Hello,
I would expect that the purpose of “DeviceID” is to identify a Syncthing instance on another device. Why isn’t this field automatically filled in during installation, in order to allow the user to give the device a more easily recognizable name or description?
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I am wondering why I do get the folowing error-message after typeing an qunique description to the Device ID field:
“the device ID is not formatted correctly”
Thank’s in advance!
You are not meant to edit the device id. It is meant to be globally unique and it is tied to the device keys.
You say it is not filled in during installation. It should be. How did you install and run Syncthing?
There is no description available, but you can set your own device name if you go to Actions → Settings in the Web GUI.
Yes the same with v1.30.0.1 and v2.0.3.0.
With Obtainium from Github resource URL (Releases · Catfriend1/syncthing-android · GitHub)
Just tapped the blue Syncthing icon on the Android (16) startup screen.
Can you show some screenshots?
127.0.0.1:…. 
Looks like you’re on the debug version instead of release build?
This reminds me I should show some hash or packageId on this screen as it’s impossible to see where the app came from (fdroid, gplay, github). Maybe also show “installed from” because adding something static would break the reproducible build.
Atm you can look up the apk filename to tell if it’s “_debug….apk”.
Sorry! I(or rather Obtainium) downloaded it from:
