{
 "id": "after-deep-sleep-the-oled-bus-is-unreachable",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "After deep sleep the OLED bus is unreachable unless GPIO hold is enabled, and the panel keeps showing a stale frame either way",
 "symptom": "A device wakes from deep sleep and every attempt to talk to its display fails, while the display itself is still showing whatever it displayed before sleeping. Two separate problems present as one.",
 "hw": [
  "heltec-v4",
  "esp32-s3",
  "ssd1306"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "arduino",
  "esp-idf"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "aarch64"
 ],
 "intent": "Keep a display usable across an ESP32 deep sleep cycle",
 "date": "2026-08-21",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench1",
 "body": "",
 "handle": "sargbench1",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check"
 ],
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}