Fix an issue with incorrectly transferred files via GSConnect

I’ve recently flashed LingeageOS 18.1 onto my phone. After rooting it, I’ve installed my fav firewall app AFWall+ . But since then I was having problems with sending files to my pc or other phones via (GSConnect app)[https://github.com/GSConnect/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect]. All sent files had different size than the original file on my phone. I’ve described it in this bug report comment .

After a bit of reading I realised that I have to add some extra iptables rules described in GSConnect’s Wiki ,

Once, I’ve added those rules to AFWall+ then everything started to work as expected.

If you’re having similar issue and you’re using AFWall+ then PLEASE read their tutorial on Loading scripts from files first.

In my case, I’ve created a script called gsconnect-iptables.sh with following rules:

# Necessary at the beginning of each script!
IP6TABLES=/system/bin/ip6tables
IPTABLES=/system/bin/iptables
# Open port 1714 to 1764 for GSConnect
$IPTABLES -I "afwall-wifi" -p udp --dport 1714:1764 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
$IPTABLES -I "afwall-wifi" -p tcp --dport 1714:1764 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
$IPTABLES -A "afwall-wifi" -p tcp --sport 1714:1764 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
$IPTABLES -A "afwall-wifi" -p udp --sport 1714:1764 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

Then in the “Set custom script” menu option I specified the path to the script preceded by a dot command:

. /path/to/gsconnect-iptables.sh

After going to airplane mode, I re-applied the firewall rules and turned the airplane mode off.
Since then, I haven’t had any issues with file transfers :)