Possible reason for the white LED of death in 10/10+
asked 2019-12-07 00:46:00 +0200
So after the 4th re-flash in as many days I decided to start from scratch almost adding one app at a time and seeing what happened.
I installed the OS and the Jolla main apps. Everything OK I installed Android support and the few apps I use. Still OK. Started adding accounts... things started failing accounts failed to add, google, dropbox, etc. When restarting the phone hang with a red LED for while before restarting letting you know some thing was broken. But it did start again and while it was burning through the battery and android stumbled to start as did the browser after a dozen restarts it had not failed.
Enter openrepos. As soon as I installed open repos and the app and started setting up the whole lotta apps I download from them on the very first restart... white LED of death.
My theory and I am not an OS guy... some apps in open repos are not working or were not developed compatible with the current encryption file system or whatever in SFOS so they break it.
I'm inclined to state that if you setup the 10/10+ without openrepos, yeah a lot of things may be broken or barely working but you won't get the LED of death. Working hypothesis at least.
Back in days I installed old Ubuntu to small SSD and right away made distro upgrade. It hung because SSD didn't had a time to do trim and there was no usable space left in SSD. After manual trim everything worked again. I wonder would be same situation here?
muppis ( 2019-12-08 00:58:06 +0200 )editCould be... but I just don't know that much about hardware and the OS. I have installed a lot more android and the apps from the jolla store and restarted multiple times and had no issues whatsoever. So to me it seems like the moment you enable untrusted software install you open yourself to the white LED of death... which is a shame because 75% of the apps I use come from storeman.
rubyhorse ( 2019-12-08 02:46:32 +0200 )edit