Operating system Android Joplin version 3.5.8 Sync target Joplin Cloud What issue do you have? I am trying out Joplin as a replacement for Evernote, which has gotten too expensive. The program is great, but I have not been able to get synchronization to work to my phone running Android. It's pret…

See FAQ | Joplin You need to enable developer options and disable screen timeout, or use a third party app such as Caffeine to toggle off the screen timeout. Then keep Joplin in the foreground and the screen on while it syncs

I knew I'd leave something out. I enabled Stay awake in the developer options yesterday and have kept it plugged into the charger.

If the count goes up and up way beyond 54,000, possibly killing the app and then leaving it for another few hours might resolve it

The total from the Sync status section is slowly increasing, now to 45254. The number of attachments now downloaded has also increased to 17235. Should I be concerned that the Android app has two master keys and that the Encryption Config says the master password is not set or is invalid?

[image] Beirne: Should I be concerned that the Android app has two master keys and that the Encryption Config says the master password is not set or is invalid? That is potentially a concern. Did you definately enter the master password correctly? See details about the encryption bug which i…

I'm copying and pasting the password from 1Password, so it shouldn't be a typo. If I paste in my Joplin Cloud password and hit SAVE, I correctly get a popup error saying that the password is incorrect. If I paste in the master password and hit SAVE nothing happens.

Ok, its probably a good idea to update to this prerelease via sideloading the apk, just to be safe Release android-v3.6.17 · laurent22/joplin-android · GitHub

The new version helps. It takes the master password now and it shows as Loaded. It has restarted the sync and the Synchronisation Status shows numbers increasing from before the upgrade. Are the two master keys a problem?

You'll probably want to disable the key which is not set to active (on the desktop app), but only do this after the sync finally completes on your phone. You get a new master ket created if you set the encryption password before syncing. If you have enabled encryption on one device, then when you s…

My phone eventually finished syncing after about a day and a half. Here's what it took in the end: Disabling screen timeout in developer mode I left my phone on the charger. This is part of disabling the screen timeout in developer mode. Leaving my phone alone. I could do some other things during …

Android sync never finishes

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That is potentially a concern. Did you definately enter the master password correctly?

See details about the encryption bug which is fixed in Joplin 3.6 How to delete corrupt server items which cannot be decrypted

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Android sync never finishes

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