You have both smartphone and PC connected at the same network. But no connction between the two.
A possible reason is a firewall on the smartphone, .i.g. ReThink. In this case you should exclude KDE connect from firewall.
connecting android to samba in Linux
You must add in smb.conf (in /etc/samba), at [global] section and at “allow hosts =” row, the android device IP, otherwise you won’t be able to connect it to PC samba network.
Then you can use several android apps, like X-plore (G-Play, commercial, but good) or Material File Manager (F-Droid, open source, quite spartan, but fast and reliable), to set the samba connection with your PC and view the files shared on your PC.
Provided, obviously, that PC and android device are both connected at the same local network.
KDE no longer working
If your smartphone doesn’t connect any more with the PC, the problem could be <b>the firewall</b>.
To fix this, you can:
1.install gufw
2.Open gufw from app launcher
Go to the Rules tab
Click the [+] button to add a new rule
Select the direction “Both”
Select category “Network:
Select Application “KDE connect”
Click “Add”
Done!
FreeDCam
It is an interesting android open source camera app, which allows you to control the smartphone camera in a very detailed way.
Unfortunately it hasn’t an easy graphical interface: therefore you should know that a) you can get settings sliding the screen (from left and from bottom); b) you must set an external storage, otherwise you won’t be able to take any photo.
android mail app
K9-Mail is a good app, but unfortunately rarely updated, in the last year. Besides, it has had an annoying cryptography bug and a notification bug.
So we tried FairEmail, that is definitely more accessorized, but not really privacy-friendly as they pretend, and not so open source: impossible to contact the developer, and pro functionalities are blocked until you pay something.
So, we went back to K9-Mail, that is absolutely open-source, even more “spartan”, but in its latest release without cryptography bug and notification bug.
The best blocking unwanted calls app
In Android 9 I found Stop Call Me the only one working. Without excessive ads, simple to configure, unlike other apps this one don’t tell you that a call is blocked (leaving it ringing), but it blocks effectively it.
android 9: double tap to wake the screen
settings -> gestures
android 9 restore the buttons at the bottom
In settings -> gestures (in Italian: gesti) “scorri verso l’alto” : off
true phone: the best android phone app
True Phone in my opinion is the best phone app: indeed without unnecessary special effects, it offers a remarkable range of features, including choosing the address books.
As an example, you can set davx (/nextcloud) as the main address book, instead of the google one.
Or you can view groups of contacts – which almost no other app does.
Obviously, you can set customized ringtone and sounds. Or easily modify contacts.
But there a lots of interesting features. It is undoubtedly worth trying.
rclone on local with symlinks
in rclone.conf
[link]
type = local
links = true
[nolink]
type = local
command
rclone sync link:/mnt/my-path nolink:/media/my-path/ --modify-window 2s -v