diff --git a/base b/base
index d052cd6e0..529d74140 160000
--- a/base
+++ b/base
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit d052cd6e0eb129772d02ca85e7961a4ffe6aed28
+Subproject commit 529d74140f5ad4d603e6a5939664a29acbfd770f
diff --git a/frontend/ui/widget/touchmenu.lua b/frontend/ui/widget/touchmenu.lua
index 2b965e68b..119c5ee0e 100644
--- a/frontend/ui/widget/touchmenu.lua
+++ b/frontend/ui/widget/touchmenu.lua
@@ -215,6 +215,12 @@ function TouchMenuItem:onHoldSelect(arg, ges)
         UIManager:setDirty(nil, "fast", highlight_dimen)
 
         UIManager:forceRePaint()
+        -- NOTE: These very specific circumstances appear to reliably upset the EPDC,
+        --       causing a mild variant of our racey friend the papercut refresh glitch ;).
+        --       As it appears to stem from the race between *this* refresh for the highlight and the following writes to the fb,
+        --       let the kernel take a breather. It'll yield back to us when it's done.
+        --       Expect it to block for ~150 to 350ms. Given the context (a hold gesture), we can absorb the latency hit mostly unnnoticed.
+        UIManager:waitForVSync()
 
         -- Unhighlight
         --