This feels like something that absolutely must be my fault but I can't figure out why.
The Markdown Editor no longer allows edits of any kind. If I open a note and try to edit it, I get a keyboard and a cursor; if I push buttons on the keyboard, the phone does its standard mini keyboard vibrate, but nothing is entered in the note. All notes appear to be read-only for some reason, including a new note I made just to test this.
If I switch to the Rich Text Editor, I can edit things . . . but then the "back" button doesn't work, so there's no longer any way to leave the note, even if I switch back to Markdown. Actually, I can't get the back button to work at all anymore even if I don't mess with editor settings. I think that's new.
Also, this is all on my wife's phone. My phone, which is also Android 3.5.8, works fine. I cannot tell what's different about my wife's phone.
Does she use any apps which use an accessibility service / device administrator access? Sometimes such apps can draw over other apps and cause issues, but that’s a longshot.
What is the phone model and is it stock Android with google play, or some other Android derivative like LineageOS?
Alright, might have been a bit of a mistake on my part originally; it’s the Markdown Editor that does work, it’s the plain text editor that doesn’t work. However, both of them make it impossible to hit the “back” button, so I can’t actually get to “configuration” after triggering the issue. Thankfully it seems like at least some logs are persisted for a time:
As far as I can tell these aren’t marked read-only in any way; also, entirely new notes have the same behavior (meaning you can’t write anything at all). I can edit the same notes on my account.
Sorry I’m taking a while to respond, I obviously need my wife’s phone in order to do stuff and we’re both busy. But thanks for the help so far
I take it you’re using Joplin Cloud or Joplin Server as the sync target? Those errors should only occur for a shared notebook, unless you’re somehow able to go to edit mode for a note or notebook which is in the trash
All notes appear to be read-only for some reason, including a new note I made just to test this.
When you say you created a note to test this, did you create the note on your wifes phone directly, or on your phone via a shares notebook and then sync it with hers?
Also, if you create a new notebook directly on your wife’s phone, and then create a new note within that notebook, does the issue still occur?
Joplin Server, sorry, should’ve made that more clear. When I say “it works on my phone” I mean my account connected to the same Joplin Server still lets me edit stuff.
I meant “create note on my wife’s phone”, but just to test:
Created a note on my phone with text, synced, sycned on wife’s phone, verified note and text showed up, still can’t edit it (although . . . weirdly, the back button worked this time? Same backtrace in the logs though.)
Trying to create a new notebook says “Cannot add an item as a child of a read-only item”.
Tried to make a new note in the base folder, just in case that was the issue, and it wouldn’t even accept the “new note” buttonpress. I think this is just a Joplin bug that you can’t make notes in the base folder and there’s no good UI feedback if you try.
I was able to make a new base folder on my wife’s phone, then make a note in that, and edit it. So for whatever reason it’s just treating the shared folder as read-only, and providing no useful diagnosis when editing, and also breaking the back button for some reason. But I can’t figure out why it would be doing that; it’s shared from my account, but I don’t seem to have an option for whether it’s shared read-only or not.
