[All] Black Screen of Death - Won't resume from standby

Dan Staley daniel.l.staley at gmail.com
Mon Nov 9 18:58:04 CET 2009


I also get the BSOD (at least once every couple days...sometimes more), but
I do not have omnewrotate installed....so I'm pretty sure it is something
else.
I'm hoping the big new SHR update that is coming will help fix it.

-Dan

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Warren Baird
<wjbaird at alumni.uwaterloo.ca>wrote:

> So - an update - it really seems that in my case at least the black screens
> of death were being caused by omnewrotate.  I'd been getting at least 1 or 2
> a day since I installed it, and I got 4 last Sunday and at least 2 or 3 the
> day before that.   On monday I changed the omnewrotate behaviour to be off
> by default, and I haven't seen a single BSOD since then.
>
> It's a bit annoying, since if I forget to make sure the phone is vertical
> before suspending it, my screen is all messed up, but that is less annoying
> than missing calls because of the BSODs.
>
> Warren
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Warren Baird <wjbaird at alumni.uwaterloo.ca>wrote:
>
>> That sounds quite reasonable - I wasn't trying to point fingers - just
>> describing the experience I had.   yesterday I had my FR die with a BSOD 4
>> times - before I installed omnewrotate on this install I hadn't seen a BSOD
>> at all.
>>
>> I've just changed the default behavior for omnewrotate to 'Off' an hour or
>> two ago, I'm going to run for a few days and see if that impacts things...
>>
>> Warren
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms at 1407.org>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> As you go into suspend, a script is called that *stops* (kills the
>>> process)
>>> omnewrotate.
>>>
>>> As you resume, a script is called that starts omnewrotate.
>>>
>>> So:
>>>
>>>  1) as you suspend, omnewrotate is *not* even working.
>>>  2) only after resume is completed does omnewrotate get started
>>>
>>> Conclusion: omnewrotate doesn't affect suspend/resume cycles. :)
>>>
>>> This scripts were place early on in it's development as after resuming
>>> omnewrotate couldn't get any data from the accelerometers (let alone
>>> my fears that keeping the device open could affect resume).
>>>
>>> Rui
>>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 01:03:29PM -0400, Warren Baird wrote:
>>> > I just started noticing this on an shr-u build updated in early sept.
>>> The
>>> > only thing I've changed lately is installing omnewrotate.   I also
>>> noticed
>>> > it on an install of the shr-testing candidate, that also had
>>> omnewrotate
>>> > installed.
>>> >
>>> > I'm going to keep omnewrotate installed for a while and see how often I
>>> get
>>> > the BSOD. Then I'll uninstall or disable omnewrotate and see what
>>> happens.
>>> >
>>> > Warren
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Matthias Huber <
>>> > matthias.huber at wollishausen.de> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Steven ** schrieb:
>>> > > > I've seen this several times with SHR-Unstable and now with
>>> Android.
>>> > > > So, I'd say it's something that is common among these distro's.  Is
>>> it
>>> > > > seen on all distros?  Is it the kernel?  Hardware bug?  Bootloader
>>> > > > issue?
>>> > > > Any clues how to debug this or what might cause it?
>>> > > >
>>> > > > I know I'm not the only one that sees it.  How are others dealing
>>> with
>>> > > > these random lock-ups?
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > i have this too with my system gta02v6 latest shr-u.
>>> > > sometimes i thought, it has to do with gps, but i am not sure about.
>>> > > sometimes i think, problem it is changing cell while sleeping.
>>> > >
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