Jumps to 2 billion + steps

[j710]

Recurring issue. Continues to occur even after clearing data and wipe and reinstall of the app. It will randomly jump to over 2 billion steps for the day after about 6 days of perfect and accurate operation. No correlation to activity (such as riding a bike or running). Only fix is to delete data in the app info. Possible that even backups are corrupted. Motorola droid maxx

[dotWee]

Well, i think only the Nexus 5 is official supported, because of it's hardware-step counter.

[eholk]

I've been seeing this issue on my Moto X as well, which is supposed to have a hardware-step counter. Restarting my phone will at least reset the count, and sometimes even saves my steps so far that day.

[j4velin]

Are you able to somehow reproduce the issue? Do you use any task killer or battery saver apps? Any root scripts to shutdown the device?

[j710]

I can't swear that the Droid Maxx has a step counter, though i could check if i knew where to look, but it's extremely accurate, so it's doing something right.

It has happened 3 times now, but i haven't seen a correlation to anything I'm doing physically (i.e. running). No task killer or battery savers, not rooted, stock ROM 4.4.4. I don't reboot for sometimes a couple weeks at a time.

[eholk]

I don't use a task killer or battery saver app. I just updated to a new version of Pedometer yesterday, so I will keep you posted if I see it again. Sometimes the issue would appear every other day, other times it may take a week for it to appear.

Is there a way I can turn on logging in case the issue appears again?

[j4velin]

yes, install the debug version from here: http://www.j4velin.de/Pedometer-debug.apk

[nrichar2]

I'm having the same issue on my Moto X. I've been clearing my data to reset it, but after about 5 days or so it jumps up to around 2,147,450,000.

[j4velin]

Still: Without a log from the debug version, there's really nothing I can do

[nrichar2]

I installed the debug version and have the log file now that it jumped up again.

I've uploaded it to: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11412161/Pedometer.log

[j4velin]

Okay, seems like your sensor reported a reeeeeally big step value. I updated the debug version to ignore such values (as they're most probably not real values), could you test if that fixes the issue?

[nrichar2]

I updated and now it seems to be ignoring all values and the count stays at zero. I've uploaded the latest log file:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11412161/Pedometer.log

[j710]

installed latest debug version. It is registering steps. give me a few days to see if it jumps.

[j4velin]

@nrichar2 try rebooting your device once to check if the recalibrates the sensor

[nrichar2]

That worked, now it is tracking my steps again. Thanks for your help.

[nrichar2]

5 days later, its back to reading a total of 2,147,483,634 steps. I uploaded the latest log file here:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11412161/Pedometer.log

Hope that helps

[j4velin]

Unfortunately, the log stopped 4 days ago - did you maybe replace the debug version with the Play Store version?

[nrichar2]

Sorry, I didn't look at it before I posted. Not sure what happened, but I'll reinstall the debug and try again.

[j710]

little over 2 weeks on the latest debug version. Seems to be working great

[j710]

dbug version had a blowout today (Nov 11th). Log file caught it. Link below:
http://1drv.ms/1Er7g9q

[j4velin]

Well, there isn't much I can fix about this:

At 2:04 PM, your sensor reported 32k steps since the last reboot - that's probably correct.
26 minutes later, it reported that you made 2^64 steps since the last reboot....

I'll ignore those values in the UI in the next version

[j710]

Figured I'd follow up on this... Fresh install of stable version in early December. About 2 weeks in got the usual jump and I left it alone. after about 1-2 weeks it jumped again in the opposite direction by the same value (i believe). The totals and records remained whacked out, but there have been zero problems since.