Out of memory when using OpenTrack

[dror3go]

Affected hardware version

Bangle 2

Your firmware version

2v24

The bug

Using OpenTracks app while the phone is connected to the Banglejs2 watch - at some point the phone turns blank with a blurry message at the bottom starting with FIFO_EOWL and ending with MEMORY. The rest is overlapping letters which makes it impossible to read.
From that point - the phone becomes useless: long press on the button reloads it, but it doesn't update the clock, it doesn't show notifications, and the screen is not interactive.

Installed apps

No response

[bobrippling]

Which is the OpenTracks app? Do you mean Open Street Map?

[dror3go]

No, I mean the Android OpenTracks app, which probably generates many notifications on the Banglejs watch during activity.
I ended up doing a factory reset on the watch since it became unusable.

[bobrippling]

Gotya - sounds like a problem with either Android or the Messages App (if you're using the default messages app?)

@gfwilliams what do you think? Notification throttling?

[gfwilliams]

I think this may have come up before - as I understand it it's kind of an issue with OpenTrack - it creates literally hundreds of notifications (I think when it's downloading something or displaying some kind of progress?). I think other apps use 'local' notifications which get ignored by Gadgetbridge but OpenTrack makes them global.

You can go into Gadgetbridge, notification settings and block all notifications from OpenTrack and I think that'll fix it though. It shouldn't have been anything wrong with the Bangle itself - once Gadgetbridge disconnected and stopped throwing notifications at it I think it would have deleted the existing notification file and it all would have been fine.

We could try and push something to Gadgetbridge that blocks OpenTrack by default - I guess throttling is possible but it sounds problematic - someone's going to complain that something didn't get through