App/UI crashes

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Affected version

0.28.0

Steps to reproduce the bug

Exception

• User Action: ui error
• Request: ACRA report
• Content Country: DE
• Content Language: de-DE
• App Language: de_DE
• Service: none
• Timestamp: 2025-10-30T19:13:49.004+01:00
• Package: org.schabi.newpipe
• Service: none
• Version: 0.28.0
• OS: Linux Android 15 - 35

Crash log

android.app.ForegroundServiceStartNotAllowedException: Service.startForeground() not allowed due to mAllowStartForeground false: service org.schabi.newpipe/us.shandian.giga.service.DownloadManagerService
	at android.app.ForegroundServiceStartNotAllowedException$1.createFromParcel(ForegroundServiceStartNotAllowedException.java:54)
	at android.app.ForegroundServiceStartNotAllowedException$1.createFromParcel(ForegroundServiceStartNotAllowedException.java:50)
	at android.os.Parcel.readParcelableInternal(Parcel.java:5094)
	at android.os.Parcel.readParcelable(Parcel.java:5076)
	at android.os.Parcel.createExceptionOrNull(Parcel.java:3256)
	at android.os.Parcel.createException(Parcel.java:3245)
	at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:3228)
	at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:3170)
	at android.app.IActivityManager$Stub$Proxy.setServiceForeground(IActivityManager.java:7268)
	at android.app.Service.startForeground(Service.java:776)
	at us.shandian.giga.service.DownloadManagerService.updateForegroundState(DownloadManagerService.java:337)
	at us.shandian.giga.service.DownloadManagerService.handleMessage(DownloadManagerService.java:269)
	at us.shandian.giga.service.DownloadManagerService.$r8$lambda$dCDNdxiTSnv5hOdyl_hlq3IjkDw(DownloadManagerService.java:0)
	at us.shandian.giga.service.DownloadManagerService$$ExternalSyntheticLambda2.handleMessage(R8$$SyntheticClass:0)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:105)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:232)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:317)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8934)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:591)
	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:911)

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Expected behavior

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Actual behavior

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Logs

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Lineage for microg

Affected device model

Fairphone 5

Additional information

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