Android app constantly notifies "starting offline operations"

📱 Desktop & mobile clients
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I’ve recently started getting uber-annoying messages on my phone every 15 minutes or so (semi-regularly) that Nextcloud is “starting offline operations”. I don’t have 2-way sync turned on, I have no files marked or stored for offline use, I don’t have any download restrictions (wifi only etc), I do have some media folders marked for automatic upload (I get the appropriate messages when they are uploading), and I’m constantly connected to the internet via wifi and/or 5G mobile. Does anyone have any idea how I can remove this very annoying message?

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Yes, this is super annoying. I don’t see it at phone, but I have Suunto watch which notifies about phone notifications. And it does vibrate with such “starting offline operations” notification in my wrist several times a day. I’ve been trying to disable notifications from android nextcloud app one after the other, but haven’t yet found out which one it is. I don’t understand what’s the value of such notification.

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Yep, I get them via the KDEConnect app on my laptop, which mirrors all my phone’s notifications. They don’t show up on my phone, but popup on my laptop with monotonous and annoying irregularity. It might go a few hours with no notifications, then it starts every 15-16 minutes or so, despite no change to the state of my phone, my internet connection or anything else that might remotely start it.

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I noticed it as well. Which was very odd as I too did not see any changes being done on my phone. The app was not active, so it is some sort of background process.

Also, for testing purposes I had switched to the Dev Build of the NC app and just now noticed that I have not seen that pop up in a while. However, I am mostly on my laptop these days, which albeit it is connected via KDEConnect, it is not setup to display phone notifications as my PC is.

My point nevertheless is that on my PC, I too would get this notification at random times. Perhaps I would prefer to know what exactly it is doing, beyond a constant, generic notification that seems to randomly come and go.

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I am also getting those notifications randomly on my linux notebook through the KDEConnect app, which mirrors the notifications from my smartphone. I also can’t see this notification directly on my phone and found no way of deactivating them.
It’s very annoying to have this notification constantly popping up, especially because it’s completely featureless.

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Sounds frustrating! Have you tried clearing the app cache or reinstalling Nextcloud? Maybe a background sync setting is triggering it. Hope you find a fix!

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Yep, tried reinstalling and cleared the cache. Still the same notifications.

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Same for me, reinstalling or clearing the cache did not help. I’m on the dev builds from f-droid, and this issue is present there since several months. I didn’t try with the stable version of nextcloud, but the other comments here indicate that this issue is now also present there…
It must be a kind of silent notification from nextcloud, which is not displayed on the android device, but is nonetheless catched by KDEConnect. The nexcloud devs should have a look why this kind of notification gets issued.

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I think I found the place in code where this notification is build. It’s in OfflineOperationsNotificationManager.kt:

@Suppress("MagicNumber")
    fun start() {
        notificationBuilder.run {
            setContentTitle(context.getString(R.string.offline_operations_worker_notification_start_text))
            setProgress(100, 0, false)
        }

I submitted a bug on github: Notification "Starting offline operations" pushed to smartwatch or KDE Connect · Issue #14742 · nextcloud/android · GitHub

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