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OwnTracks 2.5.3 "hangs" on manual location update

Open thetruemist opened this issue 1 year ago • 6 comments

The GUI "hangs", i.e. is not responding, if I try a manual location update (upper right side of GUI). After a while, my Andoid complains "OwnTracks isn't responding". If I "Close App", it restarts and looks ok, until the next attempt.

Ok, usually, I'm not updating the location manually, but after issues with 2.5.0 (location update stopped after a day, and yes, I enabled permanent location permission), I'm not sure if I can trust the app now. Was more happy with 2.4, I found an apk for 2.4.10, installs and works fine, but Google Play has updated it...

  • App build number: Version 2.5.3 (420503003) - OSS
  • Android version: 10
  • Device: Doogee S88plus
  • Installation source: tried Google Play, and F-Droid, same issue

I'd appreciate if you could provide a 2.4.x apk, which is not connected to Google Play, so I can keep it.

thetruemist avatar Oct 03 '24 07:10 thetruemist

All the previous apk versions are on GitHub releases.

growse avatar Oct 03 '24 07:10 growse

All the previous apk versions are on GitHub releases.

Thanks. Found them. No idea why I did not see them in the first place. Sorry. I installed owntracks-release-oss-v2.4.12.oldkey.apk, and I'm pretty confident that this will help. Now Google Play wants to update it, but it cannot ;-) That's fine for me ;-) F-Droid also wants to update, but it has a "ignore all updates" setting, also fine for me. So I'm happy, however, the issue with 2.5.3 is not resolved. Maybe it's only my issue (Android 10 + my cheap Doogee)...

thetruemist avatar Oct 03 '24 08:10 thetruemist

Will definitely try and reproduce. We shouldn't be hanging the UI thread ever.

growse avatar Oct 03 '24 08:10 growse

This may already be fixed. There was a regression linked to the sending of Status messages where the status message gets generated on the main UI thread. Pressing the manual update button will generate a status and location message, and that status message generation could (sometimes) be slow.

Be interesting to see if it still does the same thing on 2.5.4.

growse avatar Oct 05 '24 14:10 growse

Thanks! Will have a look.

thetruemist avatar Oct 11 '24 11:10 thetruemist

Hello, a friend of mine is experiencing this issue. he juste installed the app on his Samsung/Android phone. Any recommendation?

outofsight avatar Jan 04 '25 13:01 outofsight

Hi there, I'm also experiencing this issue, freshly installed app 2.5.3 on Android 10 (used on old Samsung S9)

@outofsight you mentioned a 2.5.4 version, possibly fixing this, but I can't find it anywhere... Maybe it wasn't released yet ?

LaurentAtJoes avatar Jul 13 '25 11:07 LaurentAtJoes

Hi there, I'm also experiencing this issue, freshly installed app 2.5.3 on Android 10 (used on old Samsung S9)

@outofsight you mentioned a 2.5.4 version, possibly fixing this, but I can't find it anywhere... Maybe it wasn't released yet ?

we don't actively use this app/system any more, was unreliable for our users/phones, I don't think we had any 2.5.4 installed

outofsight avatar Jul 13 '25 15:07 outofsight

sorry, not clear (for me) : by "this" (in "we don't use this"), what are you talking about ? the manual location update ?

LaurentAtJoes avatar Jul 13 '25 15:07 LaurentAtJoes