Hydration Doesn't Work Well On Android Version below 4.0

[amirudin]

Several issue has been reported regarding app crash, blank screen on Android < 4.0 when enabling Hydration.

[amirudin]

Related Issues:

http://community.phonegap.com/nitobi/topics/when_i_install_get_stated_app_on_android_the_screen_remains_black
http://community.phonegap.com/nitobi/topics/hydrated_app_crash_on_android
http://community.phonegap.com/nitobi/topics/hydration_not_working_on_galaxy_s2

[hardeep]

galaxy S plus I9001 with Android 2.3.3

console dump: https://gist.github.com/3544178

http://community.phonegap.com/nitobi/topics/hydrated_app_crash_on_android

[hardeep]

OS 2.3.4 - Motorola Verizon - model Droid X System ver 4.5.621.MB810

http://community.phonegap.com/nitobi/topics/grey_screen_when_launching_android_package

[Qkyrie]

Reporting same problem as additional information:
HTC Wildfire S
Android version: 2.3.5

Dalvik log:
https://www.box.com/s/aanykz55uo2ldgay2u7x

[amirudin]

Similar problem happened to 4.x and 3.x as well. This time, not entire app crash, just some functionality:
http://community.phonegap.com/nitobi/topics/hydration_support_makes_taking_photos_crash_on_htc_android

HTC Sensation running Android 4.0.3 and HTC Sense 3.6

[stuartbuckell]

Same issue here. Galaxy S 2.3.3

[wildabeast]

Re: camera failure with hydration - hydration sets exit-on-suspend to true, to enable users to easily restart and check for app updates. But this breaks the camera. Conflict of interests, but I think the camera takes priority.

[alunny]

@wildabeast what's the status of this one?

[wildabeast]

The issues listed above were unrelated to eachother but here's a partial status:

• disabled exit-on-suspend on android hydration so that camera and barcode scanner work
• the uncaught illegal access error was fixed about a month ago and integrated into hydration for all supported versions of phonegap

I'll have another look through the issues above and see if there are any that weren't covered by these two fixes shortly, and close or fix accordingly.

[wildabeast]

Closing as per last comment.