Android beta... - FTDI download

[Dietrich Meyer]

On Sonntag, 9. Juli 2017 23:30:28 CEST you wrote:
> > Tried  to download from Suunto Vyper2 via third-party FTDI Suunto-USB
> > cable
> > and USB-OTG cable connected to Samsung Galaxy S5 with LineageOS 14.1
> > (Android 7.1.1). I used subsurface - version 2.0(4.6.4.363).
> > 
> > Don't have any new dives, so I just deleted the last dive in subsurface-
> > mobile, and am trying to re-download it from the DC.
> > 
> > I open the download dialog, choose Suunto Vyper2 and hit the "Download"
> > button.
> 
> So when you plugged in the FTDI cable, did you get an Android dialog asking
> you if you wanted to connect the USB device to Subsurface-mobile? Without
> that, there's no chance that this could ever work.

I did, initially, but told android to remember this. So now I just connect the 
cable and subsurface starts up automatically...



> 
> > Something then changes on the display, see attached screenshot, but it
> > seems to not properly download a dive. Looks like a empty new dive
> > without Depth nor Duration information. I can select the checkbox next to
> > "Depth/Duration", and accept, but don't get any new dive in the divelist.
> 
> I thought I had fixed this empty dive display. Clearly I haven't. That's
> just massively misleading. The next beta build will have that addressed and
> will also try to give more interesting feedback during the download. That
> was also on my todo list and I somehow forgot to do it. Grumble.

Sorry for bringing this up then :-)



> 
> > Is there a way how I can collect more information that might help you
> > finding the bug? Or is this the same problem you encountered on other
> > android devices?
> So under Develper->AppLog you will see a lot more info, but currently that
> doesn't allow cut'n paste, so it's really hard to send this in, except with
> screen shots. Also something that I need to address...

Ok, this I should have found alone.... that's what you call brown paper bag 
moment, right?

but with your help I see the problem:
there is a line 
"Finished thread Insufficient privileges to open the device %s %s (%s) dives 
downloaded 0"
next line reads 
"50.409: DCDownloadThread finished"

So some privileges problem..... probably similar to what was discussed 
previously with selinux....



> 
> But I didn't want to keep delaying the beta, either. What we really need is
> more people working on the code. But I have mentioned that a few hundred
> times already, haven't I?
> 
> /D

Yes, message heard, already previously. Just not sure if I find enough time to 
give something back, there would be a steep and long learning curve before 
that, my last serious programming effort was in Fortran (77/90), almost two 
decades ago.... 


Dietrich