Were you able to determine if it was a kernel crash or a framework restart? I believe you can verify with the uptime of the device.
Also what kernel came with your build? Are you on 2.6.32 for Droid? -- Mike On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Doug <[email protected]> wrote: > first part for Dianne, second for Mike > > Dianne - I completely agree that this is theoretically not an issue > that I should be concerned with, however, as the developer of an app > that seems to be triggering this bad behavior it is up to me to try to > determine whether or not anything can be done about it. I can point > my finger in any direction (Motorola, Verizon, even Google/AOSP) but > as you know users don't know (or even care) where the problem lies, > all they see is my app misbehaving and thats the end of it. I'd > rather do a little research to help identify/resolve the problem now > than have to deal with the user rants later. > > Mike - I went to the trouble of installing what I *believe* is the > broken build on one of my test phones (a Droid) - so far I *think* the > phone has misbehaved twice, but I didn't have logcat running, so don't > know what it was up to at the time (whether it will misbehave > connected via usb is another question...). > > "Build Number" = "voles-userdebug 2.2 FRFxx 33333 test-keys" > > I did look in /data/dontpanic - the cupboard is bare > > Doug > > On Jun 14, 2:38 pm, Mike Chan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Do you know if its a kernel reboot or a framework restart? >> >> If its the kernel crashing you can get a persistent logs found: >> >> For Nexus One: >> You can check /proc/last_kmsg >> >> On Droid: >> /data/dontpanic/apanic_console >> >> Make sure to check the timestamp of the file created or in the dmesg, >> sometimes if the reboot is due to the modem there will be no logs. >> >> What build is this 2.2 Droid running? >> >> -- Mike >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: >> > System crashes are a bug in the platform, not in the application. It >> > should >> > be up to the device manufacturer to fix such a problem... and if these >> > people are running some random build of who knows what, there is obviously >> > nobody who can help them with crashes they are experiencing on their >> > device, >> > so they should wait until there is a real build to run to report any such >> > errors to the manufacturer. >> >> > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Doug <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Hi, I am an Android app developer, all of my work is within the Java >> >> runtime environment. Before you point me to the android-developers >> >> list, please consider the following: >> >> >> I have had a number of users of my app report that with it installed >> >> on their rooted 2.2 devices (primarily the Verizon Droid) it causes >> >> the phone to reboot anywhere from every 15 minutes to every hour. >> >> >> I realize that the 2.2 codebase is not released yet (don't even know >> >> when), but the last thing I want is to be stung by 1,000's of users >> >> who suddenly encounter this problem after the OS is released into the >> >> wild. >> >> >> As such, I am doing my best to determine the cause of this problem. >> >> Users have reported that the phone will spontaneously reboot at pretty >> >> much any time (on the phone, off the phone, browsing the web, idle, >> >> asleep) with the one exception being that it seems to be stable when >> >> it is "plugged in" (Most of this info has been gleaned from various >> >> forum postings, so accuracy cannot be 100% confirmed) >> >> >> Is there any way to access the Android equivalent of /etc/messages (or >> >> some other crash-dump file) AFTER the phone has rebooted? (given that >> >> the users of these devices have root access) >> >> >> I *suspect* that the problem may be related to the network stack (the >> >> app tries to poll a server for changes periodically), and I think the >> >> problem may be somewhere in the handling of 'bad/unavailable' IP >> >> connections. >> >> >> Doug >> >> >> -- >> >> unsubscribe: [email protected] >> >> website:http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel >> >> > -- >> > Dianne Hackborn >> > Android framework engineer >> > [email protected] >> >> > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to >> > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such >> > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and >> > answer them. >> >> > -- >> > unsubscribe: [email protected] >> > website:http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel > > -- > unsubscribe: [email protected] > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel > -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel
