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BUG|Crash on Android phone when download podcast #113
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Obsdian: v1.7.7
Android: 14
Hi. I'm new to obsidian. This plugin works very well from pc. It also works well on the phone. The only problem on Android is when you try to download some podcasts. In fact, if you download the podcast, the obsidian application crashes during the download. Everything else works fine
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[-]Crash bug on Android phone[/-][+]BUG|Crash on Android phone when download podcast[/+]gianfelicevincenzo commentedon Jan 31, 2025
The problem persist on Obsidian 1.8.4
chrsdk commentedon May 26, 2025
This happens on my device as well
chrsdk commentedon Aug 31, 2025
Problem still here on Obsidian 1.9.12
Possibly related to #86?
fix(download): prevent Android crash and create missing folders on do…
release(version): Release 2.17.0 [skip ci]
github-actions commentedon Jun 22, 2026
🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 2.17.0 🎉
The release is available on GitHub release
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chrsdk commentedon Jun 23, 2026
It still crashes on mobile on a fresh install of 2.17.0 with default settings.
fix(download): stream episode downloads to disk to avoid iOS OOM (#113)
chhoumann commentedon Jun 23, 2026
Cross-posting my reply to give an update here as well:
Thanks for letting me know. I've been testing on my own mobile, which is a newer iPhone, and haven't experienced crashes after this PR. Following your comment here, I thought that it might be due to the app running out of memory.
I managed to recreate the crash again by downloading 8 episodes simultaneously. Since we previously didn't stream-download (rather, we downloaded -> wrote in file-batches), that would lead to running out of memory.
I've fixed that in #218 and will release it momentarily. Would you please help me test the next release, when it comes out? That'd be a great help.
I would also appreciate any details behind the crashes (e.g. episode length, amount of episodes being downloaded, phone specs, ...).
release(version): Release 2.17.1 [skip ci]
github-actions commentedon Jun 24, 2026
🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 2.17.1 🎉
The release is available on GitHub release
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fix(download): stream to a temp file then move into place (#220)
chhoumann commentedon Oct 11, 2026
Re-checked on current master (07b2812, PodNotes 2.20.2) in Obsidian 1.13.7 on desktop Linux, in an isolated test vault.
What a desktop can check: downloads now stream to disk in 4 MiB range requests instead of loading the whole file into memory. Downloading four 150 MB episodes at once kept the app's JS heap under 170 MB, all four files were complete, and there were no errors. The old code held each episode in memory in full, which fits the crash with several downloads.
Still needs confirmation on an Android device. @chrsdk @gianfelicevincenzo, could you try the latest release (the streaming fix shipped after 2.17.0) and tell us whether downloads still crash?
chhoumann commentedon Oct 11, 2026
Verified PodNotes 2.21.1 in real Obsidian 1.14.4 on an Android 14 x86_64 Pixel 6 emulator.
Android verdict: passed. I selected Lex Fridman episode 501 from
https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/and invokedpodnotes:download-playing-episode. It downloaded 249,955,445 bytes in 134.6 seconds. The persisted registration and file size matched exactly, no partial file remained, and the app and WebView renderer kept their PIDs.Native PSS before/after was 90,921/95,567 KiB for the app and 102,278/83,960 KiB for the renderer. Samples used
dumpsys meminfo --local; they do not establish peak memory. File, process, and memory evidence.