Often crash on my Samsung S21

[MedhiKali]

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Affected version

0.28.0

Steps to reproduce the bug

I don't why and i don't speak well English to understand how i explain the bug.
Often i have notification "New Pipe is cradhed" when i don't use it !
I had already this complain from old version so what's happening ?
Please help me and send us a upgrade 🙏

Expected behavior

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Actual behavior

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Screenshots/Screen recordings

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Logs

Exception

• User Action: ui error
• Request: ACRA report
• Content Country: FR
• Content Language: fr-FR
• App Language: fr_FR
• Service: none
• Timestamp: 2025-11-25T19:39:14.604+01:00
• Package: org.schabi.newpipe
• Service: none
• Version: 0.28.0
• OS: Linux samsung/r9q2xeea/r9q:15/AP3A.240905.015.A2/G990B2XXUBHYDB:user/release-keys 15 - 35

Crash log

android.app.RemoteServiceException$ForegroundServiceDidNotStartInTimeException: Context.startForegroundService() did not then call Service.startForeground(): ServiceRecord{21a1375 u0 org.schabi.newpipe/.player.PlayerService c:org.schabi.newpipe}
	at android.app.ActivityThread.generateForegroundServiceDidNotStartInTimeException(ActivityThread.java:2495)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.throwRemoteServiceException(ActivityThread.java:2463)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.-$$Nest$mthrowRemoteServiceException(Unknown Source:0)
	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2816)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:107)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:257)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:342)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:9634)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:619)
	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:929)
Caused by: android.app.StackTrace: Last startServiceCommon() call for this service was made here
	at android.app.ContextImpl.startServiceCommon(ContextImpl.java:2056)
	at android.app.ContextImpl.startForegroundService(ContextImpl.java:2000)
	at android.content.ContextWrapper.startForegroundService(ContextWrapper.java:849)
	at android.content.ContextWrapper.startForegroundService(ContextWrapper.java:849)
	at androidx.core.content.ContextCompat$Api26Impl.startForegroundService(ContextCompat.java:1128)
	at androidx.core.content.ContextCompat.startForegroundService(ContextCompat.java:700)
	at androidx.media.session.MediaButtonReceiver.onReceive(MediaButtonReceiver.java:120)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleReceiver(ActivityThread.java:5377)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.-$$Nest$mhandleReceiver(Unknown Source:0)
	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2695)
	... 7 more

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 15 / One UI 7

Affected device model

Samsung S21 FE

Additional information

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[AudricV]

• I made sure that there are no existing issues - open or closed - which I could contribute my information to.

Duplicate of #12489. Please search (better, with different keywords?) for duplicates the next time you want to open an issue. Thank you.

A new release with this fix will be coming in the following weeks.