Solved Password sync cannot be enabled on Android

[Lever]

Does anyone ever respond to bug reports? I've been waiting for 2 months, and this whole time I can't sync passwords from my phone to other devices. It's really frustrating. I'm copying part of the confirmation email below:

         Summary: Cannot enable password sync
             Key: VAB-10258
         Project: Vivaldi Android Browser

     Environment: Vivaldi version: 6.9.3451.114
     Operating System: Android ( bit)
     Device model: SM-F711B
     User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/6.9.3451.114

     Attachments: Screen_Recording_20241022_135126_Vivaldi.zip

Cannot enable password sync

Steps to reproduce:
Enable password sync in sertings

Expected behaviour:
Password sync should show in sync-internals

Actual behaviour:
Password sync does not show in sync-internals, and upon restarting Vivaldi, it is disabled in settings. See attached video.

On the 1st of November, I replied to the email with:
The issue persists in v7.0
It is very frustrating that I cannot sync my passwords.

Later I added the following + a video, which you can see in the link:
I can see that just exiting sync settings and coming back shows the inability to turn on password sync.
https://youtube.com/shorts/mF8cb-iaFVk?feature=share

[Zalex108]

@Lever

Hi,

• Export the Android Passwords from V Settings.
• Import them to Desktop
• Reset the V App on Android
• Sync again

This fixed the situation on a couple of broken profiles on Android.

[DoctorG]

@Lever said in Password sync cannot be enabled on Android:

6.9.3451.114

Update Vivaldi first to current 7.0.

I checked my 7.0.3505.157 / Android 10 and all synced nice.

[Lever]

@DoctorG I mention in the post "The issue persists in v7.0". Have you seen the vid in the link?

I am on the latest version (same as you).

I'm starting to feel like I will have to re-install the app, but here's the problem:
To not lose the unsynced passwords, I will have to export them in plain text, but there's somehow no feature to import them again .

[mib2berlin]

@Lever
Hi, open vivaldi:password-manager/settings, the import is not reachable from the internal Vivaldi settings.

Cheers, mib

[Lever]

@mib2berlin
Hi, when I copy the url, this is what I get:

[Zalex108]

@Lever

Hi,

• Export the Android Passwords from V Settings.
• Import them to Desktop
• Reset the V App on Android
• Sync again

This fixed the situation on a couple of broken profiles on Android.

[mib2berlin]

@mib2berlin
Ah sorry, I missed this is an Android thread.

[Lever]

@Zalex108 Had to do this. Strange thing is that this issue was present on both of my Android phones, so after exporting passwords and loading them on desktop, I had to reinstall the app on both phones. Of course the settings for the mobile app did not sync and I had to setup everything again

[Zalex108]

@Lever

Yes,
Happened on Stable and Snap on A10 in 3 profiles ATM.

[Zalex108]

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[barney]

Same here, i must delete and reinstall Vivaldi on both Android-devices. Now password sync is available again.