Cool, I think what you have done is commendable already. BTW if you want to run some tests and I can help on my DroidX, I'd be happy to.
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:35 AM, mot12 <[email protected]> wrote: > @Mark > Thanks for the hint about the MOTODEV forum. That seems worthwhile > even though my poor test user has already downloaded and run more than > 20 versions in helping me isolating offending code. I hope one > additional barebones test won't push him over the edge. Who knows when > I need him again. > > @Prakash > I spent some time on the DroidX forums and at there are many posts > about random reboots even with the stock firmware. Small developers > can't continue chasing issues that may come down to faulty firmware. > My time is better spent getting ready for Android 3.0. But the Moto > guys could do the same thing I did since it is all open source (google > maps may not be open source, I forgot). But this debugging is a pain. > Take 30,000 lines of code (in my case), make an educated guess as to > which parts may be responsible, and strip them out (leaving 22,000 in > my case). Then the app worked. Then I built 5 test versions, each of > them putting an additional 2000 lines of code back in. My user > reported at which point it crashed and the I built 5 new versions > between the last non-crashing and the crashing version. However, we > were fairly lucky in that it all seemed to work. Stuff like this > rarely comes down to a null-pointer or something similar but are often > due to some side-effects that only occur in certain conditions like > low memory. So this type of debugging I just outlined is not > necessarily consistent and the results may even be misleading. We got > lucky. Of course, Moto has access to parts of the device I don't and I > am sure they can make the device log survive the reboot, something > that would have saved me a lot of time. > > -- > 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 > -- 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
