Bug 508820

Summary:	KDE Connect on desktop claims to be connected to KDE Connect on phone, but phone claims the opposite, when using bluetooth
Product:	[Applications] kdeconnect	Reporter:	Dennis Schridde <heri+kde>
Component:	common	Assignee:	Albert Vaca Cintora <albertvaka>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	andrew.g.r.holmes
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	25.08.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2392172
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Dennis Schridde 2025-08-27 19:36:07 UTC

SUMMARY

I paired KDE Connect on my Fedora desktop (25.08.0) and on my Android phone (1.33.4 FDroid). I connect desktop and phone via Bluetooth (i.e. KDE Plasma Bluetooth icon > pick phone from the list of paired but disconnected devices > Connect).

KDE Connect on the desktop claims to be connected to my phone: right-click on KDE Connect in systray > KDE Connect Settings... > left sidebar > Connected > device name, says "Device is trusted and connected" and the device icon is green.

But on the phone, in the KDE Connect app, opening the left sidebar > Devices > Pair new device > Remembered devices > hostname, I get "This paired device is not reachable. [...]".  Pulling down on the screen to refresh does not change this.

There appears to be no way to forcibly disconnect KDE Connect on the desktop to try to make it reconnect in a way that the phone would recognize.

This happened at least twice already, on different occasions and days.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Operating System: Fedora Linux 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.15.10-200.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-11370H @ 3.30GHz
Memory: 64 GiB of RAM (62,5 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics
Manufacturer: TUXEDO
Product Name: TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen6

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Android app version: 1.33.4 from FDroid.

Comment 1 Dennis Schridde 2025-08-27 22:24:36 UTC

Desktop and phone appear to not actually be connected: Pings from the desktop do not reach the phone, browsing the files of the phone times out, clipboard changes do not propagate from the desktop to the phone.

Pressing the "Refresh" button in KDE Connect Settings on the desktop has no effect on this. I.e. it does not make KDE Connect notice that it does not actually have a connection to the phone.