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Brave Fails to Send Phone Number to Connected Mobile Device

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Description

Brave offers to send phone numbers to a linked mobile device, but fails.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Place your desktop device and mobile device on the same Sync chain
  2. Configure Sync to share addresses, phone numbers, and more in brave://sync/
  3. Click a tel: link to invoke address-bar prompt
  4. Request that the call be made from your mobile device

Actual result:

Call is not made.

“Couldn’t share number. Something went wrong. Try later.”

Expected result:

Call is made from mobile device; or user is prompted on mobile to make the call.

Reproduces how often:

Always.

Desktop Brave version:

1.13.82

Android Device details (my linked mobile device):

image

Version/Channel Information:

  • Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? Yes
  • Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? TBD
  • Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? TBD

Other Additional Information:

  • Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? TBD
  • Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards? TBD
  • Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? N/A

Miscellaneous Information:

Desktop is currently set to Sync: Bookmarks, History, Open Tabs, and Addresses, Phone Numbers, and more. Android is currently set to Sync: Bookmarks, History, and Open Tabs (No option presented for Addresses, Phone Numbers, and more on Android.

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Reactions:10
  • Comments:18 (3 by maintainers)

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1reaction
btlechowskicommented, May 17, 2021

Verification passed on

Brave 1.25.18 Chromium: 90.0.4430.72 (Official Build) nightly (64-bit)
Revision b6172ef8d07ef486489a4b11b66b2eaeed50d132-refs/branch-heads/4430@{#1233}
OS Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Verified test plan from https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/8454

image


Verification passed on

Brave | 1.25.57 Chromium: 90.0.4430.93 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)
-- | --
Revision | 4df112c29cfe9a2c69b14195c0275faed4e997a7-refs/branch-heads/4430@{#1348}
OS | Windows 10 OS Version 2004 (Build 19041.985)

image


Verified passed with

Brave | 1.25.60 Chromium: 90.0.4430.212 (Official Build) beta (x86_64)
-- | --
Revision | e3cd97fc771b893b7fd1879196d1215b622c2bed-refs/branch-heads/4430@{#1429}
OS | macOS Version 10.15.7 (Build 19H1030)

Verified test plan from https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/8454#issue-610174383

Reproduced the issue using 1.25.85. Confirmed no such dialog on 1.25.60.

1.25.85 1.25.60
1 24 85 1 25 60
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eexitcommented, Dec 22, 2022

Hello,

This is still broken on v1.46.144 using right click “Call from {device name}”. What is the solution for this?

Thanks!

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