Autoupload Option for upload when not in roaming

[pahy]

Featurerequest:

Option to autoupload the media by lte/gsm when not in roaming mode.

Thank you!

[AndyScherzinger]

Hi @Pathy,

not sure if I understand your request correctly. If you do want the auto upload to push your stuff to the server while being on a cellular network, then I think you are all set with not checking "wifi only" in the auto upload preferences.
Roaming shouldn't be an issue imho since that should be handled by Android itself.

[gsantner]

@AndyScherzinger
It does make sense to enable roaming for browsing e.g. a website to get some infos when you are in holidays. But you maybe don't want to upload (which will cost more $$$) pictures automatically.
That's what I understood, this issue is about.

[pahy]

Hi @AndyScherzinger, hi @gsantner,

@gsantner you hit the idea precisely :-)
Let me clearify my situation. My contract includes an unlimited lte transfer. Therefore i do not need an alternative transfer by wifi in my home country. But i got a limited transfer volumina for roaming in my contract. As it is expensive to buy respectively to reorder, data intensive transfers in roaming situations are not desired.
I have manually to switch on and off upload by wifi only when crossing the border to gain this effect at the moment.

Thank you!

[AndyScherzinger]

@pahy @gsantner to further clarify, that would mean you would cutoff the app completely or just the upload part? Because there would also be browsing the folder structures, retrieving image/video thumbnails, manually downloading/uploading files and "available offline" as in keeping files in sync.

cc: @eppfel @jancborchardt @mario @tobiasKaminsky

[pahy]

@AndyScherzinger i am just thinking about a little setting within the autoupload options saying "upload when roaming/Bilder bei Roaming hochladen". This option might be disabled, when wifi only uploading is checked.

[AndyScherzinger]

But you then still would have to do this for every activated auto upload!

[pahy]

You are right. A global setting for it would be great. But setting it individually for each autoupload might also be fine, because i have e.g. an images folder for telegram images. I do not need telegram images or videos uploaded when roaming, but my camera pictures or maybe screenshots.

[eppfel]

Are we anyhow making use of the Android system setting "automatically sync data", when I was at FOSDEM these days, I activated roaming, but deactivated this option. I am always for giving users options, but this might solve the problem anyway.

[pahy]

Where do i find this option? I got here Android 7 with changes from Huawei (EMUI) and i can't find this option.
As i do not know this option, would it let me sync my calendar (with low data consumption) and stop syncing nextcloud (with high data consumption) when on roaming?

[eppfel]

Oh, so maybe this is deprecate or a Sony thing. It basically stops all background syncing: calendar, etc. And you are right, this is different to Auto Upload.

I'd go for the global pause auto upload(later: pasue sync) and not stop anything else.

[mario]

It's significantly easier to add a NO ROAMING option since the job system supports this :)

[tobiasKaminsky]

Are we anyhow making use of the Android system setting "automatically sync data"

This is respected only for a full sync of all folders (fetching all folder and file names), as far as I know.

[jasonbayton]

Bump please. Ping @mario @tobiasKaminsky @AndyScherzinger

[dJani97]

I would love this feature as well. I have infinite cellular data in my country, but very limited data when roaming.

So my current Nextcloud setting is to auto-upload all the time, even on cellular. But when I go abroad, I must remember to go into the settings, and set each single folder one-by-one to only auto-upload on WiFi, otherwise it will burn my roaming data.

[joshtrichards]

#383 would like be a reasonable approach here to addressing this too

[pahy]

@joshtrichards #383 seems not to work automatically, so one needs to consider deactivating it every time they enter roaming. This might be more challenging for those living near a border, where the mobile phone unpredictably switches to roaming.