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KDE Connect not working

You have both smartphone and PC connected at the same network. But no connction between the two.

1st case

A possible reason is a firewall on the smartphone, .i.g. ReThink. In this case you should exclude KDE connect from firewall.

2nd case

If you have a KDE connect connection, but you cannot browse your decive from your PC, you could have some previous corrupt installation/config on your PC.
Than you can try with:

- killall -9 kdeconnectd kdeconnect-app kdeconnect-indicator
- then no output for: "pgrep -la kdeconnect"
- rm -rf ~/.config/kdeconnect ~/.cache/kdeconnect ~/.local/share/kdeconnect
and then
- systemctl --user daemon-reload
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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.