diff --git a/xwords4/android/XWords4/src/org/eehouse/android/xw4/BoardActivity.java b/xwords4/android/XWords4/src/org/eehouse/android/xw4/BoardActivity.java
index f0b6028fa..d93bb05f5 100644
--- a/xwords4/android/XWords4/src/org/eehouse/android/xw4/BoardActivity.java
+++ b/xwords4/android/XWords4/src/org/eehouse/android/xw4/BoardActivity.java
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /* -*- compile-command: "cd ../../../../../; ant debug install"; -*- */
 /*
- * Copyright 2009-2011 by Eric House (xwords@eehouse.org).  All
+ * Copyright 2009 - 2012 by Eric House (xwords@eehouse.org).  All
  * rights reserved.
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -1080,7 +1080,7 @@ public class BoardActivity extends XWActivity
         public void playerScoreHeld( int player )
         {
             String expl = XwJNI.model_getPlayersLastScore( m_jniGamePtr, 
-                                                            player );
+                                                           player );
             if ( expl.length() == 0 ) {
                 expl = getString( R.string.no_moves_made );
             }
@@ -1379,9 +1379,7 @@ public class BoardActivity extends XWActivity
 
                 m_jniGamePtr = XwJNI.initJNI();
 
-                boolean standalone =
-                    m_gi.serverRole == DeviceRole.SERVER_STANDALONE;
-                if ( !standalone ) {
+                if ( m_gi.serverRole != DeviceRole.SERVER_STANDALONE ) {
                     m_xport = new CommsTransport( m_jniGamePtr, this, this, 
                                                   m_gi.serverRole );
                 }
@@ -1463,9 +1461,9 @@ public class BoardActivity extends XWActivity
                     DBUtils.setMsgFlags( m_rowid, GameSummary.MSG_FLAGS_NONE );
                 }
 
-                if ( !standalone ) {
+                if ( null != m_xport ) {
                     trySendChats();
-                    m_jniThread.handle( JNIThread.JNICmd.CMD_RESEND );
+                    m_xport.tickle();
                 }
             }
         }
diff --git a/xwords4/android/XWords4/src/org/eehouse/android/xw4/CommsTransport.java b/xwords4/android/XWords4/src/org/eehouse/android/xw4/CommsTransport.java
index 08ed82f21..ab62e362f 100644
--- a/xwords4/android/XWords4/src/org/eehouse/android/xw4/CommsTransport.java
+++ b/xwords4/android/XWords4/src/org/eehouse/android/xw4/CommsTransport.java
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /* -*- compile-command: "cd ../../../../../; ant debug install"; -*- */
 /*
- * Copyright 2009-2010 by Eric House (xwords@eehouse.org).  All
+ * Copyright 2009 - 2012 by Eric House (xwords@eehouse.org).  All
  * rights reserved.
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -221,6 +221,25 @@ public class CommsTransport implements TransportProcs,
         }
     }
 
+    public void tickle()
+    {
+        CommsAddrRec addr = new CommsAddrRec( m_context );
+        XwJNI.comms_getAddr( m_jniGamePtr, addr );
+        switch( addr.conType ) {
+        case COMMS_CONN_RELAY:
+            // do nothing
+            break;
+        case COMMS_CONN_BT:
+            // Let other know I'm here
+            m_jniThread.handle( JNIThread.JNICmd.CMD_RESEND );
+            break;
+        default:
+            DbgUtils.logf( "tickle: unexpected type %s", 
+                           addr.conType.toString() );
+            Assert.fail();
+        }
+    }
+
     private synchronized void putOut( final byte[] buf )
     {
         int len = buf.length;