for a complete removal with no root rights?

I tried everyrhing with the playstore version. It says syncthingfork can not be installed and i should try again. deleteing playstore and app settings and cache did not help.

Standard syncthing installs as expected.

Is there anything i can try as standard user, or access a log file for error messages?

Thank you for your help Tom

Catfriend1 commented 6 months ago

Hi,

Seems like your Android package manager hit a bug. I don't think this is a generic problem.

iammer commented 6 months ago

Everyone's package manager on Android 14 QPR1 has a bug with drawables with a long vector path. Who knows if/when Google will fix it. The upstream project has the same issue: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/2026

As a work around, I was able to install using adb.

tooka commented 6 months ago

Thank you very much! That solved the problem! I had adb still installed on my pc, so I just started the usb debugging ohn the phone and installed syncthing fork with its apk and "adb install" leading to "success". Even my settings are still there. Let's see if google will fix this within its package manager. So thank you very much again for this fast help and best regards! Tom

edit: just to make a final statement: in the syncthing github @iammer mentioned it was said that the beta of googles firmware fixes the problem, so it seems adressed and will be rolled out in the future.