998148 - [Tarako] Timer will never ring if it gets OOM killed in the background

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

1. launch Clock app
2. go to timer
3. set for 1 minute w/ sound
4. hit home
5. launch gallery app
6. edit some picture for a minute

Expected : timer will sound
Actual: clock is OOM killed and timer never sounds

Gaia      a8d2d399f2939f4845abaa0df57abab241a2c782
Gecko     https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-b2g28_v1_3t/rev/d97dad54cb61
BuildID   20140417004002
Version   28.1
ro.build.version.incremental=eng.cltbld.20140417.115200
ro.build.date=Thu Apr 17 11:52:06 EDT 2014
Tarako

Comment 1

[Joe Cheng [:jcheng] (please needinfo)]

triage: this is a broken feature on the timer. 1.3T+
ni? Ian to check this initially. thanks

Comment 2

[[e-mail], [e-mail]]

Joe, I check the build v1.3 on Inari. If we set a timer and close clock app in recent app, the timer won't notify user in time. Even if I launch clock app, there is no any message for overdue timer. I guess it's an expected result.

Hi Marcus, is it an expected behaviour for build v1.3? Thanks.

Comment 3

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Leaving qawanted to see behavior on 1.3 Buri for comparison.

Comment 4

[Marcus Cavanaugh [:mcav]]

This is expected behavior in 1.3. Bug 898354 tracked an overhaul of the Timer feature which enabled background notification and all sorts of other features which make the Timer actually useful, however it did not land in time for 1.3.

Comment 5

[[e-mail], [e-mail]]

Marcus, thanks for your confirmation in detail.:)