User Reported Crash During Startup (V5.0.9)

[jones139]

***** DEVICE INFO
Brand: samsung
Device: a15
Model: SM-A155F
Manufacturer: samsung
Product: a15nseea
SDK: 36
Release: 16

***** APP INFO
Version: 5.0.9
Installed On: 2026-09-19 15:22:52
Updated On: 2026-09-19 15:22:52
Current Date: 2026-09-23 18:05:11

***** ERROR LOG
android.app.ForegroundServiceStartNotAllowedException: startForegroundService() not allowed due to mAllowStartForeground false: service uk.org.openseizuredetector/.SdServer
at android.app.ForegroundServiceStartNotAllowedException$1.createFromParcel(ForegroundServiceStartNotAllowedException.java:54)
at android.app.ForegroundServiceStartNotAllowedException$1.createFromParcel(ForegroundServiceStartNotAllowedException.java:50)
at android.os.Parcel.readParcelableInternal(Parcel.java:5277)
at android.os.Parcel.readParcelable(Parcel.java:5258)
at android.os.Parcel.createExceptionOrNull(Parcel.java:3383)
at android.os.Parcel.createException(Parcel.java:3372)
at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:3355)
at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:3297)
at android.app.IActivityManager$Stub$Proxy.startService(IActivityManager.java:6869)
at android.app.ContextImpl.startServiceCommon(ContextImpl.java:2170)
at android.app.ContextImpl.startForegroundService(ContextImpl.java:2135)
at android.content.ContextWrapper.startForegroundService(ContextWrapper.java:903)
at uk.org.openseizuredetector.utils.OsdUtil.startServer(OsdUtil.java:207)
at uk.org.openseizuredetector.utils.OsdUtil.lambda$shutdownApp$0(OsdUtil.java:720)
at uk.org.openseizuredetector.utils.OsdUtil.$r8$lambda$s7DhwvPgApu9222-78SSPNpDkdo(OsdUtil.java:0)
at uk.org.openseizuredetector.utils.OsdUtil$$ExternalSyntheticLambda1.run(D8$$SyntheticClass:0)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:1070)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:125)
at android.os.Looper.dispatchMessage(Looper.java:358)
at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:288)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:392)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:10346)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:638)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:972)

[jones139]

I have no idea what has caused this - it looks like the foreground service failed to start - I'll ask the user if they have any more info....

[jbmalfilattre]

That's like tracing PANIC files in KCML in the olden days...
Is it possible that the user was running many other apps at that time, which considerably slowed down the performance of this cheaper Samsung model (I have the same phone)?
So re-starting OSD on this newer Android version simply took too long (>1.5 seconds)?

As a quick fix we could simply put the startForegroundService() call in startServer() in a try/catch for ForegroundServiceStartNotAllowedException and ask the user to re-open OSD instead of letting it crash?

Or add an "onDestroy()" signal to mark exactly when the server has stopped, then start the new one only when that signal arrives? That could possibly reduce those 1.5+ seconds to a time that these newer Androids still accept?

If all else fails, if the user tells us what else was running on the phone at the moment of the crash, then I can try to replicate the problem on my phone.