I’ve tried Google’s Messages for Web, Microsoft’s Phone Link, and KDE’s Connect. They all seem to have the same problem: they lose connection constantly and have to be unpaired and re-paired. Is this a problem inherent to the way that Android works? Has anyone managed to solve it, or is there a setting to fix it?

Thanks!

  • saegiru@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    11 months ago

    I haven’t had the issues with Google messages you cite, it’s always worked reliably. I’ve used Pushbullet and MightySMS MightyText in the past, with MightySMS MightyText being the best I had used before Messages.

    • Boinketh@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      So odd that it seems like other people don’t have this issue. Very frustrating.

  • MasterBuilder@lemmy.oneEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    Well, I use KDE connect and it does not lose pairing. It might be your environment. I had to open certain ports to get pairing at all, so maybe there’s something going on with your firewall?

  • BoofStroke@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    Pushbullet is pretty solid, but is subscription based. There is also Join, which I haven’t tried yet.

    • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      I had a really flaky experience with Join. It could never do the job correctly - SMS messages would not send or would send several times, message history wouldn’t load, and it would sometimes not connect.

  • N-E-N@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    The Phone Link app has improved a lot lately, haven’t had any connectivity issues lately

    • Boinketh@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Sounds like it gives you a new number instead of linking to your phone. Is that right?

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        With Google voice you can set up a completely new number. Or you can port your old number into Google voice.

        It will show up as a VoIP number if anybody does a look up on it. If that’s a problem you can use Google Fi and then use the web messenger to send and receive texts from your Google phi number. Even if the phone is off

  • paper_clip@kbin.social
    1·
    11 months ago

    One other thought is to use Google Voice.

    At least in that case, everything runs through a Google server, rather than through some possibly janky connection between your desktop and phone.

    The drawback is that, if you have an existing phone number, you’d have to port it over to Google Voice (or maybe Google Fi can port that number to an actual cell phone; not sure if it can).