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I've been running etesync on two android devices for a while now - it's working really well.

However, I have just tried to add a member to one of my calendars and it fails with an error message "Error Adding Member".

The member I am adding exists, I have confirmed the security fingerprint, and I am already a member on one of their calendars. I'm not sure what else I can try out - other than opening an issue.

Any help would be much appreciated - let me know what details you need.

Hi,

etesync is not syncing contacts after import from a google account.
It imports 574 contacts but journal entries are always 0 and after importing the entries keep increasing every time I check the contacts account.
I'm on a Oneplus one with a custom rom (Tugapower, some LineageOS 14.1).

Calendar works, imported from same account.

Help because it's not usable at all like this (and the trial expires in 13 days :)

Thank you.

It's a small thing, but it just makes sense. When I am importing entries into a journal I like to open the web app to make sure all my entries are there as expected, and it is annoying to see no entries and realize you forgot to hit sync on the mobile app.

I would love having OpenKeyChain support for sharing journals, so when you share a journal, you could search your verified PGP contacts other than the EteSync user info for public keys. An additional bonus point would be to be able to publish your PGP key as the public key to use, instead of generating a new one for EteSync like we do now.

I don't have time to tackle this one myself, as I have other, more important ideas and features in the pipeline. However, I think this issue could be interesting enough for contributors to collaborate on.

People have been putting NextCloud instances and other random servers there. Need to verify and error accordingly.

When an event is added on a calendar shared between (1) and (2) from (1), the sync process updates the events on (2) but doesn't inform the user that events have been added/removed/modified.
This is mandatory imo.

Feel free to close this if its outside of the scope of the project.

I currently have a NextCloud instance up and running, but would love to replace it with the etesync service. However the ability to have my photos backed up instantly to a server is a awesome feature. Would this be possible to implement?

This is already possible with OpenTasks and DAVdroid.

I realise that F-Droid releases are expected to lag behind the Google Play Store to some degree, and that there's been a high number of releases in a short time over the past few weeks, but the F-Droid release appears to be 7 releases / 9 days behind currently, which seems excessive.

OwnCloud has a CalDAV URL to create an extra calendar automatically filled with my contacts' birthdays.
Could the etesync app automatically create an extra calendar of my contacts' birthdays?

What? Make the app icon adaptive.

Why? If we like it or not, it's where Android is going. I stumbled upon it again now that in Lineage 16.0's Trebuchet the option to not force adaptive icons is gone.

Details
See the Android dev guide for a start.

Using Android Studio's Image Asset Tool it is actually quite simple, just choose a background color and a foreground icon. The design of the latter is the hard bit for icons like EteSync's or F-Droid's, which so far featured a custom shape.

I have been messing with groups and contacts in different applications and something very strange has happened. After I created and edited a group it has duplicated itself. Now I have more than one copy of the group with different number of contacts inside. Also I tried to delete them and they show in the journal with the same id.

In this image you can see the duplicate groups all with same name and different number of contacts

In this image you can see various groups with the same name and uid been deleted multiple times although they where only created once. I marked them with red and purple crosses to see them better.

Device: Oneplus 6
Android version: 9
Etesync version: 0.22.6
Contacts application: Default Oneplus contacts app

I have a vCard stored locally in my phone that I would like to import, it just contains one contact. I tried importing it with the stock contact app to a etesync address book which worked. Importing this same file by using the etesync app itself however does not work.
From within an address book I tap Import --> From File, I get the following options

I tried the following options and include the log files for it:

[1] Huawei CAN-L11
etesync-4807-20181227-124727-huaweicanl11.txt
[2] Internal Storage
etesync-4562-20181227-124531-internalstorage.txt
[3] Files
etesync-4688-20181227-124634-files.txt
[4] Total Commander
etesync-4231-20181227-124306-totalcommander.txt

Note that with [2] it is using the Stackfield app on my phone to access the content which I think is pretty weird.
Options [1] and [4] return an error in the app: Empty/invalid file
Options [2] and [3] result in a stuck app with the following screen

As mentioned, this vCard is valid and could be imported with the stock contact app. Therefore I would expect this should also work from within etesync.

Android version 7.0
EMUI version 5.0.3
Model Number Huawei CAN-L11

Hi there,

I am a new user of Etesync. I use Android 6.0.1 (MIUI version for a Xiaomi Redmi 3S).
I have exported my calendar from Google Calendar, I have a .ics file.
I tried to import it in my calendar of EteSync application, but nothing happens. I just have the windows "waiting file (may take a while)" for a few seconds, then nothing. When it closes, , I see "Stats loading error" message.

Here the log file : ```

2018-01-02 18:42:55 0 [cert4android.CustomCertService] Creating CustomCertService
2018-01-02 18:42:55 0 [cert4android.CustomCertService] No custom keystore found
2018-01-02 18:42:55 0 [cert4android.CustomCertManager$1] Connected to service
2018-01-02 18:42:57 0 [AccountSettings] Account [email protected] has version 2, current version: 2
2018-01-02 18:42:59 1 [resource.LocalCalendar] No calendar found for name longkeyname
2018-01-02 18:42:59 2 [resource.LocalCalendar] No calendar found for name longkeyname
2018-01-02 18:43:01 3 [resource.LocalCalendar] No calendar found for name longkeyname
2018-01-02 18:46:24 4 [resource.LocalCalendar] No calendar found for name longkeyname
2018-01-02 18:47:10 5 [resource.LocalCalendar] No calendar found for name longkeyname
2018-01-02 18:47:19 6 [resource.LocalCalendar] No calendar found for name longkeyname
2018-01-02 18:47:19 6 [resource.LocalCalendar] No calendar found for name longkeyname

I don't know what I have to do.

Thank you

Getting a constant pop-up notification on my phone saying, 'etesync has crashed please send stack trace to developer'

This is happening without being in the etesync app, just when unlocking my phone, or surfing other apps within my phone. The pop-up happens several times a day. No debug file is being provided to be able to send to the developer. In other words, when the pop-up occurs there is no way to respond to it or take any action on it. It simply pops-up letting me know etesync is crashing (again). It crashes constantly, if you believe this message.

During the setup wizard I already got notifications about "calendar sync failed". I took a long time choosing an encryption password :)

First of all, thanks for this wonderful project. This app has been a joy to use for contacts & calendar management.
I recently started using the tasks management feature as well and it's great. Wondering if note-taking feature can also be included somehow?

The problem is in AccountActivity.kt, we only remove the main account and not the sub accounts.
We have a singal listener in AccountChangedReceiever that should trigger the deletion, though it doesn't for some reason.

hello, almost every time I connect to a public wireless network I get a notification from etesync asking me to review a bad certificate which I always reject. It would be bad if in a rush I did accept it. This notification from etesync is caused by the wireless network using a captive portal.

Please add an option to never show this notification and to just retry the connection later. It is perhaps possible to get a callback from Android when the captive portal has granted full access to the network: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/NetworkCapabilities

I think that by default etesync should not allow the user to connect to a server with a bad certificate.

thanks for etesync!

One way of doing it is detecting when such an event is created/changed in the sync adapter and then creating a pre-populated email intent to send that.
I think this could work. Need to verify.

I have just tried using the Web App to modify calendar entries.

Although it correctly displays my six calendars, and I can edit existing entries with no problems, I can only create new events on one of the calendars. All the calendars can be selected in the drop down menu, however it always selects and reverts to the same calendar each time. This calendar is neither the first or last calendar I created, and it happens to be a shared calendar if that makes a difference.

Am I doing something wrong?

I just realised I've posted this in the Android app issues, sorry.

Closing.

We currently support importing contact groups when the group is in a separate vcard (as should be in vcard v4), though we should also support importing old style vcards that use categories instead.

This is slightly related to some of the comments in #25

Edit: also mentioned importing from another account. I'm not sure if it's broken or not, but if it is, it should be fixed.

Tasks support is a great addition. ☑️ One minor issue I've noticed is that (as of EteSync 1.0.1) setting the colour on tasks lists doesn't work. To reproduce, simply edit the tasks list, change the colour and select save; you should then see the colour unchanged when returned to the previous screen.

For the security cautious/paranoid users: it would be extremely useful to have the option not to sync calendar and contacts data to the stock Android calendar and instead handle them directly within the app (which could be separately locked). Users could, of course, choose to sync data to Android, e.g. contacts for Caller IDs. Ideally, all data-at-rest should be encrypted at the app level (as opposed to the device level), thus providing an extra layer of protection (e.g. compromised devices, MDM/EMM file pull etc).

I suppose that this would involve "embedding" a calendar app/module within the etesync app which requires a lot of work - maybe just provide very basic functionality, e.g. a simple agenda view with reminders?

Thanks for listening and for all the great work put in so far.

Not having the correct permissions will cause many things to break.
In particular not having storage permissions can cause an integrity error.

Add a setting that forces the app to use a certain translation in order to make testing and usage easier in certain cases.

Steps to reproduce:

• Long press any action bar icon
• Ignore prompt to send developers the stack trace via email but capture a logcat and post it right here instead (do say if you can't reproduce this and need the stack trace!):

ACRA caught a NoSuchFieldError for com.etesync.syncadapter java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: No field message of type I in class Landroid/support/v7/appcompat/R$id; or its superclasses (declaration of 'android.support.v7.appcompat.R$id' appears in /data/app/com.etesync.syncadapter-1/base.apk) at android.support.v7.widget.TooltipPopup.<init>(TooltipPopup.java:60) at android.support.v7.widget.TooltipCompatHandler.show(TooltipCompatHandler.java:154) at android.support.v7.widget.TooltipCompatHandler.onLongClick(TooltipCompatHandler.java:103) at android.view.View.performLongClickInternal(View.java:5714) at android.view.View.performLongClick(View.java:5672) at android.widget.TextView.performLongClick(TextView.java:9415) at android.view.View.performLongClick(View.java:5690) at android.view.View$CheckForLongPress.run(View.java:22402) at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:751) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6186) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:889) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:779)

Expected behaviour:
Display label name (e.g. Settings when long pressing the gearwheel). Try other Android apps to see what it looks like. I think this is (usually) handle by the action bar itself when the resource name is specified?

Example:

EXCEPTION:
com.google.gson.JsonParseException: Expecting object found: \"<html>\"
	at com.google.gson.JsonObjectDeserializationVisitor.visitFieldUsingCustomHandler(JsonObjectDeserializationVisitor.java:100)
	at com.google.gson.ReflectingFieldNavigator.visitFieldsReflectively(ReflectingFieldNavigator.java:63)
	at com.google.gson.ObjectNavigator.accept(ObjectNavigator.java:120)
	at com.google.gson.JsonDeserializationContextDefault.fromJsonPrimitive(JsonDeserializationContextDefault.java:85)
	at com.google.gson.JsonDeserializationContextDefault.deserialize(JsonDeserializationContextDefault.java:56)
	at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:551)
	at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:498)
	at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:441)
	at com.etesync.syncadapter.journalmanager.BaseManager.newCall(BaseManager.java:35)
	at com.etesync.syncadapter.journalmanager.JournalManager.list(JournalManager.java:47)
	at com.etesync.syncadapter.syncadapter.SyncAdapterService$SyncAdapter$RefreshCollections.run(SyncAdapterService.java:153)
	at com.etesync.syncadapter.syncadapter.CalendarsSyncAdapterService$SyncAdapter.onPerformSync(CalendarsSyncAdapterService.java:72)
	at android.content.AbstractThreadedSyncAdapter$SyncThread.run(AbstractThreadedSyncAdapter.java:272)

Should handle the exception gracefully and return a meaningful error.

After sending a few attachments, it sometimes just stops working with the error message "can't attach file to message" or something like that.

This is not the same issue as the ProtonMail attachment (which just doesn't support attachments), but it also happens with mail clients where it usually works.

cc @talhacohen

This is the issue behind #37.

It works when you use the correct casing but doesn't otherwise.

Hello

As a new user who has installed etesync on Android (version ) and want to know how to add new calendars to my journal.

The user guide states the following for
Contacts: Add Contact

You use the same contacts application you used previously

However a similar qualifying text is absent from the Calendar section. It can be inferred that this is what you mean by reading the rest of the user guide but I also think this could produce confusion.

Would suggest amending to

You use the same calendar application you used previously. This workflow may look different to the accompanying screenshots depending on which calendar application you use, but the concept is similar.

Currently it just shows the local time which is confusing when scheduling with people across timezones.

I'm not sure if this is implemented in the protocol or what? Currently, I cannot assign groups to any of my contacts in an EteSync address book. I should be able to do that.

I was able to add myself as a member to my own calendar. Maybe this should be prevented ;)

As discussed over email with @tasn , creating calendar events using the Google calendar client app with email notifications results in silent failure of the email notification functionality. This is because the calendar client app assumes the email notification will be handled server-side after being synced.

I'm attaching two screenshots of what event creation with an email notification looks like on my phone, as well as the corresponding journal entry. I get no notification at all for such events on my phone (Moto X, Lollipop).

Perhaps the app could warn when entries with ACTION:EMAIL are created and/or have an option to map EMAIL to DISPLAY when importing an existing calendar?

It also might be worth adding noting this in the docs/FAQ.

Journal Entry
screenshot_2019-02-23-21-57-15
screenshot_2019-02-23-21-57-03

The FAQ states

" in order to delete a calendar, long-press on the wanted calendar item. A menu will pop-up, on which you should click "Delete".

I cannot get this to work, or to delete an already imported calendar. On Google Pixel, Android O.

First run: Login with username and password and enter a new encryption password. It's successful and reminders can be added to the calendar.

Subsequently: Delete account on the Etesync app(on the client side) and re-enter the login details. App crashes after entering the same encryption password. Same issue when trying to login to the same account from a different phone.

I could be wrong, but it seems like the client app is trying to set an encryption password when it is already set in the first run?

Server details: Self hosted on a fresh Debian install, using the skeleton instructions.
Client details: App ver 0.19.1 from F Droid running on Lineage 7.1.2 and OmniROM 4.4.4

I'm using the android app and decided to rename my main address book.

On doing so I lost all my contacts - the journal shows them all being deleted.

It's rather frustrating seeing all my contacts present and correct in the journal, is there any way I can export them at the moment?

As it says in the title.

One option would be to maybe use the send_file intent (or however it's called) rather than the email one when ProtonMail is detected.

Also add a toast at least complaining about it so users realise it's not because of EteSync?

As you can see it shows 6th of January instead of 7th of January.

Device: Oneplus 6
Android Version: 9

Hello again,

Question relative to the previous one.

I have the notification "EteSync file logging - /path/to/log.file - Supprimer les journaux dès que possible"

I have deleted manually all the log files. But the notification is still here. Impossible to swap it, tap on it makes nothing.
So, how to remove it, without wait the next reboot of the mobile (kill the Etesync app doesn't hide the notification) ?

Thank you

Steps to reproduce:

1. open app
2. Click +
3. Click SIGN UP
4. Click FAQ
5. Rotate device

WebView should persist in FAQ, however, it refreshes and roll back to Sign up page. If type in some information in Sign up page, all of them will also get lost after screen orientation change.

Screenshot before device rotation

Screenshot after device rotation

Interesting thing is that it seems WebView always roll back to the original page that it begins to load. For example, if I start from clicking FAQ, scroll the FAQ to Usage and click user guide. WebView now renders User Guide page. Rotate screen will make it roll back to FAQ.

It's annoying because we have to manually restore WebView to its expected state.

Tested on Android 23 with Nexus 4 Android emulator.

Edit: it actually does work for tasks, it just doesn't show it in the UI for some reason.

Has your encryption code been audited?

Please add an option to disable the notification Calendar "etesync" modified.

I update my calendar on my PC many times a day I thus have many notifications on my tablet and phone saying that entries have been modified. I cannot verify all these notifications so I just dismiss them. I have seen up to ten notifications from etesync all waiting to be dismissed and they can hide other notifications.

thanks for etesync!

To reproduce:

1. create new calendar
2. directly afterwards click on the new calendar in the list below

04-25 14:30:17.946  24213    24213         AndroidRuntime  D  Shutting down VM
04-25 14:30:17.946  24213    24213         AndroidRuntime  E  FATAL EXCEPTION: main
04-25 14:30:17.946  24213    24213         AndroidRuntime  E  Process: com.etesync.syncadapter, PID: 24213
04-25 14:30:17.946  24213    24213         AndroidRuntime  E  java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'java.lang.Object android.content.Context.getSystemService(java.lang.String)' on a null object reference
04-25 14:30:17.946  24213    24213         AndroidRuntime  E  at android.view.LayoutInflater.from(LayoutInflater.java:232)
04-25 14:30:17.946  24213    24213         AndroidRuntime  E  at android.widget.ArrayAdapter.<init>(ArrayAdapter.java:181)
04-25 14:30:17.946  24213    24213         AndroidRuntime  E  at android.widget.ArrayAdapter.<init>(ArrayAdapter.java:114)
04-25 14:30:17.946  24213    24213         AndroidRuntime  E  at com.etesync.syncadapter.ui.journalviewer.ListEntriesFragment$EntriesListAdapter.<init>(ListEntriesFragment.java:91)
04-25 14:30:17.946  24213    24213         AndroidRuntime  E  at com.etesync.syncadapter.ui.journalviewer.ListEntriesFragment$JournalFetch.onPostExecute(ListEntriesFragment.java:146)
04-25 14:30:17.946  24213    24213         AndroidRuntime  E  at com.etesync.syncadapter.ui.journalviewer.ListEntriesFragment$JournalFetch.onPostExecute(ListEntriesFragment.java:136)
04-25 14:30:17.946  24213    24213         AndroidRuntime  E  at android.os.AsyncTask.finish(AsyncTask.java:667)
04-25 14:30:17.946  24213    24213         AndroidRuntime  E  at android.os.AsyncTask.-wrap1(AsyncTask.java)
04-25 14:30:17.946  24213    24213         AndroidRuntime  E  at android.os.AsyncTask$InternalHandler.handleMessage(AsyncTask.java:684)
04-25 14:30:17.946  24213    24213         AndroidRuntime  E  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
04-25 14:30:17.946  24213    24213         AndroidRuntime  E  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
04-25 14:30:17.946  24213    24213         AndroidRuntime  E  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6121)
04-25 14:30:17.946  24213    24213         AndroidRuntime  E  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
04-25 14:30:17.946  24213    24213         AndroidRuntime  E  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:889)
04-25 14:30:17.946  24213    24213         AndroidRuntime  E  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:779)

Calendars support sending event invitations and have the invitees accept/reject them. For all I know this is implemented in other services on the server side. In EteSync we can't do it on the server side, because EteSync is end-to-end encrypted so the server can't access the data.

This tasks is about implementing it in the EteSync clients.

There is a slightly annoying workaround for now: use Google for those events and invite yourself (EteSync account). Yes, this compromises some aspects of EteSync's security, but since you'll be sending the invites over email anyway, you've already exposed yourself (this event) quite a bit. So it's less of an issue.

Hi,

When I open the change journal, I see all the UIDs and try to understand how it can really help me on a daily basis - without success.
Why not giving the user a default log view with name, date, hour? Then one could change the information displayed (UID, location...) via settings.
In this way, it could provide everyone the best UX adapted to his needs.

Daniel