# Syncthing detects devices, but does not sync folders **URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-detects-devices-but-does-not-sync-folders/16373 **Category:** Support **Created:** [February 18, 2021, 7:05am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-detects-devices-but-does-not-sync-folders/16373 "2021-02-18T07:05:02Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 16
### Author: ![leder11011](https://forum.syncthing.net/user_avatar/forum.syncthing.net/leder11011/32/9543_2.png) [@leder11011](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/leder11011) #### Post date: [March 10, 2021, 9:27am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-detects-devices-but-does-not-sync-folders/16373/16 "2021-03-10T09:27:35Z")
My issue seems to be my Android 11 smartphone, as described here: > [@Sync many files slow ? Android11](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/sync-many-files-slow-android11/16397): > > So I’ve go seven devices, on a variety of platforms (Win10, MacOS, Ubuntu20LTS, Android 10&11), all syncing a number of folders, one of which has upwards of 30k small files. It’s a Joplin source directory structure, so lots of markdown text files and a bunch of resource files of varying types. All of that works beautifully, apart from the Android 11 device, a Samsung Galaxy S20U 5g. It is running Syncthing-fork (I moved to fork as the stock version had the same issue and I wondered whether for… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-detects-devices-but-does-not-sync-folders/16373)._