SPV: Timeout Stops Syncing over Tor

[JeffVandrewJr]

Description

When using the trusted peer for SPV over Tor, the timeout feature automatically logs the user out, which seems to stop the SPV syncing process. It's hard to 100% tell because reopening the app to look at the SPV block notifications causes a new login which restarts the peer connection and the progress bar resets. The notification bar still shows syncing at that point, but it doesn't seem to progress. Upon re logging in, it has to reconnect to the peer over again before picking up where it left off.

UPDATE: It's really just a UX thing with the progress bar resetting rather than it actually stopping syncing. See the next comment in the thread.

Since the SPV syncing takes a while, it would be good if it could continue in the background rather than requiring the user to log back in every 10 mins.

Version

3.1.3

Steps to reproduce

When using the trusted peer for SPV over Tor, the timeout feature automatically logs the user out, which seems to stop the SPV syncing process. It's hard to 100% tell because reopening the app to look at the SPV block notifications causes a new login which restarts the peer connection and the progress bar resets. The notification bar still shows syncing at that point, but it doesn't seem to progress. Upon re logging in, it has to reconnect to the peer over again before picking up where it left off.

Expected behaviour

Continued background sync on logout, especially for the initial sync.

Actual behaviour

Timeout kills the sync. See the next comment in the thread.

Screenshots

N/A

Device or machine

Xiaomi Mi Mix 2, Android 8.0.0 OPR1.70623.027, MIUI Global 10.2

Additional info

None

[JeffVandrewJr]

Update: It actually does keep syncing after the timeout and eventually finishes; this is really just a UX problem, as the connection to the trusted peer is reset and the progress bar resets to the beginning every time the app is launched.

[domegabri]

@JeffVandrewJr thank you for reporting! Yes this is a UX bug, the progress bar is not really representative of the work left but it restarts every time. The app actually picks up from where it left during the background spv syncing.