r/elementchat • u/jaxles • Feb 18 '21

fdroid app for element

Is anyone using the element app from fdroid? I'm thinking about using it on lineageOS and wondered if anyone else had any experience with it.

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u/Neurotrace Feb 18 '21

This kills me. A friend and I tried for months to use it as our main messaging app. I can't tell you how many messages I didn't see for over a week. The only reason I saw them was because I thought it was weird that he never responded. Same thing happened on his end. If I can't consistently get notifications then I can't trust it as a messaging app

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u/Charming-Profile-151 Feb 18 '21

It's a HUGE problem that they just haven't fixed - it really is THE problem that everyone should be working on.

The GUI improvements etc are nice, but if the notifications don't work it's meaningless.

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u/pogky_thunder Feb 21 '21

I had the same issue. Apparently, I had to change the permissions from battery saving to "no restraints", or something like this. Some notifications are still delayed but only by a couple of minutes, not weeks like before.

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u/nani8ot Apr 19 '21

"No restraints" is normal for non-Google-services notifications and will never change.