Android device reboots during gameplay

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hi,

One of our beta testers have reported that his device reboots when playing our Corona-based game. He tried multiple times and the device rebooted each time.

Gameplay was choppy and after a  10-30 seconds the device rebooted.

He is using a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3, model SM-T210 ( http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_tab_3_7_0_wifi-5423.php ), Android 4.4.2

He could see that the GPU was at 100% usage at the crash, but had no other information. This device uses the PowerVR SGX540 GPU which I think Corona has had problems with before?

We are using Graphics 2.0 and the physics engine with the latest release of Corona (2015.2646)

Has anyone else seen this?

Thanks,

Johan

#2

Does your game work fine on all your other test(er’s) devices?  If not, then this sounds like:

  • some kind of leak, and/or
  • runaway content creation, and/or
  • runaway process creation

-Ed

#3

I’m out for most of the day, but I’d be happy to run your game later if you want.  I have two android devices and a debug setup, so I can probably give some more feedback on this if it occurs.

If you’re interested, e-mail me a link to the binary and try to give me steps to reproduce the issue:

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#4

Hi Ed,

Thanks for the suggestions. We have tested it pretty extensively on ~10 different Android models without any problems.

We actually tried it on a very similar model as the beta tester, a SM-T113, the first thing I noticed was that it uses a different GPU… interesting to see if anyone has had similar problems on that GPU model.

I’ll take you up on the testing offer! :slight_smile: Need some more Android coverage…

I will send you a link soon.

Thanks,

Johan 

#5

Does your game work fine on all your other test(er’s) devices?  If not, then this sounds like:

  • some kind of leak, and/or
  • runaway content creation, and/or
  • runaway process creation

-Ed

#6

I’m out for most of the day, but I’d be happy to run your game later if you want.  I have two android devices and a debug setup, so I can probably give some more feedback on this if it occurs.

If you’re interested, e-mail me a link to the binary and try to give me steps to reproduce the issue:

rgemail2.png

#7

Hi Ed,

Thanks for the suggestions. We have tested it pretty extensively on ~10 different Android models without any problems.

We actually tried it on a very similar model as the beta tester, a SM-T113, the first thing I noticed was that it uses a different GPU… interesting to see if anyone has had similar problems on that GPU model.

I’ll take you up on the testing offer! :slight_smile: Need some more Android coverage…

I will send you a link soon.

Thanks,

Johan