Element-android: A message is now "stuck" to the bottom of a room

[colemickens]

I sent a message. I guess some network interruption happened. Now I permanently see that message pinned as if it were just sent to the room. It's been like this for a week.

[PatrickRose]

I've seen this as well (I submitted a rage shake), I think there's a general issue for it

It's fixed by clearing your cache.

[ZerataX]

@benparsons I have a message stuck now for 1 week and neither deleting it nor the cache helps :/

[benparsons]

@ZerataX did you submit a rageshake? I'm not on the riotX team but they will be able to fix this if they have more info about the cause.

[ZerataX]

Just did!

[Destroyer]

any progress/workaround? i noticed when updating to a newer version it fixes itself until another message gets stuck

[TheCycoONE]

Seeing this as well on a zenpad 300m running Android 7.0. I have not seen it happen on a Galaxy S9 running Android 9.

[neutralinsomniac]

Friend of mine is also seeing this on her Pixel. Annoyingly it's an image that's stuck to the bottom, which makes reading messages very difficult.

[olymk2]

same I now have an image stuck at the bottom of a room on Motorola g6

This is in a private family room so dont really want to share all the room log, can you share just that message info in riotx some how ?

[apiraino]

Reporting that with RiotX 0.21 (and Motorola G5) stuck messages disappeared (not sure if coincidence or specific bugfix)

[Vaelio]

Still a thing for some friends on 0.22

[mureni]

This is still an issue with 0.22, brought about by the CloudFlare outage on July 17 2020 when a message was sent but not synced.

[DooMMasteR]

The issue persists.
I have a stuck message from 2020-07-01 which also does reappear after deleting caches/data.

Super annoying.

[sinni800]

Since "stable" Riot recently updated to Riot/X and renamed to Element (At least I think this is the right repo now) I also got this issue and it just recently appeared. App is version 1.0.2, random message is stuck to the bottom. For someone else, it's an image which obscures more than half the screen.

No delete option, nothing.

[avion540]

I have a friend running the latest version of Element Android and is experiencing this issue as well. An image is stuck at the bottom of his screen and he cannot interact with it at all.

[Rares95]

Please this is really annoying!

[subins2000]

Yes it's very annoying! Any workarounds to get the message sent ?

[ZerataX]

@subins2000 usually clearing cache under settings > general works for me

[bluecmd]

@ZerataX Does not work for me sadly, message still remains. Force stopped the app, cleared the cache. On startup the message from a few days ago is still the "newest" message even though there are several from earlier today.

[ZerataX]

@bluecmd I do specifically mean the option in element not the android option. but this didn't use to work for always either, just seems to work now reliably

[subins2000]

@ZerataX Yup, that worked ! It cleared the pending messages and now I can send messages in the room again. I thought you meant the "Clear cache" button in android settings. I didn't know there was a clear cache button in Element App -> Settings -> General
@bluecmd

[bluecmd]

Wow indeed! That worked for me! The clear cache in Android did not (might be a reasonable to make it clear this cache as well?) but this one indeed finally fixed this annoying issue. I am sure it will be back, but at least this workaround worked (this time!).

[DooMMasteR]

Yay at least a temporary fix, after multiple years of enduring this persistent issue.

[Destroyer]

Issue persists, stuck messages on version 1.0.10

[Ezwen]

Issue persists, stuck messages on version 1.0.10

Same here

[JorikSchellekens]

Having the same issue, has this made it into a release?

[bitscher]

It is still happening and should be roeopened

[danger89]

It's definitely not solved.

[Totogro]

Hopefully this issue will be solved over here : https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/issues/1192#issuecomment-751491105