Frequent SDRSharp Crashes

[dragon48]

This is my setup:

RTL-SDR Blog V3 R820T2 RTL2832U. Ham It Up Plus.

Windows 10 Surface Pro 4.

SDR # V 1.0.0.1732

The program and initial tuning work fine. If I stay on the frequency, there are never any problems. However, when I interact with the program in any way, such as enabling or disabling the shift, or changing the frequency, or stopping the playback, the program often hangs and is unresponsive. I am forced to kill the SDR Sharp process from Windows task manager and re-start. Last night, this was happening quite often. Here is the most recent entry from the Windows Event Viewer Application Log:

The program SDRSharp.exe version 1.0.0.1732 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Security and Maintenance control panel.
Process ID: 3388
Start Time: 01d5ae0443433687
Termination Time: 4294967295
Application Path: C:\SDRSharp\SDRSharp.exe
Report Id: b945f54d-db84-411d-af3d-cdc35de1c760
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Hang type: Top level window is idle

There were no issues reported in the Security and Maintenance control panel.

Any ideas on how to prevent this?

Ty

 

[moonbounce]

This is my setup:

RTL-SDR Blog V3 R820T2 RTL2832U. Ham It Up Plus.

Windows 10 Surface Pro 4.

SDR # V 1.0.0.1732

The program and initial tuning work fine. If I stay on the frequency, there are never any problems. However, when I interact with the program in any way, such as enabling or disabling the shift, or changing the frequency, or stopping the playback, the program often hangs and is unresponsive. I am forced to kill the SDR Sharp process from Windows task manager and re-start. Last night, this was happening quite often. Here is the most recent entry from the Windows Event Viewer Application Log:

The program SDRSharp.exe version 1.0.0.1732 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Security and Maintenance control panel.
Process ID: 3388
Start Time: 01d5ae0443433687
Termination Time: 4294967295
Application Path: C:\SDRSharp\SDRSharp.exe
Report Id: b945f54d-db84-411d-af3d-cdc35de1c760
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Hang type: Top level window is idle

There were no issues reported in the Security and Maintenance control panel.

Any ideas on how to prevent this?

Ty

In my experience with SDRSharp, some versions were buggy, like if I hit the skip button in one version, the Frequency Manager the program would freeze and all I could do is cancel it from the task manager. I would find another version and download it save your self some hair pullin.

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[morfis]

Like moonbounce I have experienced several versions of sdrsharp which have been buggy. I've never specifically had problems running it on a Surface Pro 4 but haven't used any recent version on that. I also don't use it with any upconverters on the Surface.
In my experience bugginess (is that a word?) and resource hogging has increased dramatically if it's got lots of plugins installed.

A look through posts on here will reveal a couple of places where there are older versions of the sdrsharp program which you would be able to try if there is not a specific feature from the latest version that you need (seems unlikley as the last 30 releases seemed to be bug fixes of each previous one rather than adding features!).

 

[moonbounce]

Here is a link to the different versions. Index of /software/SDRSharp, I am using 1434, I have been using it for some time without issues.

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[DRL-XM43]

Here is a link to the different versions. Index of /software/SDRSharp, I am using 1434, I have been using it for some time without issues.

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I van vouch for 1426 - very stable and supports all the plugins I use.

 

[dragon48]

My version stopped working altogether. It just kept crashing as soon as I would launch it. Happy with 1.0.0.1361. Seems To have fewer options though, but so far, I'm not missing any, but maybe I'll go up to 1426.

 

[DRL-XM43]

My version stopped working altogether. It just kept crashing as soon as I would launch it. Happy with 1.0.0.1361. Seems To have fewer options though, but so far, I'm not missing any, but maybe I'll go up to 1426.

Easy enough to trial any of the versions just have them in their own folders and try them out.

I have 3 versions installed each for a different use. If one gives me trouble I turf it and use another

 

[cyberwolfm636]

I was using SDR# to monitor VHF 153 and 154Mhz primary police/fire bands and it would do it occasionally and I updated and it got worse. It would just outright freeze up my dongle. Things were clicking but nothing happening and the waterfall was just showing streaks of the last bit of signal the dongle received and kept rolling until I tried to stop and restart the radio. Even forcing the app to close in task manager, it hangs up that dongle making it useless until I rebooted. Eventually I started using 2 dongles to monitor P25 800 MPSCS TRS and bought a beofeng UV-5R radio and cut the head set off the end and soldered the wires to RCA jacks to be used as an input to the PC that has the P25 software on.

 

[dragon48]

Easy enough to trial any of the versions just have them in their own folders and try them out.

I have 3 versions installed each for a different use. If one gives me trouble I turf it and use another

Ty - easy since all files are in one folder. Downloading and trying different versions now.

 

[dragon48]

Eventually I started using 2 dongles to monitor P25 800 MPSCS TRS and bought a beofeng UV-5R radio and cut the head set off the end and soldered the wires to RCA jacks to be used as an input to the PC that has the P25 software on.

As a bit of a hacker myself, I admire your ingenuity. I used a simpler approach to get Baofeng audio (good radios those UV-5rs are) into my PC: I bought a VCE 2.5mm Male to 3.5mm Female Stereo Jack Cable Adapter - Amazon.com: VCE 2.5mm Male to 3.5mm Female Stereo Jack Cable Adapter: Electronics I then connected the 3.5 MM cable to the microphone input of my sound card.

 

[dragon48]

1700 has been stable for me since my last post.