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doc/faq: Add answer on how to fall back to surfaceflinger

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@ -69,7 +69,40 @@ WA3 config file.
**Q:** My Juno board keeps resetting upon starting WA even if it hasn't crashed.
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Please ensure that you do not have any other terminals (e.g. ``screen``
**A** Please ensure that you do not have any other terminals (e.g. ``screen``
sessions) connected to the board's UART. When WA attempts to open the connection
for its own use this can cause the board to reset if a connection is already
present.
**Q:** I'm using the FPS instrument but I do not get any/correct results for my workload
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**A:** If your device is running with Android 6.0 + then the default utility for
collecting fps metrics will be ``gfxinfo`` however this does not seem to be able
to extract any meaningful information for some workloads. In this case please
try setting the ``force_surfaceflinger`` parameter for the ``fps`` augmentation
to ``True``. This will attempt to guess the "View" for the workload
automatically however this is device specific and therefore may need
customizing. If this is required please open the application and execute
``dumpsys SurfaceFlinger --list`` on the device via adb. This will provide a
list of all views available for measuring.
As an example, when trying to find the view for the AngryBirds Rio workload you
may get something like:
.. code-block:: none
...
AppWindowToken{41dfe54 token=Token{77819a7 ActivityRecord{a151266 u0 com.rovio.angrybirdsrio/com.rovio.fusion.App t506}}}#0
a3d001c com.rovio.angrybirdsrio/com.rovio.fusion.App#0
Background for -SurfaceView - com.rovio.angrybirdsrio/com.rovio.fusion.App#0
SurfaceView - com.rovio.angrybirdsrio/com.rovio.fusion.App#0
com.rovio.angrybirdsrio/com.rovio.fusion.App#0
boostedAnimationLayer#0
mAboveAppWindowsContainers#0
...
From these ``"SurfaceView - com.rovio.angrybirdsrio/com.rovio.fusion.App#0"`` is
the mostly likely the View that needs to be set as the ``view`` workload
parameter and will be picked up be the ``fps`` augmentation.