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Originally Posted by taxaza View Post
When I download big areas after a while I cannot bring the n900 out of the blank screen. It doesn't seem the phone completely hangs since the indication led is blinking normally and even turns blue when I receive new mails.
Originally Posted by superpj101 View Post
I experience phone shutdown while running modrana for more than 40mins and I need to reinsert the battery.
Originally Posted by baseb0l View Post
The same happened to me.

If you read back a bit in this thread and other app threads you'll find this is not an issue with modRana, but is a system level flaw. Something goes wrong in the graphics driver, which is triggered by apps that do a lot of drawing to the screen. The result is that the screen never comes back on, since it's kernel driver is in a loop. If you SSH into the device, and use top(1) you'll see [sgx_misr] taking 98% of the CPU. This also explains the battery drain, as your CPU is running at near 100%.

Typically it happens more often when GPS is on, though it can happen just out of the blue. There's a bug for this here, which you should vote for if you want this fixed. The bigger problem is that this is a kernel level driver, so you can't kill it, nor can you remove it from the kernel since it's not a module. The only solution is a reboot.

I'm working on a script to monitor/detect this and shutdown the system after some warning that something's wrong with the system (just in case you're on the phone when it happens).

Edit: The script is done, and posted here.

Last edited by woody14619; 2010-12-06 at 20:09. Reason: Added link to script
 

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