I’ve now also tried choosing a folder on the root my S4’s external SD card, but it doesn’t work. Using the file picker, you can’t choose a location outside of externalSD>Android>data>com.nutomic.syncthingandroid, so I use the webgui. The directory tree gets duplicated, but only a tiny fraction of files actually sync and I get a ton of these errors: “puller:final:chmod : operation not permitted.”
I don’t get that problem when I use the file picker to create a new folder to sync that’s under externalSD>Android>data>com.nutomic.syncthingandroid. Meanwhile, I’m able to create and sync directories on the internal SD card’s root without errors.
I’m rooted with CM 11, which bypasses the 4.4 external SD limitation. All my apps access the external SD, no problem. BTS syncs fine to the same external SD. What’s more, the Syncthing app does sync some files, though it’s just a fraction of the total number. But that verifies permission to access.
I should have thought of the logcat, but I’ve already deleted everything. I was doing a session of comparing the Android versions of BitTorrent Sync and Syncthing.
By the way, I synced the same three folders of about 18GB and 30k files with both BitTorrent Sync and Syncthing on my S4’s new 128GB external SD card. For each sync, I first synced the same three laptops on my LAN, and once they were finished I then started the Android sync. Syncthing took 28 hours and BitTorrent Sync took 3 hours. That’s quite a difference. My S4’s network speed indicator app kept showing Syncthing alternating short periods of full speed (about 3Mb/s) with short periods near zero. BTS, on the other hand, pretty much stayed in the 2.5 - 3.0Mb/s range. Syncthing’s laptop syncs also took significantly longer than BTS, but I didn’t track the differences.
People seem to report an issue where the sync speed is much slower when the web UI is open.
I think it has to do something with the GC kicking in and taking a while, and the web UI seems to produce a lot of work for GC for some reason.
Perhaps having the web UI off would make it better?
Querying for the various completion percentages currently causes a full database scan to collect the information. That’s expensive, both CPU wise and memory wise (hence also causes GC). The web GUI does this when it sees events that say the information has changed, which can be way too often.
Hey, I have the Version 0.5.28 and yesterday it exhausted my total datavolume for this month |
I hadn’t checked the box to run in the background but it was anyway not possible to stop the App.
Could it be possible to set Syncthing sync only in Wlan, also when it runs not in the background?
Because it is alittle dangerous when you forget to stop the app and go autside your home and it youses in the while your whole datavolume.
So for detailed definition: I can quit the app only over the quit-button in the syncthing app. But a normal finger-wisp in the app-overwiev of running apps has no effect and the app goes running on.
Also the command to quit the app over the tasker has no effect.
But it should be possible to controll somehow when it syncs and when not. As I’ve seen, the Wlan controll is only activ when I check the option for background mode.
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I hadn’t checked the box to run in the background but it was anyway not possible to stop the App.
Could it be possible to set Syncthing sync only in Wlan, also when it runs not in the background?
Because it is alittle dangerous when you forget to stop the app and go autside your home and it youses in the while your whole datavolume.