Crash of apps when crossing border

French below
Hello all,
Apps on my Fairphone 4 crash when I’m crossing a border. At the beginning I thought it was Spotify, then I realized that Android Auto and VLC Media Player (the latter from F-Droid) also crash when I’m crossing a border. As I’m working in another country, it crashes about twice a day, at least. Any clue what could be the issue ?

Thank you in advance!

Bonjour à tous,

Les applications sur mon Fairphone 4 plantent systématiquement lorsque je traverse une frontière. Au début, je pensais que c’était seulement Spotify, mais j’ai remarqué qu’Android Auto et VLC Media Player (ce dernier installé via F-Droid) font de même dans ces situations. Comme je suis travailleur frontalier, cela arrive au moins deux fois par jour. Une idée de la cause possible ?

Merci d’avance !

As it’s reproducible at the border, you might try to find more details about the reason by using adb log while crossing the border

Is it a command to run somewhere? Or an app? I don’t see any app with this name on the Play Store or on F-Droid.
Most of the stuff I see online implies crossing the border with the phone connected to a laptop, which is not very convenient :grimacing:

Yes, you’re right. The best way is to use that command on a notebook connected to the FP using USB. I agree this is not very convenient while traveling across borders.
You might try matlog libre (com.pluscubed.matlog) but as this app has not been updated for years I’m not sure it’ll work perfectly well on current OS versions.

EDIT: a current app for getting the logs might be logcat reader (com.dp.logcatapp). But I’ve not yet tried it out.