Inreach Text Message Entry - slowdown ending in shutdown

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toadie
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Inreach Text Message Entry - slowdown ending in shutdown

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Device: Montana 750i

Issue: Entering an Inreach text message. Did not enter recipient in field (recipient field empty).

Started entering message text. As I get closer to the character limit of the message, text entry responsiveness gets noticeable slower and continues to slow down the closer I get to the character limit. When I hit the character limit, the Montana 750i shuts down the unit.
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Re: Inreach Text Message Entry - slowdown ending in shutdown

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Can you duplicate this easily?

We have been trying, and our 750i just starts showing that we are over the message character limit by -10, -20, -30, etc...

Never gets sluggish, never crashes.
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Re: Inreach Text Message Entry - slowdown ending in shutdown

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I will try - I have not been able to reproduce the shutdown.

The unit does slow down as the message gets longer but no longer shuts down.

Last night I experienced random shutdowns of the unit when scanning for WIFI networks. I feel as though my unit is experiencing random shutdowns for some reason. The fact that the shutdown occured when I said it did may actually have been a coincidence.
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Re: Inreach Text Message Entry - slowdown ending in shutdown

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While I can't reproduce the shutdown, it starts to get slower, when being more chars. For example at -100, its super slow. At 50, I am noticing getting slower.
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toadie
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Re: Inreach Text Message Entry - slowdown ending in shutdown

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Thanks - I upgraded to 10.90 and I have yet to experience the shutdown, hopefully 10.9 solved the shutdown issue.

Just as you observe, the slowdown is still there in 10.9 :)
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