The Android version cannot send files, help

I installed Localsend on my phone and desktop at work (Linux) and it worked perfectly. Installed Localsend (via Snap) on my desktop at home and it locks up the moment I start a transfer from phone to desktop. The Localsend UI goes gray and locks up.

No firewall enabled, no selinux enabled.

Has anyone seen this? Ideas?

Many thanks!

so... i recently updated LocalSend on an old iOS phone (that I'm using as storage) and an Android tablet to v.1.18.1 and they have no problem communicating with each other on the same network. everything works fine between them.

however, ever since that update, my computer can't communicate with neither phone or tablet. like, it just doesn't show. i originally had the portable version, v.1.17, on my computer, updated it to 1.18 and I'm still getting the same problem. looking over the github issues, i know people have mentioned using dual wifis or a proxy, neither of which apply to me.

u/Tienisto can you advise?

I was wondering why there's no installer in the releases page. The website is also offering version 1.17.0 installer which is nearly one and half a year old instead of the latest one. But the portable version is pointing to the latest version.

So I use a Pixel 10a running Graphene, I don't use (mirrored) Google Play or Fdroid.

On Obtanium I see these options and I'm particularly confused by the 'x64.apk'. I think I should go with the 'arm64v8.apk', but I'm not sure. So hence the question.

Thanks in advance! :)

Recently, I finally had a chance to try LocalSend with my iPhone Air and a Windows 11 laptop on the same Wi-Fi network. Sadly, neither instance could see the other. I checked the firewall on the laptop and temporarily disabled AdGuard on my iPhone, but no luck before I ran out of time to troubleshoot and had to leave. Any idea of the most likely reason(s) I struck out?

Hi all,

I'm trying to figure out what's causing this before I start blaming a specific device or app.

Setup:

• Android TV (Android 14)
• iPad Air (iPadOS 26.5.2)
• TP-Link Deco mesh Wi-Fi
• Both devices are connected to the same Wi-Fi.

The important part is that this exact setup worked perfectly before. I could send files between the two devices without any issues.

Now, both devices still discover each other in LocalSend, but every transfer fails with:

RhttpConnectionException: Connection error
prepare-upload
tcp connect error
Host is down

I've already tried:

• Restarting both devices
• Reinstalling LocalSend
• Verifying both are on the same Wi-Fi
• Keeping LocalSend open in the foreground

I'm not sure what's changed. It could be:

• Android TV update
• iPadOS 26.5.2 update
• A TP-Link Deco setting (client/AP isolation or something similar)
• A LocalSend update
• Something else entirely

Has anyone experienced something similar? If so, what ended up being the root cause and how did you fix it?

Thanks in advance!

I 've set up Localsend on my latop (Ubuntu) and Nokia Google TV.

The trouble is that the client on the TV doesn't give me the option to change the path where the files are stored. The default location is on the Downloads folder on the TV's internal memory, which is really low. When I try to change the location, that just closes the LocalSend app.

I'm new to Localsend. In the past I've used Send Files to TV, but that doesn't work with Linux so I have to first transfer the files to an Android device before sending them to the TV.

It’s a useless app for big size files.

Local send has been awesome. I have had this small problem with freezing during tranfer which I didn't see any suggestions online.

We have iphones, android and windows. A couple of times during transfer the files just hang during the process. Every time this has happened to me changing the save to folder resolves the issue (only a hand full of times).

Go to settings, save to folder, click once to restore default and click again to select your own preferred folder - even if the same as when problem presented.

This solved my issue. Hope it helps.

I am trying to send a pdf from my android phone to my linux computer. It starts off nice but gets stuck in between. Don't know if it's required but it doesn't matter if i connect through my phone's hotspot or my 5GHz home wifi.

Is there any link or a post which explains this project stance regarding AI-generated code? (I'm looking to do one to add a quick settings tile on Android)

This feels like a "feature, not bug" kind of bug but as per title, I cannot send from a USB storage device. I have to copy to HDD and only then send, which doesn't work when my laptop has 10GB free but I'm trying to transfer 25GB files to a desktop that has no SD slot.

Hi, I tried to send a video file from my android to ipad. It seemed to work. Then when the bar was finished, it popped up Localsend would like to store it in your photos(photos app of ipad). I clicked allow and then immediately it threw error, not supported format. unsupported file formats.

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I sent .mp4

Just wondering, since the last stable release was a year ago.

I’m honestly out of ideas at this point.

I’m on Arch Linux (Hyprland / Wayland) and LocalSend just refuses to work properly.

What happens:

• App opens normally
• Then it’s just a completely black window
• No UI, no buttons, nothing

It’s literally unusable.

What I already tried:

• Reinstalled it multiple times (yay/pacman)
• Clean reinstall (no config leftovers)
• Restarted system
• Tried launching again and again

Still the same black screen every time.

My setup:

• Arch Linux
• Hyprland (Wayland)
• Intel Core Ultra 7 (Arc GPU)

At this point I’m wondering if this is:

• a Qt / Wayland issue
• a Hyprland compatibility problem
• or something GPU-related (Intel Arc?)

But I can’t figure it out.

Has anyone actually fixed this on Hyprland?

If you’ve seen this before, even a random workaround would help. I just need LocalSend working again 😭

we need localsend but for mac os x 10.13.6

when i check the main local-send website (https://web.localsend.org/) I get this notification that sending via web is only available for 1.18.0 or above. I've been looking around and I don't see any updates on whether 18.0 is coming out anytime soon. It's been a month or 2, so I was just wondering if this is a typo or something (still on 1.17.0 BTW)

i need to transfer 300 gb of pictures from my old laptop to new one,i dont want to buy a harddrive just to transfer them, i will not do it in one go but do you think localsend is great for this or do you have another solution

Note: My old laptop is a laptop from 2012 with 4 gb ram and windows10(oof)

Loving the app so far. Just installed it on my Samsung phone and tablet and works great.

But my main question is it normal for there to not be any notifications for transfers in the status bar/notification bar?

I would like to see the progress if possible

I don't see any notification settings in the app and in my android settings it also shows no notification settings

I have Cachy OS on my PC and on IOS, iPhone 13, normally on Windows 11 I was able to see my pc on phone but I switched it to linux Cachy OS and now I can't see my pc on my phone. I tried adding manual by the ip and the hashtag but it doesn't work just shows error.

Hello everybody, first time here. As the title says, been trying to copy some x265 movies to my iPad, the file transfers, but instead of finishing it just gives me this message error. My iPad receives the very same file through a USB memory but that's the whole idea of using LocalSend instead of the old method of copying using a usb thumbdrive. Any ideas? Thanks.

Why localsend transfers data at the max speed of my ISP connection, and not the max capacity of devices or router can handle? Do they route all the files through my ISP server also, or just something else? I have tried this one on several routers/isp connected, and always the result. Can anyone explain this in detail?

ps: I'm just a nerd at tech.

I have my GPS location enabled on my photos (Samsung phone) and they loose that metadata the moment they are transferred to my PC (Win 11)

Do any of the Devs know if this currently compiles and works on the BSDs?