[root certificates issue] SOTA summits, Sotawatch login and SOTA spots not working

PoLo - Issues & Ideas
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Hi I wonder if anyone can help with an issue I’m having.

I’ve just installed Polo on a (relatively) old Huawei tablet and while it will download the POTA parks, I cannot get the SOTA summits downloaded. When I try to refresh the summits, it very briefly shows ‘downloading raw data’ message for a second then it stops and shows the refresh option again.

I also can’t log into SOTAWatch (click login button and nothing happens) and no SOTA spots are showing in the Polo app either, with the option for SOTA selected.

App is January 25 release (2501002)

I can log into SOTAwatch etc on the tablet itself with no issues and also have polo installed on my phone which works perfectly.

Update - also I can’t download the ‘Country Files - Big CTY’ data

Many thanks,

Mike
MW7MWZ

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How “old” is “relatively old”? Do you know how much RAM does it have? Which version of Android?

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@KI2D Not sure, but having checked it’s Android 7! 3gb ram.

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My tablet is an “early one” but it is Android 12 and has storage 2.9Gb available from a total of 32Gb, and 673Mb memory available from 3Gb
If you have 3Gb total? Storage? or Memory?
PoLo takes up 481Mb of Memory with POTA, WWFF, SiOTA and SOTA loaded

What is currently available/free Memory?

I think in all likelihood you are maxed out on this tablet.

Alan

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It has about 20gb free from 32gb storage and most of the ram should be free as other than polo and usual Google software nothing else is installed as I did a factory reset on it this morning before I started playing with it.

If it’s too old, that’s fine as it was doing nothing in the drawer for a good while now, so thought I’d give it a go. I could still use it for POTA logging, it’s just odd the SOTA side won’t work!

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What does this look like on yours?
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A good chunk of those 481MB is probably your 77k lines of names, too!

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hmm that file is only 8Mb on disk, the polo.sqlite file is 86Mb
So not sure what esle is counted in.
Alan

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The sqlite file is never loaded in memory in its entirety, that’s the big advantage.

But yeah, I was just teasing you. 8MB of data is not that bad on modern devices.

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Mike,
WRT SOTA spots. You do not need to log into SOTAWatch to get SOTA spots.
So something else is at play here if you have selected SOTA
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and do not see any. Of course there must be spots present. So here we see one spot in ASIA available and it is indeed listed.
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On this device at this time, I am not logged on to SOTA
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but the spot is still listed

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Thanks for confirming that, I did think it was odd no spots were showing, but I do have it ticked and it’s not bringing any SOTA spots through. Very odd indeed!

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ATM there is only one spot there and it is 1 hr 18 mins old.
Can you set it to All Modes

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and try to refresh it?

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I don’t see your list - are you refreshing the list by pulling down?

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tap this button and then pull down to refresh
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Hopefully this shows it, POTA spots showing and not identifying any SOTA spots

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OK I would not have thought it necessary. But I turned my SOTA feature OFF here and the SOTA post did not show up.
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Can you turn this on even if you do not have the summits loading?

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Dismiss the attempt to load the summits data.
The spot returns for me
Alan

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Hi Alan, the SOTA option was on, so switched off and on again

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No difference to the spots coming through, just POTA still

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