android / android/wear-os-samples
Freezes when opened from recent apps
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- Kotlin
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Description
Hello, I’m experiencing an issue with the Compose-Starter Wear OS app where it freezes when I try to re-open it from the recent apps list after the device has been idle and the screen has turned off. Here’s the sequence of events that leads to the freeze:
1. My Wear OS device goes to sleep after about 15 seconds of inactivity. (when app closed manually everything works fine)
2. If I wait around 2 minutes and 30 seconds, then attempt to re-open the app from the recent apps menu, the app appears frozen.
3. No interactions are possible within the app during this freeze.
Oddly enough, if I leave the app in this frozen state and the device goes to sleep again after the usual 15-second timeout, logs appear and the frozen state seems to be gone.
I'm experiencing it with other apps (including my own app) too, maybe a Wear OS Bug? Just wanted to check if anyone knows what's the problem.
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Research direction
Start with the Compose-Starter Wear OS app entry point and reproduce the reported sequence: let the device sleep, wait about 2 minutes and 30 seconds, then reopen the app from recent apps. Inspect the logs that appear after the next sleep cycle; done would mean identifying whether the sample can reproduce and resolve the freeze, or documenting that it is a broader Wear OS issue.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- kotlin
- Domain
- mobile
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100