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ServiceBase.GetCharacteristicsAsync() throws ArgumentException: length

See original GitHub issue

This error is happening extremely often and only on Android.

It’s easy workaround, just adding a try catch and calling the method again fixes it.

Steps to reproduce

Request characteristics

Expected behavior

Characteristics should be loaded.

Actual behavior

Method throws an exception.

Crashlog

ServiceBase.GetCharacteristicsAsync () System.ArgumentException: length

System 
Array.Copy (System.Array sourceArray, System.Int32 sourceIndex, System.Array destinationArray, System.Int32 destinationIndex, System.Int32 length)

System.Collections.Generic 
List`1[T].CopyTo (T[] array, System.Int32 arrayIndex)

System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T] 
System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T]..ctor (System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1[T] collection) [0x0003b] in <ca00b961ae9e43f0bc6166bec1195ff4>:0

System.Linq 
Enumerable.ToList[TSource] (System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1[T] source)

Plugin.BLE.Abstractions 
ServiceBase.GetCharacteristicsAsync ()

Plugin.BLE.Abstractions 
ServiceBase.GetCharacteristicAsync (System.Guid id)