Jackflash - be careful with alarm apps

[rldunn]

OK, this has happened to me twice now, so I wanted to share here. After moving apps into Flash that required Flash to be compacted, I've had issues with alarms for apps moved to Flash not going off; instead, the device freezes and requires a soft reset.

For example, I had Clock+ in flash, which is my alarm clock. Last night I moved some OTHER apps to and from Flash, and as part of the process, Flash compacted. This morning, my alarm didn't go off and my Clie froze. This doesn't happen everytime Flash gets compacted; I've only noticed it once before with DiddleBug.

So does this mean that alarm apps shouldn't go in Flash? No, I wouldn't say so, but you should be aware of the issue. Once we get our systems stable where we're not adding to Flash, it shouldn't be an issue. But when you do move apps, you might want to make a point of going to your Flash alarm apps and run them once after the move, which should take care of the problem. I believe what's going on is that the alarm DB loses it's link to the actual app if it gets moved to a different spot in Flash during the compacting process.

[euroclie]

Originally posted by rldunn
But when you do move apps, you might want to make a point of going to your Flash alarm apps and run them once after the move, which should take care of the problem. I believe what's going on is that the alarm DB loses it's link to the actual app if it gets moved to a different spot in Flash during the compacting process.

This could make the problem disappear, indeed. Maybe also performing a soft reset would do the trick too? (I mean, when the flash has been compacted, when you exit JackFlash you might want to perform a soft reset, maybe this can put the alarm -> application link in order as well...)

Just a thought, though, nothing scientific. ;)

[Jooley]

Performing the soft reset works here, the alarms were restored. 

[Shrink]

Hmmm.
Thanks for the heads up,Rod.
alan

[rldunn]

Originally posted by Jooley
Performing the soft reset works here, the alarms were restored.  Thanks, but keep in mind that this is a difficult test, since it worked NEARLY all the time without doing the soft reset. So one test doing a compacting of flash, doing a soft reset, and then seeing if the alarms go off is probably not sufficient. Seems like it should work though. If I can't get time to do an in-depth test of this, it would be nice if people use the soft reset method and report back if it ever DOESN'T work.

[rldunn]

Here's an update.

I let Brayder know about this, and he hopes to have a fix for this before the next beta is released. BTW, he said the soft reset method should work to correct this, so good job to euroclie for thinking of this!!