Gemini app crashes immediately on launch ("Gemini keeps stopping") on Huawei Mate 40 RS / HarmonyOS 4.2
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Description
### Description
The Gemini app crashes immediately when launched. Tapping the app icon produces no visible response, then a system dialog appears with the message **"Gemini keeps stopping"** (with options APP INFO / CLOSE). The app never reaches its UI and cannot be opened at all.
### Device information
- **Device:** Huawei Mate 40 RS
- **OS:** HarmonyOS 4.2.0.192
- **microG Services:** v0.3.15.250932-hw (latest, freshly upgraded from 0.3.11)
- **microG Companion:** v0.3.15.250932-hw
- **Gemini app version:** 1.0.913571982
### Steps to reproduce
1. Have microG Services and Companion (Huawei build) installed and a Google account signed in.
2. Install the Gemini app.
3. Tap the Gemini app icon to launch it.
### Expected behavior
Gemini opens normally and is usable.
### Actual behavior
Nothing happens visually for a moment, then a system dialog appears: **"Gemini keeps stopping"** with options "APP INFO" / "CLOSE". The app never reaches the UI.
### microG Self-Check
All items are checked, including:
- System spoofs signature: ✅
- microG Services installed / correct signature: ✅
- microG Companion / Play Store installed / correct signature: ✅
- microG Services Framework installed: ✅
- All location, account, SMS, draw-over-other-apps permissions: ✅
- Battery optimizations ignored: ✅
The only unchecked item is **"Permission to interact with work profile"**, which should not be required for Gemini.
### Additional notes
- Upgrading microG from 0.3.11 to 0.3.15 did not resolve the issue; behavior was the same on the older version.
- Possibly related to #3434 (also Huawei + Gemini + microG 0.3.15), but the symptom here is different: a hard crash on launch rather than an occasional notification.
- No logcat available yet; happy to provide if someone can advise how to capture it on HarmonyOS.
Screenshots of the crash dialog and Self-Check can be attached if needed.
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Research direction
No repository file or test is named in the report; start by capturing a logcat from the Huawei Mate 40 RS during Gemini launch and compare the findings with issue #3434. Done means identifying a reproducible compatibility cause and confirming that Gemini launches successfully on the reported HarmonyOS and microG versions.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, java
- Domain
- mobile
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
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- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100