Android App Crashing Related to PiHole and VPN

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Android 10.0
Joplin App Version: 1.0.325

Three alternative connections:
Wifi / Pihole - crash
Cell / VPN - crash
Cell / VPN Off - no crash

Background: I have a pihole in my network and i also use IVPN. When I am trying to use Joplin with either my home wifi or my VPN enable the app crashes within seconds of using, every time. If i disconnect the VPN and or my wifi then the app works flawlessly. The only site being blocked by my pihole is ssl.google-analytics.com

My bug reports are over the size limit to include in post. If there are any details I could include, please let me know.

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Do you have any crash dump? Chances are we can’t do much about it as this is a low level issue that should be reported to Electron instead, but you would need a detailed crash dump for that.

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See logs below

bugreport-coral-QQ2A.200405.005-2020-04-06-16-25-10-dumpstate_log-24142.txt (60.5 KB)

bugreport-coral-QQ2A.200405.005-2020-04-06-16-19-54-dumpstate_log-20582.txt (60.9 KB)

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Electron has a long standing issue with proxy networks. Even installation is difficult in proxy networks.

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I thought Android version does not use Electron. Or does it?

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No, it uses React Native. But I thing the issues are the same, although I cannot confirm it.

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Any errors in Joplin log? Or would you be able to get the system log using adb logcat for example?

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Sorry somehow I missed that it’s about the Android app and not desktop one. In that case we’ll need the crash report as described there https://joplinapp.org/debugging

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Two bug reports:

Sorry for dropbox link, both are over the upload size for the forum.

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This is issue it seems:

04-06 16:20:06.886 10317 20761 20882 W et.cozic.jopli: Throwing OutOfMemoryError "Failed to allocate a 119448528 byte allocation with 25149440 free bytes and 79MB until OOM, target footprint 478608184, growth limit 536870912" (VmSize 43584004 kB)
04-06 16:20:06.887 10317 20761 20882 E AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: pool-2-thread-1
04-06 16:20:06.887 10317 20761 20882 E AndroidRuntime: Process: net.cozic.joplin, PID: 20761
04-06 16:20:06.887 10317 20761 20882 E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allocate a 119448528 byte allocation with 25149440 free bytes and 79MB until OOM, target footprint 478608184, growth limit 536870912
04-06 16:20:06.887 10317 20761 20882 E AndroidRuntime: 	at java.lang.StringFactory.newStringFromChars(StringFactory.java:260)
04-06 16:20:06.887 10317 20761 20882 E AndroidRuntime: 	at java.lang.StringFactory.newStringFromBytes(StringFactory.java:245)
04-06 16:20:06.887 10317 20761 20882 E AndroidRuntime: 	at java.lang.StringFactory.newStringFromBytes(StringFactory.java:65)
04-06 16:20:06.887 10317 20761 20882 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.util.Base64.encodeToString(Base64.java:457)
04-06 16:20:06.887 10317 20761 20882 E AndroidRuntime: 	at com.RNFetchBlob.RNFetchBlobFS.readFile(RNFetchBlobFS.java:215)
04-06 16:20:06.887 10317 20761 20882 E AndroidRuntime: 	at com.RNFetchBlob.RNFetchBlob$6.run(RNFetchBlob.java:227)
04-06 16:20:06.887 10317 20761 20882 E AndroidRuntime: 	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
04-06 16:20:06.887 10317 20761 20882 E AndroidRuntime: 	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
04-06 16:20:06.887 10317 20761 20882 E AndroidRuntime: 	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:919)

However I don’t see a connection to PiHole or VPN.

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Still happening all the time. Android app is unuseable whether connected to WiFi or not.

Latest bug report

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I’ve fixed the bug (I’m assuming it’s the same issue as before - haven’t checked your latest report) but Android app has not been updated in a while

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Thanks. I guess I’ll just pray for an Android app update.