React Native Freezes in the Splash screen after upgrading from 0.79 to 0.83

[kousiclattala]

Description

I have recently updated my react-native version to 0.83 from 0.79 and i followed the steps mentioned in React Native Upgrade Helper and updated the dependencies. when i build the application, it build successfully and in the metro bundler app loads to 100% and then it stucks in the splash screen itself. When i look in the adb logcat, there i found the below error

react-native info

This is my npx react-native info logs

info Fetching system and libraries information...
System:
OS: Windows 11 10.0.26200
CPU: "(12) x64 AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics "
Memory: 2.50 GB / 15.35 GB
Binaries:
Node:
version: 22.18.0
path: C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.EXE
Yarn:
version: 1.22.22
path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Yarn\bin\yarn.CMD
npm:
version: 10.9.3
path: C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD
Watchman: Not Found
SDKs:
Android SDK:
API Levels:
- "29"
- "34"
- "35"
- "36"
Build Tools:
- 30.0.3
- 33.0.0
- 34.0.0
- 35.0.0
- 36.0.0
- 36.1.0
System Images:
- android-35 | Google Play ARM 64 v8a
- android-35 | Pre-Release 16 KB Page Size Google Play ARM 64 v8a
- android-36.1 | Google Play ARM 64 v8a
- android-36 | Google Play ARM 64 v8a
- android-36 | Google Play Intel x86_64 Atom
- android-36 | Pre-Release 16 KB Page Size Google Play Intel x86_64 Atom
Android NDK: Not Found
Windows SDK: Not Found
IDEs:
Android Studio: AI-253.29346.138.2531.14876573
Visual Studio:
- 18.2.11415.280 (Visual Studio Community 2026)
Languages:
Java:
version: 17.0.16
path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft\jdk-17.0.16.8-hotspot\bin\javac.EXE
Ruby: Not Found
npmPackages:
"@react-native-community/cli":
installed: 20.1.2
wanted: ^20.0.0
react:
installed: 19.2.0
wanted: 19.2.0
react-native:
installed: 0.83.4
wanted: ^0.83.0
react-native-windows: Not Found
npmGlobalPackages:
"react-native": Not Found
Android:
hermesEnabled: true
newArchEnabled: true
iOS:
hermesEnabled: Not found
newArchEnabled: Not found

Steps to reproduce

1. Install a react-native cli project with 0.79 version
2. Install the react-native-bootsplash, react-native-screen, because right now i have only these packages which needs a change in the native folder, but the issue is not with these dependencies
3. Generate a bootsplash, then build the project, it just that, i have a splash screen, so if incase that might be an issue, i don't know
4. Then update the project to 0.83, and try to build the application and run it, after metro loads the bundler, getting the error

React Native Version

0.83

Affected Platforms

Runtime - Android

Output of npx @react-native-community/cli info

System:
  OS: Windows 11 10.0.26200
  CPU: "(12) x64 AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics         "
  Memory: 2.44 GB / 15.35 GB
Binaries:
  Node:
    version: 22.18.0
    path: C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.EXE
  Yarn:
    version: 1.22.22
    path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Yarn\bin\yarn.CMD
  npm:
    version: 10.9.3
    path: C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD
  Watchman: Not Found
SDKs:
  Android SDK:
    API Levels:
      - "29"
      - "34"
      - "35"
      - "36"
    Build Tools:
      - 30.0.3
      - 33.0.0
      - 34.0.0
      - 35.0.0
      - 36.0.0
      - 36.1.0
    System Images:
      - android-35 | Google Play ARM 64 v8a
      - android-35 | Pre-Release 16 KB Page Size Google Play ARM 64 v8a
      - android-36.1 | Google Play ARM 64 v8a
      - android-36 | Google Play ARM 64 v8a
      - android-36 | Google Play Intel x86_64 Atom
      - android-36 | Pre-Release 16 KB Page Size Google Play Intel x86_64 Atom
    Android NDK: Not Found
  Windows SDK: Not Found
IDEs:
  Android Studio: AI-253.29346.138.2531.14876573
  Visual Studio:
    - 18.2.11415.280 (Visual Studio Community 2026)
Languages:
  Java:
    version: 17.0.16
    path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft\jdk-17.0.16.8-hotspot\bin\javac.EXE
  Ruby: Not Found
npmPackages:
  "@react-native-community/cli":
    installed: 20.1.2
    wanted: ^20.0.0
  react:
    installed: 19.2.0
    wanted: 19.2.0
  react-native:
    installed: 0.83.4
    wanted: ^0.83.0
  react-native-windows: Not Found
npmGlobalPackages:
  "*react-native*": Not Found
Android:
  hermesEnabled: true
  newArchEnabled: true
iOS:
  hermesEnabled: Not found
  newArchEnabled: Not found

Stacktrace or Logs

Callback failure for call to http://10.0.2.2:8081/...
2026-03-10 18:54:51.630 21763-21837 okhttp.OkHttpClient     com.project                     I  java.net.ProtocolException: Expected leading [0-9a-fA-F] character but was 0xd
2026-03-10 18:54:51.630 21763-21837 okhttp.OkHttpClient     com.project                     I  	at okhttp3.internal.http1.Http1ExchangeCodec$ChunkedSource.readChunkSize(Http1ExchangeCodec.kt:436)
2026-03-10 18:54:51.630 21763-21837 okhttp.OkHttpClient     com.project                     I  	at okhttp3.internal.http1.Http1ExchangeCodec$ChunkedSource.read(Http1ExchangeCodec.kt:408)
2026-03-10 18:54:51.630 21763-21837 okhttp.OkHttpClient     com.project                     I  	at okhttp3.internal.connection.Exchange$ResponseBodySource.read(Exchange.kt:276)
2026-03-10 18:54:51.630 21763-21837 okhttp.OkHttpClient     com.project                     I  	at okio.RealBufferedSource.read(RealBufferedSource.kt:192)
2026-03-10 18:54:51.630 21763-21837 okhttp.OkHttpClient     com.project                     I  	at com.facebook.react.devsupport.MultipartStreamReader.readAllParts(MultipartStreamReader.kt:83)
2026-03-10 18:54:51.630 21763-21837 okhttp.OkHttpClient     com.project                     I  	at com.facebook.react.devsupport.BundleDownloader.processMultipartResponse(BundleDownloader.kt:187)
2026-03-10 18:54:51.630 21763-21837 okhttp.OkHttpClient     com.project                     I  	at com.facebook.react.devsupport.BundleDownloader.access$processMultipartResponse(BundleDownloader.kt:35)
2026-03-10 18:54:51.630 21763-21837 okhttp.OkHttpClient     com.project                     I  	at com.facebook.react.devsupport.BundleDownloader$downloadBundleFromURL$1.onResponse(BundleDownloader.kt:133)
2026-03-10 18:54:51.630 21763-21837 okhttp.OkHttpClient     com.project                     I  	at okhttp3.internal.connection.RealCall$AsyncCall.run(RealCall.kt:519)
2026-03-10 18:54:51.630 21763-21837 okhttp.OkHttpClient     com.project                     I  	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1156)
2026-03-10 18:54:51.630 21763-21837 okhttp.OkHttpClient     com.project                     I  	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:651)
2026-03-10 18:54:51.630 21763-21837 okhttp.OkHttpClient     com.project                     I  	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1119)

MANDATORY Reproducer

https://github.com/kousic.lattala

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