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Could not detect idle state.

See original GitHub issue

The problem

The issue is not visible in tests or ui, but when viewing logcat we’re inundated with the following stack over and over

W/UiAutomatorBridge( 5793): Could not detect idle state. W/UiAutomatorBridge( 5793): java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException: No idle state with idle timeout: 500 within global timeout: 10000 W/UiAutomatorBridge( 5793): at android.app.UiAutomation.waitForIdle(UiAutomation.java:590) W/UiAutomatorBridge( 5793): at com.android.uiautomator.core.UiAutomatorBridge.waitForIdle(UiAutomatorBridge.java:96) W/UiAutomatorBridge( 5793): at com.android.uiautomator.core.UiAutomatorBridge.waitForIdle(UiAutomatorBridge.java:91) W/UiAutomatorBridge( 5793): at com.android.uiautomator.core.QueryController.findAccessibilityNodeInfo(QueryController.java:143) W/UiAutomatorBridge( 5793): at com.android.uiautomator.core.QueryController.findAccessibilityNodeInfo(QueryController.java:138) W/UiAutomatorBridge( 5793): at com.android.uiautomator.core.UiObject.findAccessibilityNodeInfo(UiObject.java:168) W/UiAutomatorBridge( 5793): at com.android.uiautomator.core.UiObject.waitForExists(UiObject.java:848) W/UiAutomatorBridge( 5793): at com.android.uiautomator.core.UiObject.exists(UiObject.java:899) W/UiAutomatorBridge( 5793): at io.appium.android.bootstrap.utils.TheWatchers.isDialogPresent(TheWatchers.java:51) W/UiAutomatorBridge( 5793): at io.appium.android.bootstrap.utils.TheWatchers.check(TheWatchers.java:42) W/UiAutomatorBridge( 5793): at io.appium.android.bootstrap.SocketServer$1.run(SocketServer.java:140) W/UiAutomatorBridge( 5793): at java.util.Timer$TimerImpl.run(Timer.java:284)

Environment

Appium version: 1.6.4
Node.js version: 6.10.3
Mobile platform/version under test: Android api-22
Real device or emulator/simulator: Emulator
Appium CLI

Details

I saw this error listed as https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/5764. But the answer was upgrade to appium 1.5.0

Link to Appium logs

https://gist.github.com/bennid/7e512d17878c13cf59bddf6d88324ad9

Code To Reproduce Issue [ Good To Have ]

I have not been able to narrow this down to a general reproduction issue, and my code is large and proprietary unfortunatelly. I will attach more information if I get down to it