It’s also likely you have lessons available on Wanikani’s site but they are hidden. If you see an “Advanced” button on the site that’s definitely the case. That button lets you do extra lessons. Smouldering Durdles doesn’t know about that cap so it just tells you the full amount of lessons available.
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Exactly this, thank you for getting there first 
Since I’ve seen several questions around this I opened a lesson limit / advanced lesson feature request: [Feature Request] Lessons Limit & Advanced Lessons · Issue #120 · jerryhcooke/smouldering_durtles · GitHub
Gave it some initial thought to start. Might be something I could take a look at once my review load drops.
I seem to be having the same issue. Have you been able to solve it? Did you uninstall your version and install the Github APK instead? I wonder if there is a way to solve this without losing my settings. Thanks.
If you look at the bottom of the settings page, one of the features I’ve added since this fork started is settings backup and restore
Don’t know if it has been mentioned already, but I just had the case where apparently I levelled up during Smouldering Durtles reviews. Once the review was finished, the app got stuck at 7 BG tasks. After “Sync now” it got stuck at 13 BG tasks.
That’s cool. In my case, I can’t access the app at all anymore. It just says I should get it from Google and then Google says it’s already installed. Do you think a complete uninstall + installing the Github version is my best option? Thanks for your help.
Hmm, you might be best taking the version second to most recent version Release v1.1.8 · jerryhcooke/smouldering_durtles · GitHub
It’s only v1.1.9 that added the signing certificate, so I think the older version will install without issue.
Hello!
It’s been a while now (almost a month?) that I don’t get notifications on my phone when I have new reviews.
The notification comes up only after I open the app.
I have an Android v15 and the app is downloaded from play store.
I have reinstalled the app.
I have changed the notification update frequency, priority and category in every option.
(I have no idea if that would do something).
I haven’t managed to make notifications appear as they used to be.
Background sync is off. It was always off and I wouldn’t like to turn it on.
Also, when I clicked on the link from Support / feedback to go to some forums, it takes me to the privacy policy of the app.
Thank you for your time!
The notification comes up only after I open the app.
Background sync is off. It was always off and I wouldn’t like to turn it on.
I am not sure what your complaint is here. It sounds like it’s not running in the background, which it shouldn’t. Without the sync it doesn’t know whether you have reviews to do or not because you may have done them elsewhere. Plus it’s probably not running when you’re not using it, which is typically what you want when you turn off background operations.
I have a vague memory of Flaming Durtles still notifying it this case though. If you do all your reviews on the app it makes sense I think.
That being said I’ve been level 60 for a while now and I don’t need/want the notifications anymore so I’m not entirely sure.
I have been using this app for a few years now and background sync was always off and yet the notifications were working normally.
I recall it too (mainlining iOS these days because reasons) but from a technical standpoint I suspect that was a useful bug in the OS that has probably gone away. I really doubt this change was a change on the SD side of the equation. Both major OS for mobile have been trying to reduce “nag” notifications and background operations where not specifically turned on for a while now and I generally find it reduces the ones I don’t want to reduce and leaves the ones I don’t want.
When I was using Android as my frontline OS I seem to recall SD and FD before it would notify me more often if I’d used it recently and was still one of the more active applications. This was on Android 13 (LineageOS). If I had to guess, and it is just a guess, Android is probably being more stringent about background operations than it used to be unless something is specifically permitted or is doing something active.
TL;DR: I think Android is blocking a thing you found useful and that the change is not SD’s change. You might check the app’s permissions in your phone settings or you might try allowing background sync to see if that’ll enable background operations.
If I remember correctly, after an OS update, the notifications for this app was turned off and I had to turn it on again. And, although I can’t be sure, this may have started happening after that update.
So yeah, it is probably not the app’s fault.
I will turn on the background sync to see if something changes.
Worth a shot.
So it’s been a day since I turned on background sync.
I was waiting for three review batches and unfortunately I had no notifications for any of them.
I just checked the settings again and I saw that background sync was off again somehow 
So I turned it on again and I will see once more what will happen.
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I’d also check your app settings on Android to see if it’s allowed to run in the background. Settings - >Apps ->Smouldering Durdles → App battery usage → Allow background usage is the path is looks like on my Android 15 phone but it could be slightly different depending on your model.
Basically you’re looking for a system level setting to allow Smouldering Durdles to run in the background. Without that enabled no internal settings in Smouldering Durdles would enable it to run in the background and I could see that breaking notifications.
Another thing I noticed is notifications were disabled for Smouldering Durdles at the android level for me and I also recently updated. So that could be something else to check. I didn’t enable notifications until recently to test. But I was able to get notifications to show up so that’s promising.
I checked the settings as you suggested and it was on. I just checked the app and the settings now and I see that the app has turned off background sync again and I still don’t get notifications.
I don’t know why