1244924 - messages will flicker when when loading previous messages

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::SMS, defect)

Description

[Adam Alldredge [:AdamA][Inactive]]

Attachment: logcat

Description:
If the user is in messages and has a conversation that has to be loaded when scrolling up the screen will flicker when scrolling up to the top of loaded.

Prerequisite:
Have a conversation in messages that is too big to be loaded initially.

Repro Steps:
1) Update a Aries to 20160201114120
2) Open messages
3) Open message thread that is large
4) Scroll to top of loaded messages
5) Observe screen as messages are loaded

Actual:
The screen flickers when loading messges

Expected:
It is expected that the screen doesnt flicker when loading messages

Environmental Variables:
Device: Aries 2.6 [Full Flash]
Build ID: 20160201114120
Gaia: 4f0e2a1a42a2d049b6fe8f4f095cdcdf0fd5465c
Gecko: 4d224eb479016d230706363d36c415c2f4960e75
Gonk: a19052e4389c3ae2d8fc3e7a74a475401baacc56
Version: 46.0a1 (2.6)
Firmware Version: D5803_23.1.A.1.28_NCB.ftf
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:46.0) Gecko/46.0 Firefox/46.0

Repro frequency: 10/10
See attached: video clip, logcat

Comment 1

[Adam Alldredge [:AdamA][Inactive]]

This issue DOES occur on Flame 2.6 and Aries 2.5.

Environmental Variables:
Device: FlameKK 2.6 [Full Flash][512mb]
BuildID: 20160201030209
Gaia: 4f0e2a1a42a2d049b6fe8f4f095cdcdf0fd5465c
Gecko: 941033a51983ddec2d99aa9f868a54c0196a4075
Gonk: 8a066f7fa7410e32b58def35f322aa33f03db283
Version: 46.0a1 (2.6) 
Firmware Version: v18D
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:46.0) Gecko/46.0 Firefox/46.0

Device: Aries 2.5 [Full Flash]
BuildID: 20160129164833
Gaia: 2caf834f638eaeb442e536d811bd161a6414ebcb
Gecko: c6ad35a70c45df5f74fe31eaf8e69b4c1851db5e
Gonk: a19052e4389c3ae2d8fc3e7a74a475401baacc56
Version: 44.0 (2.5) 
Firmware Version: D5803_23.1.A.1.28_NCB.ftf
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:44.0) Gecko/44.0 Firefox/44.0

Result:
The screen flickers when loading messges

Comment 2

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

Yes it occurs since forever and we don't have much way around it. But we made it less apparent in bug 1227068.

Comment 3

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

Mass closing of Gaia::SMS bugs. End of an era :(

Comment 4

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

Mass closing of Gaia::SMS bugs. End of an era :(