/e/, whyred and Nextcloud

/e/OS Devices Xiaomi
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Hello, guys!
Best wishes to you all with the new year!

I installed /e/ on a xiaomi note 5 - whyred.

Most things seems to work (:grinning:) but :slight_smile:

  • clock (horloge) : never worked;
  • I had an account with e.email (but seem to have lost it -??) : e.drive never worked
  • I canā€™t sync contacts with my nextcloud (calendar works). The Nextcloud app canā€™t add an account. No sync thus.

Anyone facing the same problems?

PS : I use the latest rom (as january 6th)

Thanks for your interest!

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@mascaret you would need your e account to get the edrive and contact working. Please send a mail here contact@e.email with your details to get the account back.

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What symptoms do you have with the clock? For example does it show the wrong time?

In order to access the contacts of your own Nextcloud-instance, you donā€™t need the Nextcloud-Android-App, but you need to add a WebDAV account via the settings menu (I have a Nougat-System, so I donā€™t know, where this option is located in the Oreo settings menu).

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To add a WebDAV account the location is almost the same in Oreo /e/ builds i.e. Settings >>User & acounts >> Add account ā€¦this will display a screen where you can add the WebDAV account

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This might be worth mentioning though:

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Hello!

Sorry I could not revert to you any sooner.

Clock : signals an error upon boot the time is displayed on home screen. However, the ā€œHorlogeā€ (clock) app hangs.

Iā€™ve added my webdav accounts from start. Calendar works : synced with nextcloud.
Thatā€™s not the case with contacts.

Even with the android Nextcloud app : I can access my files on the server, everything working BUT contacts syncing (I canā€™t create an account from my e-phone as required by the nextcloud app).

Before the e-whyred, I used lineage on an galaxy note 3 (hlte) with davdroid : was flawless.

So, I presume itā€™s an e-related glitch.

Thanks for your interest!

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@mascaret Can you try and download the clock app separately from Apkpure and try and install it just to check. I just tried it and it on my phone which has /e/ and it works separately as wellā€¦ then I have two clocks on my phone and they are both working. One scenario I can see is if the time is set to a different time zone then it may crash.
You can also try and change the time settings under Settings >> System >> Date & time

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I just installed a second clock app. Which seems to work as expected. The /e/ clock still doesnā€™t.

However, my concern is mostly with Nextcloud (impossible contacts syncing)ā€¦

Anyway, thanks for your time!

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Hello,

Have you solved the issue ? Cause Iā€™m facing similar issue : next cloud android app donā€™t sync my data with my own next cloud in the background on my e.phone 0.5 , a xiaomi redmi note 5 whyred

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Hi @Markus had you not setup a cloud instance of your own? Are you facing this issue?

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I will test this as soon as I upgrade my phone to 0.5. With my LeEco on 0.1 I have no such problems.

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Sorry for my misleading previous post - I was under the impression that you were unable to sync files with your nextcloud server, which works for me.

Now that I have updated my system to 0.5, I searched for a way to update files in the background and found out that the Nextcloud-App (V3.5.0) does not provide such a functionality. Hava a look here for more background on this topic:
https://help.nextcloud.com/t/nextcloud-android-app-automatically-sync-files-folders/23123/3

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Hello, my experience with /e/ on my Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro Whyred :
First I Unlocked my bootloader, installed TWRP 15 days ago and followed the wiki instructions to install /e/ on whyred.
But, the first time I only erased data, caches & system. The /e/ rom installed itself with success but I think some Xiaomi prior datas were kept on the phone somehow, MicroG was acting weird, push notification only at phone boot, the phone was a little bit slowā€¦ I was not happy with it.
I decided to install it another time and I erased everything, all erase options of TWRP and install /e/ back and give another try.
This time all was working great : All is working great out of the box : clock, drive sync, cloud sync, calendar sync, contacts sync, e.email sync, MicroG, push notifications for appsā€¦ Battery last ~ 2 days. My phone is rooted, off course, and all my apps are working great, I upgraded to 0.5-201904187440 by OTA without problem.
One little problem when I installed adaway, I had to whitelist ā€œmtalk.google.comā€ (and same thing in all adguard, blokada or similar apps) and my MicroG push notifications come back again. I have 130 applications on my phone (yes I know, too many, some I even donā€™t use daily) and everything is working great so far.

Thanks /e/ team !

Notes: I remember in a cyanogen forum, from a dev who said everytime you flash a new rom, you should flash it 2 times on the go, why, I donā€™t knowā€¦