Heltec V3 companion regularily looses all contacts running Firmware 1.11.0

[hotwolf]

This is a severe bug, but I don't see it reported as a issue yet:

My Heltec V3 companions (companion-v1.11.0) keep loosing their contact lists. I'm able to restore it by importing a saved configuration, but it keeps happening again after a day or so. So far I've only observed this problem on my V3's. My T114s don't have this problem.
The same problem has also been seen by someone else in my network cluster.

[oltaco]

@liamcottle I wonder if this could be related the esp32 bug where the filesystem gets full of advert blobs because they never get deleted?

@hotwolf How much free space does the app report in the settings screen for this node? And have you tried factory resetting the node? That should wipe the advert blobs.

[hotwolf]

Hello @oltaco,
The app shows: "94% used (1324kb / 1404kb)".
Your explanation makes sense, as those companions have been running for a while without problems on that firmware. It's just lately that keep loosing their contact list. I'm also part of a large mesh network (spanning Switzerland, southern Germany, and Austria) with many adverts in the discovery list.
I'll try a factory reset and observe.
Thanks for your help!

[oltaco]

No problems, I have already submitted a PR to fix this #1495 but unfortunately it didn't make it into v1.12.0

[fiquett]

so glad to see this is fixed. this has been driving me crazy on my v3 heltecs and t-beam supreme

[weebl2000]

See also PR #1601 that will cleanup the stale blobs that are still remaining. If you are facing storage full issues this will fix it.