F-Droid Archive repo crash

[breversa]

Hello,

I sometime dig up old or even ancient Android devices that I try to update as much as possible. I’ve recently got my hands on a Samsung Galaxy Core Prime running Android 5.1.1.

Following Running on old Android versions | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository , I’ve installed the latest certificates, then F-Droid 1.15.6.

However, when I try to activate then sync the official F-Droid Archive repo, the app crashes when I reach 37.8 MiB/66.1 MiB (or 43.6 MiB/66.1 MiB).

Also, F-Droid Classic hangs/crashes at the same time.

If memory serves, this is a bug that happened in the past got eventually got corrected… in a later version that I cannot install (EDIT: Fdroid crashes when downloading app list from archive repos, and other problems )

Attached: logcat

error.log.zip (73.8 KB)

[breversa]

Can anyone help?

[Licaon_Kter]

It’s a chicken and egg issue.

Old Android needs apps from Archive.

Old device that runs old Android can’t load the huge Archive because it does not have enough RAM memory.

I have no answer to this, besides trying to kill all apps from memory and retry…

[breversa]

Damn, that’s what I feared.

Well, thanks for the reply. How can I manually browse the archive repository? When I click on My First F-Droid Archive Demo , I can’t browse the apps

[Licaon_Kter]

try the browser at F-Droid Archive Repository

[breversa]

That’s an acceptable workaround. Accepted as solution. Thank you!