New cards always save to default deck

[alastai...@gmail.com]

I'm using the Ankidroid app and have several decks set up. Whenever I add a new card manually it is added to the 'Default' deck, even if I select a different deck in the 'add card' screen. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? Thanks very much

[Tim]

Using Anki Desktop, please click the "Cards" button while adding a new card, and ensure More>Deck Override is turned off.

[alastai...@gmail.com]

Thanks Tim, but I'm using the Ankidroid Android app. Any ideas how I'd solve it on there? Thanks

[Tim]

The easiest way would be to install Anki Desktop and do it there. Most users find it much much easier to add cards with Anki Desktop anyway.

There is currently no way to change the deck override setting directly from AnkiDroid, so the only other way would be to switch to a different (or create a new) note type that doesn't have that setting turned on (it's off by default). 

If you've never used Anki Desktop then presumably the note type came from a shared deck or a deck you received from a friend? Or perhaps it's a note type left over from a verrrry old version of AnkiDroid that a bug related to this feature. 

FYI I personally consider this behavior as a bug, and I've sent a patch to the developer of Anki Desktop, so it should hopefully be fixed in a later version of Anki.

[alastai...@gmail.com]

Thanks a lot for your help Tim, much appreciated. I'll give that a go!