Screen is not being fetched for Pixel Device after updating apk with Android Security Patch for March 2024

[KishanDasani]

• I recently came across the issue of pixel devices, running on Android 14 with Security patch of March '24, are getting stuck in "Preparing" state on stf.
• I updated my apk file with fix provided in this commit and this helped to get my pixel devices enroll on stf.
• now the new error I am facing is, when I try to use this device, it tries to fetch the screen and crashes, which causes the device to re-enroll.
• Below is the logs I get once I take use the device.

 [<serial_number>] [19] Installed apps found.
 [<serial_number>] Device SDK : 34
 [<serial_number>] Setting frame producer projection to 767x1134
 [<serial_number>] Keeping 767x1134 as current frame producer projection
 [<serial_number>] Requesting frame producer to start
 [<serial_number>] Not changing quality settings as size is [6.396046316030102]
 [<serial_number>] Launching screen service minicap-bin
 [<serial_number>] Screen jpeg quality  60
 [<serial_number>] Screen fps  8
 [<serial_number>] Missing resources/unknown minicap grabber: minicap-bin
 [<serial_number>] undefined
 [<serial_number>] [10] Running Apps.
 [<serial_number>] minicap says: "/system/bin/sh: undefined: inaccessible or not found"
 [<serial_number>] entered end listener riskystream
 [<serial_number>] entered expected end false
 [<serial_number>] Shell keeping minicap running ended unexpectedly
 [<serial_number>] Capturing screenshot
 [<serial_number>] CLASSPATH=/data/local/tmp/minicap.apk app_process /system/bin io.devicefarmer.minicap.Main -P 1080x2400@1080x2400/0 -s >/data/local/tmp/minicap_1714645570976.jpg
 [<serial_number>] <serial_number> created sucessfully
 [<serial_number>] Disconnecting from minicap service
 [<serial_number>] Stopping minicap service
 [<serial_number>] Not changing quality settings as size is [6.396046316030102]
 [<serial_number>] Launching screen service minicap-apk
 [<serial_number>] Screen jpeg quality  60
 [<serial_number>] Screen fps  8
 [<serial_number>] CLASSPATH=/data/local/tmp/minicap.apk app_process /system/bin io.devicefarmer.minicap.Main -S -Q 60 -P 1080x2400@767x1134/0
 [<serial_number>] minicap says: "04:26:13.367 [main] INFO  BaseProvider - framePeriodMs: 0"
 [<serial_number>] minicap says: "PID: 13379"
 [<serial_number>] minicap says: "INFO: 1080x2400@510x1134/0"
 [<serial_number>] minicap says: "04:26:13.375 [main] INFO  Main - Listening on socket : minicap"
 [<serial_number>] Connecting to minicap service
 [<serial_number>] Reading minicap banner
 [<serial_number>] minicap error: "04:26:13.486 [main] ERROR SurfaceControl - SurfaceControl error"
 [<serial_number>] Shutting down due to fatal error gracefully```
 
SurfaceControl error on 2nd last log is the unique one. I never saw this error ever.

Is anyone facing similar issue or can help with this?

[KishanDasani]

I suspect 2 things here.

• SurfaceControl error. I can see below logs in adb logcat related to this.

'SurfaceControl error'
    'java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: android.view.SurfaceControl.createDisplay [class java.lang.String, boolean]'
    '\tat java.lang.Class.getMethod(Class.java:2950)'
    '\tat java.lang.Class.getMethod(Class.java:2450)'
    '\tat io.devicefarmer.minicap.utils.SurfaceControl.createDisplay(SurfaceControl.kt:93)'
    '\tat io.devicefarmer.minicap.provider.SurfaceProvider.initSurface(SurfaceProvider.kt:87)'
    '\tat io.devicefarmer.minicap.provider.SurfaceProvider.initSurface(SurfaceProvider.kt:106)'
    '\tat io.devicefarmer.minicap.provider.SurfaceProvider.onConnection(SurfaceProvider.kt:75)'
    '\tat io.devicefarmer.minicap.SimpleServer.start(SimpleServer.kt:41)'
    '\tat io.devicefarmer.minicap.Main$Companion.main(Main.kt:87)'
    '\tat io.devicefarmer.minicap.Main.main(Unknown Source:2)'
    '\tat com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit.nativeFinishInit(Native Method)'
    '\tat com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit.main(RuntimeInit.java:369)'

• missing resources related to minicap-bin. Error related to that in stf is as below:

[<serial number>] Missing resources/unknown minicap grabber: minicap-bin
[<serial number>] undefined
[<serial number>] minicap says: "/system/bin/sh: undefined: inaccessible or not found"
[<serial number>] entered end listener riskystream

Can anyone see if anything helpful can be found with this?

[KishanDasani]

closing as it is fixed with this