Wigdet hangs about naturalhour HOT 2 CLOSED

Does the widget ever recover? Like suppose you wait a minute or two, does it eventually update? If not, does resizing the widget (smaller or larger and back again) cause the widget to recover?

The update mechanism is similar (but not exactly the same) as that used by Suntimes. It may be worth observing the world map or clock widget to see if it behaves the same. It's unlikely there's a conflict, but it is fragile. I broke it a few commits ago while adding additional widget sizes (5x3) and only discovered it just now.

If you have access to the device's logcat there are debug lines (or lack thereof) that might give some clues. Every time the widget updates it should look something like.

onReceive: suntimes.naturalhour.WIDGET_UPDATE(42)
D/NaturalHourWidget_5x3: updateViews: 42
D/NaturalHourWidget: saveNextSuggestedUpdate: 9:25 AM
D/NaturalHourWidget_5x3: getUpdateTimeMillis: next update is at: 1602433501041
D/NaturalHourWidget_5x3: setUpdateAlarm: 9:25 AM --> suntimes.naturalhour.WIDGET_UPDATE(42) :: 0

It should happen once a minute, but if something should prevent it, the next update doesn't get scheduled. Android should eventually go to refresh the widgets on its own though, which should schedule another update (and cause it to recover). Android likes to batch updates together (delay them up to 15min) and other annoying behaviors to save battery. Its worth trying to add the app to the battery optimization exception list. The way it should work is if a scheduled update is missed (because the device is sleeping), it should be triggered immediately upon waking up. It doesn't sound like that's happening.

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Well, it’s been three days the issue hasn’t appeared any more, so I would close this for now and I shall let you know if anything goes wrong again. 🤨

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