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Summary

Slow connections can take several minutes to upload an app to S3. Neither `uploads.create` nor the S3 PUT counts as device activity on the fleet server, so the idle sweep (`DeviceActivityGracePeriod`, 10 min) could release the device mid-upload.

While the upload is in progress, `installApp` now calls `device.info` every 30s. Any successful `device.*` call touches the device's activity clock. Errors are ignored and the result is discarded. The timer is cleared in the same `finally` as the progress timer.

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  • `npm run lint`
  • Install a large app over a throttled connection (>10 min upload) and confirm the device is not swept

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MobileNextDriver.installApp now sends a device.info RPC every 30 seconds during file uploads. The interval suppresses call failures and is cleared in the upload cleanup path.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Merge Risk: 🟑 Moderate · up to ce7b9

Disconnecting during a slow upload can let the keep-alive timer terminate the Node.js process, so this should be fixed before merge.

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In `@packages/driver-mobilenext/src/driver.ts`:
- Line 470: Update the keep-alive callback in MobileNextDriver to catch
synchronous errors thrown by call('device.info') as well as promise rejections,
especially after disconnect clears the session while installApp remains active.
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// slow uploads can exceed the fleet's device idle timeout; any device.* call resets it
const keepAliveTimer = setInterval(() => {
this.call('device.info').catch(() => {});

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Catch synchronous session errors in the keep-alive callback.

MobileNextDriver.call() calls requireSession() before returning a promise. After disconnect() completes, this.session is null, but installApp() keeps the interval active until the upload settles. The next timer tick can therefore throw outside the promise chain. Without a process-level exception handler, Node.js can terminate.

 const keepAliveTimer = setInterval(() => {
-  this.call('device.info').catch(() => {});
+  void Promise.resolve()
+    .then(() => this.call('device.info'))
+    .catch(() => {});
 }, 30_000);
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this.call('device.info').catch(() => {});
void Promise.resolve()
.then(() => this.call('device.info'))
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In `@packages/driver-mobilenext/src/driver.ts` at line 470, Update the keep-alive
callback in MobileNextDriver to catch synchronous errors thrown by
call('device.info') as well as promise rejections, especially after disconnect
clears the session while installApp remains active. Preserve the existing
best-effort keep-alive behavior without allowing timer exceptions to escape.

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review. Visit https://docs.coderabbit.ai/cli?utm_source=ghpr

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