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Dec 1, 2025 · Mobile Development

Why Your IoT App Times Out: Understanding OkHttp Connection Pools and Stale Connections

An Android IoT client repeatedly timed out because OkHttp reused stale TCP connections, leading to EOF and socket reset errors, and the fix was to disable the connection pool after discovering the server's keep‑alive timeout was only a few seconds.