On Aug 15, 12:46 pm, Mark Gjøl <[email protected]> wrote: > It's always a problem if you can crash the phone. As I'm working with > OpenGL I'm guessing this is the problem, as I'm working directly with > the hardware. When the phone crashes it hangs for a couple of minutes,
Mark, It's not just you. One of my OpenGL apps has been plagued with this problem for a couple of months now, and I've virtually given up on it as unsolvable. I've actually unpublished the free version of this app because so many users were affected, and my fear is that the paid version will ultimately be doomed as well. The thing that makes it just so difficult is that I cannot make it happen with any regularity. I see it on either my G1 or N1 maybe once every couple of weeks, but with no discernible pattern. This makes it essentially impossible to test any proposed fix, because I just can't tell if the problem has gotten any better. You might look at the following old thread, if you haven't already: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_frm/thread/f7b6b17b04f93ef3 There is a proposed solution in there that didn't help me, but you might have better luck. There are also a couple of issues in the bugtracker linked from that thread. My best theory is that it's some sort of race condition between the UI and OpenGL threads... I think I was able to reduce (but not eliminate) the occurrences by making my code as thread-safe as possible. Things like: - using the "volatile" modifier on all variables touched in onDrawFrame() - using "synchronize" on other functions called from within my OpenGL code - putting a semaphore in onDrawFrame() to ensure that it's only ever got one instance running at a time ...and so on. Good luck with this, and I mean that with all my heart. It's the most dispiriting programming problem I've faced in a long, long time. Please let us know if you get anywhere with it. String -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
