Adguard causing phone reboot on Android 10
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I can corroborate what s/he said above. I am experiencing almost once daily spontaneous reboots since Android 10 (past roughly 2 weeks). I only started narrowing it down to AdGuage today through some discussion on a forum which also pointed me to those Reddit threads.
I am not on nightlies. I guess I could go do that. I don't like being on a beta track but if it will take care of the problem temporarily until the release version is ready, I could do it.
I am not on nightlies. I guess I could go do that. I don't like being on a beta track but if it will take care of the problem temporarily until the release version is ready, I could do it.
I am also having the same issue. Since upgrading to Android 10 on my Pixel 2 XL, my phone has been restarting about once a day. Sometimes it's while the phone is in use, sometimes it's happening while the phone is in my pocket or during the middle of the night. I can't confirm that it's AdGuard just yet, but since other users are claiming this I'm going to disable the app and see if that fixes the problem. I'm using the current release version of adguard.
Are you saying that the AdGuard developers have not acknowledged this as an "official" issue at this time? It may not be AdGuard but what is the status of this from the developer's perspective right now?
I have the same issue on my Pixel 3a on Android 10 using the latest release version of Adguard. I'm not using any DNS filtering (DNS module is disabled in Adguard) so it's not the private DNS bug which was discussed multiple times at Reddit and Google.
It's completely random, not even necessarily every day. Usually it happens for me when returning back to the home screen or opening an app. The screen freezes for a short amount of time and then the phone does a soft reset.
I disabled Adguard and haven't experienced one single reboot after that. What I could still try is to disable filtering of all apps, so it will only filter the browser, and check if I still get random restarts... Only OS-related stuff which is blocked according to filtering logs are two Google analytics requests by "Android OS" like every few hours or when you switch network. I find it a bit hard to believe that this could cause Android to crash completely.
Or could it just be an Android 10 bug when connected to a VPN for an extended period of time? I could also try keeping a connection to my home routers VPN for 24/7 and see if it crashes at some point.
It's completely random, not even necessarily every day. Usually it happens for me when returning back to the home screen or opening an app. The screen freezes for a short amount of time and then the phone does a soft reset.
I disabled Adguard and haven't experienced one single reboot after that. What I could still try is to disable filtering of all apps, so it will only filter the browser, and check if I still get random restarts... Only OS-related stuff which is blocked according to filtering logs are two Google analytics requests by "Android OS" like every few hours or when you switch network. I find it a bit hard to believe that this could cause Android to crash completely.
Or could it just be an Android 10 bug when connected to a VPN for an extended period of time? I could also try keeping a connection to my home routers VPN for 24/7 and see if it crashes at some point.
Does this mean you always used Adguard nightly and never had this issue, or does it mean you had the issue in the beginning, then updated to nightly and the problem was gone? The latter case would be more of an indication that the problem is fixed in nightly builds.
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Just an update...I disabled AdGuard for 2 days and did not have a single reboot. Previous to this, my phone was rebooting at least once per day on Android 10.
I was using the beta release before. I'm going to switch to the nightly build and see what happens. I enabled the advanced logging just in case.
I was using the beta release before. I'm going to switch to the nightly build and see what happens. I enabled the advanced logging just in case.
I collected an adguard log, but not a logcat. Would that still be useful? If so, how do I send it to you?
I tried nightly and it happened to me as well.
Please collect log files and send them to PM.
How long have you gone without a reboot? It seems that if you can get to two days, you are in the clear.
I sent logs in a couple days ago.
Are you referring to the setting in the "content blocking" settings... Block ads in all apps?
Not sure what you mean by PM. is there an email address to send them to, or a way to do it within the app? Sorry, I just didn't know what you mean.
I turned off "Block Ads in All Apps" (SETTINGS > CONTENT BLOCKING...)
My phone did not reboot for two days. I had to turn it off to install a new screen protector today so I didn't go any longer. I'll leave this setting off and see if it reboots. The issue might be related to this setting. I'll post here if my phone does not reboot in 3 days.
My phone did not reboot for two days. I had to turn it off to install a new screen protector today so I didn't go any longer. I'll leave this setting off and see if it reboots. The issue might be related to this setting. I'll post here if my phone does not reboot in 3 days.