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How to find out where a thread lock happened?

One of our company's Windows Forms application had a strange problem for several month. The app worked very reliable for most of our customers but on some PC's (mostly with a wireless lan connection) the app sometimes just didn't respond anymore. (You click on the UI and windows ask you to wait or kill the app). I wasn't able to track d...

android widget unresponsive

I have a widget that you press and it then it will update the text on the widget. I have set an on click listener to launch another activity to perform the text update, But for some reason it only works temporarily and then it will become unresponsive and not do anything when pressed. Does anyone know why it might be doing that? i hav...

Avoid application becoming unresponsive on download

Hi I have an application which downloads a file from a network location and then displays that files information. It uses WebClient.DownloadFile to achieve this. The problem is, when the user clicks a button to start the download, the application becomes unresponsive until the file has downloaded. This gives the impression the applicat...

How to turn off flash protection against long executing scripts?

I am profiling some AS code by measuring wall clock time. In order to minimize the error I need to run the code for a long period of time. However, flash seems to protect itself from unresponsive scripts by throwing an exception after some period of unresponsiveness, namely: Error #1502: A script has executed for longer than the default ...

Super slow apps caused by large number of unending AsyncTasks

I have no idea, but my app is stalling sometimes completely (not responding to touching the screen) I thought I was following all the rules for threading, but my app is apparently slowing down the Sprint EVO! I have never used an app as slow as my own. I don't get an ANR dialog, though I think I probably should get getting one. I have ...

My application freezes EVO 4Gs (and everything else)

When a user presses the back key to my first activity, where I start an AsyncTask duringonCreate() that checks to see if buttons should be enabled based on whether or not websites are down. I use an HttpClient to contact www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com to determine if the site is down. When users return to this Activity the phone becomes...

Starting Visual Studio causes all running apps to hang and stop responding

After my laptop fell on the floor and its screen was a little damaged, I was able to continue working with it, but failed to build a project of mine. At some point, the system froze, and I was forced to restart the laptop. Ever since, I’m not able to start Visual Studio 2008 or 2010. Moreover, when I do try to start one of the versions, ...

How to find why my application becomes unresponsive at unaccessible customer sites

My application is deployed at customer sites, that I can not access, and has no internet connection. There are complains that in serveral sites, once in a week or so, the application become unresponsive, so that the operators need to kill and restart it. We were unable to observe it in our site. Is there something I can do that may he...

measuring unix machine responsiveness

I am one of the n users of a shared unix machine. For reasons unknown, the machine is not "responsive" enough. For example, it is slow on interactive commands, it takes few noticeable moments for any action (e.g. mouse movement, editor (e.g. gvim) keystrokes) to be visible. The problem is, the people supposedly responsible for addressing...

Avoid unresponsive script warning in xulrunner

In link text someone is advicing to change dom.max_script_run_time to avoid the unresponsive script warning. When we do that firefox add user_pref("dom.max_script_run_time", 100); extra line. In order to do that in xulrunner I edited to the xulruenner.js file to add pref("dom.max_script_run_time", 100); Can someone please confirm if ...

Unresponsive resistive screen

Hello, I dont know if it is a good place to ask this but I am going to give it a shot. There is a resistive screen for the HTC Tattoo. The owner removed the sensor plastic off the screen and accidentally wiped a substance off the screen (the part with the sensor plastic off). Now when the plastic is put back on, the screen does not res...

Multiple threads in Android activity/service

Hi. I have an android app, where in a list view for each element in list, I load an image from web in a separate thread. So if there are 8 items displayed in list view, activity will try to fire 8 different threads, one for each list item to load an image. As you scroll down the list, the number of threads may increase if the previous t...