As per logs provided offline, seems OpenTasks causes lengthy/numerous syncs for no apparent reason. Persists even after complete remove and reinstall of OpenTasks. Doesn't occur every time, but does occur many of the syncs. Let me know if you need any more troubleshooting!

I moved my tasks to etesync 2.0 - the etesync android app recognizes the account and the lists but I am unable to sync them with tasks.org and opentasks. The username and tasklists are shown, but no tasks are synchronized. I can add tasks and sync them from the app to the server but I cannot sync tasks from etesync to my phone.

When I use the webapp on mac, I am able to see the tasks.

Since I was not able to sync the tasks to both apps, I figured the problem could be with etesync and not opentasks or tasks.org

I am using Fairphone Open 19.11.2 (Android 7.1.2) and the latest app versions from F-Droid.

Thank you for your help!

Lately I've been having some problems with synchronizing my tasks. Somehow, the tasks seem to be disappearing locally. I've found that they reappear after making some change to them on another platform (usually Thunderbird) and synchronizing from the app. I've not yet found out what actually triggers this problem, but I've turned on logging in the hope that I can capture it when it happens again. My initial thought was that it happened when I created a new tasks through the app, but so far this does not seem to be the case.

This problem might also be present in the calendar sync, as there have been a few instances in which calendar events disappeared, which I solved by re-adding my account in the app.

You'll find a log file here, in which I've captured syncing after making a small change to tasks that had disappeared, causing them to be added as new tasks by the app.

If I can manage to capture a log of the tasks disappearing I'll be sure to post them here. I hope you can figure something out!

Tags created on website are buggy. sometimes they are imported to web, sometimes they just become an empty tag (no characters). also tags created via Android app Tasks.org are not imported to EteSync web. the following works: _ tags/tasks created on web to app (sometimes) _ tasks edited on web to app

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.

On my Samsung Galaxy S8 (running One UI 1.0; Android 9) the first names of all contacts have disappeared.

On my iPhone the first names still show. The etesync app (iOS, Android, Web) also still show the first names.

Any idea what could have happened? I tried two contacts apps, but the first name field is empty.

The first names show OK when synching from Outlook via CardDAV to Android. First names disappear (on Android only) when synching from iCloud to iPhone to Etesync to Android.

Edit for clarity

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.

Device: Pixel 3 running Android 11, build RP1A.201005.004

The default contacts app for the Pixel 3 is the one that Google provides in the Play Store. I'm using the latest version (v3.34.3.338741632) of that app at the time of this writing.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.contacts

When I click the Account button in the top right corner so I can toggle accounts, I have these options:

1. Contacts from all accounts
2. Google account x
3. Google account y
4. Google account z
5. EteSync - username
6. EteSync Address Book - collection x
7. EteSync Address Book - collection y
8. EteSync Address Book - collection z

The base EteSync account (account 5 above) should not show up in this list, as it is not an Address Book at all. The app does allow contacts to be added to that account, although the EteSync client will never sync them anywhere.

I've already reached out to Tom about this. He thinks it may be related to an earlier Android 11 issue when contacts were being set as read only and unable to edit.

Thanks!

Troy

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?

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.

When I create a task in Tasks.org and add subtasks, they become independent top-level tasks (i.e. no longer subtasks) as soon as I synchronise. This is a massive problem for me, since I organise my weekly shopping in this way (e.g. task "Shopping 2020/49" and subtasks for the items): I now have dozens and dozens of items floating around in my list, completely without any order.

Possibly related problems

One such top-level task ("Shopping 2020/47") was duplicated. Moving (completed) tasks from one of the duplicated top-level tasks to the other has the effect that they will be gone from both. One top-level task that I created for this week (i.e. named "Shopping 2020/49") vanished right after synchronising. I created another one with the same name and it is still there. Only the latter I can still see in the EteSync app's journal.

Time this started happening

This behaviour started roughly at the same time I migrated my account to EteSync 2 (between weeks 2020/42 and 2020/47, during which I did not create new tasks). Tasks that existed since before the migration appear to be unaffected. (Or are they just unaffected, because I do not touch them anymore?)

How I create tasks

My top level tasks are named "Shopping YYYY/WW" and have the tag "Shopping" and a due date set. Mostly I create them with subtasks right away. But even when moving other top-level tasks into them to make them subtasks shows the same buggy behaviour.

Other behaviour I noticed

When synchronising Tasks.org (go to top of list and pull down), I see the spinner display briefly, then about a second without and then it display again twice in quick succession (spinning for a few milliseconds, maybe a millisecond without spinner, then spinning again for a few milliseconds).

In EteSync's journal I can see the "raw" version of historic subtasks (i.e. older revisions). They carry a RELATED-TO;RELTYPE=PARENT:<decimal number> field. According to RFC 5545 Section 3.8.4.5 this should be the UID of the parent item. But the parent item has a UUID in their UID field, not a decimal number. The latest revision of the subtask does not carry that RELATED-TO field anymore.

I am also affected by the bug affecting setting tags in Tasks.org: #159

TL;DR

When etesync restored from backup it does NOT ask for Contacts & Calendar permissions. As a result, no contacts & events are appearing despite sync working fine.

Issue

New phone, restored backup from old phone using Neo Backup (APK + data), got prompted for Push Notifications permission.

Data was not transferred during the backup, my guess it's because of how it's stored on the device for security purposes.

Added account, sync was working fine, could see all the items, but no contacts nor events showing in the respective apps.

Workaround

Reinstalling etesync made the permission dialogs show as expected.

System information

Android 13 CalyxOS Pixel 6a etesync v2.3.0

If a user installed etesync using the trial license, then never renewed that license but still kept etesync installed, any modifications made to contact/calendar entries after expiration of the license will be irrecoverably lost when the app is uninstalled. It might make sense to block changes to the local cache when the license has expired, at least until the user explicitly acknowledges this risk, to avoid such mishaps.

I've been getting this error as a notification for a couple of days now. What can I do to fix it?

Here's the debug info:

--- BEGIN DEBUG INFO ---
SYNCHRONIZATION INFO
Synchronization phase: applying remote entries
Account name: -
Authority: org.tasks.opentasks
Debug activity source: class com.etesync.syncadapter.syncadapter.SyncNotification$NotificationHandlerActivity (Kotlin reflection is not available)

EXCEPTION:
at.bitfire.ical4android.CalendarStorageException: Couldn't apply batch operation
	at at.bitfire.ical4android.BatchOperation.commit(BatchOperation.kt:54)
	at at.bitfire.ical4android.AndroidTask.update(AndroidTask.kt:347)
	at com.etesync.syncadapter.syncadapter.TasksSyncManager.processTask(TasksSyncManager.kt:132)
	at com.etesync.syncadapter.syncadapter.TasksSyncManager.processItem(TasksSyncManager.kt:89)
	at com.etesync.syncadapter.syncadapter.SyncManager.applyRemoteItems(SyncManager.kt:470)
	at com.etesync.syncadapter.syncadapter.SyncManager.performSync(SyncManager.kt:252)
	at com.etesync.syncadapter.syncadapter.TasksSyncAdapterService$TasksSyncAdapter.onPerformSyncDo(TasksSyncAdapterService.kt:70)
	at com.etesync.syncadapter.syncadapter.SyncAdapterService$SyncAdapter.onPerformSync(SyncAdapterService.kt:117)
	at android.content.AbstractThreadedSyncAdapter$SyncThread.run(AbstractThreadedSyncAdapter.java:334)
Caused by: android.content.OperationApplicationException: Too many content provider operations between yield points. The maximum number of operations per yield point is 500
	at android.database.DatabaseUtils.readExceptionWithOperationApplicationExceptionFromParcel(DatabaseUtils.java:163)
	at android.content.ContentProviderProxy.applyBatch(ContentProviderNative.java:599)
	at android.content.ContentProviderClient.applyBatch(ContentProviderClient.java:576)
	at android.content.ContentProviderClient.applyBatch(ContentProviderClient.java:564)
	at at.bitfire.ical4android.BatchOperation.runBatch(BatchOperation.kt:80)
	at at.bitfire.ical4android.BatchOperation.commit(BatchOperation.kt:44)
	... 8 more

SOFTWARE INFORMATION
EteSync version: 2.2.4 (20204) 
Installed from: org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged
CONFIGURATION
Power saving disabled: yes
android.permission.READ_CONTACTS permission: granted
android.permission.WRITE_CONTACTS permission: granted
android.permission.READ_CALENDAR permission: granted
android.permission.WRITE_CALENDAR permission: granted
org.dmfs.permission.READ_TASKS permission: denied
org.dmfs.permission.WRITE_TASKS permission: denied
org.tasks.permission.READ_TASKS permission: granted
org.tasks.permission.WRITE_TASKS permission: granted
System-wide synchronization: automatically
Account: -
  Address book sync. interval: 240 min
  Calendar     sync. interval: 240 min
  OpenTasks    sync. interval: —
  [Tasks.org](http://tasks.org/)    sync. interval: 240 min
  WiFi only: false
  [CardDAV] Contact group method: GROUP_VCARDS
           Manage calendar colors: true
Address book account: My Contacts (-)
  Main account: Account {name=-, type=com.etesync.syncadapter}
  URL: -
  Sync automatically: true

SQLITE DUMP
android_metadata
	|  locale |
	|  fr_FR |
----------
settings
	|  setting | value |
----------

SERVICES DUMP

JOURNALS DUMP

SYSTEM INFORMATION
Android version: 11 (RQ3A.211001.001.22214000)
Device: Google Pixel 2 (walleye)

--- END DEBUG INFO ---

Hello, my EteSync App stopped syncing data a while ago. When manually pressing the sync button in the app no errors are displayed, but also data is synced. I tried removing and readding my account. I also reinstalled the app. The problem remains the same. For some reason the app does not actually fetch any data from the EteSync servers. This makes the whole service essentially useless for me since I only use to sync data between my computer and phone.

I am happily using Etesync for about two years. Suddenly I noticed yesterday that on my phone a large number of contacts have disappeared. First I was a bit panicked, but the Web interface showed them all still there.

In the native contact app in the left hand drawer I have "Contacts on this device" and "Etesync contacts". The category Etesync is simply empty, even though the Etesync app itself syncs happy, and its changelog shows all relevant entries...

What to do?