Top screen clock not updated during game play

[orontee]

It's very dangerous! Felt like it was ever 8:13 when time to go to school was far away 🙂

[SteffenBauer]

Yeah, totally agree 👍

This seems to have happened with one of the last system updates. Looks like an optimization of the PocketBook OS that accidentally removed automatic status panel updates.

I already looked into quick solutions for this, but unfortunately I have not yet quite an idea how to solve this. Perhaps internal timer that forces a top panel update every minute.

Will keep this issue definitely open until solved.

[SteffenBauer]

By the way, I just opened some of the system-provided apps (Notes, Gallery, Sudoku), just let the PocketBook sit for some minutes, and the status panel was also not updated there. I remember that like two years ago this was different. and the status panel was at least updated roughly every 4-5 minutes.
But I again agree, it also happened to me "it is only half past nine, I have plenty of time..."

[orontee]

Ok, looks like a system bug. I'll report to PocketBook.

[SteffenBauer]

Wait, I just did the same experiment with the current Puzzles app. My ereader is updated to the most recent system. I opened a puzzle game, and just let the reader sit there. The status panel was also updated at an interval of around 5 minutes. Can you re-check that with your ereader device, and report here what happened (including your device model and OS system version number)?

[orontee]

My device (a PocketBook Touch HD 3) runs V632.6.8.4078. Up-to-date according to the software itself.

I confirm I observe clock updates roughly every 5 minutes.

[SteffenBauer]

I played a longer game of Solo to check if the clock is also updated during active gameplay (to test the possibility that the event loop in the code is not somehow resetting the screen update). Looks like the upper panel clock is indeed updated every 5 minutes.

That should mitigate this issue a bit. Would still be nice if the clock is updated every minute. I see what I can do here.