RAK 4630 stopped working and lost all contacts after power reset

[bmiguelbento]

Today I lost my node from bluetooth and noticed that the blue LED was off - use to be on. I reset it first in the button and then with power. Then I was able to discover my node again trough bluetooth but lost all contacts. They are at "discovery contacts" but went away from my contacts list. Any thoughts on that? I have auto add contacts enable and I had about 120 contacts before it wiped out.

[jpds]

This one has probably been fixed by #972 and will be in the next firmware release.

[Narkoleptika]

Idk if this already made it into a release, but I'm having the same issue on 1.12.0

RAK 4630
lose BT connection
powercycle
reconnect
watch as contacts sync to 0

As op mentioned they are still in the discover screen, but when I try to add them back I make it about a third of the way through the list then lose BT again and the cycle repeats.

Update: I did a factory reset and that seems to have broken the cycle. It's unclear whether this will continue to be an intermittent problem though.

[Narkoleptika]

The factory reset allowed it to go for a day or so, but it eventually locked up again. Seems like it happens more frequently and severely the longer it's been since the last factory reset. At least once it's been bad enough that it would no longer boot and needed to be reflashed. For some reason, I don't lose contacts every time I reset it. Not sure if this is helpful info or not, but I noticed that the blue and green LEDs are continuously lit while it's frozen.

Oh and I'm on 1.13.0 now

[recrof]

@Narkoleptika what phone / OS version are you pairing your RAK with?

[Narkoleptika]

Pixel 7 pro / Android 16 (GrapheneOS, if that's relevant)

[weebl2000]

I think this is related to the adverts taking up space even with auto-add contacts on.

Should be fixed for any nodes running newer firmware from the start. For older companions this PR will fix the issue #1601 - if you are seeing your companion with nearly full storage please try PR #1601.