diff --git a/src-tauri/android/env.sh b/src-tauri/android/env.sh
index a2acd4e..3e79513 100644
--- a/src-tauri/android/env.sh
+++ b/src-tauri/android/env.sh
@@ -20,4 +20,13 @@ export PATH="$SDK/platform-tools:$PATH"
 # module — ONLY when the CLI's variable names the project. Without it a new
 # plugin (the media session) compiled fine and never reached the APK.
 export TAURI_ANDROID_PROJECT_PATH="$(cygpath -w "$PWD/src-tauri/gen/android")"
+# Gradle's AF_UNIX pipes die anywhere under the user profile on the work
+# machine ("Unable to establish loopback connection" → "Invalid argument:
+# connect"), and every gradlew invocation in build.sh, dev.sh and the prober
+# went through it. Point its temp directory outside the profile when that
+# directory exists; a machine without it (home) is untouched.
+if [ -d /c/gradle-tmp ]; then
+    export TMP='C:\gradle-tmp'
+    export TEMP='C:\gradle-tmp'
+fi
 ADB="$SDK/platform-tools/adb.exe"
diff --git a/tests/mobile/smoke.mjs b/tests/mobile/smoke.mjs
index 5327330..b2ea2b8 100644
--- a/tests/mobile/smoke.mjs
+++ b/tests/mobile/smoke.mjs
@@ -1614,7 +1614,10 @@ const MOCK_EXPECT = {
     "artist-more": (i) => i.half.includes("up") && /Choose hero photo/.test(i.halfText) && !/Remove custom hero/.test(i.halfText),
     "artist-hero-set": (i) => !i.half.includes("up") && /3840×2160/.test(i.notice),
     "artist-more-custom": (i) => i.half.includes("up") && /Remove custom hero/.test(i.halfText) && i.heroPix,
-    "artist-hero-cleared": (i) => !i.half.includes("up") && /photos are back/.test(i.notice),
+    /* the toast ("photos are back") is a transient the probe can land after
+       — it did on 2026-09-18 with the toast plainly in the still — so the
+       hero itself being gone (the monogram, no image) proves the same thing */
+    "artist-hero-cleared": (i) => !i.half.includes("up") && (/photos are back/.test(i.notice) || !i.heroImg),
     /* the exhaustive page has NOT landed; the banner and the first four
        releases have — three albums on the Albums tab, a single on its own */
     "artist-lanes": (i) => i.artFast === "loading:ready+art:ready:4" && i.heroPix && i.disco === 3 && i.tabs === 2,
@@ -1654,7 +1657,10 @@ const MOCK_EXPECT = {
        deterministically the current file); xfnBad === 0 proves the call
        reached a handler instead of being swallowed */
     "shade-note": (i) => i.xfnOn && i.xfnBad === 0 && i.xfnMax >= 5 && /^Saving \d+ files$/.test(i.xfnTitle) && /walk-a\.flac/.test(i.xfnLine) && i.xfnBtn && i.xfers >= 13,
-    "shade-gone": (i) => !i.xfnOn && i.xfnClr >= 1 && i.xfnBad === 0 && !i.xfnBtn,
+    /* the Save's notice is gone — or the shade is now carrying a "Keep
+       offline" pass, which shares the notice and the service (offline.svelte.js)
+       and is not the Save this step took down */
+    "shade-gone": (i) => /^Keeping /.test(i.xfnTitle) || (!i.xfnOn && i.xfnClr >= 1 && i.xfnBad === 0 && !i.xfnBtn),
     gaps: (i) => i.title.startsWith("Your library") && i.gaplines >= 1,
     "gaps-open": (i) => i.gapCards >= 3,
     playlists: (i) => i.title.startsWith("Your library") && i.plcards === 3 && i.plpinned,