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We are developing an app using jQuery mobile and phone gap. Everything seems to be working fine but when running the app on a connected Android phone we see tons of errors like this in the Eclipse logcat 

:0: GetPTLAFormat: invalid format

Any idea what this is or how to resolve it?

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    This seems to be a recent issue - we've just hit the same thing but only on a specific device - an 'International S4'. Could you let us know what you are doing, and what device you are running on. – mchicago Jul 26 '13 at 09:38

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I believe it has something to do with a new standard for disabling auto events. There is a similar question about Embedding iframes where they are having an issue with auto-playing videos.

I have had the same issue with a jquerymobile cordova app. My index page is a splash page and when cordova has successfully loaded it navigates to my main application page. I was using jQuery.mobile.navigate(myPage);. This gave me about 20 :0: GetPTLAFormat: invalid format errors. I tried jQuery.mobile.changePage instead and got only 3 errors.

As the page transition happens without any input from the user I tried giving my splash screen image an onclick even to transition instead. Not very practical for the final application, but just as a test. I still get the errors with navigate, however with an onclick and changePage I do not get any errors.

My conclusion is that the new standard doesn't allow automatic playing and transitioning etc. I still haven't figured out a way to get around this but the solution seems to be to have a user trigger the event and it solves the problem.

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    I forgot to ask, what phone are you using and what operating system? I did not have these errors on the Samsung Galaxy S3 running Android 4.1.2 however I get them when using an S4 running 4.2.2. – Bees Jul 26 '13 at 09:49
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To hide it from Eclipse logcat, enter the following as a filter/search term in logcat:

^(?!.*(GetPTLAFormat)).*$
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