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Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur

Okay, just had two crashes in quick succession. It SEEMS to be some mix of actively having a GPS lock, and rapidly being made to change orientation between portrait and landscape.

Not sure. I was going back to dorm from the aforementioned second class, shut everything down except for Columbus and two X-Term windows, went into a Starbucks. I had locked the screen earlier with Columbus in portrait mode (status bar showing). I decided to check on it again. Lifted phone out in landscape mode, pushed the lock switch thingy - nothing happened, not too unusual, I'm never sure if it's software lag or a hardware glitch or me not pushing it all the way in - so I slid open the keyboard. Screen came on as normal, showing Columbus in portrait mode, and then Columbus closed/exited. I relaunched it, it got the lock back almost immediately. So I kept it open, status bar out (I think). For a while in line I kept rotating in one spot while slightly moving my hand around to see how accurately I could get the compass to report direction. Because I wasn't moving more than a foot in any direction, not very, but that's to be expected.

I grabbed a sandwich, ordered my drink, payed, moved into the waiting area. Some of these were done with the same hand that my N900 was in. I basically had it in my hand the entire time, so it got more random movements than normal.

As I set my stuff down and went to put my card and receipt away, I glanced at my screen and saw Columbus had exited again. My memory is not precise enough to be 100% certain if I actually SAW it close, or if it had closed since I last looked (which would've been within a minute at the most), and I don't like falling victim to all those little faulty quirks of human memory (in this case, being certain you remember something based on what you logically know about the situation, when you really don't necessarily remember it if you really pay attention).

So yeah. I tried replicating it when I got home, no success, but I'll admit, I didn't try too hard to walk around flailing my arm or anything like that.

In the four hours I've had columbus and other stuff running, battery got drained. I am pretty sure most of that was the browsing and wifi connectivity, but Columbus did noticeably contribute over time. (But not more than I would expect from something running the GPS system non-stop.)

(Edit - for the part where I did wifi browsing/VNCing, I had lxp's injection capable driver running, not the normal wifi driver. So there's a change that had to do with it. Doubt it, but it's possible.)

Originally Posted by slender

If battery is depleted, programs crashes or phone is switched off by accident then is the log file lost?

Originally Posted by slender

- All graphs have scale lines but what those lines exactly represent? What is on y-axis and what is scale? They look nice but to me they do not exactly tell too much.

Originally Posted by slender

- Would it be possible to loop around screen indefinitely?

Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur

Actually, it would be great if a future version allowed you to see all of the first screen in portrait mode. (Current version hides two two rather informative graphs - I personally really like the graph that tells you how much signal you have from each satellite. It'd be nice if I could scroll down to see it in portrait mode on that page/window/tab/screen/whatever, since right now it only shows when you're on that screen in landscape.

Originally Posted by fms

Latest version crashes after 3-5 minutes of operation with location displayed. Seems to be ok until it finds the location.

Originally Posted by scavenger

Hi there,
Managed to get around 1.5-2 hrs of usage before total battery depletion. Did some web surfing using wifi & music/video listering simultaneously while running Columbus via bluetooth. So far no problems arose during the abovementioned test run. No disconnection or lag etc... Upon finishing recharging back the batt, restart back Columbus to see if any problem arose because of improper shutdown. All I can say is that Columbus seems to be running ok.
I did notice 1 thing though, my N900 did became a bit hot. If i scale 1 to 10, it would be around 7-8. That hot. While testing, i did OC to 950Mhz with active animated livewallpaper. Wonder it's because of my OC'ing?
Anyway, my report is that Columbus seems to be running rather well on my end. I'll post here for any updates/faults/hanging etc,.

Sincerely,
-Scav-

Originally Posted by tswindell

If this issue continues, let me know and then we can try and debug it properly (as long as it seems to happen 100% of the time)

Originally Posted by fms

It *is* happening 100% of the time to me. Also, it is true that it got the lock almost immediately after I started it. It then crashed in about 3-5 minutes. And has done so every single time.

Now, the initial time a ran it, it spent spent several minutes getting the lock, the a few minutes showing the location, then it crashed.

Originally Posted by tswindell

Thank you again for your time in testing, I'll look into the crashing issue, it may be completely unrelated to portrait/landscape but I'll see what I can do. If I can replicate it then I can fix it

It would be possible, though I'm not that inclined to do so :P

I've been thinking about, though not got around to, making it so when you click on the lower area in portrait mode "lat/lon/alt/etc" values, it cycles through the graphs then back to those values.

Now, the initial time a ran it, it spent spent several minutes getting the lock, the a few minutes showing the location, then it crashed.

Originally Posted by tswindell

Okay, and you've tried reinstalling it?

Originally Posted by fms

Yep. Same effect. I have XTerm, Conversations, and Phone running in background. Maybe it is running out of memory somehow? Are you by any chance making any dynamic memory allocations with malloc() or new while your program is running?