eglCreateWindowSurface: native_window_api_connect failed

I have a problem that occours only with the latest Samsung Galaxy series when android:hardwareAccelerated is set to false into manifest file

As far as i know (tried by myself) it happens on Galaxy S9, J6 and Note 8 but not on Galaxy S8 for example. Other phones seem not affected at all.

The problem is that i got a GLSurfaceView that shows nothing (black screen) but if i switch between activities, it start to work again, i guess because it renews the View with no errors.

This is the suspect log lines i've found

01-13 14:39:47.813 25013 25080 E libEGL  : eglCreateWindowSurface: native_window_api_connect (win=0xc166b808) failed (0xffffffed) (already connected to another API?)
01-13 14:39:47.813 25013 25080 E libEGL  : eglCreateWindowSurface:679 error 3003 (EGL_BAD_ALLOC)

and these are the crucial part of my code:

GLSurf glsurf;

public void onPause() {
    super.onPause();

    // stop
    if (glsurf != null) {
        glsurf.onPause();
    }
}

@Override
public void onResume() {
    super.onResume();

    if (glsurf != null)
        glsurf.onResume();
}

public class GLSurf extends GLSurfaceView {

    public GLSurf(Context context) {
        super(context);

        /* Create an OpenGL ES 2.0 context. */
        setEGLContextClientVersion(2);
        setEGLConfigChooser(8, 8, 8, 8, 16, 0);

        // Set the Renderer for drawing on the GLSurfaceView
        mRenderer = new GLRenderer(context);
        setRenderer(mRenderer);

        setRenderMode(GLSurfaceView.RENDERMODE_CONTINUOUSLY);
    }
}

public class GLRenderer implements Renderer {

    GLRenderer(Context c){
        // does nothing
    }

    @Override
    public void onDrawFrame(GL10 unused) {

        // i've copied it but it's not even reached

        // call jni function updating the single texture filling the screen
        nativeGLRender();

        // Draw the triangles
        GLES20.glDrawElements(GLES20.GL_TRIANGLES, indices.length,
                GLES20.GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT, drawListBuffer);
    }

    @Override
    public void onSurfaceChanged(GL10 gl, int width, int height) {

        // We need to know the current width and height.
        mScreenWidth = width;
        mScreenHeight = height;

        // Redo the Viewport.
        GLES20.glViewport(0, 0, (int)mScreenWidth, (int)mScreenHeight);

    }

    @Override
    public void onSurfaceCreated(GL10 gl, EGLConfig config) {

        // Set the clear color to black
        GLES20.glClearColor(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1);
    }

}

Some info more:

the EGL_BAD_ALLOC occours always after this sequence of events with meaningful (at least i think) logs

onCreate
onResume
onPause

GLSurfaceView: Warning, !readyToDraw() but waiting for draw finished! Early reporting draw finished.

onResume 

libEGL  : eglCreateWindowSurface: native_window_api_connect (win=0xc166b808) failed (0xffffffed) (already connected to another API?)
libEGL  : eglCreateWindowSurface:679 error 3003 (EGL_BAD_ALLOC)

onPause
onStop
onDestroy
onCreate 
onResume
onSurfaceCreated

        : NULL == surf->write_back_color_buffer
        : NULL == surf->write_back_color_buffer
GLThread: eglSwapBuffers failed: EGL_BAD_SURFACE

... black screen ...

Please note that above events occour with no user interaction and in a span of 1-2 seconds. Any idea about what's going on?

For completion of infos, the following is the sequence of a working phone (e.g. my nexus 6)

onCreate
onResume
onSurfaceCreated
... working screen

Edit Jan 16th:

New informations about the issue:

• When the app starts for the first time, it works
• Never work on the next tries
• It works if put in background and restored
• The error never happen if i put android:hardwareAccelerated to true (but i cannot turn it on for other reasons)

Edit Jan 18th

• I forgot to mention that the issue occours only if android:hardwareAccelerated is set to false

I ALSO FOUND THE REASON OF THE BUG

Don't know why, but i just changed this part of code

@Override
public void onAttachedToWindow() {
    super.onAttachedToWindow();

    getWindow().setFormat(PixelFormat.RGB_565);
}

with this

@Override
public void onAttachedToWindow() {
    super.onAttachedToWindow();
}

and everything went ok. A bug in Samsung drivers? Maybe...

I hope this could be useful for somebody

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