Since 2 days my AnkiDroid displays a strange syncing behaviour: Every time when I promt it to sync, it does so for a lengthy time, always downloading 200 or 300 media and a few hundred MB. When it is down I make it sync again and the process repeats. I don’t have this issue on Desktop. Thanks for …

It is probably because the media synchronization wasn’t completed yet at the end of the last sync. The process can take a very long time, multiple hours even, especially if there a lot of media to be downloaded to AnkiDroid. In this reddit post one of AnkiDroid Maintainers suggests that You may …

I find it’s caused by the screen timing out for me: [image] How to make Anki all sync media files Syncing & AnkiWeb On Android, I found that increasing the screen timeout to prevent the screen from turning off during syncing helps.

The problem resolved spontaneously before I could try any of your suggestions. Maybe it didn’t fully sync and after 20 tries it finally got all the data. I’m still wondering though, does it display that the sync was successful if a timed out screen causes it to stop? Thanks!

Strange sync behaviour - downloads media every time

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abdo May 24, 2022, 12:02pm 3

I find it’s caused by the screen timing out for me:

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Strange sync behaviour - downloads media every time

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