[NTLK] Einstein on BB10

[Mr Jonathan Dueck]

On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 6:46:47 PM, Newton Support <newtonsupport at pda-soft.de> wrote:

> In the Einstein release you are using, this message is created on the

> Android side. After this message is logged, Android loads the huge Einstein

> C++ library, in which everything lives that you would label "Newton", and

> then tries to start Einstein using a native call into said library. Whatever

> happens between this and the following log message happens entirely on
> Matthias' turf. I'm afraid I won't be able to shed any light on what's going
> on here except for the educated guess that either the Einstein emulator
> crashes on loading the C++ library or (more likely) something goes wrong
> when starting the emulator.
> I'm not entirely sure what physical hardware you are running this on. If
> anybody out there could send me such a beast for a week or so, I might be


That is an incredibly generous offer! I'm running it on a Blackberry Z10 running BlackBerry OS 10.2, which has an Android runtime environment in it that runs nearly all Android Jellybean applications. (The ones that fail are generally using authentication or sync tools that rely on Google's branded--not generic Android--capabilities, like its mail sync or Play code.) Alas, I have only one such beast around the house, and it's my work phone...

However, I also have a "spare" Samsung Nexus S running Jelly Bean around as well, and I ran Einstein on it--same Newton 2100 ROM dump (which works on my Mac)--and it crashed at the same time. This makes me wonder if it's an Android 4.2 issue rather than a device-specific issue... Here's the logfile for it:


5 May 2014 20:48:05 GMT: einstein.onCreate: Entered method
5 May 2014 20:48:05 GMT: einstein.onCreate: Got preferences
5 May 2014 20:48:05 GMT: ScreenDimensionInitializer.initHostScreenDimensions: Host screen size is Dimension (width = 480 height = 800)
5 May 2014 20:48:05 GMT: ScreenDimensionInitializer.initNewtonScreenDimensions: Current preference is 320 x 480
5 May 2014 20:48:05 GMT: ScreenDimensionInitializer.initNewtonScreenDimensions: Width got from preference string is 320
5 May 2014 20:48:05 GMT: ScreenDimensionInitializer.initNewtonScreenDimensions: Height got from preference string is 480
5 May 2014 20:48:05 GMT: ScreenDimensionInitializer.initNewtonScreenDimensions: Newton window size is Dimension (width = 320 height = 480)
5 May 2014 20:48:05 GMT: einstein.onCreate: CalledStartup
5 May 2014 20:48:05 GMT: einstein.onCreate: Pre-initialization finished successfully
5 May 2014 20:48:05 GMT: einstein.onCreate: Einstein view creation finished successfully
5 May 2014 20:48:05 GMT: einstein.onCreate: Status bar is visible
5 May 2014 20:48:05 GMT: einstein.onCreate: Starting emulator with Dimension (width = 480 height = 800)


Thoughts? (And, is anyone else out there running Einstein on an Android 4.2 device?)

Cheers and thanks again, so much, for the advice,
Jon