To those having issues with syncing, it is a known issue that we are facing. Some nodes still running V3 are causing the daemon to not sync properly. Make sure you have the exclusive nodes in our update when opening your wallet. We are working on a new wallet that has these properties already integrated.
Hello, thank you for confirming, I tried number of ways, even the blog post way you mentioned:
2018-05-02 16:39:23.685 [P2P7] INFO global src/cryptonote_protocol/cryptonote_protocol_handler.inl:305 [140.82.9.90:48772 OUT] Sync data returned a new top block candidate: 173376 -> 175052 [Your node is 1676 blocks (2 days) behind]
SYNCHRONIZATION started
2018-05-02 16:40:05.661 [P2P9] INFO global src/cryptonote_protocol/cryptonote_protocol_handler.inl:305 [62.48.164.60:48772 OUT] Sync data returned a new top block candidate: 173376 -> 175053 [Your node is 1677 blocks (2 days) behind]
SYNCHRONIZATION started
It does not seem to work for myself as each time the amount of blogs behind increases, its suppose to decrease?