Read state sometimes doesn't get synced from desktop app to Android app

[tge-linee]

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• searched open and closed issues for duplicates
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Bug description

After I receive a message in Signal and read it in the desktop app sometimes the Android app still shows it as unread.

Steps to reproduce

• receive a message in Signal
• read the message in the desktop app
• look at phone

Actual result: The Android app still shows the message as unread
Expected result: The app should show the message as read

Device info

Device: Samsung Galaxy S3
Android version: 4.1.2
Signal version: 3.16.0
Signal Desktop version: 0.13.0

Link to debug log

Desktop: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/985fad27e92bede48278da43e8de1988
Android: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/3c8bd125c7c9a34fbc6ab95a1644942f

[derekperrin]

AFAIK Signal doesn't have read receipts.

[nrizzio]

@deper29 It does, but only for your own devices. Message read state should sync across all linked devices.

[skulumani]

I believe Signal Desktop already incorporates something like this

signalapp/Signal-Desktop@e07616e

I'm also pretty sure this exists on Android as well as I have noticed notifications disappearing from Android after reading on the Desktop.

08e2221

[Trolldemorted]

@skulumani how is this relevant? the complaint was that the android client sometimes either fails to receive or to handle receipts from signal-desktop.

i am experiencing this issue as well, and i think it happens more likely if signal-desktop has to send receipts for many messages at once. but even with regular conversations, i notice this every other day.

[luzgabriel]

I am experiencing this issue as well. It is quite annoying. If I am using the desktop app and I keep reading the messages on the desktop app my phone will not show notifications (that is expected!). However, if I do not read the message on the desktop app or open the app on my phone my phones starts to load every message, one by one thus receiving a lot of notifications, it is pretty annoying. I have to silence my phone for about 3~4 minutes until the app loads all the messages that I have sent and read on the desktop app. I don't know if it is the exact issue you guys are experiencing as well. If not I will open another issue.

Device info
Device: Nexus 5x
Android version: 7.1.1
Signal version: 3.25.4

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