App keeps crashing/stop playing since recently

Bug report
1

Since a few days ago, the app often crashes/stops playing.

This never happened before, my phone is quick and there’s enough free space available.

I neither changed anything about my phone settings recently, and I even gave AntennaPod an exclusion from Android battery optimizer.

Android unfortunately often stops things unwillingly, but as said this never happened with antennapod so far.

Environment

Android version: 12
OS version: 5.4.233
AntennaPod version: 3.6.1
Model: C80
Device: C80
Product: C80_EEA

Crash info

Time: 21-02-2025 17:57:36
AntennaPod version: 3.6.1

StackTrace

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allocate a 16 byte allocation with 1033328 free bytes and 1009KB until OOM, target footprint 268435456, growth limit 268435456; giving up on allocation because <1% of heap free after GC.
	at android.os.ThreadLocalWorkSource.setUid(ThreadLocalWorkSource.java:68)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:199)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:288)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
1 Like
2

I’m not an expert on such things, but the trace sure seems to indicate that the phone is low on some kind of memory resource. Have you tried restarting the phone?

3

Thanks for your reply and idea! Yes, actually I exactly tried that before submitting the bug report. But shortly after the phone was restarted, it happened again. I was surfing the internet besides listening, using the Firefox mobile browser, but I would assume that’s not too resource consuming. And as said I didn’t change my phone nor behaviour since this happens.

4

Do you use synchronization? Are you subscribed to a very large number of podcasts? Do you have a huge number of episodes in the app (you can view the number by going to the “all episodes” screen and starting multi-select)

5

Thanks for your reply! Synchronization: no. What is a lot of subscriptions and episodes? Anyway, I don’t see any number except in the playlist. There a number of 688 episodes with a playtime of around 200 hours have accumulated over the time. Is this a lot and does this have an influence on performance?

Anyway, I didn’t want to bother with an individual problem. But as this problem didn’t exist before (where I did also have quite some subscriptions), I thought it might be a general problem / bug.

6

See my previous post:

7

Good morning, I had tried to do what you asked me for, but this option seems to not be available in the German app version. Shouldn’t the app work quickly independently of the number of subscriptions, though? The inbox also loads slowly sometimes, maybe the app tries to load too much at once? Is sequential loading possible somehow to speed up loading processes?