Suunto HelO2 - successful

[Anton Lundin]

On 13 March, 2020 - Linus Torvalds via subsurface wrote:

> So I just tried downloading from my old Suunto HelO2 on android
> mobile, and it all seemed to work fine.
> 
> I did notice something: if I left my phone alone (because I did the
> "force download all dives" and it took a while), the download seemed
> to get truncated. I didn't really test a lot, but my _guess_ is that
> when the lock-screen comes on, the access to the USB device gets
> terminated.
> 
> If I kept the phone open (touching it to keep things awake) it did
> seem to download all (?) 48'ish dives. I haven't used that dive
> computer in a long time by now, so I'm not actually sure how many
> dives it has on it, but it seemed believable.
> 
> I tried to email myself the logs (with the "Help -> Ask for support"
> thing) but that only sent a very truncated set of logs. Nothing
> interesting.
> 
> That's with the official Suunto cable, and the phone immediately asked
> me "Do I want to start subsurface" when I connected it.
> 
> Anyway, aside from the fact that none of the dives were new and I
> didn't check the details, it all looked successful. With the caveat
> that apparently  you can't close the screen.
> 
> I didn't try locking/unlocking by hand while downloading. I guess I should.

I'm guessing we should hold a wake lock while downloading.

I wonder what happens if one starts a download and then sends the app
into the background, and goes off to do something else. Will our code
still get scheduled or will we get suspended and the download will fail?


//Anton - Who might actually test this...


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